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 THIR'l‘Y·TIllRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. 559 (including compensation to superintendent and assistants, and exclizding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the 'navy, employed on the work,) two hundred and six thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty ollicers and men of the navy, employed on the work,) thirty thousand dollars; For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the.United States, twenty thousand dollars. Ou.stom»Houses. —- For completing the custom—house at St. Louis, Custom-Houses. Missouri, one hundred thousand dollars; St. Louis. For completing the custom·house at Mobile, Alabama, sixty-five thou- Mobile. sand dollars; For completing the custom-house at Cincinnati, Ohio, forty thousand Cincinnati. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky, forty thou- Louisville. sand dollars; For completing the custom-house at Bangor, Maine, twenty thousand Bangor. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Bath, Maine, twenty thousand Bath. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Wilmington, Delaware, twelve Wilmington. thousand dollars; To purchase a site for custom·house at Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. twenty-four thousand dollars; And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to contract for the construction of a custom—house on said site, to include accommodations for a post-oliice and United States’ court room, at a cost not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars; For purchasing a site for a eustom—house at San Francisco, California, Sem Francisco, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; For the rebuilding of the custom-house, Portland, Maine, including Portland. accommodations for a post-office and rooms for the United States courts, two hundred thousand dollars; For extinguishment of private claims to the possession of the whole sm umn65E0D_ or any part of the custom-house lot in San Francisco, ten thousand dollars. Provided, That none of the moneys appropriated by this act for any pmviso 3,, to custom-house or marine hospital shall be used or applied for the pur- sites ofcustorn poses mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the site of such build- gg3i5kg3i3g' ing, in each case, shall be vested in the United States; and until the taxes, State in which such building is to be completed shall in due form, and in a manner that shall bind such State, release and surrender to the United States jurisdiction over the site of such building; and shall, also, duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the said United States shall be or remain the owner thereof'; That none of the said moneys appropriated for said contracts tor buildings by this act, or heretofore appropriated for the purposes men- l"”ldmg¤· tioncd, shall be used or applied for the purposes for which they are appropriated, unless the same shall be sufficient in each case to complete the building in such case fully, and entirely accomplish the object for which the appropriation in this act is made. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby prohibited from using or applying any of the moneys aforesaid in any one case, until he shall have made a contract, with such security as he shall approve, for the completion of the entire building