him tel SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 380. 1926. may 631 Provisos. ac Restriction on be quiring sites in Dis to execute the necessary quitclaim deed of conveyance: Provided, Standards in construction. Post office buildings Postmaster General. Approval of heads of departments of plans, Construction by contract or otherwise. Closing of streets, etc., contiguous to Columbia. In all cases where the construction of buildings in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of this Act, requires the utilization, squares in District of in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, of contiguous squares as sites thereof, authority is hereby given for closing and vacating such portions of streets as lie between such squares and such alleys as intersect such squares, and the portions of such streets and alleys so closed and vacated shall thereupon become parts of such sites. SEC. 2. (a) The work of preparing designs and other drawings, vising Architect's ofestimates, specifications, and awarding of contracts, as well as the ficc. supervision of the work authorized under the provisions of this Act, shall be performed by the Office of the Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Plans, etc., as guides in special cases. Post, p. 1043. (b) When deemed by him advantageous the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in special cases, (1) to procure by contract the floor plans and designs of buildings developed sufficiently to serve as guides for the preparation of working drawings and specifications, or to employ advisory assistance involving design or engineering features, and (2) to employ, to the extent deemed Architects for Departnecessary by him in connection with the construction of buildings med Labor buildings for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, the architects who authorized. were successful in competition heretofore held for a building for the then Department of Commerce and Labor, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services. ments of Commerce Additional technical, etc., assistants authorized. Post, p. 875. Compensation, etc. Previous building authorizations to be carried out. Post, p. 869. Cities designated. (c) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to employ such additional technical, scientific, and clerical assistance in or under the Office of the Supervising Architect, both in the District of Columbia and in the field, as he deems necessary, and to fix such rates of compensation therefor as he deems proper, not, however, in excess of the maximum rates paid for the same or similar service in other departments, such employment to be made in accordance with the civil service laws, rules, and regulations, and to submit to Congress through customary channels, estimates for appropriations for compensation for such personal services, and for travel, subsistence, and other expenses involved in making any investigation or survey of building conditions or in the examination of sites which he may find to be necessary. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to carry into effect the provisions of existing law authorizing the acquisition of land for sites or enlargements thereof, and the erection, enlargement, extension, and remodeling of public buildings thereon in the following cities: Juneau, Alaska; Globe, Arizona; Prescott, Arkansas; Red Bluff and San Pedro, California; Durango, Colorado; Branford and Putnam, Connecticut; Marianna, Florida; West Point, Georgia; Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint, Idaho; Batavia, Metropolis, Mount Carmel, and Paxton, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Shelbyville, Kentucky; Caribou and Fort Fairfield, Maine; Leominster, Malden, Newburyport, Southbridge, Waltham, and Winchester, Massachusetts; Wyandotte, Michigan; Montevideo, Minnesota; Central City, Nebraska; Fallon and Goldfield, Nevada; Bayonne, East Orange, Millville, and Montclair, New Jersey; East Las Vegas, New Mexico; Fort Plain, Long Island City, Syracuse, and Yonkers, New York; Wilson, North Carolina; Jamestown, North Dakota; Akron, Fremont, and Wilmington, Ohio; Donora, Lewistown, McKees Rocks, Olyphant, Sayre, Tamaqua, Tarentum, and Waynesburg, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, South Carolina; Chamberlain, South Dakota; Athens, Tennessee; Seattle, Washington; Williamson, West Virginia; Madison and Tomah, Wisconsin; Buffalo and Cody, Wyoming; Saint Louis, Missouri; Newark, New Jersey; Utica, New York; Missoula, Montana; additional buildings for the marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois; medical officers' quarters at the marine hospital at Savannah, Georgia; construction of marine hospital facilities at Detroit, Michigan. The Secretary Former limits of costs of the Treasury is hereby authorized to disregard the limit of cost. fixed by Congress for each of said projects, to purchase additional land for enlargement of sites, and for such purposes to expend Additional amount in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated such additional sums of money for each of said projects as he shall deem advisable, Space for other activ- not exceeding in the aggregate $15,000,000: Provided, That in Marine hospitals. disregarded. Post, p. 872. for. Provisos. ities in, allowed. Contracts ized. constructing the buildings embraced herein the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to provide space in such buildings for other activities or branches of the