United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 5
Chap. V.—An Act making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia.
Act of Feb. 2, 1841, ch. 4.
So much of former act as limits the appropriation repealed, and a further appropriation made.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled “An act making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia,” approved February second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, as limits the appropriation to three thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the further sum of three thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to make immediate provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics as provided for in the said act.
Marshal, not restricted to the asylum at Baltimore.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the marshal of the District of Columbia shall not be restricted to the asylum at Baltimore, but may provide for pauper lunatics at any public lunatic asylum in the United States, consulting economy in the selection.
Approved, August 3, 1841.