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60TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
18t Session. No. 454.
PUBLIC BUILDING AT W ALLINGFORD, CONN.
APRIL 2, 1908.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Scorr, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 753.]
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was
referred the bill (S. 753) to provide for the purchase of a site and the
erection of a public building thereon at Wallingford, in the State of
Connecticut, having considered the same, report back the bill, with
amendments, with the recommendation that the bill do pass.
On page 1, line 12, strike out "seventy" and insert in lieu thereof
"sixty."
Strike out all of page 2, and also of page 3 down to line 13.
Your committee herewith appends the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury on this bill.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, December 17, 1907.
SIR: Referring to your request for a report in connection with S. 753, providing for
a site and building at Wallingford, Conn., for the use of the post-office and other
Government offices at a cost not to exceed the sum of $75,000, I have the honor to
submit the following:
It is estimated that a one-story and basement building having 4,000 square feet
ground area will be sufficient, and that a fireproof building of the dimensions indi-
cated, including heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults and approaches,
will cost $55,000, exclusive of site. A nonfireproof building of the dimensions indi-
cated will cost $50,000, exclusive of site. It is estimated that a suitable site can be
secured for $10,000 additional.
Referring to that portion of the bill which relates to the appointment of a com-
mission of not more than three persons in connection with the matter of the selection
of the site, the Department begs to suggest that the same be eliminated, as past
experience has developed the fact that the usual practice of sending an agent to
make a personal examination of all available sites, and thereupon to submit a written
report of his conclusions for final action by the Department, is the more satisfactory
and economical method.
Respectfully, J. H. EDWARDS,
Acting secretaryj.
The CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS,
United States Sena0
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