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 354 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Buss. II. Cus. 11-13. 1887. J au. 3, 1887. MCH?. 1;h —An act providing for the erection of a public building at Springfield, —————· mm use Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United $v¤‘i¤5z6¤i•}·M¤¤¤- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P“m‘° "‘“1‘““g· Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed_ to purchase sue. a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with nreproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States postoffice, internalrevenue office, and other Government offices, at the city Plans. of Springileld, Massachusetts. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; nor shall any site be Estimate. 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 sum of one hundred Pmmo. and fifty thousand dollars for site and building: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed todanger from tire in adjacent build- Open space. ings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available Title. until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Massachusetts shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, duriu g the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereoty for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. x Approved, January 3, 1887. Jan. 3, 1887. CHAP. 12.·-An not to amend section four thousand four hundred and fourteen of -———-———-— the Revised Statutes, relating to inspectors of hulls and boilers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repreicntatives of the United Duluth, Minn- States of America in Oemgresa assembled, That section forty-four hundred hgugzgggggggg and fourteen of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by inserting, be appointed an after the word “Savannah ", in the second line of the sixth paragraph R, s,, sec, 4414, of said section, the words “Duluth, Minnesota ”. P· 855, °'”*’”d°‘]· Approved, January 3, 1887. Jan. 3, 1887. CHAP. 13.-Au acttoameud the act entitled ·‘An act to modify the postal money- -————--—- or¢l!e%sy;»:e;u, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and g •. Be it enaewd by the Senate and House of Representative.: of the United Postal notes. States M America in Congress assembled, That the Hrs: section of the act VM- 22, p- W6- entitled **An act to modify the postal money-order system, and for other purposes/’ be amended so as to read as follows: I1¤¤¢¤¤=¤¤¤¢¥-G¤¤- “That for the transmission of small sums under five dollars through
 * e;“;f3‘;°;;§;:;f the mails the Postmaster-General may authorize postmasters at money.

,,,,1,,, Umm, to i,, order offices, or atsueh other ofliees as he may designate, to issue money- sue postal notes. orders, without corresponding advices, on an engraved form to be prescribed and furnished by him; and a money-order issued on such new form shall be designated and known as a “ postal note," and a fee Notes mma at of three cents shall be charged for the issue thereof. “Every postmaster my m0g‘;3,_mdu who shall issue a postal note under the authority of the Postmaster- ,,m,,,_ General shall make the same payable to bearer, when duly reeeipted, an