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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 249-251. 1887. 417 diction 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; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a Estimates. 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. _ - Approved, February 24, 1887. CHAP. 250.-An act for the erection of s public building at Huntsville, Alabama. Feb. 24, 1887. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S States ofietmerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Huntsville. Alaury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for g{:]‘° b“‘m'“8· and cause to be erected a suitable building, with proper iire-proof vaults 1‘ · therein, for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, postotiice, land-office, internal-revenue offices, and other Government offices, at the city of Huntsville, Alabama. The site, and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made Plans, ctcand approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the CM- cost of one hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased Estimates. until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sumcient 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 thousand dollars for site and building: Provided, That no money to be P'°°*•°· appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the Title. site of said building shall be vested in the United States, to be approved by the Attorney-General, and until the State of Alabama shall have ceded 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 any civil processes therein.` And the sum of fifty APP’°P““*'°“· thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in the purchase of said siteand toward the _ construction of said building: Provided, That the site shall leave the P"°'”°°· building unexposed to danger from nre in adjacent buildings by an open01*** 'P°°°· space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys around the same. Approved, February 24, 1887. CHAP. 251.-An act for the erection of • public building at Augusta, Georgia. Feb. M, 1887. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represe1•tat~ives of the United States of Amerika in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Augqsts. Qs; ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, §P"1'° "'“1d'“8· and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with nre-proof *°°' vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts, postoffice, internal-revenue service, and other Government offices, at the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia. The plans, specifications, and Plans, etc. full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved sru: L——VOL xxrv--27