Chapter 762. authorizing an additional appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the courthouse at Keokuk, Iowa, to make the same fireproof
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CHAP. 762.— An Act authorizing an additional appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the courthouse at Keokuk, Iowa, to make the same fireproof.July 10, 1886. Whereas, by an act of Congress approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty five, the Secretary of the Treasury was authorizedPreamble. to purchase a site for a courthouse at Keokuk, Iowa, and to erect thereon a building suitable for said purpose, and by an act approvedVol. 23, pp. 320, 481. March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, there was appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for said purpose; and Whereas said site has been selected and acquired, subject to the conditions of said «acts, and the plans and specifications for said building 142 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 762,763. 1886. prepared by the Supervising Architect, but said appropriation is insufficient, as shown by said plans, to provide a building of sufficient capacity for the purposes required, and complete the same as a fireproof building: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Keokuk, Iowa.Public building.Appropriation to complete.Limit, of cost-increased., That there is hereby appropriated, out. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the, further and additional sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to enlarge and complete said building at.
Keokuk Iowa, and to finish the same as a fireproof building, the sum of one hundred and forty thousand dollars to be the limit of the cost of Said building. Approved, July 10, 1886.