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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · May 3, 1886 · Chapter 83

Chapter 83.

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CHAP. 83.— An act limiting the cost of the erection of a public building at Rochester, New York.May 3, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Rochester, N. Y. Public building. Limit of cost increased. That the amount heretofore fixed as the limit of cost for the erection of a public building by the United States Government at Rochester, New York, be, and the same is hereby, increased to five hundred thousand dollars, and that sum is hereby fixed as the limit of cost for the erection of said building and for the. payment for the site thereof.
Sec. 2. That the officers of the United States Government havingPlans, &c., to conform to limitation. charge of the erection of public buildings are required to be governed by the limitation hereby prescribed in making plans and contracts for the erection of said building. Sec. 3. That the provisions of existing law relating to said buildingOpen space reduced. Vol. 22, p. 94, be so amended as to require an open space of not less than twenty feet, in lieu of forty feet, as provided by the act of May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Approved, May 3, 1886.
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