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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex

§ 2185. Estimates for improvements in grounds

Statutory text

All changes and improvements in the Capitol grounds, including approaches to the Capitol, shall be estimated for in detail, showing what modifications are proposed and the estimate cost of the same.

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. 47–143 · 22 Stat. 603

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 2185

    (Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 143, 22 Stat. 621.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 143, 22 Stat. 621.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was classified to section 173 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 is based on act , popularly known as the “Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1884”.

Similar Provisions

Enlargement of the Capitol grounds by the acquisition of certain squares in the city of Washington, provided by the following Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914.

June 23, 1913, ch. 3, 38 Stat. 44.

Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 355, 37 Stat. 454.

Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, 36 Stat. 1414.

June 25, 1910, ch. 384, 36 Stat. 738.

Credits

(Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 143, 22 Stat. 621.)

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