Chapter 210. for a public building at Greenville, South Carolina
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CHAP. 210.— An Act for a public building at Greenville, South Carolina.May 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Greenville. S. C.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to purchase, or otherwise procure, a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Greenville, in the State of South Carolina, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the United States courts, post office, internal-revenue office, and for other Government uses.
The site and building thereon when completed, upon plans and specificationsSite, plans, etc. to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erectionEstimates. 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 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 one hundred thousand dollars for site and building: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be used until a valid title to the site selected, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, includingLimit of cost.*Proviso*.Title, etc. streets and alleys, shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of South Carolina shall have ceded jurisdiction over the same for all purposes, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, except for the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State and the service of civil process therein.
Approved, May 1, 1888.