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 454 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 420. 1896. to employees of the Government Printing Office in any fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that thirty days’ leave of absence, with pay, may have been granted to such employees in that nscal year on account of P¤r¤¤¤¤*. *0 lege! service rendered in a previous Hscal year. And the Public Printer is r°°r°S°"°mv°S' hereby authorized to pay to the legal representatives of any employees who have died during the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and ninety- four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety- six, or may hereafter die, who have or hereafter may have any accrued leave of absence due them as such employees, and said claims to be paid out of any unexpended balances of appropriations for the payment of leaves of absence to the employees of the Government Printing Office, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-tbur, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and out of any future a rb riations for leaves of absence. gcngressional Bw- pThaIt paragraph forty-six, section seventy-three, of'_an Act entitled °',gu,,m,,,,, ,0 Mmm “An Act providing for` the public printing and brnding and the disl>¤\¤;¤ fbgyvgi, tribution of public documents/’ approved January twelfth, eighteen ° " ’P' “ hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same hereby is, amended by striking out the following words: “Of which number eight copies shall be sent by the Superintendent of Documents, one each to such public or school libraries other than designated depositories as shall be designated for this purpose by each Representative and Delegate in Con ress." i¤G·6‘;§;;¤°¤* Pm"- Tg enable the Public Printer, with the approval of the Secretary of toner now. the Treasury, to purchase two lots of land immediately adjoining the P“’°"“°"°“‘“"·°‘°· site of the Government Printing Office on the west, said lots running north and south from H street to Jackson alley, and containing ` eight thousand fbur hundred and twelve square feet, more or less; and to purchase in addition a site in the vicinity of the Government Printing Office, within that part of square six hundred and twenty-four, bounded on the south by G street northwest, on the east by North Capitol street, and on the north by Jackson alley, and containing eight thousand four hundred and twelve square feet, more or less, and to erect thereon a boiler house and coal sheds; and for the purchase and erection of two three-hundred horsepower steel steam boilers, with all necessary nttings and connections to connect said boilers to the Government Printing Office, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. cnpaemumon pm- If from any cause the Public Printer, with the approval of the See- °°°d“‘g“‘ retary of the Treasury, shall be unable to purchase said land at a satisfactory price from the owners, he is hereby directed and empowered, within thirty days after the passage of this Act, to secure the same by vi.i.z<s,,.. ru, condemnation proceedings, as provided in the Act approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act to authorize the acquisition of certain parcels of real estate embraced in square numbered three hundred and twenty-three of the city of Washiiigtoii, to provide an eligible site for a city post·otiice,” and the amendment to Vol.26,p,-1.13. said Act contained in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes," approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. _Q··¤·>¤ *¤·¤*¤ F=· That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized and Bhiiiiwumany n,,,;.-;. directed to pay over to the Cotton States and lnternational Exposition connection with the Government Building and exhibit all those por- V¤¤-‘-¤8·r·421- tions of the appropriations heretofore made under the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-fbur, for the building and for the exhibit by the Government at the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia, which shall remain unexpended after all the liabilities incurred by the Government on account of said building and exhibit shall have been fully paid off and discharged. ,¤jjl¤;juQ·’ ¤¤lm**¤*° Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for
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