Chapter 325.
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CHAP. 325.— An act for the erection of a public building at the city of Kalamazoo. Michigan.March 1, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Kalamazoo, Mich. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Public building. Site.purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise provide a site and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices at the city of Kalamazoo, in the 771 State of Michigan.
The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approvedPlans, etc. by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection 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 hereinLimit of cost. 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 seventy-five thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended*Proviso*. until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States,Title, etc. nor until the State of Michigan shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction 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.
Sec. 2. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so muchAppropriation. thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for said purpose, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 1, 1889.