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 FURTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 577-57 9. 1886. 105 of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erec- Estimatestion 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 Limit. - exceeding the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars for site and building, and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed OPM SPM6- to danger from fire by an open space of at least fifty feet, including Post, p. 348. streets and alleys : Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended Proviso. until a valid title to the said site shall he vested in the United States, Timnor until the State of Georgia shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. _ Approved, June 30, 1886. CHAP. 578.-—An act making an appropriation to complete the public building at J 11119 30, 1886· Hannibal, Missouri, in accordance with the original plan of the Supervising Architect ;—";"‘ of the Treasury, and to make the same fire-prooi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary Hannibal,_Mo. of the Treasury to complete the public building in course of erection at P¤b]i° l>“*1di¤H· Hannibal, Missouri, in accordance with the original plan of the Super-. vising Architect providing for a building three stories high, and to Appropriation to make the same fire-proof, the sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars is ¢°¤¤Pl•=*°· hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise v°l‘22*P‘93‘ appropriated Approved, June 30, 1886. CHAP. 579.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the erection Jung 30, 1886, of a publi·c building in the city of Peoria, in the State of 1 1inois," approved May —-——i—- ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled *‘ An act to Peoria, Ill. _ provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Peoria, in the PHWQ *>¤¤*<2¤z- State of Illinois/’ approved May ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty- ,3X°;· Gjgimgeggj two, he so amended as to extend the limitation of two hundred and ed]’ twenty-ive thousand dollars to two hundred and seventytive thousand Limit of cost oxdollars, for the purpose of completing a third story to said building and i°¤d•*d· of building an annex to the first story, according to plans and speciacations to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the A d ui tional Treasury, and of purchasing additional ground for said annex, said ad- Q¤>¤¤d· ditional ground not to cost over sixteen thousand dollars; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be made available until a valid title to said additional ground shall be vested in the United States, to be approved by the Att0rney~General. _ _ Sec. 2. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars he, and the same_ is Avpr¤1>¤¤¤<>¤ hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended for the purposes provided m this act. Approved, J unc 30, 1886.