Chapter 92.
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CHAP. 92.— An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon, at Omaha, Nebraska.January 21, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Omaha. Nebr. Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pur- 653 chase or acquire by condemnation or otherwise, a suitable lot of landSite. in the city of Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, and cause to be erected on the ground so purchased a building suitable for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, of the customhouse, post-office, internal-revenue, and and other Government offices in that city at a cost which shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollarsLimit of cost. and the cost of said site shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the site shall leave the building*Proviso*. unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an openOpen space. space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no moneys appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States,Title, etc. nor until the State of Nebraska 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*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a plan and specifications of said building to be prepared.Plans, etc. which said plan and specifications shall not involve an expenditure, in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto, exceeding the portion of said one million two hundred thousand dollars remaining after the site of said building shall have been paid for; and no plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum so remaining after paying for the site of said building, and the erection of said building shall not be commenced until after plans, specifications, and full estimates for the same shall have been previouslyEstimates. made and approved according to law: *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed in any event to increaseLimit hot to be exceeded. the cost of the site and building, including approaches, when completed, beyond the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars, as provided in this section.
Sec. 2. That the present post-office and customhouse building shallPresent building to be turned over to war Department. be used for the purpose for which it is now used until such time as the building herein provided for shall be completed and ready for occupancy, and when it shall be occupied for the purposes named the present post-office and customhouse building shall be turned over by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War, and shall be used for the offices of the Department of the Platte, under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 3. That the sum of six hundred thousand dollars be and theAppropriation. same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purchase of said site and the commencement of said building. Approved, January 21, 1889.