Volume 4
Public Law 23–CXXXVIII
to procure a bust, in marble, of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
Approved June 30, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
to procure a bust, in marble, of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
American artist to be employed to execute bust.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the joint committee of the two Houses of Congress on the library be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to contract with a suitable American artist for the execution, in marble, and delivery in the room of the Supreme Court of the United States, a bust of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying
Appropriation.
this act into effect, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, eight hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .