Chapter 319. For enlarging the public building at Topeka, Kansas
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CHAP. 319.— An Act For enlarging the public building at Topeka, Kansas. March 1, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Topeka, Kans.Enlargement of public building authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the public building at Topeka, Kansas, now occupied as a post-office and other Government offices, to be enlarged, so as to make a suitable building, with fireproof vaults and elevator therein, for the further accommodation of the post-office and other Government offices, the plans and specifications to be drawn with respect to the present building, so as to furnish to the post-office more room and better accommodationLimit of cost. of the Government offices.
The plans, specifications, and full estimation of said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not cost to exceed the sum of eighty-five *Proviso.*Fire space.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said building, so enlarged, shall be unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet. Approved, March 1, 1899.