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418 FORTY·NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 251-253. 1887. according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building com- C¤¤t- plete the sum of one hundred and hfty thousand dollars; norshall any Estimates, site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will 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 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 and fifty thousand dollars for site and building: 1"M¤i¤¤- Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger Open space. from iire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this Title. purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Georgia shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereot§ for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. - Approved, February 24, 1887. Fgb_ 24, 1881; .t } 2333% act to change the limit of appropriation for the public building I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Denver, qolo. States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act E!*l*P¤ l;°*m:'!8· for the erection of a public building at Denver, Colorado", approved °m;:§° °°“ "" May eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be amended by making v01_ gg, p_ 6;_ the hmit for said building five hundred andseventy-tive thousand dollars, and that sum is hereby ized as the limit of com thereoi Sino. 2. That the Supervising Architeét and the odlcers of theUnited States Government having charge of the erection of public buildings are authorized and required to be governed by the limitation hereby prescribed in making plans and contracts for the erection of said buildmg. Approved, February 24, 1887. I Feb. 24, 1887. CQLP. 253.-4n act to indemnify certain subjects of the Chinese Empire for losses ····;—·-··—-—-—- pgsgggsgdll)»yrt];?gi£$§:c:u¢::1;dm;:da;iglgcégksgprings, in the Territory of Wyoming, y · 8. _ _ i Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United in%;€$g¤¤g;;?;¤e;: l8tateso_/America m Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred and for 10m; at Rock forty-seven thousand seven hundred and torty-eight dollars and seventy- Springs, Wyo. tour cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Chinese Government, in consideration of the losses uuhappily sustained by certain Chinese subjects by mob violence at Rock Springs, in the Territory of Wyoming, Septeinber second, eighteen hundred and eightydive; thesaxd sum being intended for distribution among the suderers and then; legal representatives, in the discretion of the Chinese Governmen . Approved, February 24, 1887. ·