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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · March 2, 1899 · Chapter 361

Chapter 361. To provide for the erection of a public building at Kansas City, Kansas

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CHAP. 361.— An Act To provide for the erection of a public building at Kansas City, Kansas. March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Kansas City, Kans.Public building authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office and other GovernmentLimit of price. offices at the city of Kansas City, State of Kansas.
The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed, for the site and building complete, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a plan and specifications of said building to be prepared, which said plan and specifications shall not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building and approaches thereto exceeding the portion of said one hundred and fifty thousand dollars remaining after the site for said building shall have been paid for; and no plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum so remaining after paying for the *Proviso.*Fire space.site of said building: *Provided,* That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not loss than forty feet, including streets and alleys.
Approved, March 2, 1899.
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