Volume 4
Public Law 23–XCIX
for the benefit of the city of Washington.
Approved June 28, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
for the benefit of the city of Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Appropriation to extinguish interest on public debt of Washington city.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, a sum not exceeding seventy thousand dollars, in quarterly instalments, for one year from the passage of this act, to the mayor of the city of Washington, to be applied under the direction and authority of the boards of aldermen and common council, to extinguish so much of the interest annually accruing on their public debt.
Approved, .