Chapter 156. to amend an act entitled “An act for the erection of a public building at Chattanooga, Tennessee,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five
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CHAP. 156.— An Act to amend an act entitled “An act for the erection of a public building at Chattanooga, Tennessee,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.Feb. 21, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chattanooga, Tenn.Public building.Vol. 23, p. 320.Limit of cost increased.*Proviso*. That the act entitled “An act for the erection of a public building at Chattanooga, Tennessee,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred anti eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to provide that the cost of said building, including site and building complete, shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, d’bat the site shall not be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum hereinCoat. limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand dollars for site and building.
Approved, February 21, 1887.