Chapter 88. To provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois
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CHAP. 88.— An Act To provide for the erection of a Government building at Chicago, Illinois.February 13, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chicago, Ill.Public building authorized on old site. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected upon the present post-office site in the city of Chicago and State of Illinois, *Post*, p. 911.which site is bounded by Adams, Jackson, Clark, and Dearborn streets, a commodious and sufficiently fireproof building for the use of the post-office, United States courts, United States subtreasury, United States collectors, and other necessary officers of the Government; the building to be so erected as to occupy all the available area of the present site to the street lines on all sides, and the Secretary of the Treasury is Correction, *post*, p. 701.authorized to contract with the lowest and best bidder, after reasonable notice by advertisement in two or more newspapers published in Sale, etc., of present building.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, and the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized and directed to have prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department full and complete plans, specifications, and detailed drawings of the building to be erected, the said plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Postmaster-General, and the Secretary of I he Interior.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorizedContracts for construction authorized. in the specifications for the erection of said building to enter into contract for the construction of any portion thereof, and the several contracts for the different portions of said building shall be awarded, after public advertisement according to law for not less than one month, to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders. Said contracts shall be made at such times that the actual work of construction shall progress continuously and no delay be caused in the erection of the building: *Proviso*.Limit of cost.*Provided*, That the entire cost of said building when completed shall not exceed the sum of four million dollars.
Approved, February 13, 1895. Chapter 92: To amend and extend the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of certain abandoned military reservations, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Chapter 92 28 Stat. 664 1895-02-15 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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