Chapter 328. for the erection of a public building at Wichita, Kansas
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CHAP. 328.— An Act for the erection of a public building at Wichita, Kansas.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wichita, Kans.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post office, United States courts and other Government offices, at the city of Wichita, State of Kansas.
The plans, specifications, and full estimates for saidPlans, cost, etc. building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of fifty thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a plan and specifications of said building to be prepared, which said plan and specifications shall not involve an an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto exceeding the portion of said fifty thousand dollars remaining after the site of said building shall have been paid for; and no plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum so remaining after paying for the site of said building: *Provided*, That the site shall leave*Proviso*. the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be invested in theTitle.
United States, nor until the State of Kansas shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said States and the service of civil process therein. Approved, March 3, 1885.