The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-08
NEW CuSTOM-HOUSES.

Knowing the interest felt by the community in regard to
the buildings authorized be constructed by act of the
late session of Congress various places for cusomhoue
and other purposes have made inquiries at the Treasu
ny Department and thus enabled present the fol-
lowing items of information:
All these be of brick stone to be
thoroughly freproo with floors constructed of iron beams
and brick work, iron roof shutters, stills, &C.
That at Belfast Maine is be fortyfve by thirtytwo
feet and thirty feet high and not than
S2o0oo that at Ellsworth, Maine, be twenty-five by
thirty feet and twenty-five feet in height from the founda
ton, and to not than $4,000.
Those at Gloucester Massachusetts, Toledo and SAM
dusky, Ohio, and Burlington, Vermont, to be sixty by
forve feet and thrtytwo feet high from the foundation
and to cost not more than $4,000 for each building.
The preceding to be of brick, and to be for the
accommodation of the custom-house and post office
That Petersburg, Virginia, building of stone sixty
by forty-ve feet hirty-two feet high aud to afford ac-
commodations for custom-houSe and post office.
That Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be sixty by forty-fve
feet orty-eigh feet in height from the foundation and to
cost not more than $4,000
That at Galveston Texas of seventy by fortyve feet
eight feet high from foundation and to cost not
than $780, 900
The two preceding be of brick and TO accommodate
cusomhouse post office and the United States courts.
Those at New Haven Connecticut Newark, New Jer-
sey; Oswsgo and Buffalo, New York; Wheeling Virginia;
Detroit Michigan and Chicago, Illinois, to be buildings
of stone eghyfve by sixty feet sixty feet in height from
the foundation not exceeding $4,000 for each
building and afford accommodations for custon-house,
post office United States courts and steamboat inspectors
Immediately after the adjournment of Congress the col
lector and the postmaster at each of the aforementioned
places were appointed commissioners to receive proposals
for the sale of sites for the proposed buildings Proposals
were advertised and offers solicited
From the reports Of the commissioners tat for
Gloucester Massachusetts, eight offers for sites at
esage price of $l3,200 have been received.
Frosa Qswego N. Y, twentyseven offers, at an average
of $4,000, fssm Wheeling, var ten proposals at an
average Of S2O2oo roa Toledo Ohio thirty proposals at
an average of $l4445 from Ml~alke seventeen at an
average of $l75Oo
provision of the Of Congress directs the building
at Deot to be erected upon lot belonging to the
United Staes survey of this property shows it to have
front of but f-fas feet while the structure author
lied is to be eighty-fve by sixty feet
Congress also provided for the purchase Ct eE for the
buildings authorized and per cent upon the amount
allowed for each for the expense of superntendence plans
advertising axd other contingencies.
1t also enacted thai no money thus appropriated should
be applied for the purposes mentioned until valid title
to the land for the site of the building III each should
be vested ia the United States and upd the STATE where
is situated had released to the United States right
tax in any way assess said site the property of the
United States that may be thereon while owned by the
United States