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 FORTY·—·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 292. 1870. 295 For continuing the construction of the custom·house building at Port- q¤°*°m‘h°¤¤° land, Oregon, forty thousand dollars. l,l‘;f3;';§,*f,1_°_ For completing the custom—house building at Saint Paul, Minnesota, gon; ’ one hundred thousand and fifty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents ¤ Pr0· S¤i¤* P¤¤l= vided, That no part of the money shall be expended until a contract or proviso; contracts shall be entered into, by the proper authorities, with the lowest responsible bidder, or bidders, for the completion of the entire building at a sum, including all moneys already expended in its construction, not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars ; and the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful. But this proviso shall not be construed to prevent the payment of amounts due or to become due under existing contracts. For repairs and preservation of the custom-house building at New New Orleans; Orleans, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of the custom-house building in San San Francisco; Francisco, California, ten thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of the custom—house building in Chicago, Chicago; Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of the custom-house building at Balti— B¤l*i¤¤°*°¢ more, Maryland, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of custom·house building at Petersburg, P¤*°¤”Sb¤¤`gS Virginia, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of the old custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, to Cb¤¤‘l°¤*°¤i fit the same for a post·office, twenty thousand dollars. For completing the custom-house at Wiscasset, Maine, and grading and Wi¤°¤S¤°*· fencing the grounds surrounding it, four thousand dollars. _ For completion of the work on the appraisers' stores in Philadelphia, Appr¤i¤91‘S’ Pennsylvania, including paving, grading, and curbing, forty-six thousand ixfh Ph‘l°d°l' one hundred and forty-six dollars; and for four tanks, four steam—pumps, hose, and four projecting lifts for loading and unloading heavy goods, eight thousand two hundred dollars; and for six hoisting machines, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars. For completing the work on the marine hospital in Chicago, Illinois, t }Wg;iP¤ h¤¤Pimany-one thousand Eve tonnes and thirty nine aunts and many-sax ’*· ’°°g°· cents; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter d°°¤¤‘*?¤*¤i¤ into contracts for the completion of said building in advance of the ap- g]:,?;`,? °r°°m` propriation of moneys sufficient to complete the same in accordance with the conditions in said act contained. For finishing the interior of the court-house building at Madison, Wis- tgpgg-hvpse cousin, and for paving, grading, curbing, sewage, and fencing, forty a s°°’ thousand dollars. For completing the court-house building at Portland, Maine, including Portland; paving, curbing, and grading, twenty-tive thousand dollars. For completing the interior of the court-house building at Des Moines, Des Moines. Iowa, and for curbing, paving, grading, and sewerage, sixteen thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the court-house, post-office, and custom-house building at Omaha, Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars; issgmahaf ` Provided, That the total cost of the building shall not exceed one hun- Proviso. dred thousand dollars, and estimates and plans for the same shall be approved by the Postmaster·General and Secretary of the Treasury. I · For continuing the construction of the building for post-office and Cffgpgagof court-house in New York city, five hundred thousand dollars, subject to ggsdigribcé and all the conditions limiting this appropriation in the act of April twenty, courthouse in eighteen bundred and seventy; and the Secretary of the Treasury is N°;’n;°‘; gift hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the completion ofsaid build- C,,,,t,Z,,,,tS {O, ing in advance of the appropriation of moneys sufficient to complete the completion. same in accordance with the conditions in said act contained; and the