Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 24.djvu/520

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 342-344. 1887. 487 FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. Foreign hospitals, Panama. Annual contributions towards the support of foreign hospitals at Pauama, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals, five hundred dollars. PUBLICATION OF CONSULAR. AND commncru. 121:1*011Ts. cg’ul;*$:1{*’;;<g Ego Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars. conrmcmmr mxremsics Uuxmizn saunas consunhzms. p°g;’;f‘:(§f:;18:;j Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, Hagan, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegmms, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular clerks, Chinese writers, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1887. CHAP. 343.——-An uctfor the erectionofa public building in the city of Binghamton, Mar. 3, 1887. New York. A———-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Binghamton, ury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to purchaseor otherwise N·Y· , , , provide a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, in the city of ggghc b“‘ld“‘g‘ Binghamton, in the State of New York, :1 substantial and commodious. public building, with iireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, internal-revenue offices, and United States courts, and for other Government uses. The site, and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously Pune, etc. made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the site pur- 005*- chased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from tire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least iilty feet, including streets Open spaceaud alleys; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any mon- Appropriation. cys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no part Proviav. of said sum shall be expended until e valid title to said site shall be T*“°· vested in the United States, and the State of New York shall code to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the some, during the time the United States shall beer remain the owner thereol; for all purposes except the administration of the criminal lows of said State and the se of any civil process thereon. Approved, March 3, 1887. CHAP. 344.-An net toauthorize the printing of the eulogiee delivered in Congress Mar. 3, 1887. upon. the late John A. Logan. ";"$· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. in Congress assembled, That the eulogies delivered in E¤1¤ei¤¤0¤Joh¤ Congress upon the late John A. Logan, a Senator from Illinois, and A-. fz18m *° b° also the funeral services held in the Seuote chamber upon the occasion Pm ‘ of his burial, be printed, under the direction of the Joint Committee ou