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 THIRTY—THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. 561 provided for, subject in all things to the limitations and restrictions contained herein. _ To complete the custom-house at Waldoborough, in the State of Maine, wmdobomu h the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, which, in addition to the sum here- g ` tofore appropriated, shall constitute the entire cost of the purchase of the site, and the erection and completion of the buildings. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to apply such sum as, in his opinion, may be necessary to complete the building for the custom-house, post-office, and court-house in the city of Pittsburg, pm_,b,,,g_ Pennsylvania, and to furnish such building in a manner appropriate to its uses, and to improve the grounds attached to said building; and also to pay to the two commissioners who superintended the construction of said building such eompensationas the said Secretary shall deem just, not to exceed three dollars a day each; Provided, That the sum so, as aforesaid, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the sum now remaining unexpended of appropriations heretofore made for the said building; For buildings for the use of the courts of the United States at Pontotoe, POM0b0c_ Mississippi, four thousand dollars: Provided, said sum shall complete said buildings. And also the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make a contract with the proper authorities for furnishing a suitable building for the permanent use and accommodation of the United States District Court in holding its session at Marietta, Georgia, which contract the said Secretary is hereby authorized Mmmm_ to make: Provided, it can be made for the sum aforesaid or less: And provided, said contract shall be made with sufficient guarantees to secure to the said court a suitable building for holding said court so long as its gessions may be held at that place, without further charge on the United tates. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase, for the use of the United States, the land and buildings thereon, constituting the boarding station at the south-west pass of the Mississippi river, three thousand P£§“l‘h"'°‘*° Eve hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be ex- ' pended until the title to said land be secured to the United States, and the consent of the legislature of the State of Louisiana obtained to the release of said land from taxation or assessment of any kind; For the construction of an appraisers store on a portion of the square S F .5 0 selected for the custom-house at San Francisco, California, including the an mm ° ' expense of piling for the foundation thereof, by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem best, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the same restrictions regarding the completion of said work with the sum hereby appropriated as are contained in this act concerning the erection and completion of custom—houses and marine hospitals shall be applicable thereto. For the purchase of the lots or parcels of land, with the appurtenances Assay Omg at and the buildings thereon, belonging the one thereof to the Bank of New York. Commerce, and the other· thereof to the Bank of the State of New York, and particularly referred to and described in two contracts ; one with each of said banks, for the leasing and right to purchase the same, bearing date the nineteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, until said purchases shall be completed: Provided, That the same be so completed within one year from the day such interest is hereby authorized to be paid ; And the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, is hereby further authorized to purchase, for the use of the United States, such property VOL. x. Pun. -- 71