Chapter 318. To accept a site as a donation and erect thereon a custom-house and post-office building in the city of Bristol, State of Tennessee
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CHAP. 318.— An Act To accept a site as a donation and erect thereon a custom-house and post-office building in the city of Bristol, State of Tennessee. March 1, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Bristol, Tenn.Public building authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to accept as a Donation of site.donation suitable grounds in the city of Bristol, State of Tennessee, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable public building for the custom-house, post-office, and United States commissioner’s office.
The cost of the site and building thereon, when completed, shall not be more than fifty thousand dollars, the plans and specifications to be previouslyLimit of cost. made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; nor shall any site be accepted until estimates of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the purposes aforesaid, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site has been accepted and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and no plan for said building shall be approved by said Secretary involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of Fire space.fifty thousand dollars for the site and building.
The site so accepted shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by a space at least forty feet, including streets and alleys. Approved, March 1, 1899.