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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · January 26, 1891 · Chapter 103

Chapter 103.

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CHAP. 103.— An act to provide for the construction of a public building at Davenport, Iowa.January 26, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Davenport, Iowa. Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise provide a site andSite. 732FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 103, 109. 1891. cause to be erected thereon a suitable, commodious, and substantial Building.building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office, internal-revenue office, and other government offices, in the city of Davenport and State of Iowa.
The Cost.cost of the site and the building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not Proposals to be advertised for.to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city for at least fourteen days prior to the date specified in the advertisement for Responses.opening the proposals.
The proposals made in response to said public advertisement, at the time named in the advertisement, or within ten days subsequent thereto, shall be received, opened, and Appointment of commission.considered by a commission of three persons, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to forward to the Secretary of the Treasury, within forty days from the date named in the advertisement for opening the proposals, a written report, with the original Report.proposals, maps, and so forth, and the oaths prescribed by act of Congress approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to definitely Determination of location.
Compensation of commissioners.state in said report the site selected by them, and their selection of the site shall be final, and each commissioner shall be allowed a compensation for his services of an amount within the discretion of the Limit.Secretary of the Treasury, said compensation not to exceed two hundred dollars and actual traveling expenses to each commissioner. Open space.The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys.
Approved, January 26, 1891.
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