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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · March 2, 1889 · Chapter 386

Chapter 386.

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CHAP. 386.— An act to provide for the erection of a public building at the city of New Berne, North Carolina.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,New Berne, N. C. Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchaseSite. or otherwise provide a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults extending to each story, for the use and accommodation of the post office, the United States courts, customhouse, internal-revenue offices, and other Government offices, at the city of New Berne, in the State of North Carolina.
The site, and building thereon, when completed Plans, etc.upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved 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.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 herein limited after Limit of cost.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 sum of seventy-five thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building independent and unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, *Proviso*.including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to said site shall be vested in the Title.United States, nor until the State of North Carolina 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 processes therein.
Approved, March 2, 1889.
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