Chapter 23. for the purchase of a site, including the building thereon, also for the erection of the necessary storehouses, for the use of the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, at the city of Washington, District of Columbia
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CHAP. 23.— An Act for the purchase of a site, including the building thereon, also for the erection of the necessary storehouses, for the use of the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, at the city of Washington, District of Columbia.March 5, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Signal service.Purchase of building for, Washington. D. C. That the Secretary of the Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a site containing about fifty-four*Post*, p. 90. thousand square feet of ground, and the building thereon, on the northeast quarter of square numbered twenty-five, corner of twenty-fourth and M streets northwest.
Washington, District of Columbia, belonging to David Fergusson. for use of the Signal Bureau of the War Department, and cause to be erected, on such portion of the site as is not New building.now occupied by buildings, substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for use as storehouses for the accommodation of the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, and for other Government uses, at Washington. District of Columbia. The site and building thereon, including the storehouses, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than *Provisos*.Limit of price.one hundred and twelve thousand dollars be paid to David Fergusson for the property herein referred to; nor FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 23, 29, 30, 34. 1888.45 shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection or purchase of a building, including the necessary storehouses, which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transactions 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 site nor plans for said building or buildings shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by a space of at least fifty feet except Government buildings, including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part ofTitle. the said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States.
Approved, March 5, 1888.