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 560 THlRTY—THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. and work in such case, at a sum not exceeding the sum of the moneys. appropriated and uncxpended in such case. And the said Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into no contract, either conditional or final, for the purposes mentioned, which shall involve an expenditure in any one case beyond the sums appropriated and remaining unexpended for such case; and in all cases where such unexpended appropriations shall be insufficient to complete the entire work in such case, the said Secretary of the Treasury shall suspend all action in reference thereto, and shall report to Congress on the first day of its session the condition of the work in such case, and shall at the same time lay before Congress such plans and estimates as, in his judgment, shall be proper for the completion of the building and work in such case. Savannah. For improving and repairing the room in the custom-house at Savannah, used as a post-otiice, one thousand dollars ; N. Orleans. For continuing operations on custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, three hundred and ninety-tive thousand dollars ; Charleston. For continuing operations on custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars; In general. For the annual repairs and fixtures of custom-houses of the United States, forty-three thousand and one dollars and fifty-nine cents, and for alterations and repairs of the custom-house at Baltimore heretofore made, and for rent of rooms during the repairs of said building, such sum as may by the Secretary of the Treasury be deemed reasonable and proper of said amount, not to exceed five thousand five hundred and one dollars and fifty-nine cents. Richmond, To complete the custom-house at Richmond, Virginia, one hundred I,mvim_ and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the moneys appropriated for this building in and by this act, or by any former act, and now remaining nnexpended, shall be used or applied for the purposes mentioned in this act by the Secretary of the Treasury, until a valid title to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Virginia shall, in due form, and in a manner that shall bind said 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: And provided further, That none of the said money appropriated for said building by this act, or heretofore appropriated for the purposes mentioned, and now remaining unexpendcd, shall be used or applied for the purpose for which they are appropriated, unless the same shall be sufficient to complete the building 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 supplying any of moneys aforesaid until he shall have made a contract, with such security as he shall approve, for the completion of the entire building and work, at a sum not exceeding the sum of the moneys appropriated and unexpended ; and the said Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into no contract, either conditional or final, for the purpose mentioned, which shall involve an expenditure beyond the sums appropriated and remaining unexpended ; and should such expended appropriations be insufficient to complete the entire work, the said Secretary of the Treasury shall suspend all action in reference thereto, and shall report to Congress, on the first day of its session in December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the condition of the work, and shall at the same time lay before Congress such plans and estimates as, in his judgment, shall be proper for the completion of" the building and work: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to go on and construct, or cause to be constructed, completed, and finished, the building mentioned and