hereby provided for shall not be constructed or planned, so as to cost complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches complete, but exclusive of site, exceeding four hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to begin the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned, and to let contracts for so much of said building as shall not exceed in cost the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, hereby authorized: Provided further, That upon the completion of the building herein authorized to be constructed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall proceed by due and proper advertisement, and under such regulations, conditions, and stipulations as he may prescribe, or as Congress may hereafter direct, to sell to the highest and best bidder, the present building and site upon which it is located, in Houston, Texas, now owned by the United States Government and now used and occupied as a post-office, court-house, custom-house, and for other governmental purposes, and deposit the proceeds thereof into the Treasury of the United States. SEC. 21. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant and convey unto Sidney Bieber and his heirs and assigns all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all of certain land in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, lying south of square eleven hundred and twenty-three, eleven hundred and forty-eight, and eleven hundred and forty-nine, conforming with the metes and bounds of square eleven hundred and thirtyone, and that part of square eleven hundred and seventeen situated between the north lines of Water and I streets, the east line of Eighteenth street, and the west line of Nineteenth street, when said streets are extended, upon the payment by the said Sidney Bieber into the Treasury of the United States of such sum of money as the said Secretary of War, upon consideration of all the circumstances, shall determine proper to be paid for the said squares; and the surveyor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and directed to mark out such areas, to record plats, and to designate the proper square numbers. SEC. 22. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by condemnation or otherwise, for the purpose of providing reservations for the United States Government, the several parcels of ground in the District of Columbia included in the triangles or parts of triangles herein mentioned, as follows: Part of the triangle situated at the east side of Sixteenth street and north of Columbia road which lies north of a line commencing at the southwest corner of lot one hundred and fifty-four and extending east at right angles to Sixteenth street to the west line of Fifteenth street. Also all of the triangle situated at the east side of Sixteenth street at the intersection of that street with Piney Branch road and consisting of part of original lot numbered eight, in the subdivision of "Argyle," as recorded in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, the condemnation proceedings to be had under subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the code of law for the District of Columbia: Provided, however, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury as damages for and in respect of the land condemned, plus the costs and expenses of the proceedings, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, and to the extent of such benefits, against those pieces or parcels of land which will be benefited by the condemnation of said triangles for Government reservations. SEC. 23. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to permit the erection of a monument, which shall cost not less than five thousand dollars, in honor of the heroes of peace, by the voluntary firemen of the United States, under such rules and regu lations as he may prescribe, on reservation numbered twenty-nine, being bounded on the south by Pennsylvania avenue, on the east by Twentieth street west, and on the north by I street north, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia: Provided, That the design for the proposed monument shall be approved by the Secretary of War. SEC. 24. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall require all owners or agents of sites in each city mentioned in this Act, where sites or additions to sites are to be purchased, to submit offers of sale in writing. And in case a site or addition to a site acquired under the provisions of this Act contains a building or buildings the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to rent until their removal becomes necessary such of said buildings as may be purchased by the Government, or the land on which the same may be located, where the buildings are reserved by the venders, at a fair rental value, the net proceeds thereof to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and a report of the proceedings to be submitted to Congress annually: Provided, That each site selected under the provisions of this Act shall be bounded upon at least two sides by streets, unless otherwise specifically provided. SEC. 25. That a committee of three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representative, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, be constituted to take into consideration the advisability of purchasing the proposed addition to Rock Creek Park, the so-called Meridian Hill site, the so-called Carpenter and Pennsylvania Avenue Heights tracts, for parks, and the so-called Montrose track on Georgetown Heights for a park located in the District of Columbia, and to report their conclusions to the Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Fiftyninth Congress. SEC. 26. That proposals for the sale of land suitable for all sites provided for in this Act, respectively, shall be invited by public advertisement in one of the newspapers of said cities, respectively, of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be mailed and addressed 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 the said proposed sites. SEC. 27. That all buildings authorized to be constructed, enlarged, or extended under the provisions of this Act shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys: Provided, That in exceptional cases and for good cause shown the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, reduce the open space to less than forty feet and to any dimensions which he shall deem sufficient to afford fire protection. SEC. 28. