Chapter 17. To provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 17.— An Act To provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 6, 1908.[[[H. R. 7694.]](/us/bill/70/hr/7694)[[[Public, No. 16.]](/us/pl/70/16) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of thePhiladelphia, Pa.Public building at, for immigration station, authorized.
Department of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase or condemnation a suitable site and cause to be erected, complete, thereon, a public building to temporarily accommodate and care for immigrants arriving at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania; the cost of said site andLimit of cost. the complete erection, equipment and furnishing of said building not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars isAppropriation from immigrant fund. hereby appropriated for the purchase of ground for and the complete erection and furnishing of said building, which sum shall be paid from the immigrant fund; that the said building shall be erected in accordancePlans, etc. with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and under the supervision of said Department. Approved, February 6, 1908.