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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · February 13, 1891 · Chapter 166

Chapter 166.

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CHAP. 166.— An act to increase the appropriation for the erection of a public building at Portsmouth. Ohio.February 13, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Portsmouth, Ohio. That the amount heretofore fixed as the limit of cost for the erection of a publicPublic building, etc. building by the United States Government at Portsmouth, Ohio,Limit of cost increased. Vol. 35, p. 507. be, and the same is hereby, increased to seventy-five thousand dollars, and that sum is hereby fixed as the limit of cost for the erection of said building, including site.
Sec. 2. That the officers of the United States Government havingLimitation on building contracts. charge of the erection of public buildings are authorized and required to be governed by the limitation hereby prescribed in making contracts for the erection of said building. Sec. 3. That the additional sum of fifteen thousand dollars be,Additional appropriation. and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended for the purposes provided in this act.
Approved, February 13, 1891.
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