Chapter 315.
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CHAP. 315.— AN ACT providing for the erection of a building to contain the records, library, and museum of the Medical Department, United States Army.March 2, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Washing ten, D. C.Erection of building to contain records, library, and museum of the Medical department, United States Army.Site.Plans; cost. That a brick and metal fireproof building, to be used for the safekeeping of the records, library, and museum of the Surgeon-General’s Office of the United States Army, is hereby authorized to be constructed upon the Government reservation in the city of Washington, in the vicinity of the National Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, on a site to be selected by a commission composed of the Secretary of War, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and in accordance with plans and specifications submitted by the Surgeon-General of-the Army and approved by said commission, the cost of the building, when completed, not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; the building to be erected and the money expended under the direction and superintendence of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated,Appropriation. out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the commencement and completion of said building. Approved, March 2, 1885.