Volume 3
Public Law 17–XLIX
for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States.
Approved March 3, 1823
Statutory text
An Act
for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the superintendent of the public buildings be, and he hereby is directed to cause to be erected, in the burial ground of the city of Washington, a neat and appropriate monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States, who died at Washington, November twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, with a suitable inscription on the same, stating the name, station, age, and time of death, of the deceased.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That a sum, not exceeding one
Appropriation therefor.
thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the cost thereof, from any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .