The circumstances are that during the war this building was used. for the first time in its history. by the Navy Department for the manufacture of clothing. That work by the Navy Department expires. as I understand it. on September 1. Now. there are some fourteen or fifteen hundred people employed there. Time Commissioner of Immigration was advised that this building could be rented immediately. so as to reemploy these people. The committee insisted that the rental should be a fair and just sum for property of that character. because we understood it was impossible to secure any general applications for the rental of such a piece of property as this. It Is a mile and a half from the city of Charleston.
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