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 i é FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1870. 85 i exceeding three hundred thousand dollars; and the expenditure of any _ P¤bH° b¤m· · sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful. mgs rt . For completing the work on the court-house and post-office at Des Des Moines; Moines, Iowa, twenty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars. For roofing, interior brick-work, and plastering of the court-house at M¤diS<>¤9 Madison, Wiscoiisin, thirty thousand dollars. g land, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the building for court-house and post- _N¤W Yvfk B office in New York city, one million dollars : Provided, That no part of °'g,fMSO, g this sum beyond the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or any other i sum appropriated for this purpose, shall be expended until a contract or M Med i contracts for the completion of the entire building in conformity with seg _,$0;,_w;_ _ plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster- 296, 296.] , General, and at all times under their direction, shall be entered into with , the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, and for a sum not exceeding three million dollars, including all sums already expended for that purpose, except that for the site; and the expenditure of any sum of money § in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful. t For continuing the work on the building for post~office and sub-treas- B<>¤fo¤; ury in Boston, Massachusetts, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided proviso; Y, That no part of this sum, beyond the sum of two hundred and fifty thoug sand dollars, or any other sum appropriated for this purpose, shall be ex- [MOd;f;,,d_ pended until a contract or contracts for the completion of the entire build- Pest. pp. 296, T ing, in conformity with plans to be approved by the Secretary of the M6'] g Treasury and Postmaster-General, and at all times under their direction, shall be entered into with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, and for K a sum not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars, including all sums already expended for that purpose, except that for the site; and 3 the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be p deemed unlawful. is For continuing the work, and for granite and freestone work on the San Francis- § building for branch mint at San Francisco, California, one hundred and °°5 ‘ Efty thousand dollars. E For construction and repairs of custom-house at Charleston, South Charleston; »» Carolina, and of the wharves adjacent thereto, and for employment of d such labor as may be necessary to protect from injury and deterioration the marble and other building materials of said custom-house, twenty-five thousand dollars. g For repairing damage done by storm in September, eighteen hundred P¤¤‘¤¤¤d; E and sixty-nine, to the marine hospital at Portland, Maine, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the marine hospital building at Chicago, Chicago; Illinois, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the proviso; money shall be expended until a contract or contracts shall be entered VOL ““· 1*-1*- it into by the proper authorities with the lowest responsible bidder or bid- ders for the completion of the entire building at a sum, including all gmoneys already expended in its construction, not exceeding three hun- . dred thousand dollars; and the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful. , For continuing the construction of the appraisers stores at Philadel- Phil¤d€lPhi=’·3 phia, forty thousand dollars. For stone-work of the west centre stairs of the treasury building, W¤$hi¤€?<>¤6 g Washiiigton, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For putting tiles rooms under the porticos in the treasury building, duine thousand five hundred dollars. For balconies to widen the passages about the custom-house building B¤¤€<>¥· Jin Bangor, Maine, ive thousand dollars.
 * - For plastering, iron-work, and carpentry for the court-house at Port- P0f¤l¤¤d;