Chapter CXI. *to provide for the Accommodation of the Courts of the United States for the District of Maryland, and for a Post-Office at Baltimore City, Maryland.* Feb. 17, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President o
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Chap. CXI.— An Act *to provide for the Accommodation of the Courts of the United States for the District of Maryland, and for a Post-Office at Baltimore City, Maryland.* Feb. 17, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President of the United Buildings in Baltimore, for courts and post-office.States be authorized to procure, or cause to be procured, a suitable site or sites for a building or buildings for a court-house and post-office in the city of Baltimore; and that he prepare and submit to Congress, at as early a day as practicable, plans and estimates for the construction of a building or buildings on such site or sites, together with the estimates for fitting up or furnishing the same for the purposes indicated.
And if a building or buildings should be on such site or sites which can be remodelled or changed so as to answer the purposes indicated in the title of this bill, he shall submit to Congress plans and estimates for such alterations; and also estimates for fitting up or furnishing such building or buildings: *Provided,* That any contract or contracts he may make for any such site or sites shall be conditional and made subject to the approval of Congress. Approved, February 17, 1855.