Proceedings of the Finance Committee of Councils, January 17, 1887, in reference to repealing the proviso of the ordinance to make an appropriation to the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings, for the year 1887, approved December 31, 1886 : including the remarks of the president of the Commissioners, Samuel C. Perkins : to which is added the act of assembly, approved August 5, 1870, creating the Commission : opinion of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania -- in relation to the power and discretion of the Public Building Commission : together with the opinion of William Nelson West -- that -- the power and discretion of the Commissioners, in reference to the construction of the buildings, are absolute