Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
§57 Limitation of expenditures; purchase of supplies
No new building shall be erected or new grounds purchased, not shall nay expenditure of more than $5,000 be made, until the action of the board thereon shall be approved by the Secretary of the army. All supplies that can be purchased upon contract shall e so purchased, after due notice by advertisement, of the lowest responsible bidder. Such bidder shall give bond, with proper security for the performance of his contract.
(Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 130, §3, 22 Stat. 564; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title III, §347(2), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1422)