Chapter 146. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same
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CHAP. 146.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same.February 20, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public buildings. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to obtain 469 plans, drawings, and specifications for the erection of public buildingsPlans may be obtained by competition. for the United States, authorized by Congress to be erected under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and the local supervision of the construction thereof by competition among architects under such conditions as he may prescribe and to make payment for the services of the architect whose plan may be selected out of the appropriations for the respective buildings: *Provided*, That not less than five*Provisos*. architects shall be invited by the said Secretary to compete for theMinimum number of competitors. furnishing of such plans and specifications and the supervision of such construction: *And provided further*, That the general supervision of theSupervision. work shall continue in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, the Supervising Architect to be the representative of the Government in all matters connected with the erection and completion of such buildings, the receipt of proposals, the award of contracts therefor, and the disbursement of moneys thereunder, and perform all the duties that now pertain to his office, except the preparation of drawings and specifications for such buildings and the local supervision of the construction thereof, the said drawings and specifications however, to be subject at all times to modification and change relating to plan or arrangement of building and selection of material therefor as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, February 20, 1893.