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F IFTY SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 1010, 1011. 1903. 1203 board appointed for conducting such tests shall report the result of said competition or conliparison, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of the avy, who may purchase or contract for subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in a manner that will best advance the interests of the United States in submarine warfare: And provided farther, That before any subsurface or submarine to do boat is pur- S,,,,,,,,,,, tm, chased or contracted for it shall be accepted by theN°i1)$y Department M<>~1>¤r¤¤•¤¤- as fulfilling all reasonable requirements for submarine warfare and shall have een fully tested to the satisfaction of the Secretar of the Navy. To carry out the purpose aforesaid the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. - Corzsrrzucnorz AND mcnmmnr: On account of the hulls and outfits Construction and of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, fifteen ”"‘°l“"°"‘ million twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. Armor: nm Anmmam: Toward the armament and armor of domes- Armor and n-n... tic manufacture for the vessels authorized, ten million dollars. _ mm` EQUDMENT: Toward the corrgpletion of the equipment of the new Equipment. vessels authorized, four hund thousand dollars. . Approved, March 3, 1903. CHAP. 1011.-An Act To increase the limit of cost of oermin public buildings, to March s, um. authorize the purcha.se_of_ sites for blic buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and lb`; other purposes. ’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House eéf Representativesq:{‘ the United States of America in Congress assemble , That to enable the Secretary buQ,¤=¤¤>¤¤ m1>¤\>11c of the Treasury of the United States to give eifect to and execute the c0°ixtE1tnI¤:e¤sea provisions of existing legislation authorizing the purchase of sites and the erection thereon of public buildings in the several cities hereinafter enumerated, the limit of cost heretofore fixed by Congress therefor be, and the same is hereby, increased, res ctively, as' follows, and the Secretary of the Treasuryl is hereby authhrized to enter into contracts for the completion of eac of said buildings within its respective limit of cost, including site, hereby fixed: United States post-office and court-house at Harrison Arkansas, ¤¤¤¤¤<>¤. Ml from seventy thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars. United States post—oiHce and courthouse at Fresno, California, from Franc. CM. one hundred thousand dollars to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. United States post-office at Chillicothe, Ohio, from seventy thousand C*¤l¤*¤<>*¤¤· 0***- dollars to eighty thousand dollars. ‘ United States post-office and custom-house at Perth Amboy, New Perth A¤¤¤><·r.N·J. Jersey, from fifty thousand dollars to sixty thousand dollars. United States custom-house at San Francisco, California, from one $(3;*1 Fmgviscv. 0:1. million dollars to one million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, ria3i2K` °“°°°` That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, provide Subrmmrs since. space in said custom-house for the subtreasury. United States post·office at Colorado Springs, Colorado, from one C0‘fg}°"*‘l° SP"i“¤*· hundred and thirty-tive thousand dollars to one hundred and seventy- tive thousand dollars. United States post-office and courthouse at Rome, Georgia, from R¤¤=~>·G~ fifty-nine thousand one hundred and four dollars and forty-eight cents to one hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and four dollars and fort *—eight cents. United States post-office at Dekalb, Illinois, from sixty-five thousand D€'*°“’· llldollars to one hundred thousand dollars. United States post-officc, custom-house, and court-house at Jackson- L::”“1‘;;°·“°· ville, Florida. from three hundred and twenty-eight thousand eight 'p` '