Volume 28
Public Law 53–110
To erect a public building at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Approved February 20, 1895
Statutory text
An Act
To erect a public building at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho use of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise provide a site, and cause to
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be erected thereon a suitable, commodious, and substantial building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office, internal-revenue-office, commissioner’s office, and other Government offices, in the borough of Pottsville and State of Pennsylvania. The cost of the site and the building, including fireproof vaults, heating
Cost.
and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited
Proposals for site.
by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city for at least fourteen days prior to the date specified in the advertisement for opening the proposals. The proposals made in response to said public advertisement at the time named in the advertisement, or within ten days subsequent thereto, shall be received, opened, and considered by a commission of three persons, who shall be appointed
Commission.
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to forward to the Secretary of the Treasury, within forty days from the date named in the advertisement for opening the proposals, a written report, with the original proposals, maps, and so forth,
Report, etc.
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and the oaths prescribed by Act of Congress approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to definitely state in said report the site selected by them, and their selection of the site shall be final, and each commissioner shall be allowed a compensation
Compensation.
for his services of an amount within the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, said compensation not to exceed two hundred dollars and actual traveling expenses to each commissioner.
Approved, February 20, 1895.