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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 384. 1910. 703 CHAP. 384.-An Act Makin appropria ions for sun ' x f v- -l¤¤¢25. 1910- ernment for the fiscal year endiiig il)iinepthii·tieth, nine1i;2f1(liiiiiei3rel)i€a-rii2ls•§eirl¢ii’1§}si-)nd 1H-“·“5°2·l for other purposes. [Public, No. 266.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat*i*ves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, ,_,e§_“;‘,$,§{,,;§,,*;_g){,g_°“‘ ` and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely; EXECUTIVE. E¤¤¤¤¤v¤- To enable the President to secure information to assist him in the §{f“S;‘1f,';g ,n,m_m_ dischar of the duties imposed upon him by section two of the Act uq¤_w assist m adentitledg?‘An Act to rovi e revenues, equalize duties and encourage },",L'}‘°°°"”g°°"°l“W’ the industries of the Yllnited States, and for other pu oses," a proved —*’*‘°·P· 83- August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the olilicers of the Government in administering the customs laws, including such investigations of the cost of production of commodities, coverin cost of material, fabrication and every other element of such cost og production, as are authorized by said Act, and including the employment of such rsons as may be required for those purposes; and to enable him to Eg any and al things in connection therewith authorized by law, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ To enable the President, by the employment of accountants and ,,§‘,§‘},‘},‘§`§',,,i"',§‘,,,’§‘},‘§,‘§ experts from official and private life, to more effectively inquire into gg$__3<>d;tci¤ dermthe methods of transactrng the public business of the Government ` in the several executive departments and other overnment establishments, with the view of inaugurating new or riianging old methods of transacting such public business so as to attain greater efficiency and economy therein, and to ascertain and recommend to Congress what changes in law may be necessary to carry into efiect such results of his inquiry as can not be carried into effect by executive action alone, and for each and every purpose necessary hereimder, including the employment of personal serviées atWash1ngton, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, onehundred thousand dollars. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. mgfasury Depart PUBLIC nurnnmcs. Publicbuildin8¤· Albany, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For site and com- ·'*“>°"Y·G¤- pletion of building under Hpresent limit, fifty thousand dollars. Alton, Illinois, post-o ice: For site and completion of building A"*°“·m· under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Asbury Park, New Jersey, post-ofiice: For site and continuation ·*¤*”“'Y P°’k·N·J- of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Ashtabula, Ohio, post-oflice: For continuation of building under A¤**°°"“l**·Ohi°· present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Athens, Ohio, post-office: For site and completion of building under A*'°°°°· Ohmpresent limit, including five thousand dollars for acquisition of additional land for site, thirty thousand dollars. Atlanta, Georgia, old post—office building: The Secretary of the j,§,f{g’:,}“éf§,°,)u,,d,Hg Treasury is authorized to have appraised, in a fair and impartial wcay. manner, the old post—oflice building in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, having in view the value of said buildin for mrmicipal purposes, and . to conve said building, together vvitii the lot or lots eretofore donated by the cit of Atlanta to the Government of the United States on which said buildin is situated, to the said citg of Atlanta, on the payment by it into the Treasury of the United tates of the amount of the appraised value of said building thus ascertained: hmm Provided, That the acceptance of such conveyance by the city of conditions