Chapter 338. For the erection of a public building in the city of Blair, Nebraska
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CHAP. 338.— An Act For the erection of a public building in the city of Blair, Nebraska. March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Blair, Nebr.Public building authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a suitable site and to contract for the erection and completion thereon of a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the use and accommodation of the postoffice and other offices of the Government at Blair, Nebraska.
The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, Limit of cost.shall not exceed in cost the sum of forty-three 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, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site nor place for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said Fire space.sum of forty-three 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 not less than *Proviso.*Title, etc.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 Nebraska shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shall remain the owner thereof.
Approved, March 2, 1899.