Chapter 7. To amend section nineteen of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings; to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings; to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings; to authorize the purchase of
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CHAP. 7.— An Act To amend section nineteen of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings; to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings; to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings; to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.August 11, 1913.[[H. R. 6383](/us/bill/63/hr/6383).][[Public, No. 7](/us/pl/63/7).] *Be. it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section nineteen of an Public building.
Newark, N. J. Vol. 37, p. 883, amended.Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings; to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings; to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings; to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and hereby is, amended so as to read as follows: "“Sec. 19. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, Sale of present post office and courthouse authorized.authorized and directed to sell the site and buildings thereon now occupied by the United States as a post office and courthouse, and for other purposes, in the city of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, after proper advertisement, and at such time and upon such terms as he may deem to be for the best interest of the United States, but for not less than the price of $1,800,000, and to enter into a contract Minimum price.for such sale on behalf of the United States with a responsible bidder, which contract shall provide for the use by the Government of the Use until new building completed.said site and buildings thereon free of rent until the completion and occupation by the Government of a building upon the site hereinafter mentioned, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to execute and deliver to the purchaser upon such completion and occupation a quitclaim deed or the property herein authorized and directed to be sold.
“That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized Acquiring new site and erecting building.and directed, after entering into such contract of sale, out not before, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site for a suit-able building and approaches for the use and accommodation of the United States post office and other Government offices in the said city of Newark, the cost of said new site not to exceed the sum of $800,000, and to erect on the said new site a new building, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use of the United States post office and other governmental offices, and to use and expend the money realized from the sale of said present site and buildings for the purchase of such new site and the balance thereof for the erection thereon of such new building, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, and also for the payment for Technical, etc., services, preparing plans, etc.such consulting and other architectural, engineering, and technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order in writing, to serve either within or without the District of Columbia, exclusively to assist the Supervising Architect in the preparation of the designs, drawings, specifications, and estimates for said new building and for the equipment thereof, customarily paid for from the construction appropriation for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and also for special supervision, not including superintendence, of the construction of said building.
The fee for such consulting and other architectural, engineering, and Additional to office force of Supervising Architect.technical services shall not exceed five per centum of the cost of said building and the proceeds of the sale of the said present site and buildings thereon are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein set forth. “That the consulting and other architectural, engineering, and technical services hereinbefore authorized and directed to be employed and paid for from the proceeds of the sale of the present Federal build- 110 ing and the site thereof shall be employed without regard to civil-service laws, rules, or regulations, any statute to the contrary not-withstanding; and such services shall be in addition to and independent of the authorizations for personal services for the Office of the Supervising Architect otherwise made.
Limit of coot.“That the total expenditure herein authorized and directed to be made shall not exceed the amount of the net proceeds of the sale of the present site and buildings hereinbefore provided for. Fire protection space.“That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may disregard the provision requiring forty feet open space for fire protection.”" Approved, August 11, 1913.