Chapter 20.
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CHAP. 20.— An act to provide for a building for the use of the Federal courts, post-office, and internal-revenue and other civil offices, and a United States jail, in the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas.Mar. 16, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort. Smith, Ark. Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed at Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, on block five Site.hundred and fourteen, as the same is described on the map of the reserve addition to the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, as surveyed by George H.
Lyman, and approved by the Interior Department November eighth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and which block was heretofore reserved, selected, and set apart for that purpose, a suitable building, with fire-proof vaults extending to each story, for the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and internal-revenue and other Government offices; and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Appropriation.appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause Plans.proper plans and estimates to be made so that no expenditure shall be 5 made or authorized for the full completion of said building beyond the amount herein appropriated: *Provided*, That the building shall be so*Proviso*. situated as to leave an open space around the same of not less than forty feet in width.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Jail for United States prisoners. authorized and directed to remodel and construct out of and from the building now owned and used by the United States as a United States courthouse and jail, located within the walls of the abandoned military reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas, a suitable jail for the care and confinement of United States prisoners; and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be expended underAppropriation. the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause plans and estimatesPlans. to be made so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the completion of said building beyond the amount herein appropriated.
Approved, March 16, 1886.