Chapter 443. To provide for the purchase of additional land in the square now occupied by the custom-house in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and for the erection of a new public building thereon for the accommodation of the Government service in said city
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CHAP. 443.— An Act To provide for the purchase of additional land in the square now occupied by the custom-house in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and for the erection of a new public building thereon for the accommodation of the Government service in said city. March 3, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in order to acquire titleBaltimore, Md.Public building authorized.Site. to additional property in the block or square upon which stands the United States custom house, in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, and to give additional space for the accommodation of the Government service in said custom-house building, the Secretary of the Treasury, acting for and on behalf of the Government of the United States, is hereby authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, a certain lot or piece of ground, with the buildings thereon, in the said city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, now owned and lately occupied by the Merchants’ National Bank of Baltimore; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall not pay for such additional property an amount in excess of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That after having acquired the lot or parcel of ground specified in the preceding section, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and directed to cause to be erected upon the enlarged site, consisting of the property already owned by the Government, and the additional lot authorized to be purchased as aforesaid, reserving such space as it may be deemed necessary to reserve for approaches to said building, a substantial and commodious new fireproof building, including heating apparatus, vaults, elevator service, and approaches, adequate for the use and accommodation of the United States customhouse service, internal-revenue service, subtreasury, and other Government offices, excepting the post-office, in the said city of Baltimore.
The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall beLimit of cost. 1356 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 443–445. 1899. previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, and the cost of said building, exclusive of the site, shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of one and one-half million dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall not approve any plan or plans for said building the cost of which will exceed, when completed, the said sum of one and one-half million dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1899.