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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Cris. 391, 392. 1899. 100] 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; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficieut accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site nor plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars for site and building. Approved, March 2, 1899, CHAP. 392.-An Act For the erection of a public building at Norwich, Connecticut. March 2, 1899. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 1,§¤;wi¤1¤.0¤q¤- Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by »,h0§,£§’_ Mm'"; ““‘ purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of ‘ the United States post-office and other Government offices, in the city of Norwich and State of Connecticut, the cost of said site and build- I·i¤>i*¤f¤¤¤¤- ing, including said vaults, heating and Ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited Pr¤r¤¤¤1f¤r¤i•>¤. by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in the advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed s,{pg*¤¤¢*s¤*i¤¤ ¤f and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the ' said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the results of said examination and of his recommendation thereon and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to said proposed sites. If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the —¤¤¤¤¤¤i¤¤i¤¤· Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant uch hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secrc. ¤<>¤·r¤¤¤·¤¤¤· tary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the member ipa?"). m of said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be Q'}, '°““"" °"' paid only his actual traveling expenses. ` No money appropriated by this Act shall be available, except as Title ¤*°· hereinbefore provided, until a valid title to the site for said building