Chapter 290.
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CHAP. 290.— An act for the erection of a public building at Richmond, Kentucky.February 24, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Richmond. Ky. Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a suitable site, and cause to be erectedSite. thereon, at the city of Richmond. Kentucky, a suitable and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodationBuilding. of the collector of internal revenue, for the post-office, and for other Government uses.
The site and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of seventy-five thousand dollars; nor shall anyCost. site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the Limitations.sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site nor plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streetsOpen space. and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended*Proviso*. until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States,No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass. nor until the State of Kentucky shall cede 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 Approved, February 24, 1891.