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512 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 362. 1887. VVest: Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Concord, New Hampshire; Council Bluffs, Iowa.; Dallas, Texas; Erie, Pennsylvania; Hannibal, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri; Leavenworth, Kansas; Lynchburg, Virgmiu; Macon, Georgia; New Albany, Indiana; Pensacola, Florulu; Peoria, Illinois; Quincy, Illinois, Shreveport, Louisiana; Syracuse, New Xork; Terre Haute, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; Tylcr.Tcxas; and Waco, Texas; ‘ one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Contracts m be That contracts shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury for advertised for. furnishing and putting in heating apparatus for public buildings, upon advertisements in some leading newspaper in the State where each building is situated, containing specifications of the kind of heating apparatus required, and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidder thereibr. , Secretary of the That the Secretary of the Treasury shall for the iiscal year eighteen T’°”¤*Y *° ’°P°" hundred and eighty-seven, and for each fiscal your thereafter in the f_‘;‘,’::;';,Qgf°§’l°'l$3E? annual estimates, report to Congress tho number 0* persons employed pc b,1{m;_,,g,_ outside of the District of Columbia, as superintendents, clerks, watchmen and otherwise, and paid from appropriations for the construction of public buildings showing where said persons are employed, in what capacity, the 'length of time and at what rate of compensation, and hereafter where public buildings shall be completed with the exception of heating apparatus and approaches but one person shall be employed by the Government for the supervision and care of such building. Chicago. d For marine hospital, Chicago, Illinois: For breakwater, ten thousand ollars. . _ Treasury build- For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For ¤¤g» W¤¤¤i¤£*°¤- annual ronual repairs to Treasury building, eight thousand dollars. vm11n for silver For vault in the Treasury building: For constructing a suitable vault d¤“=¤¤· in the Treasury building for the storage of silver dollars, as estimated for in Senate Executive Document Number N ine, second session Forty- ninth Congress, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents, the same to be immediately available. Enmdng and Bureau of Engraving and Printing and Quartermastefs Corral, Printing Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia: For the construction of new sewers aryl qvartcrmns- to connect with the city sewer, for the proper drainage of the buildings

      • 5 °°“’*‘l· of said Bureau and the Quartermasfcis Department, in square two

hundred and thirty-two in said city, two thousand four hundred and Drainage. forty-three dollars and thirty cents, the work to be done under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and the Lgwg, m ms, provision of the sundry civil act of August fourth, eighteen hundred 49th Ucnzress, p. and eighty-six, appropriuting one thousand two hundred hundred dol- M i ’°P°°’°d· lnrs for a new sewer for me Bureau of Engraving and Printing is hereby repeu ed. Cn mmission m That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, g¤p;·r=¤i~=» build- to appoint three persons familiar with the cost of buildings and me

    • 8*- °*°-· **1- &‘9· value of ground in the city of Washington, who shall appraise, as m

its value for the use of the Government the land and buildings thereon, being lots numbered eleven and twelve of the sub-division of square numbered six hundred und eighty-nine on the original plats of lands in the city of Washington, bounded north by South B Street, east by New Jersey avenue, and west by South Capitol street, and he is hereby directed to report the result of such appraisement to Congress nc its next session; and whether in his judgment at such appraisal the same Proriso. can be used economieallyand for what purpose. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall in any way commit the United States to the purchase of said property. Smithsonian In- For urgent and necessary repairs to central and western portions of ¤¢*¤·Y*=· the Smithsonian Institution building, iitieen thousand dollars. Repairs, ere. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservution of custom-houses, courvhouses, pcsboffices and other public buildings under control of Treasury Depamnent, two hundred thousand 0 urs.