Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 23.djvu/507

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FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 360. 1885. 479 UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. T¤·:¤¤¤ry Depnrv HIGH . PUBLIC 3U5pm9g, Public buildings. For court-house and post-office at Abingdon, Virginia.: For comple- Abingdon, vn. tion under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fitting up the building known as the “club·l1ouse," Sitka, Alaska, Sitka, Alaska. as a temporary jail, four thousand dollars. For repairing Government building for court-room at Sitka, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairing Government building for court-room at Wmngel, live W¤¤¤z¤i- hundred dollars. For repairing court-room and jail at Ounalaska, one thousand dollars. Ounalaska. For constructing a frame or log courthouse and jail at Juneau City, .1 umm City. four thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For eontinu- Baltimore, Md. ation of building. two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. For not exceeding one-half the cost of constructing stone ubutments Bmgm. Ma. and piers for the protection of the United States custom-house and postoiice building, and approaches, situated in the Kendnskeag Stream, at Bangor, in the State of Maine, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, the expense of such works to be borne in equal proportions by the United State and by said city of Bangor: Provided, That the plan of con- 1·»·m·i»». struction of said works shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further, That the entire amount to be thus contributed by the United States shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. ` That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed Old U ¤ it v d to sell at public auction, in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, to the g?‘t?n“'h'F:8°% highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in six of the principal newspa- b,,°,,k§ ut pggu, pers published in the city of Boston, the land and premises known as auction. _ the old United States courthouse in said city, on the corner of Tremont street and Temple Place, the time and place of said sale in said city to be iixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at a date not later than ninety days after the passage of this act, and at a price not less than two hun- Limit of price. dred and twentytlve thousand dollars, with power to reject any or all bids and to readvertise and offer the said property in like manner as chen as may be necessary to secure the value thereof; and the cost to be paid from proceeds of sale. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury mum inqngry tollae made ai:) to the glue of this roperty· an if it s appear at the price a ve nam is inode- · 0,- gnate, he’is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three persons bong? in the employ of the United States to assess the value of the said prop- iv ¤¤¤¤¤¤ vwpvrvy erty, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, when the { s°°’°";;`zm°: sum tixed by this board shall be the minimum price at which the prop- amcd Prim, erty may be thus sold. . too small. For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For com- B¤¤¢¤¤»M==¤•- pletion, dfteen thousand dollars. For post-oiilce at Brooklyn, New York: For continuation of building Brovklym N- Y- under present limit, one hundred und thirty-tive thousand dollars. For custom-house and postoffice at Buifulo, N ew York: For comple- Brdfnlv, N- Y· than of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred do lars. For marine hospital at Cairo, Illinois: For completing hospital build- Cairo, lu. ings, seven thousand dollars; and for filling and grading, twenty thousand dollars; in ull, twenty-seven thousand dollars. · For post-oiice and court-house at Charleston, \Vest Virginia: For Charleston, W. completion of the building and to meet outstanding liabilities, one thou- V•· sand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents. For custom-house and subtreusury at Chicago, Illinois: For cleaning Chieago,Il1. and pointing stonework and extensive repairs necessary for preservation of the building, forty thousand dollars.