Chapter 27. To provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new public building at Bangor, Maine; also tor the sale of the site and ruins of the former post-office building
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CHAP. 27.— An Act To provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new public building at Bangor, Maine; also tor the sale of the site and ruins of the former post-office building. August 19, 1911.[[S. 2055](/us/bill/62/s/2055).][[Public, No. 26](/us/pl/62/26).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theBangor, Me.Public building authorized. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a suitable site, and to contract, within the limit of cost hereinafter fixed, for the erection and completion thereon of a suitable and commodious building, including fireproof vaults, heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the post office and other Government offices at Bangor, Maine, at a cost for said site and buildingLimit of cost. of not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars.
An open space of such width, including streets and alleys, as theOpen space. Secretary of the Treasury may determine shall be maintained about said building for the protection thereof from fire in adjacent buildings. For the purposes aforesaid the sum of one hundred and fifty thousandAppropriation. dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That the balance of the appropriation*Proviso*.Use of balance for former building.Vol. 36, p. 704. heretofore made by the sundry civil Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for the retaining wall and approaches at the former post-office building in said city, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available, in addition to the appropriation hereinbefore made, toward the purposes of this Act.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized and directedSale of former site, etc. to sell, in such manner and upon such terms as he may deem for the best interests of the United States, the site and remains of the former post-office building in said city recently destroyed by fire; to convey the last-mentioned land to such purchaser or purchasers by the usual quit-claim deed, and to deposit the proceeds derived from such sale in the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt.
Approved, August 19, 1911.