Chapter LXX. making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes
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Chap. LXX.— An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes. March 2, 1831.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say: Capitol.For completing the painting of the Capitol, three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
For planting and improving the ground within the enclosure of the Capitol square, including the gardener’s salary for one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and pay of labourers, three thousand dollars. To make good the deficiency in the estimates of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for finishing gates and fences, five thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars. For lighting lamps in and round the square, and erecting twenty-four new lamps, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs, five hundred dollars. For new stoves for warming and ventilating the hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred dollars. For purchasing Seneca stone flagging for the terrace and walks adjoining the Capitol, three thousand dollars. Bust of John Jay.For employing John Frazee to execute a bust of John Jay for the Supreme Court room, four hundred dollars. President’s house.For painting the President’s house, inside and out, three thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars.
For planting and improving the grounds about the President’s house, including the gardener’s salary, four thousand dollars. For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, five hundred dollars. For furniture, and repairs of furniture, five thousand dollars. Charles Bulfinch.For compensation to Charles Bulfinch, late architect of the Capitol, for his extra services in planning and superintending the building of the penitentiary at Washington, the jail in Alexandria, the additional buildings for the post-office and patent office, and for allowance for returning with his family to Boston, eleven hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.