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dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For enlarging the folding-room of the House, three hundred and fifty dollars.

. And be it further enacted, [That] the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to cause to be erected on or near the site of the former treasury building, or any other public lot which he may select, a fire-proof building of such dimensions as may be required for the present and future accommodations of the Treasury Department, upon such plan and of such materials as he may deem most advantageous; and that for this purpose there be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the material of which the walls of the Capitol and President’s Mansion are constructed, shall be adopted for the construction of the aforesaid building: Provided, upon full inquiry, a cheaper and more suitable material cannot be obtained. And provided always, That the foundation walls of the said buildings below the surface of the earth and two feet above shall be of the hardest and most solid rock.

. And be it further enacted, That there be erected, on some appropriate site, under the direction of the President of the United States, a fire-proof building with suitable accommodations for the Patent Office, and to be provided with the necessary cases and furniture; the expense of which shall not exceed one hundred and eight thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That there be and hereby is appropriated for defraying the expense of such building and cases, the sum of one hundred and eight thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the same kind of material of which the walls of the Capitol and the Mansion of the President are constructed shall be adopted for the construction of the aforesaid building: Provided, a cheaper and more suitable material cannot be procured.

. And be it further enacted, That the duties and powers of the commissioners of the sinking fund are hereby suspended until revived by law, and that the records of the commissioners be transferred to the custody of the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated any outstanding debts of the United States and the interest thereon.

. And be it further enacted, That for the purchase of eight acres of land with the improvements thereon near the Barracks at Key West, if in the opinion of the Secretary of War the public service and health of the troops require it, a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of the third section of the act entitled “,” as provides that “the whole number of custom-house officers in the United States on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, shall not be increased until otherwise allowed by Congress,” be and the same is hereby suspended until the fourth day of March next.

, July 4, 1836.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in the ,