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FOBTY -E1GHTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 332-334.. 1885. 349 CHAP. 332.-·An act for the erection of a public building at Chicago, Illinois. March 3, 1585. Be it enacted by the Senate and House aj Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secr·etary of the gxmxm Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to cause the erec- g' tion of a substantial and commodious building, upon ground owned by the United States on the corner of Fifth avenue and Polk street, and Sikknown as the “ old bridewell and dock property", in the city of Chicago, Illinois, for the use of the United States local appraiser and other Government uses; the building when completed upon plans and specillca- Plans; ec•t. tions to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the cost of fifty thousand dollars. . Sec. 2. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Appropriation. appropriated, to be used and expended in the emotion of said building. Approved, March 3, 1885. cna!. aaa.-sn set to change the limit or appro riation for the blic buil ‘ March 3, lsm. at Louisville, Kentncliy. Pu dm: """'**"·; Be it enacted by the Senate and House o/'Representatieee of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act Louisville K . for the erection of a public building at Louisville, Kentucky," approved P¤b!i¤ May twenty-nfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be amended by ,”’m°°·,,‘Q°L °· ° making the limit for said building one million dollars, and that sum is A,,,’,],,,,,gd_ hereby tlxed as the limit of cost thereoil Section 2. That the Supervising Architect and the odlcers of the Appropriation United States Government having charge of the erection of public 1i¤¤t¤ *0 OL- buildings are authorized and required to be governed by the limitation °°°·°°°· hereby prescribed in making contracts fcrthe erection of said building, Approved, March 3, 1885. ` CHAP.334.—Anaettomecrpora° tetheLutherStatu•Amociationto¤rect larch I5. msintainamonument orstatusinmemeryctllartiulntherin _ Columbia. . Belenactedintkedenateand House q/‘Repreeentat·ieesof the United Stats efdmeriea in Oongreeeseeembled, That John G. Morris and Gus- Distrivt ¤f Cvtavus A. Dobler, of the State of Maryland; Arnold J. D. Wedemyer, 1"?_l;’“· mum of Charles A. Schieren, and Augustus Kountze, of the State of New York; tho I,,:$,. Sum John W. B. Dobler, of the State of New Jersey; Daniel M. Fox, of the Association. State of Pennsylvania, and George Byneal, junior, and John G. Butler, of the District of Columbia, be, and are hereby, created and made a body politic and corporate by the name, style, and title of the Luther Statue Association; and said persons, or their successors, shall constitute a board of trustees, nine innumber, of said association, to be main- . tained in perpetual succession, and shall have all the powers of a body corporate necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of said association, namely, to erect and maintain in the District of Columbia a statue or monument in memory of Martin Luther. Sec. 2.dTbat banrd of téustnjsé shall 11::1 paper-to make all nec- drew of hn: essary an proper y- ws, an to r or re e same at pleasure, *¤* •°• and to iill, by election, all vacancies which shall occur in their body, so Rmx: ""1 that the number of nine trustees shall always be preserved. Sec. 3. That said board of trustees shall have powerto acquire,by To acquire me purchase or otherwise, and to hold in and by said corporate name of the ¤•·¤¤f¤r P¤>P•¤*!· Luther Statue Association, and furthe purposes thereot, property, real, personal, and mixed, and to convey and transfer the same at pleasure: