Chapter 442. To increase the limit of the cost for the erection of a public building in Stockton, California, and making provision for the acquisition of additional land or a new site therefor, and to provide for an addition to the public building at Los Angeles, California, and appropriating money therefor
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CHAP. 442.— An Act To increase the limit of the cost for the erection of a public building in Stockton, California, and making provision for the acquisition of additional land or a new site therefor, and to provide for an addition to the public building at Los Angeles, California, and appropriating money therefor. March 3, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Stockton, Cal.Limit of cost for public building extended.
That the amount heretofore fixed as the limit of the cost for the erection of a public building by the United States Government in Stockton, California, be, and the same is hereby, increased by eighty-one thousand nine hundred dollars, making the aggregate cost thereof one hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars. Sec. 2. Contracts. That the officers of the United States Government having charge of the erection of public buildings are authorized and required to be governed by the limitation hereby prescribed in making contracts *Proviso.*Additional ground, etc.for the erection of said building: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, an additional piece or parcel of land adjacent to the present site of said building, of such size as may be necessary to provide for the site of said building or the future extension thereof, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars; or if, in his judgment, the interests of the Government will be better subserved thereby, in case such adjacent landscan not be procured for a reason able sum, to exchange FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Chs. 442, 443. 1899. 1355 the present site for one of suitable size, or to sell the present site and with the proceeds thereof to purchase a suitable site, using, in connection with such exchange or purchase, so much as may be necessary of said sum of eighty-one thousand nine hundred dollars, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, which shall be available for that purpose. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Los Angeles, Cal.Public building authorized. authorized and directed to procure a site for and cause to be erected thereon a suitable addition to the public building now the property of the United States in the city of Los Angeles, California, with fireproof vaults therein, for the adequate accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, internal revenue, customs offices, and other Government offices in the city of Los Angeles, California.
The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall beLimit of cost. previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed, for the site and all improvements and additions, complete, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the site shall*Proviso.*Fire space. leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be availableTitle, etc. until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of California shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein; and there is hereby appropriated for the purchase of said site and the commencement of said additional building one hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1899.