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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 399-401. 1890. 127 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 Limitations upon nor plan of said building shall be approved b the Secretary of the “”'°"‘*l· Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the 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 s ace of open space. at least forty feet, including streets and alle s: Provided, 'Iliat no Pwviso- _ part of said sum shall be ex ended until a valid title to the said site lN<> exmudiwre upshall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Illinois :itctlgLd,l§2$,a°d’m“` shall cede to the United States exclusive furisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shal 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. Approved, June 6, 1890. CHAP. 400.-An act to change the limit of appropriation for the public building J¤¤¢ 9,1990- at Jacksonville, Florida. U Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act en- Ja»cks0uville,Fla. titled "An act for the erection of a public building at Jacksonville, P“bl’° b‘”m‘“g‘ Florida," be amended by making the limit for said building two mcming Mt of hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars, and that sum is hereby cost;] 24 P m tixed as the limit of cost thereof. smashed. ’’ Sec. 2. That the Supervising Architect and the officers of the Limitation or crm- United States Government having charge of the erection of public "`“°°“· buildings are authorized and required to be governed by the limitation hereby prescribed in making contracts for the erection of said buildingr Approved, June 9, 1890. CHAP. 401.-An act for the erection of a public building at Martinsburgh, J““° ****0- West Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary mmmsburgn, w. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Vgdblic building em ac uire by purchase, condemH3·l3i011 0I' 0tl10l‘W1Se, a site, and cause SM ’ ' tollie erected thereon a suitable building, including iire·proof vaults, Bending. heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and other Government offices, in the_ city of Martinsburgh and State · of West Virgina, the cost of said site and building, including said cost. vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and aplproaches, 4 complete, not to exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand ollars. Pro osals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited vgosgpgsis wm anby public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said°’" city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening o said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed meow. and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think ·proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury bmxammmor, gte., Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the ’ “°“’*“"“g°“‘· results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all ma s, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.