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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 171-173. 1899. 839 CHAP. 1'I1.—A11 Act For a public building at the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. F•>b1‘¤¤1‘y R1899- Be it enacted Im the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the A”°°¤=*·?=& Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase pifi,h$ri.°$hl£$°; fm by private sale or secure by condemnation a site for, and to contract for the erection and completion of a. suitable building, with hreproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post-office, and other Government omees, at the city of Altoona, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania. The —1i¤¤it. plans. specifications, and full estimate for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed, for the site and building, complete, the sum of one hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will be sufficient accommodations for the transaction -of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited, after the site shall have been purchased or condemned and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: mvidcd, That the site shall leave Proviw. the building unexposed to danger from hre in adjacent buildings by an F'" “"‘°°· open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys. Approved, February 21, 1899. CHAP. 172.-A.u Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend the statutes in February 21,1s0o. relation to immediate transportation of duhable goods and for other purposes/’ —————;——— approved June tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred audeighty, by extend ing the privileges of the iirst I00h0H thereof to the subport of Miami, londa. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges of the first Mimi. Fla. _ section of the Act approved June tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred t,2,'j‘;‘,f,,°‘],t{,‘f,“‘°l§.’,‘$i‘Z and eighty, entitled *‘Au Act to amend the statutes in relation to ¤·s;;·]_u m immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes," ‘°‘ ' be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subport of Miami, in the State of Florida. Approved, February 21, 1899. CHAP. 173.-An Act For the erection of a public building for the use of the Fehmary 21, 1890. •ustom—hcuse and post-0B0c at Newport News, in the district of Newport News, ’" "‘····—· Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Newppn New-•,n Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by ,,,,]{°@‘Qf,;°“,,f’*`,{’,;'fI’_§Q‘Z purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and cause to be erected imdthereon a suitable building, including iireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States custom-house, post·office, and other Government offices, in the city of Newport News and State of Virginia, the cost of L*¤¤¤¤¤f¤¤¤¢~ said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of one _ hundred thousan dollars. Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited Sm. by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed -¤¤=¤¤1¤¤¢i¤¤ M- aud mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites. and such other as he may think proper to designate, to be examined in person by au agent of the Treasury Depart-