The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12
PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER TREAsU
RY DEPARTMENT

II
Cairo, Illinois, including paving, curbing, /
grading, aud fencing, sixty thousand dol
lars.
For completing the custom house building at
Portland, Maine. including paving. grading, |
curbing, and fencing, thirty-seven Thousand
tw hundred twenty-five dollars
For continuing the construction of the
tom house building at Portland, Oregon forty
thousand doilors.
For completing the custom house building at
Saint Paul. Minnesota one hundred thousand
and fifty-oGe dollars and thirty-cight cents:
Provided that part of the money shall be
expended until a contract or contracts shall be
entered into, by the proper authorizes, with
the lowest responsible bidder, or bidders. for
the completion of the entire building at a SUN,
including all moneys already expended in lis
construction, not exceeding three hundred
thousand dollars; and the expenditure of any
sum of money in violation of this proviso shalt
be deemed unlawful. But this proviso shall
not be construed to prevent the payment of
amounts due or to become due under existing
contracts.
For pepairs and preservation of the custom
house building 'at New Orleans, Louisiana,
twenty five Thousand dollars
For repairs aud Improvement of the custom
house building in San Francisco, California,
ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvement of the custom
| house building in Chicago, Illinois. twenty
Thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvement of the custom
house building at Baltimore, Mary iaad twenty
thousand dollars.
For repairs ana improvements Oh Tue GUS
1 tom house building at Petersburg. Virginia,
| ten thousand dollars
For repairs of the old custom house at
Charleston, South Carolina, to fit the same for
| a post office, twenty thousand dollars.
For completing the custom-horse at Wis
casset, Maine, and grading and fencing the
grounds surrounding it, four thousand dol
| iars.
! For completion of the work the apprais
| els' stores in Philadelphia, Pennsy wanna. in
GLIDING paving, grading, and eurbins, forty
Elk Thousand one hundred and forty dol
! Lars; and four tanks, four steam pumps hose
/ and four projecting lifts for loading and un
loading heavy goods, eight Thousand two hun
dred doars and for six hoistng machines, fif
teen thousand dollars. in all, sixtv nine tpous-
ai:d three hundred and forty six dollars
| Fer completing the work on the marine hos
| ptai in Chicago Illinois, thirty one thousand
five hundred AID thirty nine dollars and thirty
SIX cents; and the Secretary OF the Treasury
is hereby authorized To enter into contracts for
| the completion of said building in advance of
the appropriation OF moneys sufficient to corn
piete the same in accordance with the condi-
tons in said act contained.
For finishing the interior Of the court house
6uilding at Madison, Wisconsin, and fer paw
| ing grading, curblng, sewage, ana 1enclhS
forty thonssnd deilars.
| For completing the court hoass building al
| Portland, Maine, including paving, cnrbins
| and grading tw enty-fve Thousand dollars.
Fer completing the interior of the court
house building at Des Moines, Iowa, and fol-
eurbirg, paving, grading. and sewerage, six
teen thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of the cour
| house, post office, and custom house buildin.
at Omaha, Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars
Provided, That the total cost OF the buiidin.
| SHALL not exceed one hundred thousand dol
lars and estimates the plans for the eame shall
/ be approved by the Postmaster General an'
ard secretary of the Treasury.
For continuing the construction OF the build
in. for most office and court house in New
York ci.y five hundred thou.and dollars, sui
iect to ali the conditions limiting this appropr
a,ior in the act OF APrn twenty, e,sn,ee
The Treasury is hereby authorized to enfe
into contracts for the completion of said bai.e
ing in advance Of the, appropriation {
moneys sufficient 20 complete the same in "a
cordance with the conditions in eaid act con
tanned; and the p,oviso i'll relation to the al
preparation for continuing the construction {
said building contained ln the act of ApT
twenty eighteen hundred and seventy,
Thereby SO modified as t. authorize the Seer
| tary of the Treasury, IN his discretion, T
edppt as a part of the contract therein provl
ed for, any contracts IN reference to sa
building approved by him before said Apr
twenty: Provided, That the limitation of co
therein contained is not thereby affected: An
provided further, That hereafter. before an
new buildings for the of the United Stat
are commenced, plans and full estimates ther
for shall be prepared and approved by Il
Secretary of the Treasury, Postmaster Gene
al, aud the Secretary OF the Interior, and Il
cost of the building shall not exceed u
amount of said estimate.
For the repairs ana ate rdtfOHs "a tue cou
house IN Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hstee
Thousand dollars,
For continuing the work on the post offi
and sub-treatury buiiding in Boston, Mass
chueetts, two hundred and fifty thousand d
lara, subject to all the conditions limiting It
apprOpriation in the act ot April twent
eighteen hundred and seventy; and the Seel
tary OF the Treasury Is hereby authorized
enter into contracts for tho completion of SO
building in advance of the appropriation
moneys sufficient to complete the same IN
eordance with the conditions III said act co
tanned; and the proviso in relation to the 6
prorriatien fer continuing the eoastrueti
| contained in the act of April twenty, elgbte
hundred and seventy, is hereby 81 Laodliied
to authorize the Secretary OF The Treasury,
his discretion, to adopt AS u part OF the ct
tracts therein provided fer, any contracts
reference to said building approved by him
fore said April twenty: Provided, That
limitation of cost therein contained is
thereby affected.
For barge office q. New York, one hundI
thousand dollars
For inciosing and putting in safe condltl
the bujldiay for branch mint in Dales Ci
Oregon tel thousand dollars
For continuing the work en- the oraI
mint brildiug in San Francisco, five hundl
thousand dollars: Provided, That the to
cost of the building, exclusive of the sum p
for the site shereof, shall not exceed ono u
, lion five hundred Thousand dollars: And p
villed farther, That i. shall be lawful, nj
: after the completion and occupation OF q