Chapter 46.
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CHAP. 46.— An act to provide for the erection of a public building at Reidsville North Carolina.January 2, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Reidsville. N. C. Public building, etc. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Site.purchase or otherwise provide a suitable site for and cause to be erected Building.thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fire proof vaults extending to each story, for the use and accommodation of the post office, the United States courts, customhouse, internal-revenue offices, and other Government offices, at Reidsville, in the State of North Carolina.
The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and Cost.approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost No purchase of site until building estimates approved.the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; nor 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, Limitation.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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 46, 47, 50. 1891.707 sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building independent and unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of notOpen space. less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; *Provided*, That no*Proviso*. part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to said site shallNo expenditure until valid title, etc., pass. be vested in the United States, nor until the State of North Carolina, 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, January 2, 1891.