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 468 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 333, 334. 1887. Mlm 3 Iggy_ CHAP. 333.-An act to amend an act to provide for_the purchase of a site and the Clg een un tc an cig y· ve. Detroit, Mich. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ppblic bnildirgg- States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled “An act P""? °* °°** “" to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public build- °'}“:f° 2, P_ 338 ing thereon at Detroit, Michigan ,” approved March second, eighteen amended., ’ hundred and eighty-’dve, being chapter three hundred and iourteen of volume twenty-three of the Statutes of the United States be amended so that the first section of said act shall read as follows: ’ “ That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized Site. and directed to purchase ss suitable lot of land in the city of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, and cause to be erected on the ground so purchased a building suitable for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, of the custom-house, post-ofiice, pension- - office and other Government offices in that city. The plans peciiications: and full estimates for said building shall be previously ’made and Cost. approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and build- I*¤¤·~•¢· Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger 0P•=¤ ¤P¤°°· from iire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this Tide. purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building sing: It veml in tbebU1gtcd Sitges, nor until the State of Michigan s ve e 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: Provided, That if the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem it advisable to use for said ‘ Lnuducwcwucd purpose the site now owned by the United States, upon part of which ¤¤Yb°¤¤••*· the post·office and custom-house building now stands, be may do so; and should he further deem said site insufficient, he may enlarge the same by the purchase of additional adjoining ground: Provided, however, N". site. That if a new site shall be purchased for said building as hereinbefore authorized, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after Plans the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a plan and sipeciticationslof said building to be prepared, which said plan and specications sha not invo ve an expenditure in —the erection and completion of said building, and the approaches thereto, exceeding the portion of said one million one hundred thousand dollars remaining after the site 0:; saido building shall have been paid for; and no plan of said building s a approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an ex- _ _ penditure exceeding the sum so remaining after paying for the site of Limit. szndl langilding: Aged provided jurther, That nothing herein contained s a construea in any event to increase the cost of the new site and building, including approaches, when completed, beyond the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars, as provided in this section" Approved, March 3 1887. ` Mn_ _15g-·_ CHAP.334.—An 1; sb i'gth t ti f bi · ’ . ——--——;r 3 I River between the ci;:ot9Nev»?rY21Pk and)!;;;!; {signal?] 0 3 r dgo Mmbs the But New York and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United k Qdn g (l ¤1¤ ¤ d States q/'America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is m':ygf,ri(,£;?'¥;.?:!{ hereby given to the New York and Long Island Bridge Company, a River. corporation created by the laws of the State of New York, or its assigns or successors, to liuildén. btrillkge as lliereinaftelr described, and maintain e same across he as iver etween the city of Yew Yo k d Railwayqvagon, Long Islaznd, at or near the middle of Blackwell’s Island, in tn5S3e3e •¤¤ fwv l»¤¤s¤- of New York. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the
 * ..._L...— cregtéiou of agmglic lliniidling {thereon at Detroit, Michigan, approved March second,
 * ing complete the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars: