722

Apportionmentto be made, if•whole amountof the adjustedclaims exceed$250,000.

Proviso.

Statute I.June 30, 1834.

Appropriationsfor the publicbuildings andgrounds.

TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 146. 1834.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if, on the adjustment of theaforesaid claims, the amount which may be found due, and the amountalready paid, with the interest to be calculated as aforesaid, shall exceedthe sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the President be, andhe is hereby, authorized to cause a fair and equitable distribution of theunexpended balance of the said two hundred and fifty thousand dollarsto be made among the claimants, in proportion to the amount whichmay have been, or shall be, found due to them, respectively: Provided,That the principal of the respective, claims shall be first paid.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

Chap. CXLYI .—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings andgrounds, 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, appropriated, to be paid out of any money inthe treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, thatis to say:

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, including the repairs of theroof, six thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For laying pipes for the purpose of draining the east and west reser-voirs, two thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars.

For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitolsquare, and other public grounds, one thousand dollars.

For lighting lamps, keeping the grounds and walks in order, and plant-ing in the Capitol square, and adjacent public grounds, four thousandeight hundred and twenty-six dollars.

For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, flooring the ter-races, and erecting stables, six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.

For the gardener’s salary, and for labourers employed upon the groundsand walks at the President’s house, and for planting, two thousand eighthundred and fifty dollars.

For paving foot-ways at the north front of the President’s house, andmaking a gravel carriage way, thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars.

For planting trees and repairing the fence in Lafayette square, northof the President’s house, one thousand dollars.

For purchasing and planting trees and shrubs for the PennsylvaniaAvenue, 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 theburying-ground, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars.

For the actual deficiency in the appropriation made during the lastyear for the enclosure of the public vault and the improvement of thepublic burying-ground, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-nine cents.

For completing the water-works at the President’s house, the executivebuildings, and the Capitol, one thousand and fifty-two dollars.

For completing the furniture of the President’s house, six thousanddollars.

For excess of expenditures beyond the appropriations made by thelate 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 GeneralJacob Brown, one thousand dollars; the work to be done under thedirection of the Secretary of War.