Chapter 5. Amending an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public bui
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CHAP. 5.— An Act Amending an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. December 22, 1913.[[S. 2689](/us/bill/63/s/2689).][[Public, No. 42](/us/pl/63/42).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twenty-six of Public buildings.Bureau of Mines laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pa.the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into a contract or contracts for the erection of fireproof laboratories for the Acceptance of additional funds.Vol. 37, p. 886.Bureau of Mines in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and so forth, is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to accept and expend, in addition to the limit of cost therein fixed, such funds as may be received by contribution from the State of Pennsylvania, or from other sources, for the purpose of enlarging, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, and improving the site authorized to be acquired for said Bureau of Mines, or for other work contemplated by said legislation: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Limit of cost.That the acceptance of such contributions and the improvements made therewith shall involve the United States in no expenditure in excess of the limit of cost heretofore fixed.
Approved, December 22, 1913.