524 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Szss. III. Ch. 227. 1873. Chicago. For the marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois, for engine, coal-house, lnuudry, machinery, wate1*—works. engine, tanks, and similar necessaries, t.went._y-three thousand eight. hundred and Lwenty-five dollars and forty- four cents Omaha. For completion of the building for the court.-house and post-oliice at Omaha, Nebraska, sevent.y·oue thousand dollars. SsuFrsmcisco. For building for appraisers stores, and other purposes, at San Fraucisco, Culifomia, four hundred and eight thousand dollars. Portland, Ore- For completion of the building for the custom-house at Portland, Ore- K°“· gon, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. Suiut Louis. For continuation of construction of the building for the customhouse, court-house, and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, one million P¤‘¤Vi¤°· dollars: Provided, That the total cost of the building and site shall not exceed four million dollars. Raleigh. For completion of a building for post-oflice and court-house in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. Additional To enable the Secretary of the '1`reumry to obtain by purchase, or to
- _¤¤di¤ B<>S*¢>¤ obtain by condemnation in the courts of the State of l\Iassacl»u—eLts, the
°r p°Sf°m°°' several lots or parcels of land lying easterly of the present site of the new post-ofllce in Boston, and bounded by said site, Water street, Cougress street and Milk street, upon the lines of said streets as they are now established or may hereafter be established by due process of law, and for repairing the injuries to the post-office building, caused by fire, and to extend the building over said site, eight hundred thousand dollars: No money to Provided, '1`hat no money appropriated for this purpose shall be used or gi :i’;£9£d;£_““‘ expended in the purchase of the several lots or parcels of land for said q,,;,.ed_ju,,,d;,,_ site until a valid title thereto shall be vested in the United States, nor tion qeded. and until the State of Massachusetts shall cede its jurisdiction over the same,
- 2;l;l¤‘=£h;‘i,f“X and shall duly release and relinquish to the Uuitled States the right. to
tax or in any way assess said site and the property of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall be or Land me mpg remain the owner thereof z And provided furiber, That the Secretary of §z“é`°l‘”°d ““"l» the Treasury shall make no purchase of land under this provision until ' the city of Boston shall cause the triangular space between Congress, Pearl, Milk, and Water streets to be opened to the public and graded and paved at the expense of the city, and shall widen Milk and Water streets, where the buildings have been destroyed by fire, to a width of at, least sixty feet. Appmpriagicns And the sums hereby appropriated for the construction of public buildg*,“xaH';Q;°l*“m‘ ings under the Treasury Department, including the building for the new ' State, War, and Navy Departments, shall be available immediately upon the approval of this act. New launch- For machinery for the new branch—mint building, San Francisco, Caliglgatlgziglsg fornia., two hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars, including such ` part of the appropriation for the same olrjecc made for the present. fiscal year as shall be expended prior to June thirt.ieth, eighteen hundred and sevent -three. Mints of the Forllhe mints of the United States. UQ}`}°d S“““’B· For wages of workmen from April first to June thirizieth, eighteen orkmen and . ordinary ex. gupdred and seventy-three, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty ptmses. 0 arg, For ordinary expenses for same period, fifteen thousand dollars. For wages of workmen for Hscal year ending June Lhirtiebh, eighteen hundred aud seventy-four, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordinary expenses, repairs, and replacing machinery, oil, dies, acids, coal, wood, and other miscellaneous items for same period, fifty thousand dollars, to be available immediately upon the passage of this act:.
