Chapter 341. To provide for the construction of a public building at Butte City, Montana
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CHAP. 341.— An Act To provide for the construction of a public building at Butte City, Montana. March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Butte City, Mont.Public building authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, acquire by condemnation, or otherwise provide a site, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable, commodious, and substantial building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office, internal revenue, and other Government offices in the city Limit of cost.of Butte and State of Montana; the cost of the site and the building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars.
Proposals for site.Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city for at least fourteen days prior to the date specified in the advertisementCommission. for opening the proposals. The proposals made in response to said public advertisement, at the time named in the advertisement or within ten days subsequent thereto, shall be received, opened, and considered by a commission of three persons, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to forward to the Secretary of the Treasury, within forty days from the date named in the advertisement for opening the proposals, a written report, with the original proposals, maps, and so forth, and the oaths prescribed by Act of Congress approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to definitely state in said report the site selected by them, and their selection of the site shall be final; and each commissioner shall be allowed a compensation for his services of an amount within the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, said compensation not to exceed two hundred dollars and actual traveling expenses to each commissioner.
Fire space.The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, March 2, 1899.