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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72. 1833.
For improving the Capitol square, including the gardener’s salary, andlighting the lamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the regulation of the ground and planting, south ofthe President’s house, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the Capitol, one thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the President’s house, five hundred dol-lars.
For constructing reservoirs and fountains at the public offices, andPresident’s house, and enclosing and planting the fountain square, sixthousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars.
For keeping in repair the fire engines belonging to the public build-ings, two hundred dollars.
For furnishing the President’s house, to be expended under the direc-tion of the President, in addition to the proceeds of such decayed furni-ture, as he may direct to be sold, twenty thousand dollars.
For an additional pavement for the statue of Washington, five thou-sand dollars.
For alterations in the Representatives Hall, to accommodate the twenty-third Congress , according to a plan recommended by a select committeeof the House of Representatives , of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred andthirty-two, thirteen thousand dollars.
For completing the public vault, and railing thereon, one thousand sixhundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Appropriationto defray the ex-penses, &c.
Chap. LXXI .—An Act for the construction of a road from, the Mississippi river toWilliam Strong’s, on the St. Francis river, in the territory of Arkansas .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundredthousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of ena-bling the President of the United States to cause to be permanently con-structed, a road in the territory of Arkansas , from a point opposite toMemphis , to the house of William Strong, on the St. Francis river, ortowards such other point on the same as the engineer appointed to reportthereupon may recommend, for the purpose of establishing a constantcommunication from the point above named, towards Little Rock , in thesaid territory: Provided, That the said sum be expended under thedirection of such military engineer as the President may appoint: Andprovided, also, That no part of the said sum of money shall be expendeduntil a careful survey and estimate shall have been made of the cost ofthe road by a competent engineer, and that the said survey and estimateshall have been previously submitted to, and approved by, the Secretaryof War, and the President of the United States .
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. LXXII.— An Act prolonging the second session of the fifth legislative councilof the territory of Michigan .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the legislative council ofthe territory of Michigan , now in session, be, and is hereby authorized tocontinue its present session thirty days beyond the time now limited bylaw.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of defrayingthe incidental expenses and for paying the members of said legislative