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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · Feb. 14, 1885 · Chapter 64

Chapter 64. to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Augusta, Maine

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CHAP. 64.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Augusta, Maine.Feb. 14, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Augusta, Me.Public building.Purchase of site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and lie hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Augusta, in the State of Maine, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post office.
United States courts, internal-revenue office, pension office, and for other Government uses. The site, and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, Cost.shall not exceed the cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and it shall be the. duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after Plans.the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a plan and specifications of said building to be prepared, which plan and specifications shall not involve an expenditure, in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto, exceeding the portion of said one hundred and 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 Appropriation.said building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, including streets and alleys; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is *Proviso*.Title.hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of Maine shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein.
Approved, February 14th, 1884.
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