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84 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 129. 1856. necessary, for a post-office in the said city; and the President is hereby authorized to reconsider the conditional contract heretofore made by him with the Merchants Exchange Company and to appoint a commissioner to whom, together with another commissioner, to be appotmed by the Selection of mayor of Baltimore, he shall refer the question of the selection of a. site site *l‘°“{°’· or site and building for said post-office ; and if said commxssnonens disagree they shall choose a third, and the said commissioners shall make their decision and submit the same to the President for his approval; and if the President approve their selection, his approval shall be final; and if he disapprove their selection, the whole subject shall be referred by him to Congress at their next session. Provided, That no part of the money shall be applied for the erection of such buildings till a contract shall be concluded with responsible parties, with detailed plans and estimates to erect and complete such buildings according to such plan and estimates. and to deliver the same to the United States for or within the sum above appropriated, after paying thereout. for the land contracted for by the President, under the authority of law, for the site of such buildings. mY;’U¤i¤1¤ h¤¤Pi· For raising the roof of the marine hospital at Natchez, Mississippi, one ‘thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase for the United States, the lot in the rear of marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama, six thousand dollars. For the completion of the marine hospitals at St. Marks Florida, and Galena, Illinois: For St. Merk’s, seventeen thousand dollars. For Galena, twenty-five thousand dollars. mgugtphggggygi for completing the custom-house and post-office building at Cincinnati, bmc€mm_ Ohio, with all necessary additions, appendages, and accommodations, thirty-five thousand doHars. Marius hospi- For fencing and grading the grounds of the marine hospital at St.

      • 1* Louis, Missouri, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For completing the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For annual repairs of marine hospitals, twenty thousand dollars. Custom-house For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, M N"' O'l°““· three hundred thousand dollars. com-;.m0m and To enable the Secretary of the Interior to procure st lease from the g?,;?;?;? UM Board of Supervisors of Ontario county, New York, for a court-room and g “' post·0iHce at Canandaigua, New York, and to furnish the same, twelve thousand dollars. Custom-house For enclosing and grading the lot, constructing pavements, and cisterns, M 0¤W°S°· alpd intgodlupgig gas for the custom—house at Oswego, New York, five thousand o s. For fencing and grading the grounds, completing and furnishing the Al B”“smbl°· custom-house at Barnstable, Massachusetts, nine thousand eight hundred seventy dollars eighty cents. Bridge mz Bun- For bridging the Kenduskead river on each side of the custormhonse at gm" Bangor, Maine, from the middle bridge to the lower bridge, Eve thousand three hundred dollars. SMS or 6X_ And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed chan 9 of cus; to sell the old custom-house and lot at Providence, Rhode Island, and aphom-gouge at ply the proceeds thereof to the purchase of lend thr the enlargement of P*'°“d°“°°- the site of the custom-house now being constructed at that place; or to ezrchenge said old custom-house and lot for land for the cznlnrgexnent of sand site, if in the opinion of said Secretary it shall be more advanmgeous. viggggl lf5v?;;,. For compensation of the members of the Board of Revisors appointed Diméct Oy O0_ in pursuance of the not of Congress approved March third, eighteen html¤¤¤b¤¤- drcd and fifty-five, entitled "An act to improve the laws of the District