SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sus. III. cs. 147. rms. 885 ury of the best modern national archive in Europe, and consultation shall be had with the best authorities in Europe on the construction and arrangement of archive _ That the-sand designs and estimates shall provr etor the construe- ¤¤¤•¤r<=¤¤¤. tron of a building e total cost of which, meludrng heatnnsland ventilatrng apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, sh not exceed the sum of $1,500 000._ _ V That whenever the said desxns and estimates have been agproved ""'*'••°'•"°· b acommission consisting of ePresident of the Senate, the tpeaker oy the House of Regresentatives, theTreasury, eSecretary of War, an the Seeretarypf the Interior, then the of the shall be, and he rs hereby, authorized and , m hrs discretion, to purchase, or cause to be taken for public pee, b condemnation or otherwise ae a site for sand bui1dar}g, an piece o¥landof6t(l;ei)ysiz5u;leiir:ledinthmsectronthepurchaeeo w shall be said commission. . 'lélirgxidr the preparation of said designs and estimates the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, rs hesrebyauthorrzed °°*‘- to as exgendeoéor gmployrnent of and engmeenng services m e office o e npervrsmg Sec. 22. That for the purpose of preventing) the pollution and ·B;§c_ o on of] Cres and of coirngcltpkng otomac l’arktw1{.)h %c¤:;gt=¤gae;:1;Q{ Q, ogic an ,ac0mm1$10D, 0 Ozoerogsear drew coiinposed of the Secretary of the_ Treasury, the of Wang ¤*°*’•*¤~m and the_ Secretary of Agriculture, rs_hereby authorized an dnecte to acqurre, by purchase, condemnatron, or otherwise, such land and
as are not now the prolperty of the United States m the
rstnct of Columbra shown on e_map on file m the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, dated May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and_ eleven and lying on both sides of Rock Creek, including such portion of the cree bed as may be m private ownershi , between the Zoological Parl; and Potomac Parkti A t marina and the sum ofp $1,300,000 is hereby authorized to be pgpende '”°‘“‘ ‘ · toward the re uirement of such That all lands now _ Qllglllg mmm md.m_M· to the Unitedcbtates or to the Drstrrct of Columbia wrthm the exterior boundaries of the land to be acquired by thrs act as shown and designated on said map M6 h¢§’¤bJ’ ¤P£¤'°P¤¤*•?d(;·° *3: “t;*;$°0'; 0...;..u.,;m..u...m part of e plerkway herein authorize to e acqunelrie e- f th Rlnsgmngguue, In the cost of the sard lands shall be rermbursed to the asury o_ e United States ou;] of t}£mr;evi;1ues_t?1f_t1:'; Dlstrgctihof Colu(n;b;;mr: 'ht al 't en,wr mresa erae_ m, an gig wiltlsnl u_p0rr the deferred payments. That- shggld ,cSd,§;,_“""‘ ""‘* the commrssron decide to mstrtute condemnation proceedings m o er to secrne any or all of the land heremauthorrzed to be aosgurred, such vol, my m_ roceedings shall be in accordance the provrsrons o the acttof Congress approved August thrrtreth, erghteen hundred and nrne_ y, I'0V’l(1l%- a site for the enlargement of the Government Pnntrng gilice nited States_Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, chapter °`g§`§¤l?`§?,$l'°T'i.§°°i mmgdfsiiyis hereby esstsd, to wnsist of rhs rsmmraaz; President of th;IUnite¢} Etgates, t{1etiPres1de§tui»f :;:110- pig ggsnmgwsms.-asu;. TBSGD 8 VE, 8H 6 Comminioncreared gldenirlirittggstldir P?1\{)Sl§G0Bl1l.l4£D·gS and Grounds of the Senate and °°¤1>°” d¤°¤¤·°"‘- House of Re resentatives, for the pnupose of rnvestrgating and reporting to Cgngress a surtabledesngn for a_Memonal Bridge across the Potomac _R1ver, from the city o Washrngtonnto a pomt at or ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, near the Arhngton estate rn the State of `]1`glD1B, and the said rorexpemsscommission is ereby authorized to_expend the sum of $25,000 rn procuring such designs and for malnngsuch surveys and estrmates of cost as they may eem advisable, an report as early as may be to Congress.
