# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 150

Chap. CL.—An Act making an appropriation for enclosing and improving the public square near the capitol; and to abolish the office of commissioners of the public buildings, and of superintendent, and for the appointment of one commissioner for the public buildings.
Sum appropriated for enclosing and improving the capitol square.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to enclosing and improving the public square, east of the capitol, which sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Board of commissioners abolished, and one commissioner appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of any act or acts, as authorizes the appointment of three commissioners for the superintendence of the public buildings, be, and the same is hereby repealed: and in lieu of the said commissioners, there shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one commissioner, who shall hold no other office under the authority of the United States, and who shall perform all the duties with which the said three commissioners were charged, and whose duty ​it shall also be to contract for, and superintend the enclosing and improvements of the public square, under the direction [of the President] of the United States.
Compensation to the commissioner.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the said commissioner a salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Plans, &c. to be delivered to the commissioner.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of such persons as may have been appointed to superintend the repairing of the public buildings, to deliver up unto the commissioner who shall be appointed in virtue of this act, all plans, draughts, books, records, accounts, contracts, bonds, obligations, securities and other evidence of debt in their possession which belong to their offices.
Office of superintendent abolished on the 3d March, 1817. Its duties to devolve on commissioner of public buildings. Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 41.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the third day of March next, the office of superintendent, established by act of Congress of first May, one thousand eight hundred and two, shall cease, and thereafter the duties of said office shall be performed by the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of this act; and to whom the superintendent shall deliver all documents, securities, books and papers, relating to said office; and from and after the third of March next, the commissioner aforesaid shall be vested with all the powers and perform all the duties, conferred upon the superintendent aforesaid.
President authorized to make alterations in the plans of the public buildings.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, in repairing the public buildings in the city of Washington, to make such alterations in the plans thereof, respectively, as he shall judge proper for the better accommodation of the two houses of Congress, the President of the United States, and the various departments of the government, or any of them.
Approved, April 29, 1816.