Public Law 49–577

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise

Public building.

provide a site and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the United States circuit and district courts and post-office, and other Government uses, at the city of Savannah, in the State of Georgia.

Site, plane, cost.

The site, and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection

Estimates.

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

Limit.

exceeding the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars for site and building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed

Open space.

to danger from lire by an open space of at least fifty feet, including

Post, p. 348.

streets and alleys: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended

Proviso.

Title.

until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Georgia shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein.