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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 150, 160, 161. 1885. 33l services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. P t t .d For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred 0W81E2z5s;,:;; and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of the or mpiemmc or widows or heirs-at-law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United consular officers. States diygng in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five P §i1S·· ’°°· 174% ousan ollars. . ‘ ‘ To pay the expense of a preliminary search, to be madeunder the For search fer direction of the Department of State, of the records of the French ;,"’d:”°° ,¤,*>° prize courts or other French archives from seventeen hundred and b;°3gPa:H-:2::*zg ninety-two to eighteen hundred and one, inclusive, to ascertain whether sum, any evidence or documents relating to the claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and one, still exist, and, if so, the nature and character thereof, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in Tq <>¤¤bl¤ the the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and £$.*"d°“* t" '“°°* other interests of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. g,,,°g::°°° °m"` Approved, February 25, 1885. CHAP. 60.- authorize the Secreta of the Treasury to eonve land in B 1 AuPr.:tv;:ence, Rhode Island, forrhighway purposes. Y Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqirescntatives of the United States of America in Oongresa aucmbled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Pmvide¤ee,B. I. ury is hereby authorized to convey to the city of Providence, in the Secretary or State of Rhode Island, for highway pmposes, such portion of the old T"°“'”'{ P" ,*3;:; custom-house lot, so called, owned by the United States, situated on the xy fg? $,,*,,,,,,8 northwesterly corner of South Main street and Custom avenue, in said stieet. city, as may be required for the widening of said South Main street, upon the application for such widening now pending in the supreme court of Rhode Island. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treuury is authorized to agree Secretary to with the city of Providence upon the amount of compensation to be paid ¤8¤‘¤•> with citx M the United States for said land and damages to the building on said :.0: ,.'::‘a’3“‘d:!‘;f lot, and to receive such amount in full payment therefor. ,,8,, Approved, February 26, 1885. CHAP. 161.-An act for the erection of a public building at Macon, Georgia. February 26, 1g8s_ Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America. in Uongncs assembled, That the Secretary of the M•¤q¤. G9- _ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a §;:l‘° "'“m“‘!· site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with tire- ' proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States circuit and district courts, post-oulce, and other Government omces, at the city of Macon, Georgia. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for mm., .,0,;, said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and buildin complete the sum of one hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars:  ed, That the site shall  leave the building unexposed to danger from tire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United Tii=l¤· States, nor until the State of Georgia shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over e same, during the time the United