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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 325, 326. 1889. 771 State of Michigan. The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and speciucations to be previously made and approved Pi¤¤S·¤¤o· by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum 0 seventy-tive thousand dollars, 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 Limii of cosilimited 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 lan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the 'llieasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars 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, [hat 110 part of said sum shall be expended P'°“·“°· until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, ’1`i¤io» o¢o· nor until the State of Michigan 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 pur oses except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and) the service of civil process therein. Sec. 2. That the sum of seventy-nve thousand dollars, or so much Appropriation thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for said purpose, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 1, 1889. k CHAP. 326.--An act for the relief of certain settlers in Hettinger County, Da- March 1.1889. o a. ·—·?·"" Whereas certain settlers in townships one hundred and thirty-five Preamble. north and one hundred and thirty-six north, range ninety-seven west, and one hundred and thirty-four north. range ninety-six west. fifth principal meridian, Hettinger County, Dakota, find that by reason of a mistake in the preliminary survey their homestead claims are on lands of the Northern Pacific Railroad rather than on Government sections: Therefore, Be it enacted by fha Senafe and Hoz.¢se of 1i•P]H`PSP}If(tf[l'(’S of the United Stores of America i n. O0ngres.s· assenzbled. That the Secretary Dgixinwi 0o¤¤¢y· of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to give relief to Re1am.·» n0¤m—sn—m1· such homesteaders or others as have been adversely afi'e<·ted by the §;’§h,§[{g*‘;f,']{fpQ3;‘;'* °’ Government survey, by an exchange of lands with the Northern Pa- ` cific Railroad, section for section. or fraction thereof. as the ini-rests of the parties may appear, so as to admit of the company taking other lands within the indemnity limits, in lieu of the tracts covered by actual settlements made prior to Government survey:- 1)I`l`lv([(’d, That the said railroad company will become a party to said exchange. Sec. 2. That the homestead residence of five years required for Ro¤i<io¤ooholding said lands shall date fromthe first occupation of said claims. SKU. 3. That nothing contained in thisact shall be taken or construed Rizht m forfeit im. as waiving, releasing or in any wise affecting any right of the United “"‘°d1‘*“‘1*’*"‘“*‘t States to forfeit any lands granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by act of Congress to aid in the construction of its line of railroad., by reason of the breach of the conditions of any such grant; and any rights to any lands acquired by the Northern Pacific Railroad otmpzmy under the provisions of this act shall be taken and held subject to whatever conditions and right of forfeiture now attach to the lands which the Northern Pacific Railroad Company may give in exchange under the provisions of this act. Approved, March 1, 1889.