Chapter CC. *providing for the Erection of a Post-Office in the City of Philadelphia.* June 23, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proviso of the third Proviso to act 1859, ch. 82, § 3, Vol. xi. p. 429, repealed.sectio
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Chap. CC.— An Act *providing for the Erection of a Post-Office in the City of Philadelphia.* June 23, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proviso of the third Proviso to act 1859, ch. 82, § 3, Vol. xi. p. 429, repealed.section of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty,” passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That if the premises agreed to be purchased by the United States from the American Philosophical Society as a site for a court-house, mentioned in the said third section, should fail to sell on account of any defect or qualification in the title thereto, that Application of former appropriations. 1856, ch. 129. Vol. xi. p. 83.then the sum of seventy-eight thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act making appropriations for certain civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,” for the purchase and payment of the same, together with the unexpended balance of the sum of fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, for the purpose of making alterations to the building thereby authorized to be purchased of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, appropriated 1857, ch. 108.
Vol. xi. p. 227.by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for com-90THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 201, 202 203. 1860.pleting and furnishing the said building purchased, of the said Bank of Pennsylvania, and to adapt it to the use of a post-office, at Philadelphia, shall be applied to carrying out the provisions of the fourth section of the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, in the following manner, Purchase of Bailey and Levy lots, and construction of post-office thereon.
Proviso.viz.: first, for the purchase of the lots mentioned and described in the said fourth section as the Bailey and Levy lots, at prices not exceeding the sums in the said fourth section mentioned, and then for the construction of a building on the said lots suitable for a post-office and courthouse: *Provided,* That the said property purchased from the Bank of Pennsylvania be sold at a price not less than one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Approved, June 23, 1860.