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Title 2 — The Congress

Part A · Chapter 28 — Architect of the Capitol

§ 1833. Lighting, heating, and ventilating House of Representatives

Statutory text

The electrician, together with everything pertaining to the electrical machinery and apparatus, and the ventilation and heating of the House of Representatives, and all laborers and others connected with the lighting, heating, and ventilating thereof, shall be subject exclusively to the orders, and in all respects under the direction, of the Architect of the Capitol, subject to the control of the Speaker; and no removal or appointment shall be made except with his approval. And all engineers and others who are engaged in heating and ventilating the House shall be subject to the orders, and in all respects under the direction, of the Architect of the Capitol, subject to the control of the Speaker; and no removal or appointment shall be made except with his approval.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 44–105 · 19 Stat. 55

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 1833

    Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 348

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 348

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was classified to section 167 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, , 116 Stat. 1062.

Section, except the words “and the ventilation and heating of the House of Representatives,” is based on act , popularly known as the “Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act”. The excepted words were based on act , popularly known as the “Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1878”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Change of name of Architect of the Capitol, functions abolished, transferred, etc., by prior acts, see Prior Provisions and Change of Name notes set out under former section 1801 of this title.

Credits

1877–1881 · 2 acts
  1. 1877Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 348
  2. 1881Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 130, § 1, 21 Stat. 388.
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(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 348; Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 130, § 1, 21 Stat. 388.)

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