Chapter 212.
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CHAP. 212.— AN ACT for the construction of a public building for use by the United States Government in the city of New York.June 15, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Barge-office, New York. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected a barge-office at the revenue dock, in the city of New York, with suitable sheds for the accommodation of passengers arriving by 134 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 212, 213. 1878. European steamers, and in which to examine the baggage of such passengers, and for this purpose and for the extension of the seawall on Appropriation.the present barge-office site the sum of two hundred and ten thousand dollars is hereby-appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not Cession of site.otherwise appropriated: *Provided:* That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended in the construction of the said building until the city of New York shall have conveyed to the United States the small triangular piece of land, being that portion of the grounds commonly known as the Battery, in the city of New York, lying westwardly of and adjoining the land now belonging to the United States, and between such lands and the slip or basin in said Battery known as the New Whitehall Boat Slip, as authorized by the senate and assembly of New York by act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, Limit of expenditure.chapter three hundred and twenty, laws of New York: *And provided*, That no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the completion of this work, including the cost of the additional land, beyond the said sum of two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Approved, June 15, 1878.