Mr. MORRILL. ComDistCol, to whom was referred a bill (H.R.No. 124 authorizing the construction of a jail in an for the DistCol, to report it without amendment and recommend its passage, and I ask for its present consideration. There bein no objection, the Senate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill. It proposes to authorize the SecyInterior to select asnitable place on some of the public grounds belonging to the Government in the city of Washington, and to construct thereon, upon such plan as he may select, a ail of sufficient capacity to provide for not css than 300 prisoners, with suitable yards, hospitals, &c., the entire cost of which shall not exceed the sum of $200,000. The SecyInte rior is to employ an architect and have repnred a design for the building, and pans descriptive thereof, with complete specifications of the work required an the materials to be used, and to publish notice of a public letting of the contract for the building of the jail, at least' 30 days before the lcttin, in the principal newspapers in NewYork, Tos ton, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Washington, which notice shall direct a place where such specifications can be seen, and a time at which the contract is to be lot; and the Secretary is to let the contract to the low est responsiblo bidder, and the contractor is to enter into sufficient bond for the faithful comletion of the contract to the approval of the ‘ecretary. The SecyInterior is to sell at public sale, on proper notice, the materials of the old jail, now located in Judiciar s acre, and the proceeds are to be paid intot c ‘reas ur of the U.S. Tor the purpose of reimbursing the U.S. fora part of the cost the proper authorities of the city of Washington are required to raise, by tax or otherwise, and pay into the Treasury of the U.S., at or before the time of the completion of the jail, the sum of $70,000; the proper authorities of the city of Georgetown, $20,000, and the proper authorities of the county of Washington $10,000, which sums shall be deemed the air proortion of the cost of the jail of each of the cities and to the county of Washington; these authorities, respectively, are required to assess and levy upon the taxable property of the cities and of the county of Washington a tax sufficient to raise the amount so by each city and said county required to be aid. The bill was reported to the ‘enate without amendment, ordered to a 3rd reading, read the 3rd time, and passed. WASHINGTON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY.