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564 THIRTY-—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ras. 5, 6, 7, S. 1867. the post-omce of New York, and Jackson S. Shultz, Charles H. Russell, Charles H. gggtegggsgts in Rogers, and Moses Taylor, of New York city, be appointed a commission New York city, to purchase the site for a building to accommodate the post-oflice and United States courts in the city of New York, in accordance with their report submitted to the Secretary of the Interior and the Postmaster- _Lower part of General, and by them approved, viz: the lower portion of the City Hall 3)*g g32f:;;. Park, containing land equal to twenty-six city lots, (or over sixty-six Tu d phouplpnd squapedfeet) apd gba; they gedatiphorizpl tolcpigchlaise thp same __i can cou- or esumo ve un re thousand dollars: rovz e at the tite d‘°°“' to said property shall be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, subject to the condition that the government of the United States shall stipulate that it shall be used for public purposes only; and that said commission procure plans and estimates for a suitable buildinv upon said site, to be submitted to the .Postmaster·General and Secretary cof the Interior ; and should such plans and estimates meet their approval, they shall communicate the same, with such additional suggestions as they may Secretary of think proper, to Convress; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby the Treasury 311- · d to Ch f 1 b _ mmzcd,0 pay au ortze pay suc sum 0 money as may e necessary to carry the therefor. foregoing resolution into effect from any money in the treasury hereafter to be appropriated. Approved, January 22, 1867. MB- 22. 1867- [No. 6.] A Rwolution approprmting Money to defray the Expenses ry' the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment. _ _ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United APP*°P"'***°¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand for excpenses of d H h . ,0;,,, 0,,,,,,;,,,, dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is on retrench- hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ’“°“l‘ appropriated, to defray the expenses of the “Joint Committee on Retrenchment," and that sum shall be drawn from the treasury, upon the P f _ order of the secretary of the Senate, as the same shall be required; and msS?;_° wr any portion of the amount hereby appropriated, that shall be allowed by the said joint committee to witnesses attending before it, or persons employed in its service, for per diem, travelling, or other necessary expenses, and paid by the secretary of the Senate, in pursuance of the orders of said joint committee, shall be accordingly credited and allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. Approved, January 22, 1867. JM- 99. 1867- [No. 7.] Joint Msolrdion authorizing the Secretarps(3)f War to transfer certain Property to the National Asylum for D" led Volunteers. Be it resolved by the Senate and fkuse of Representatives of the Lbzited WSecr¤t¤ry of States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Asylum for ,.u_°Q’;;g§';f“` Disabled Volunteer Soldiers not having obtained title to land at Point tional Asylum Lookout, in Maryland, as contemplated in the twelfth section of the act %2;1B§:;>:_°g0l_ approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, establishing dim cm,,;,, that institution, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, at his discrepfoperty of the tion, to transfer to the said National Asylum any of the_ property of the Tgggjwgsi, 5 United States still remaining at Point Lookout, which may be considered 12. a. ro riate and useful for the 0b` t f th t t' . M. p. u. "5’t.}.?, .1..., 29, .s...~?“° S ° “ °'”‘°°'“ Jl;:é1::1;;86;·t [No. 8.] A Ruolution to provide for £pm.7Rc;zmo2ul of the Wreck of the Steamship . G . v:{°x,{G,,_1fg7' Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives ¢y" the United 5mm,,, of States of; America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, tl|Ya:¤L¤;¤'?tyHgp;_ and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the removal of the