Chapter 131. for the purchase of suitable grounds in the city of Owens-borough, in the State of Kentucky, and the erection thereon of a public building for the post-office, United States collector’s office, United States commissioner’s office, and for the use of other United States officers in said city, and app
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CHAP. 131.— An Act for the purchase of suitable grounds in the city of Owens-borough, in the State of Kentucky, and the erection thereon of a public building for the post-office, United States collector’s office, United States commissioner’s office, and for the use of other United States officers in said city, and appropriating money for said purposes.Feb. 16, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Owensborough.
That thePublic building. Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized andSite. directed to purchase suitable grounds in the city of Owensborough, in the State of Kentucky, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable public building, with a fireproof vault extending to each story, for the post-office, United States collector’s office, United States commissioner’s office, and for the use of other United States officers in said city. The cost of the site, and building Cost.thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no money appropriated*Proviso*. 404 for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the grounds forTitle. said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Kentucky shall cede 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 State and the service of any civil processes therein; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid Estimates.for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of fifty thousand dollars for site and building; and the site Open space.purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys.
Sec. 2. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same isAppropriation. hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in the purchase of said grounds and the erection of said building. Approved, February 16, 1887.