Chapter 399. to provide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a public building thereon, at Aurora, in the State of Illinois
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CHAP. 399.— An Act to provide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a public building thereon, at Aurora, in the State of Illinois.June 6, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Aurora. Ill.Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Site.Building.purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise provide a site, and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices at the city of Aurora, in the State of Illinois.
The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by Maximum cost.Limitations upon purchase of site, etc.the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 399-401. 1890.127 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 the Treasury; and no purchase of siteLimitations upon approval. nor plan of said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the 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 ofOpen space.*Proviso*.No expenditure until valid title and jurisdiction pass. at least forty feet, including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Illinois 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, June 6, 1890.