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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Feb. 24, 1887 · Chapter 249

Chapter 249. authorizing the construction of a public building for a post-office in the city of Houston, Texas

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CHAP. 249.— An Act authorizing the construction of a public building for a post-office in the city of Houston, Texas.Feb. 24, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Houston, Tex.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase or condemnation a site for, and cause to be. erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices, at the city of Houston, in the Plans, etc.State of Texas.
The plans, specifications, and full, estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and Cost.*Proviso*.Open space.shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the site shall leave 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 Title.appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Texas shall have ceded to the United States exclusive juris- 417 diction 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 civil process therein; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of aEstimates. 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 for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, February 24, 1887.
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