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 FIFTY·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 43, 44. 1891. 705 The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Sec· compepssuon or retary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per °°'"“““‘°“"”‘ day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the Promomember of said commission appointed from the Treasury Depart- Treasury member. ment shall be lpaid only his actual traveling expenses. · N o money s all be used for the urpose mentioned until a valid N<>¤¤$r]>¤¤di¤¤ro ¤¤¤i1 title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, mid m °’ °°°" mss` nor until the State of Massachusetts shall have ceded to the United States exclusive `urisdiction over the same, durin the time the United States shail be or remain the owner thereof, %or all pur oses except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open Open space. space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, January 2, 1891. CHAP. 44.-An act to mide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a January 2, 1891. public building thereon at sas City, in the State of Missouri. ;·—·—·—·· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Kansas Ci¤g}BMo. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ac- P“°”° b"" g·°‘°· quire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and to cause site to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fire=proof vaults, heating and ventilating apfparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use an accommodation o the United States ost—office, courts, and other Government offices in Kansas City and State of Missouri, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and Gosh ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed the sum of one million two hundred thousand doxllars. Pro sals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited Proposals to be adby public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said '°"iS°‘“°"‘ 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 nx¤mmm¤¤,e¤¢.,¤y Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the T“’°“‘"’ °K"“°· results of said examination and of his recommendation thereon and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals, and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession re ating to the said proposed sites. If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation nec~ essary, he may a oint a commission of not more than three persons. apposuemenwr comone of whom shallpbe an officer of the Treasury Department, which "“““‘°“· commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury maly designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shal deem necessary; and new-mgs. said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their con- 1g,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, H,- elusion in the premises, accompariied y all statements, maps, plats, Pmor documents taken by or su mitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore rovided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury {Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall Demmmmcnofb thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. canes. The com ensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the See- C€·QP¢¤¤¤¤i¤¤°f¤°m· retary of tge Treasury, but the Same Shall not exceed six dollars per ml°Sx°°°m‘ day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the homo. srm: L—voL xxwii-45 r