Chapter 237.
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CHAP. 237.— An act for the erection of a public building at Saint Paul, Minnesota.February 16, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Saint Paul, Minn. Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept, as a donation from the city of Saint Paul, in the State of Minnesota, a suitable lot of land in said city, and cause to be erectedSite. thereon a commodious and substantial building, with fireproof vaultsBuilding. therein, for the accommodation of the United States post-office, district. and circuit courts, customhouse, internal revenue, and other Government civil offices in that city.
The plans, specifications, andEstimates, etc. full estimates for said building shall be, upon the acceptance of said site, made and approved according to law. and shall not exceed for the said building complete the sum of eight hundred thousand Dollars.Limit of cost. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been so accepted, to cause plans and specificationsPlans and specifications. for said building to be prepared, which plans and specifications shall have reference to the probable increase of the population of the said city and the consequent needs of the Government for the next twenty years, but not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building exceeding the sum hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the site so accepted by the Secretary of the*Provisos*.
Treasury shall be of such dimensions as to leave the building to be erected thereon unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets andOpen space. alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be availableNo expenditure until valid title, etc., pass. until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Minnesota shall have ceded (if it has not heretofore 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, andSecretary of Treasury may sell present public building. he is hereby, authorized, after the completion and occupancy of said building, whenever in his judgment the 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 post-office and court building, with the site thereof, the proceeds of the sale of said propertyProceeds of sale. to be covered into the Treasury.
Approved, February 16, 1891.