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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 381, 391. 1886. 7] and reasonable price, and that the interests of the Government will not suiier by said sale, and upon payment to the Secretary of the Treasury of said price the title to said property shall vest in said company, its successors and assigns. Upon the following express conditions, that all non-competing railroads not now having right of way into Chicago, Nw · ¤°1¤P°*i¤g desiring to use the tracks, switches, depots, and terminal facilities of 1Q1g21d8x,;" ha" said Chicago and Great Western Railroad, shall be by said company fg y` or its assigns, permitted to do so, to the extent of the capacity of said company to furnish railroad terminal facilities, upon fair and equitable terms and regulations; and in the event the companies interested cannot agree upon such terms and regulations, then the same shall be fixed Termsand determined by three disinterested persons, one of whom shall be selected by said Chicago and Great Western Railroad Company, one by such other company as may desire to use said tracks, switches, and terminal facilities, and the third by the two persons so selected. If the purchase-price of said land, as agreed upon or finally fixed as hereinbefore provided, is not paid within ten days after the same shall have ° been so agreed upon or fixed as aforesaid, this act shall be null and void. Sec. 2. That all costs incurred under the provisions hereof in apprais- C°**¤· ing said property, or ascertaining the price to be paid therefor, shall be added to the said price as agreed upon, or as the same may be finally fixed hereunder, and paid by said railroad company. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall invest the purchase- _ P1'°°°°d¤_ W be money of the said lot received by him, or so much thereof as may be f,'f,;‘;gt°g- gtepgg necessary, in the purchase or acquisition by condemnation of a site, and public building for in the erection thereon of a suitable and commodious warehouse, for customs. the use of the United States local appraiser of customs, and other Government uses, in the city of Chicago. The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made _ _ and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost Limit of °°S*· the purchase-money received by the Secretary of the Treasury for the lot mentioned in the iirst section of this act- nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said purchase-money received by the Secretary of the Treasury under this act for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until Pf°”**°· a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor Timuntil the State of Illinois shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State, and the service of civil process therein. And the act entitled “An act for the erection of a public building at V¤l· 23. cb- 339. Chicago, Illinois," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty- P· 3‘*°· ’°P°“1°d· tive, is hereby repealed. Approved, May 27, 1886. CHAP. 391.-—An act to authorize and direct the registry and enrollment of the my 93, ]555_ Barge Michigan, of Alpena, Michigan. .._..;. Ba it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- t B2? Mwglgg ury is hereby authorized and directed to register and enroll, according nfld cm0',f§]_ ° to the provisions of title forty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United R_ S__ T i t 1 ,. States, the vessel or barge called Michigan, now in process of rebuilding XLVIII.