Chapter 333. to amend an act to provide tor the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Detroit, Michigan, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five
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CHAP. 333.— An Act to amend an act to provide tor the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Detroit, Michigan, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.March 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Detroit, Mich.Public building.Lindt of cost increased.Vol. 23, p. 338, amended. That an act entitled “An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the. erection of a. public building thereon at Detroit, Michigan,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being chapter three hundred and fourteen of volume twenty-three of the Statutes of the United States, be amended so that the first section of said act shall read as follows:
" “That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized andSite. directed to purchase a suitable lot of land m the city of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, and cause to be erected on the ground so purchased a building suitable for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, of the custom house, post-office, pension-office, and other Government offices in that city. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and Cost.approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Open space.*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 appropriated for this Title.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 Michigan 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 Land now owned may be used.purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein: *Provided*, That if the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem it advisable to use for said purpose the site now owned by the United States, upon part of which the post-office and customhouse building now stands, lie may do so; and should he further deem said site insufficient, be, may enlarge tho same by the purchase of additional adjoining ground: *Provided, however*, New site.That if a new site shall be purchased for said building as hereinbefore authorized, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after Plansthe 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 expenditure in the erection and completion of said building, and the approaches thereto, exceeding the portion of said one million one hundred thousand dollars remaining after the site, of said building shall have been paid for; and no plan of 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 Limit.said building: *And provided, further*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed in any event to increase, the cost of the new site, and building, including approaches, when completed, beyond the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars, as provided in this section” " Approved, March 3, 1887.