Chapter 91.
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CHAP. 91.— An act for the erection of a public building at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.January 21, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Milwaukee, Wis. Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Site.acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States post office, district and circuit courts, customhouse, internal-revenue office, pension office, and other Government offices, at the city of Milwaukee.
Plans, estimates, etc.Wisconsin. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of Cost of site.one million two hundred thousand dollars; and the cost of said site shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause plans and specifications of said building to be prepared, which said plans and specifications shall have reference to the probable increase of the population of said city and the consequent Heeds of the Government during Limit of cost.the next twenty years, but shall not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building exceeding the amount remaining of the total sum appropriated by this act. after the site of said building shall have been paid for; and no plan shall he approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum which remains after paying for the site of said building: *Provisos*.*Provided*, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings, and adequately provided with light, Open space.by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys, on all sides of said building; and that no money appropriated Title, etc.for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Wisconsin shall have ceded 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: *Provided, further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever in his judgment the Sale of present building.public interest will admit, in his discretion, to sell and convey the present property of the United States in said city now occupied as a public building, with the site thereof, the proceeds of the sale of said property to be covered into the Treasury; *Provided, however*, That the New building on old site.said Secretary may, in lieu of purchasing an entirely new site as aforesaid, purchase additional necessary ground adjoining the site of the present public building in said city, at a cost, however, not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, and cause to be erected thereon said new building; but in the event that said present site shall be so utilized for said new building, the cost of said building, including said additional ground, shall not exceed one million one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. That the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. Approved, January 21, 1889.