Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 40 Part 1.djvu/188

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SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 27. 1917. IG9 San Marcos, Texas, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land, §;';,§"Q,§@‘F* Tm construction of buildings and ponds, and purchase and repair of ’ equipment, $7,500. S t W Saratoga, Wyoming, Esh hatchery: For completion of the fish-cul- ciiiniitiigiiiiionijiim. tural station, including the construction of buil)dings and ponds, and improvement to water supply, $7,000. Wood H0, M Woods Hole, Massachusetts, fish-cultural station: For new motor Newlziuncliji ass` vessel to replace launch Blue Wing, $3,000. Bureau of Standards. BUREAU or STANDARDS. Testin of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad egming lam scam track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the Held, $40,000. _ 1, , , mmm To enable the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnation to Buggugigm or otherwise, about one hundred and fifty-tive thousand four hundred s uare feet of additional land for enlargement of the present site of (tlhe Bureau of Standards, $25,000, or so much thereof as igligy be necessar , the land to be acquired hereunder being descri as follows: %`irst, starting at the northwest corner of the present site of D°°°dp°l°“‘ the Bureau of Standards on Idaho Avenue, and running thence along the easterly line of said avenue, northeasterly to the northerly line of the Pierce Mill Road ;‘ thence with said northerly line westerly to the easterly line of Idaho Avenue, ninety feet wide; thence with said easterly line, northeasterly ninety-tive feet, more or less, to the south line of Van Ness Street, sixty feet wide; thence with said south line nine hundred and ten feet, more or less, to intersect the prolongation of the resent easterly line of the Bureau of Standards site; thence with said) line of rolongation, southerly n.inety-seven feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of the Bureau of Standards grounds: thence with the north line of said grounds, west nine hundred and sixty-five feet to the point of beginning, containin ninety- one thousand five hundred square feet; second, starting at time int of intersection of the southerly boundary of the resent site olfothe Bureau of Standards with the northerly line of gilden Street, one hundred and twenty feet wide, as projected on the permanent system of highways plan, and running thence with said southerly boundary, east one thousand one hundred and twenty-tive feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of the present bureau site; thence with the rolongation of the easterly line of the present site, southerly one liundred feet, more or less, to the northerl line of the said Tilden Street; thence with said northerly line, and, with a curve deflecting to the right, westerly one thousand one hundred and forty feet to the point of beginning, containing one hundred and twenty-four thousand square feet. DEPARTMENT or mason. ”°¤m°*·*°"·“°°'· nwnu1ereAT1oN STATIONS. Immig”“tS°m°°°'

 Island, New York: For renewing hot-water pipes in main  1Ii>dtiuildi¤gS,

building, kitchen, and laundry, and ticket office, $18,000; °*°· _For renewing hot, cold, and salt water pipes, baggage and dormitory building, $15,000;