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dollars per annum, in addition to their salary as judges of the superior court for the said territory, which shall be in full for their services, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

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March 2, 1831.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. LXX.An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and for other purposes.

Appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 stores for warming and ventilating the hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred dollars.

For purchasing Seneca stone flagging for the entrance 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.

Statute ⅠⅠ.



March 2, 1831.

Chap. LXXIII.An Act to authorize the territory of Florida to open a canal through the public lands between Chipola river and Saint Andrew’s bay, in West Florida.

Canal route granted.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory of Florida be, and is hereby, authorized to survey and mark, through the public lands of the United States, the route of a canal, by which to connect the navigation 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 land on each side of said canal shall be reserved from sale on the part of the United States, and the use thereof be for ever vested in the territory,