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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · July 30, 1886 · Chapter 816

Chapter 816. to amend an act approved May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “Au act for the construction of a public building at Galveston, Texas,”July 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Galveston, Tex

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CHAP. 816.— An Act to amend an act approved May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “Au act for the construction of a public building at Galveston, Texas,”July 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Galveston, Tex.Public building.Limit of cost increased.Vol. 22, p. 95. That the act entitled “An act for the construction of a public building at Galveston, Texas,” approved May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be amended so as to read that the proposed building shall be for the accommodation of all the Federal offices in that city, including post-office and Federal courts, and that the limits of cost of the said building, including cost of approaches, beating apparatus, and elevator, and exclusive of the cost of site, be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, July 30, 1886.
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