Chapter CXLVI. making appropriations for the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes
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Chap. CXLVI.— An Act making appropriations for the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for the public buildings and grounds. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say: For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, including the repairs of the roof, six thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For laying pipes for the purpose of draining the east and west reservoirs, two thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars. For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square, and other public grounds, one thousand dollars. For lighting lamps, keeping the grounds and walks in order, and planting in the Capitol square, and adjacent public grounds, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars. For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, flooring the terraces, and erecting stables, six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
For the gardener’s salary, and for labourers employed upon the grounds and walks at the President’s house, and for planting, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For paving foot-ways at the north front of the President’s house, and making a gravel carriage way, thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars. For planting trees and repairing the fence in Lafayette square, north of the President’s house, one thousand dollars. For purchasing and planting trees and shrubs for the Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For keeping in repair the public fire engines, two hundred dollars. For rebuilding the wall and constructing a culvert and drain at the burying-ground, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars. For the actual deficiency in the appropriation made during the last year for the enclosure of the public vault and the improvement of the public burying-ground, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-nine cents. For completing the water-works at the President’s house, the executive buildings, and the Capitol, one thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For completing the furniture of the President’s house, six thousand dollars. For excess of expenditures beyond the appropriations made by the late commissioner of the public buildings during the last year, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-four cents. For erecting a monument over the remains of the late Major General Jacob Brown, one thousand dollars; the work to be done under the direction of the Secretary of War. 723TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess.
I. Ch. 147, 148. 1834. For the construction of an ornamental hydrant of marble of the west fountain in front of the Capitol, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the regulations of the city of City regulations for preserving order extended to public buildings and grounds on request of commissioner. Washington for the preservation of the public peace and order, be extended to all the public buildings and public grounds belonging to the United States within the city of Washington whenever the application of the same shall be requested by the commissioner of the public buildings.
Approved, June 30, 1834.