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 F IFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. lI. CHS. 1011, 1012. 1903. 1213 tireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches." no. 19. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall require all owners Offers of sitesor agents of sites in each city mentioned in this Act, where sites or additions to sites are to be purchased, to submit offers of sale in writing, and no payment shall be made to any owner or agent of the roperty involved on account of the land proposed to be sold or urchased and no plans shall be drawn or money expended for a building upon a donated site until a written opinion of the Attorney—General of the United States shall be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of the validity of the title of the land agreed to be purchased or donated. wud “°*°- And in case a site or addition to a site acquired under the provisions Rm of *>·¤i1<¤¤sS of mms Act contains a building or buildings me Secretary or me rms- °“ *""° "°" “"*“· ury is hereby authorized to rent until the1r removal becomes necessary such of said buildings as he may deem desirable at a fair rental value, the proceeds thereof to be deposited in the Treasury of the United ` States, and a report of the proceedings to be submitted to Congress annually: Pro/ended, That each site selected under the provisions of QQ*{,'{‘,j’,,m mu this Act shall contain not less than ifteen thousand square feet of ' ground space, and shall be bounded upon at least two sides by streets. Sec. 20. That if condemnation roceedings are necessary to acquire D§;’gg°;Q'(§;§ff;b,;° land within the District of Columgia, such proceedings shall be in the ` manner prescribed for providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office in so much of the Act approved July first, eight- V°l· my P- 6** een hundred and ninety-eight, as is set forth on pages six hundred and forty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine of volume thirty of the ` United States Statutes at Large. Sec. 21. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are peQ§;f*°“”¥ ”"’"° hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1903. CHA]?. 1012.-A.n Act To regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States. M°’°h  190:* _ [Public, No. 162.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatévee of the United ‘ States of America nn Congress assembled, Teliiit there shall be levied, {,";§m*'Qf}, mm, collected, and id a duty of two dollars for each and every passenger <>f 91i·=¤¤¤- not a citizen oixthe United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, the Lx°°"°i°"”` Republic of Cuba, or of the Republic of Mexico, who shall come by steam, sail, or other vessel from any foreign port to any port within the m,Y§,};,“,"· ¥’· "‘· United States, or by any railway or any other mode of transportation, ` from foreign contiguous territory to the United States. The said duty *"’>"”°“‘· shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port or customs district to which said alien passenger shall come, or, if there be no collector at such port or district, then to the_ collector nearest thereto, by the master, agent, owner, or consi nee of everv such vessel or transportation line. The money thus colicted shall be paid into the United States Bp2Q0g23h22m:;?;; Treasury and shall constitute a permanent a propriation to be called ·*i¤pmigr¤¤¤fi¤¤<i." the " immigrant fund," to be used under the direction of the Secretary LW °f of the Treasury to defray the expense of regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States under this Act, including the cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the » use of the Commissioner~General of Immigration, and the salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed for the (purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act. e duty impose by uy8H OH *<>¤¤<*l¤ f¤¢ this section shall be a lien upon the vessel which shall bring such aliens ' to ports of the United States, and shall be a debt in favor of the United States against the owner or owners of such vessels, and the payment of such duty may be enforced by any legal or equitable rem-