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 FIF'1`Y—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 31, 32. 1890. 697 quire, by [purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and cause to sm. be erecte thereon a suitable building, including fire-proof vaults, Building. heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and ap roaches, for the use an accommodation of the United States custom-llbuse, post-office, and other Government offices, in the city of Racine and State of Wisconsin, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heat- GM- ing and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and a roaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousandpdbllars. Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited ve '° l’° Mr by pu lic 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 of said proposals. _ Proposals made "in response to said advertisement shall be ad- Responses. dressed 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 Examination, em., Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the b’T"'"”"‘”'°‘ results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original pro- c posals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into is fpossession relating to said proposed sites. I, 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, one of Av 0¤¤¤¤¤¤¢<>f wm- ` whom shall be an onicer of the Treasury Department which com- °‘ mission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others ` as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hear- Hearings. ings in relation thereto as they sha deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the E¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤i<>¤ undre- Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusions in the °°"” premises, accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore rovided in regard to the proceedings, of said agent of the Treasuryll)e- rtment; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally 1z¤rermi¤¤¤i¤¤or1<>· dgtermine the location of the building to be erected. °'"°"‘ The com ensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Sec- ¤<>¤m><=¤¤¤¤¤n of retary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per °°'"""“*°"°" day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the mem- !‘m~····>· ber of said commission aplpointed from the Treasury Department Tmmwmemwrshall be paid only his actua traveling expenses. N 0 money when apprcépriated shal be expended under the provi- vjf,%$§5;¤g{;¤*;:;¤** sions hereof until a vali title `to the site for said building shall be" ' vested in the United States, nor until the State of Wisconsin shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, durin the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for alPpurposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. The building shall be unexpose to danger from fire by an open Ovenspmspace of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, December 24, 1890. CHAP. 32.-An act for a public building at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. December 24, 1890. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Sheboygan. Wis. of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pur- P¤bHcb¤mdmg,ew. chase or otherwise procure a suitable site and cause to be erected SM- thereon, at the city of Sheboygan, in the State of Wisconsin, a substantial and commodious pub ic building, with tire-proof vaults, for Bumincthe use and accommodation of the collector of customs, post-office,