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70;: FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sues. II. CHS. 38, 39. 1890. If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation necessary l:§<>i¤¢¤¤¤¤¤¤¤f<>¤>*¤- 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 such Hearings- hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make Examination and to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion '°""°‘ in the premises, accom anied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as hereinbefore rovided in regard to the proceedin s of said agent of the Treasnnennninntmn or 1a ury Department ; and the Secretary of the Treasu shall thereu on °""°“· finally determine the location of the building torbe erected. The Compensation nr compensation of said commissioners shall be xed by the Secretary °°"“""‘“‘°“°’“‘ of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day rmvssn. and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the mem- T’¤¤=*¤*'Y ’¤°¤¤b°*· ber of said commission appointed from the Treasury Department _ shall be paid only his actualxtraveling expenses. “?fiQ,°§””p;'.';L”“ N o money shall be used for the purpose mentioned until a valid " title to the site for said building sha 1 be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Nebraska shall have ceded to the United States exclusive iurisdiction 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. °P¤¤¤P•°¤· The building shall be unexposed to danger from iire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, December 27, 1890. December 27. 1890. CHAP. 39.-An act for the erection of a public building at Camden, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the lquaanugiqiiluk- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ecred""‘°°°‘ tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed sm. to purchase or otherwise provide a site, and cause to be erected snmung. thereon a substantial and commodious building, with tire- roof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post—oil‘ice, the land offices, and for other Government uses at Camden, Arkansas. The site and Hamm- building thereon, when completed upon lans and sipecifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary o the Treasury, ow. shall not exceed in cost the sum of twenty-ive thousand dollars; nor No mpdmaw site shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a . &,n,§,‘}§d_““"‘ building which wil furnish sufficient 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 Limitation. the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasurgr involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of twenty-nve thousand do lars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building Open spans. unexposed to danger from nre by an open s ace of at least forty feet, Mmm. including streets and alleys; Provided, That no part of said sum mrligestsemwmmm shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested °" 1H the United States, nor until the State of Arkansas shall cede 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. Approved, December 27, 1890.