Chapter 339. To provide for the purchase of sites for public buildings in the cities of Hastings and Norfolk, in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 339.— An Act To provide for the purchase of sites for public buildings in the cities of Hastings and Norfolk, in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes. March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Hastings and Norfolk, Nebr.Public buildings authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire title, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III.
Chs. 339, 340. 1899. 971 by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, to sites in the cities of Hastings and Norfolk, respectively, in the State of Nebraska, on which to erect suitable buildings, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices in said respective cities, the cost of said sites, respectively, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. Proposals for the sale of lands suitable for said sites shall be invitedProposals for site. by the Secretary of the Treasury, by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said respective cities 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 addressedExamination of site. and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and he shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the Treasury of the result 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 said proposed sites.
If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, theCommission to investigate sites. Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; the said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusions 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 proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary—determination. of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the said respective sites.
The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the SecretaryCompensation. of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed five dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: *Provided, however,* That the member of*Proviso.*—of Treasury member. said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses. Approved, March 2, 1899.