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. SEC. 29. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, June 30, 1906. [The foregoing Act authorizes expenditures for sives for and toward the construction or extension of public buildings in the aggregate sum of $27,599,000, of which amount the Act making appropriations for certain public buildings appropriates (pp. 438-445) the sum of $10,297,500. For detailed statement of contracts authorized under said foregoing Act additional to said appropriations, see pp. 769-782.] [PUBLIC-NO. 386.] By the Act Making appropriations for certain public buildings authorized by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated toward amounts requisite for public buildings authorized under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes." Approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely: Under the provisions and limitations of section one of said Act as follows: Montgomery, Alabama, post-office and court-house, twelve thousand dollars Crawfordsville, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars Saint Paul, Minnesota, post-office, court-house, and custom-house, fifty thousand dollars. Columbia, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars Saint Joseph, Missouri, post-office, fifty thousand dollars Gloversville, New York, post-office, six thousand dollars. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, post-office, five thousand dollars.. $12,000.00 15,000. 00 50,000.00 10,000.00 50, 000. 00 5,000.00 7,000.00 6,000.00 30,000. 00 450,000. 00 5,000.00 5,000.00 20,000.00 12,000.00 Yankton, South Dakota, post-office, fifteen hundred dollars 1,500.00 Burlington, Vermont, post-office and custom-house, forty thousand dollars 15,000.00 Evanston, Wyoming, post-office, five thousand dollars Baraboo, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty-five hundred dollars Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office and land office, twenty thousand dollars 40,000.00 2,500.00 20,000.00 Under the provisions and limitations of section two of said Act, as follows: 5,000.00 Denver, Colorado, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars 15,000.00 25,000.00 Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars. 30,000.00 New York City, New York, Assay Office, twenty thousand dollars.. 20,000.00 Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.. 20,000.00 15,000.00 Waldoboro, Maine, post-office and custom-house, five thousand dollars 5,000.00 Detroit, Michigan, post-office and court-house, seventy-five thousand dollars. 75,000.00 Jackson, Mississippi, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars 30,000.00 Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars Brooklyn, New York, post-office, forty thousand dollars Asheville, North Carolina, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars Newbern, North Carolina, post-office and custom-house, five thousand dollars.... Columbus, Ohio, post-office and court-house, forty thousand dollars. dollars. Fort Worth, Texas, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars. San Antonio, Texas, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars. Tyler, Texas, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars. Petersburg, Virginia, post-office and custom-house, twenty-five thousand dollars Lynchburg, Virginia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars. dollars Under the provisions and limitations of section three of said Act, as follows: San Francisco, California, subtreasury, two hundred thousand dollars.. 5,000.00 40,000.00 10,000.00 40,000.00 15,000.00 2,500.00 20,000.00 15,000.00 30,000.00 20, 000. 00 20, 000. 00 25, 000. 00 20,000.00 20,000.00 8,000.00 200,000.00 40,000. 00 Springfield, Massachusetts, post-office and custom-house, forty-five thousand dollars Cedar Rapids, Iowa, post-office and court-house, sixty thousand dollars. Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house, forty thousand dollars. 40,000. 00 10,000: 00 15,000.00 60,000.00 45,000.00 12,000.00 20, 000, 00 15,000.00 8,000.00 17,500.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 Kalamazoo, Michigan, post-office, twelve thousand dollars Butte, Montana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars. Springfield, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars Roanoke, Virginia, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars. Greenville, South Carolina, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars Under the provisions and limitations of section four of said Act, as follows: Saint Louis, Missouri, post-office, two hundred thousand dollars... Under the provisions and limitations of section five of said Act, as follows: Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars... 20, 000. 00 30,000. 00 30, 000. 00 200,000.00 15,000.00 Under the provisions and limitations of section six of said Act, as follows: Bessemer, Alabama, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars. Florence, Alabama, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars. dollars Pine Bluff, Arkansas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars Ocala, Florida, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.. Gainesville, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars Dixon, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars Calais, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand dollars. $25,000. 00 50,000.00 25,000.00 30,000. 00 25, 000. 00 30,000.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 25,000.00 50, 000. 00 20,000.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 25,000.00 20,000.00 Ann Arbor, Michigan, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.. 20,000.00 20,000.00 15,000.00 Grand Island, Nebraska, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars 20,000.00 York, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars Bluefield, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars Fayetteville, Arkansas, post-office, ten thousand dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section eight of said Act, as follows: 10,000.00 Dothan, Alabama, post-office, seventeen thousand dollars.. Eureka, California, post-office, custom-house and land office, thirty thousand dollars 17,000.00 30, 000. 00 |