Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 103.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 19, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John W. Houston, from the Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds, reported the following bill:
A BILL
To pay James Crutchett two thousand dollars for lighting the
Capitol and Capitol grounds.

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11 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to James
Crutchett in the following manner, and for the following
purposes, that is to say, the sum of nine hundred and sev-
enteen dollars and fifty cents, for money already expended
by him in the purchase of materials, and for labor in the
preparation of the same, and for his personal management
in lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds with Solar gas,

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15 and the residue of the said sum of two thousand dollars
to be paid him for similar materials and services, to be fur-
nished and rendered in future, in lighting the said Capitol
and Capitol grounds.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to James Crutchett in the following manner, and for the following purposes, that is to say, the sum of nine hundred and sev- enteen dollars and fifty cents, for money already expended by him in the purchase of materials, and for labor in the preparation of the same, and for his personal management in lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds with Solar gas,
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12 13 14 15	and the residue of the said sum of two thousand dollars to be paid him for similar materials and services, to be fur- nished and rendered in future, in lighting the said Capitol and Capitol grounds.