Chapter 58. To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department
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CHAP. 58.— An Act To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department. September 27, 1917. [[S. 2477](/us/bill/65/s/2477).] [[Public, No. 45](/us/pl/65/45).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of thePublic buildings. Additional building for Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., authorized. Location. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed, upon land belonging to the United States, at the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, a suitable building, complete, for the use of the Treasury Department, and to cause an underground connection of said building with the Treasury building to beContracts. constructed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andLimit of cost. empowered to enter into the necessary contracts at a total limit of cost for said building and underground connection of not to exceed $1,250,000. 296 Sec. 2.
Technical, etc., services authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized, without regard to civil-service laws, rules, or regulations, to obtain such special architectural or other expert technical services as he may deem necessary and specially order in writing, and to pay for such services such prices or rates of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable from the appropriation for said building, any statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, September 27, 1917.