Chapter 152. to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 152.— An Act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania.April 23, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Allegheny, Pa.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, a site, and to cause Building.to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices in the city of Allegheny and State of Cost.Pennsylvania, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Proposals for site invited.Proposals for the sale of lands suitable for said site shall be invited by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Responses.Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites and such others as he may think proper to Examination, etc., of sites by agent.Report.designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary thereon,, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals, and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.
If upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary lie may Examining commission.appoint a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of Hearings.the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary: and said commission shall, Commission report.within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, ac FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 152, 153. 1890.61 companied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents, taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the locationFinal determination. of the building to be erected. The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the sameCommissioners compensation. shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: *Provided, however*, That the member of said commission appointed*Proviso*.Limitation as to Treasury member. from the Treasury Department shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses.
No part of the sum authorized by this act shall be expended until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vestedNo expenditure until valid title and jurisdiction pass. in the United States, nor until the State of Pennsylvania 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.
The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an openOpen space. space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, April 23, 1890.