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 348 FOBTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS;Sress. H. Ch. 329-331. 1885. estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and budding complete the sum of seventy thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated Appropriation out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Pre Precise. vided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger irom nre in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than  feet including street and alleys; and no money appropriated for this pur- Title. pose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said bmldmg shall be vested in the United States, Approved, March 3, 1885. March 3, 1%. CHAP. 380.-An act to amend section eighteen hundred and wg-nine of chapter ———t— one, title twenty-three, of the Revised Statutes of the Uni tatcs, relative to general incorporation acts of Territories. - Be itesactcd by the Senate and Hou-sc.o Representatives of the United I IP', {**5** Tm? Statcsof America in Congress aesembled,f‘1‘hat section eighteen hundred K 8_ and eighty-nine of chapter one, title twenty-three, of the Revised Stat- ,,3g3,.§m,,4.4, ntes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: mam o I “Sec. 1889. The legislative assemblies of the several Territories shall T t *’*°¤. °°* t*° not grant private charters or special privileges, but they may, by genm'{£ fn; eral incorporation acts, permit persons to associate themselves together P.; 5, as bodiescorporate for mining, baking, manufacturing, or other mdus- trial pursuits, or the construction an operation of railroads, wagonroads, canals, or irrigating-ditehes, and the colonisation and improvement of lands in connection therewith, or Ihr colleges, se-minaries, mh; libraries, or any benevolent, charitable, or scientilic associa- Approved, March 3d, 1885. larch3,1$. CHAP.831.—An actin-the erection ofa Yblic building in the cityoferubnm, - "‘_""'*""i New Yor N Be it·;•Lae¢cdbytie8esatcsad.Hoa•eof of the`U»ited Auburn, .r. Statue issllosgresssssesnbled, Seareuryof theTreasp,,;,;,, mums_ nry be, and herebyis,authorised and directed to purehaseor otherwhe provide a suitable site, and cause in be erected thereon, at the city of Site. An the State of New York, a substantial and commodious public ’ g, with me-proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the postomce and United States courts, and for other Government Plum. wrt. etc- uses. The site and the buildings thereon, when completed according to plans and speoiileations to be previously made and approved"? the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hund and nity thousand dollars- and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger fiom nre in adjacent buildings b an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys · and mr the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred and  thousand dollars is Appropriation. hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasug not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of e Secretary of Pnslso. theTreasnry: Procided,That nopartofsaid sum shall be expended Title. until avalid title to said site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of New York shall oede to the United States cxclusivejurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain theownerthereof,for all purposes exeepttbe  of gre criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process emu. Approved, March 3, 1885.