Chapter 392. for the erection of a public building at Monroe
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CHAP. 392.— An Act for the erection of a public building at Monroe. Louisiana.June 18, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Monroe. La.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise Site.procure a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Monroe, in the State of Louisiana, a suitable, substantial, and commodious public building for the use of the United States courts, post-office, internal revenue, land, and other Government offices: *Provided*, That no money appropriated for said building shall be expended until a valid title to *Proviso*.Title, etc.the site selected shall be vested in the United States, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, nor until the State of Louisiana 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 said State, and the service of Plans, estimates.[R.
S., sec. 3734, p. 737](/us/rs/t/s3734/p737).civil process therein. The plans and estimates for said building shall first be prepared, examined, and approved as required by section thirty-seven hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the cost shall not exceed 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 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 Limit of cost.of site nor plan of said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the Appropriation.said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated for the same, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 18, 1888.