Chapter 39.
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CHAP. 39.— An act for the erection of a public building at Camden, Arkansas.December 27, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Camden, Ark. Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, authorized and directed Site.to purchase or otherwise provide a site, and cause to he erected Building.thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, the land offices, and for other Government uses at Camden, Arkansas.
The site and Plans, etc.building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, Cost.shall not exceed in cost the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; nor No purchase of site until building estimates approved.shall any 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 sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of Limitation.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 twenty-five thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building Open space.unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, *Proviso*.including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass.shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Arkansas 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, December 27, 1890.