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 732 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 103, 109. 1891. cause to be erected thereon a suitable, commodious, and substantial Building. building, including fire-proof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office, internal-revenue office, and other Government offices, in the city of Davenport and State of Iowa. The css:. cost of the site and the building, including Hre—proof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and a proaches, complete, not rrppoms m be mr to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. Pro osals fo1· """‘S°d f°"· the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited by pubqic advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city for at least fourteen days prior to the date specified in the advertisement for Rwlwnses. opening the proposals. The proposals made in response to said public advertisement, at the time named in the advertisement, or within ten days subsequent thereto, shall be received, olpened, and consid- Appointment or ered by a commission of three persons, who sha be appointed by °°“““'“‘°“· the Secretary of the Treasury, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to forward to the Secretary of the Treasury, within forty days from the date named in the advertisement for opening the (prompm. posals, a written report, with the original roposals, maps, an so . orth, and the oaths prescribed by act of Gongress a proved June A twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and) to detinitely Qetermimtiou one state in said report the site selected by them, and their selection of °“§,,°,Q',‘;},,,,,,,,,t,,,,, of the siteshall be fina], and each commissioner shall be allowed a com- <=<>¤¤¤¤¤¤*<>¤¤¤- ensation for his services of an amount within the discretion of the ri¤¤*¤- Secretary of the Treasury, said compensation not to exceed two hundred dollars and actual travelin expenses to each commissioner. 01¤‘=¤¤p¤w- The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open ·· space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, January 26, 1891. January 27. 1891. CHAP. 109.-An act to pfovide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a "_‘_”;“"` public building thereon, at ankato, in the State of Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ¤l§u¤§g:g3ilgig¤-em United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary g’of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acsm. quire, by (pure ase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and cause to Building. be erecte thereon a suitable building, including fire-proof vaults, 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 cit of Mankato and State of 0<>¤¢· Minnesota, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of ninety thousand dollars. Tux? m be so- Proposals for the sale of land suita le 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 prror to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. B”P°¤*¤ 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 byE¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤<>¤. ¤t¤ c-. to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury li °“°°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 proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession re ating to said proposed sites. If, upon consideration of said re ort and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation neces- Appointment or sary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, °°“°‘“‘“‘°"· one of whom s all be an officer of the Treasury Department, which