Chapter 170. Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts
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CHAP. 170.— An Act Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts. February 23, 1909.[[H. R. 13851](/us/bill/70/hr/13851).][[Pubic, No. 252.](/us/pl/70/252)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theBoston, Mass.Builing for immigration station at, authorized. Department of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected, upon any site except Castle Island now owned or controlled by the Government of the United States or upon any site to be ceded to or purchased by the Government for the purpose of establishing a new immigration station, suitable fireproof building or buildings in connection therewith, at the port of Boston, Massachusetts: *Provided*, That this Act shall not be construed to*Proviso.*Castle Island.Vol.26, p. 671. amend, modify or repeal joint resolution numbered seventeen authorizing the use and improvement of Castle Island in Boston Harbor, approved May first, eighteen hundred and ninety.
Sec. 2. That the expenditure of the sum of two hundred and fiftyAppropriation from immigrant fund.*Post* p. 982. thousand dollars is hereby authorized 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 shallPlans, etc. be erected in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and under the supervision of said Department.
Approved, February 23, 1909.