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 [094 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. OHS. 559, 560. 1891. the Territory of Utah in any criminal prosecution or civil action by the United States for a trespass on such public timber lands or to Defense. recover timber or lumber cut thereon it shall be a defense if the defendant shall show that the said timber was so cut or removed from the timber lands for use in such State or Territory by a resident thereof for agricultural, mining, manufacturing, or domestic purposes under rules and regulations made and prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and has not been transported out o the same, but mum, wmpm,-5, nothing herein contained shall operate to enlarge the rights of any railway company to cut timber on the public domain, provided that a¤m¤,e¤¤. the Secretary of the Interior may make suitable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this act, and he may designate the sections or tracts of land where timber may be cut, and it shall not hn'1g¤b¤r ¤¤ ¤=¤¤¤¤¤ be lawful to out or remove any timber except as may be prescribed ' by such rules and regulations, but this act shall not operate to re- Vol.$J,p.B. peal the act of June third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, providing for the cutting of timber on mineral lands. Approved, March 3, 1891. . lhmhaqmi. CHAP. 560.-An act to vide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a ·—·····—·—·—· public building thereon at £1;g(inaw, in the State of Michigan. mamma. Whereas the Legislature of the State of Michigan, at its biennial session, in the year Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, b law provided for the consolidation of the cities of Saginaw and Elxst Saginaw in the State of Michigan, under the name of Saginaw; an Whereas the population of the said joint cities is of the number of sixty-tive thousand inhabitants; and, s Whereas two presidential ppst offices are in existence within the limits of the said cities to consolidated: Therefore, _ Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Em United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ` of the 'heasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acg,,_ quire, by urc asc, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and cause to be erectedp thereon a suitable building, including nre-proof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation o the United States (post-office and other Government offices, in the city of Saginaw an State of Michigan ¤¤¤¢- the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of One hundred thousan dollars, which said sum of Awreprhucn. One hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for said purpose out oégny moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropria . p.-,,,,,,..;s W y,, ,4. Froposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited "'°'"'°“°'- by pu lic advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days pr1or to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. mpmm, Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then ~ cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper ·g¤m;,,,u.,,, by to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Y'°“°¤' *8*** Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposalsand all maps, lplats, and statements which shall have come into his possession re ating to the said proposed sites. Apnointmentotcom- lf, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, '“*'““°"· the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons,