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refrigeration from the Capitol Power Plant for the First Street wing of the Senate Office Building, the United States Supreme Court Building, the Library of Congress Annex, and the additional office building authorized by Public Law 785, Eightieth Congress, with provision for future service lines to the main Library of Congress building.

(6) Increase the capacity of the refrigeration plant at the Capitol Power Plant from four thousand eight hundred tons to approximately eight thousand eight hundred tons of refrigeration by the installation of two or more centrifugal compressor units, complete with pumps and necessary auxiliary equipment and connected to the chilled water-distribution system; install a cooling tower at the Capitol Power Plant site in replacement of the existing river pumphouse to supply cooling water for the refrigeration plant; and install piping, valves, transformer substation and electrical equipment, and all other necessary incidental items.

SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, is hereby authorized and directed to make arrangements for such public-utility installations as may be necessary for the supplying of the electrical energy to be purchased under the authority of this Act. The appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, for expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the Capitol Power Plant shall be available for purchasing such electrical energy.

SEC. 3. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, is hereby authorized and directed to enter into such contracts and to make such expenditures for labor, materials, equipment, personal and other services, structural and other changes, and other items and purposes, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. In employing the engineering services for the project herein authorized, competition shall be restricted to not less than three competent firms of engineers.

SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated a total amount not to exceed $16,446,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act, and the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, is authorized to obligate such total amount, prior to the actual appropriation of the full amount thereof, after an appropriation of any part of such total amount shall have been made. Approved October 26, 1949.

SUBJECT

1. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (ANNEX) BUILDING ACTS.

[H. R. 9355]

An Act To provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created a joint commission to be composed of the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol. The chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate shall act as chairman of the commission. The commission is authorized to sit and act at such time and places within the District of Columbia as it deems advisable. The chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives shall continue to serve upon the commission if they have been reelected to the House of Representatives, notwithstanding the expiration of the Congress. The members of the commission shall receive no additional compensation for their services as such members, but they shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the commission. The commission shall cease to exist six months after the date of final acquisition of the property under the provisions of section 2 of this Act.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of providing a site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, the commission is authorized and directed to acquire on behalf of the United States, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, at a cost not to exceed $600,000, all the privately owned land, including buildings and other structures, in square numbered 761 and so much thereof in square numbered 760 as is south of the north side of the alley, being lots numbered 15 to 30, inclusive, and including any easements or rights of reversion, in the District of Columbia, as such squares appear on the records in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia as of the date of the enactment of this Act. Any condemnation proceedings necessary to be instituted under the authority of this Act shall be in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890. as amended.

SEC. 3. All such land, buildings, and structures, when acquired, shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Architect of the Capitol, who is authorized, pending the demolition of such buildings and structures and the use of the land for Library purposes (a) to lease any or all of such property for such periods and under such terms and conditions as he may deem most advantageous to the United States, (b) out of such appropriations as may be made therefor, to provide for the maintenance, repair, and protection of

such property and to incur such other expenses as may be necessarily incident to such jurisdiction and control, and (c) to render available for the use of the Library, upon the request of the librarian, such portions thereof as may be suitable temporarily for storage or other purposes.

The proceeds of any leases hereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, and the Architect of the Capitol shall include in his annual report a detailed statement of his action under this section during the period covered by such report.

SEC. 4. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized to remove or to provide for the removal of such buildings and structures or such part thereof as may be necessary, upon request of the Joint Committee on the Library, when it shall become apparent to such committee that such land or any part thereof is needed for the purpose of commencing the construction of any additional building or buildings for the Library of Congress.

SEC. 5. After the demolition of the buildings and structures acquired hereunder, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon request of the Joint Committee on the Library, are authorized and directed to close and vacate that part of A Street southeast, lying between the east side of Second Street and the west side of Third Street southeast, and also the alley intersecting square numbered 760 as described above in section 2, and the portion of such street and the whole of said alley so closed and vacated, together with the land acquired under this Act, shall thereupon become a part of the grounds of the Library of Congress.

SEC. 6. Appropriations made for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department.

Approved, May 21, 1928.

81504-51-17

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