Chapter 560.
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CHAP. 560.— An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Saginaw, in the State of Michigan.March 3, 1891. Whereas the Legislature of the State of Michigan, at its biennial session,Preamble. in the year Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, by law provided for the consolidation of the cities of Saginaw and East Saginaw in the State of Michigan, under the name of Saginaw; and Whereas the population of the said joint cities is of the number of sixty-five thousand inhabitants: and, Whereas two presidential post offices are in existence within the limits of the said cities to be consolidated:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Saginaw, Mich. Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Site.acquire. by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices, in the city of Saginaw amt State of Michigan, Cost.the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of One hundred thousand dollars, which said sum of Appropriation.One hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for said purpose out of any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invitedProposals to be advertised for. by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest, circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressedResponses. and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper Examination by Treasury agent.to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.
If. upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers,Appointment of commission. the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 560, 551. 1891.1095 one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such othersExamination. as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearingsHearings. in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make toReport. the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, accompanied by all statements, maps plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finallyDetermination of location. determine the location of the building to be erected.
The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the SecretaryCompensation of commissioners. of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: *Provided, however*, That the*Proviso*. member of said commission appointed from the Treasury DepartmentTreasury member. shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses. So much of the appropriation herein made as may be necessary toAdvertising. etc., expenses, immediately available. defray the expenses of advertising for proposals, actual traveling expenses of said agent, and the compensation and actual traveling expenses of said commissioners, and other expenses incident to the selection of the site, and for necessary survey thereof, shall be immediately available.
So much of said appropriation as may be necessary for the preparationAppropriation for plans, etc., available on approval of site. of sketch-plans, drawings, specifications, and detailed estimates for the, building by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department shall be available immediately upon the approval by the Secretary of the Treasury of such site. No money appropriated by this act shall be available, except asNo expenditure until valid title, etc., pass. hereinbefore provided, until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Michigan shall have 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.
After the said site shall have been paid for and the sketch-plansBalance for construction, etc. and detailed estimates for the budding shall have been prepared by the Supervising Architect and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior and the Postmaster-General the balance of said appropriation shall be available for the erection and completion of the building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches.
The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an openOpen space. space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, March 3, 1891.