# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 89

Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act making appropriations for custom-houses and warehouses.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be purchased a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse, at Newport, Rhode Island. A sum not exceeding 10,000 dollars appropriated. Also a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse in the city of Mobile, Ala.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be selected, and purchased, a suitable site for a custom-house and ware-house at Newport, in Rhode Island, and to cause a safe and convenient building to be erected thereon, for the transaction of custom-house business, and for the safe keeping of the records thereof and of the property in the custody of the government; and that a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purposes aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, likewise authorized to cause to be purchased a suitable site for a custom-house and ware-house in the city of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, and to have erected a safe and convenient building, or to purchase a proper site with a suitable and convenient building already erected thereon, for the transaction of custom-house business and for the safe keeping of the property in custody of the government;A sum not exceeding 8500 dollars appropriated. and that a sum not exceeding eight thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
A certain brick store in Newburyport, Mass., to be put in repair and used as a custom-house. A sum not exceeding 300 dollars appropriated.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be put in proper repair, and to be used for a custom-house, a certain brick store, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, once the property of Abner Wood and David Wood, junior, of said Newburyport, but now belonging to the United States; and that a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
A suitable site to be selected, &c., for a custom-house and warehouse at Portland, Maine. A sum not exceeding $20,000 appropriated.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause a suitable site to be selected and purchased for a custom-house and warehouse at Portland, in Maine, and to cause a safe and convenient building to be erected thereon, for the transaction of custom-house business, and for the safe keeping of the records thereof, and of the property in the custody of the government; and that a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes aforesaid.
Approved, May 24, 1828.