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Statute II.March 2 , 1831.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriations.
Charles Bul-finch.
Statute II.March 2, 1831,
TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 70, 73.
dollars per annum, in addition to their salary as judges of the superiorcourt for the said territory, which shall be in full for their services, to bepaid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LXX .—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to be paid out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following pur-poses, that is to say :
For completing the painting of the Capitol , three thousand seven hun-dred and sixty dollars.
For planting and improving the ground within the enclosure of theCapitol square, including the gardener’s salary for one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty, and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and payof labourers, three thousand dollars.
To make good the deficiency in the estimates of the year one thou-sand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for finishing gates and fences, fivethousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For lighting lamps in and round the square, and erecting twenty-fournew 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 ofRepresentatives , eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing Seneca stone flagging for the terrace and walks adjoin-ing the Capitol , three thousand dollars.
For employing John Frazee to execute a bust of John Jay for theSupreme Court room, four hundred dollars.
For painting the President’s house, inside and out, three thousand fourhundred 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 dol-lars.
For furniture, and repairs of furniture, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to Charles Bulfinch, late architect of the Capitol , forhis extra services in planning and superintending the building of the peni-tentiary at Washington, the jail in Alexandria, the additional buildings forthe post-office and patent office, and for allowance for returning with hisfamily to Boston , eleven hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LXXIII .—An Act to authorize the territory of Florida to open a canalthrough the public lands between Chipola river and Saint Andrew ’s bay, inWest Florida .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the territory of Florida be, and is hereby, authorized to survey and mark, through the publiclands of the United States , the route of a canal, by which to connect thenavigation of the river Chipola and Saint Andrew’s bay, in West Florida ,and to cut the same through the public lands; and ninety feet of landon each side of said canal shall be reserved from sale on the part of theUnited States , and the use thereof be for ever vested in the territory, or