Chapter LXX. *changing the Appropriation for the Erection of a Building in the City of Milwaukie, for a Custom-House, Post-Ofice, and the United States Courts.* Feb. 10, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That in lieu and place
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Chap. LXX.— An Act *changing the Appropriation for the Erection of a Building in the City of Milwaukie, for a Custom-House, Post-Ofice, and the United States Courts.* Feb. 10, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That in lieu and place of the appropriation and provision in section two, of chapter two hundred and forty-two, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for Public buildings at Milwaukie. *Ante,* p. 571.the erection of a building therein described, in the city of Milwaukie, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be constructed, at the said city of Milwaukie, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States courts, a building of stone or brick, with fire-proof floors, constructed of iron beams and brickwork, iron roof, shutters, and sills; eighty-five feet by sixty feet, sixty feet in height from the foundation; to cost not more than eighty-eight thousand dollars; which said sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars, with ten per cent, on the said sum for cost of superintendence of erection and other contingent expenses, is hereby appropriated for this object out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 10, 1855.