TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Res. 1,2,3. 1839.
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hereby empowered to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations asthey may deem necessary for the safety and security of property and ofthe persons passing the said causeway and bridge.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. Resolution authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of theworkmen upon the public buildings.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners ap-pointed by the President of the United States to superintend the prose-cution of the work in the construction of the new Treasury building,be, and they are hereby, authorized to examine the claims of the work-men to indemnity for the loss of their time during the suspension of thework upon said building, by order of the President of the United States ,pending the question before Congress upon the bill reported by the Com-mittee on Public Buildings, providing “ for the removal of the walls ofthe Treasury building, and for the erection of a fire-proof building forthe Post Office Department;” and that the said commissioners allow tosuch of said workmen, respectively, as were suspended from labor, duringthe pendency of said bill, with the encouragement and under an author-ized assurance that, upon the decision thereof, their labor would againbe required by the Government, and who, intermediately, had no oppor-tunity of obtaining employment in the city of Washington, such reason-able indemnity for loss of wages for labor, during the suspension of thework, as, under the circumstances of their respective cases, justice andequity may require, not exceeding, however, in any case, the averagerate of the earnings of such workmen in the employment of the Govern-ment for a like preceding period of time.
Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That the Commissioner of PublicBuildings be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to the workmen re-spectively such sums of money as the commissioners aforesaid shall allowand certify pursuant to the foregoing resolution, out of any money inhis hands appropriated by law to the construction of the new Treasurybuilding.
Approved, January 18, 1839.
No. 2. A Resolution for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Pe-ters and Mississippi rivers.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Warbe, and he is hereby, authorized to contract with J. B. and J. Ferri-bault, for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Petersand Mississippi rivers, and to report his proceedings to Congress , sub-ject to their approbation or rejection.
Approved, February 13, 1839.
No. 3. A Resolution directing the manner in which certain laws of the Districtof Columbia shall be executed.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the acts of the Stateof Maryland for securing titles to vacant land, which were continued inforce by the act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, eighteenhundred and one, in that part of the District of Columbia which wasceded to the United States by that State, and which have heretoforebeen inoperative for the want of appropriate officers or authority in the
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Jan. 18, 1839.
The commis-sioners appoint-ed to superin-tend the con-struction of thenew Treasurybuilding, shallexamine theclaims of theworkmen to in-demnity, &c.
Commissionerof public build-ings to pay suchsums, &,c.
Feb. 13, 1839.
Sec. War tocontract for thepurchase, &c.
Feb. 16, 1839.