Death, &c. of warden.Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That, in case of the death of the warden, or the temporary vacancy of his office, or his absence, sickness, or other disability, such keeper, or other officer, as may be especially designated by the inspectors, shall have power to exercise the authority and discharge the several duties of the warden, as prescribed by this act, and the rules of the penitentiary.
Appropriation, 27,000 dollars.Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, and for completing the said penitentiary, and preparing it for the reception of convicts.
Approved, March 3, 1829.
RESOLUTIONS
I. Resolution amendatory of a joint resolution passed third March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Election of printer to each house to commence within 30 days before adjournment of Congress.
Portion of resolution of 1819 rescinded.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, within thirty days before the adjournment of every Congress, each house shall proceed to vote for a printer to execute its work for and during the succeeding Congress, and the person having the majority of all the votes given shall be considered duly elected; and that so much of the resolution, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “A resolution directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers,” as is altered by this resolution, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded.
Approved, February 5, 1829.
II. Resolution in relation to the survey and laying out a military road, in the state of Maine.
President authorized, under certain restrictions, to cause a military road to be laid out in Maine.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, if it shall seem to him necessary for maintaining the rights, and not inconsistent with the engagements of the United States, to cause to be surveyed and laid out, a military road, to be continued from Mars hill, or such other point on the military road already laid out in the state of Maine, as he may think proper, to the mouth of the river Madawaska, in the state of Maine.
Approved, March 2, 1829.