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 1212 F IFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 1011. 1903. O£;1¤h<>¤¤¤ CWM Sec. 15. That the law {Public, Numbered One hundred and forty- Am,p,s1e,¤me¤aqa. six) entitled "An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public c§§{’,;§§‘?“ ” °° SM buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for . other (purposes, ” approved J unlp sixth, nineqeen hiapdreg agnd two, be amen ed so as to transpose the provision or a United States postofiice at Oklahoma Cit, Oklahoma Territory, from section two to section three of said Act.y §§*‘(f}‘$f,‘,d2j°· SEo._16. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, Square w be se authorized and d1rected, in his discretion, to purchase or cause to be mmm taken for public use, by condemnation or otherwise, as a site for a hall of records, the whole of the land embraced in square one hundred and forty-three in the city of Washington, District ot Columbia, containing one hundred and hfty-seven thousand seven hundred and eleven and thirty-five one-hundredths square feet of ground, having a frontage of four hundred and two and eight one-hun redths feetion F street, the same on E street, and three hundred and ninety-two and three-twelfths feet frontage on Nineteenth street, and the same on Eighteenth street, i R¢1><>¤ M *0 b¤¤d· and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress a full stateniece, p.1o:ss. ment showing size and public cost of buil ing to be erected upon said square as a hall of records. mgfgjfé l§gh·· md Sec. 17. That the law (Public, Numbered One hundred and forty-six) ,4~ee,9J»i>. sis, 317, entitled "An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public build- °"f.‘§f_,‘§i,,_,(,,,,,,,,,,,;,,, ings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize ¤¤¤¤€¤¤- ‘ the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, nineteen hundre and two, be amended so as to transpose the rovisions for a United States post-office at Owosso, Michigan, and lgouisiana, Missouri, from section three to section four of said Act; and the limit of cost for site and buildin in each of salid cities isi liprebypnylcreajzd gpm tlliirtsy-five ghousand dodars PWM to fort thousand dollars: avi e at the 1mit o cost o site in CML each og said cities shall be five thousand dollars. Toledv. 0hi¤· Sec. 18. That section fourteen of Public Act Numbered One hundred ""°°‘°'m’°m°°d°d‘ and forty-six, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 8**** ‘° “°*"°°“"°d· “Sec. 1-1. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a suitable site in the city of Toledo and State of Ohio u on which to _ erect a building for the use and accommodation of the lgnited States §f,‘Q’@”{,,,,ck_ post-ofiice and other governmental offices in said city: Provided, That the site selected shall consist of an entire block or square of ground, bounded on each side by a street, and shall consist in area of not less cn§;;f{_ °‘ °°“ *1* than seventy thousand square feet, within a limit of cost of two hun- _s¤1m can mm dred thousand dollars, hereby fixed: Andl]>1·0zv£dedfurthe¢·, That if °"°` the Secretary of the Treasury shall be unab e to obtain a site as above described, then and in that case he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a tract of land frgpnting onhSaint Clair street? immediately; adjoiréing thehpresent st—o 'ce site, avin an area o fourteen thousand four undred gduare feet, said trac? of land bein one hundred and twenty feet Cost. square, within a limit of cost of eigdty-two thousand dollars, hereby buF§_g;¤:¢¤ f¤¤ Mw fixed. \Vhen the Secretary of the Treasury has acquired either an ` entire block of ground or the tract of land adjoining the present site, as herein provided, he shall make a re ort to Congress, stating the . location, dimensions, and cost of the land) so acquired, and recommend to Congress the character and size of building that should be erected thereon and submit an estimate of the cost of said building, including