Chapter 159. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois,” approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five
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CHAP. 159.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois,” approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chicago, Ill.Public building.*Ante*, p. 664. That the word “lowest” in line eleven of the Act to which this Act is amendatory be stricken out so that the original Act shall provide as follows:
" “And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract withSale to be to best bidder. the best bidder after reasonable notice by advertisement in two or more newspapers published in the city of Chicago for the sale of the present building as hereinbefore described and the removal of the same from the site where it is now located.” " Approved, March 2, 1895.