public service not specifically enumerated in the Act or Acts authorizing the acquisition of the sites, or the construction of the buildings, or both: author- Provided further, That in carrying into effect the provisions of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and empowered to enter into contracts for all or so many of said buildings as may be possible within the total additional limit of $15,000,000 hereinbefore authorized. Complete details of proposed expenditures estimates. SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit annually and to be shown in annual from time to time as may be required estimates to the Bureau of the Budget, in accordance with the provisions of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, showing in complete detail the various amounts it is proposed to expend under the authority of this Act Provisos. Restriction on of conmoneys during the fiscal year for which said estimates are submitted, which Provisions for other buildings allowed. ings. previous authoriza Estimates for at least Total amount authorized. Annual limitation. Post, p. 873. Provisos. SEC. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act Distribution yearly tion. In each of the cities in which a site is to be acquired under the Acquisition of sites. ་ offers. published for a period of twenty days in one of the newspapers in said city having the largest circulation, for the sale of lands suitable Examination, etc., of for the purpose. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the sites offered, and such others as may be found to be suitable or desirable for the purpose, to be examined in person by an agent employed or detailed for the purpose, 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. That in case a site or additions to a site acquired under the probuildings on acquired visions 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 vendors, at a fair rental value, the proceeds thereof to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and a report of the proceedings to be submitted to Congress annually. Temporary rental of Open space requirement. Provisos. Discretionary reduction permitted. Demolishing of exist new ones. curing of more advantageous ones. Sale, proceeds, etc. That, so far as practicable, all buildings constructed, enlarged, or extended under the provisions of this Act shall be unexposed to danger of fire from adjacent buildings by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, acquire sites on which an open space of the extent hereinbefore specified can not be reserved, and he is likewise authorized, whenever in his judgment such action is necessary and warranted, to reduce the open space about any Federal building heretofore constructed and under the custody and control of said department. In carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, if the Secretary ing buildings, for erect- of the Treasury deeins it to be to the best interests of the Government to construct Federal buildings to take the place of existing Federal buildings, he is hereby authorized to cause the present buildings Use of sites or pro- to be demolished, in order that the sites may be utilized in whole or in part for such buildings, or where in his judgment it is more advantageous to construct a Federal building on a different site in the same city, to sell any such building or buildings and the site or sites thereof, at such time and on such terms as he deems proper, Charge against total and to convey the same to the respective purchasers thereof by the usual quitclaim deed, and to deposit the proceeds of the sales thereof in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, and to charge against the total sum of $150,000,000 hereinbefore authorized only the respective net excess cost, if any, over and above the proceeds of such sales, of providing such new sites and buildings. fund. Ante, p. 633. Public Buildings Commission. to authorizations here- SEC. 6. The provisions of section 10 of the Legislative, Executive, Provisions applicable and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, approved March 1, 1919, relating to the assignment of space in public buildings in the District of Columbia, shall apply to all buildings constructed, extended, or enlarged under the provisions of this Act in the District of Columbia, and no land for sites or enlargement of sites therefor shall be acquired or land belonging to the United States be taken for sites or enlargement of sites therefor, without prior approval of the commission created by said Act con- of March 1, 1919; no contract shall be let for any building or the enlargement or extension of any building in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of this Act without the approval of said commission as to the assignment and general arrangement of space To determine order therein; and said commission shall determine the order in which buildings or enlargement of buildings in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of this Act shall be constructed. Approval of tracts, etc., by. of construction. General survey, etc., to be made of public SEO. 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and empowered to cause such survey and investigations building conditions. of public building conditions to be made, and such data obtained as he deems necessary properly to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. Funds advanced for may be received and SEC. 8. That in the event local interests in the city of New New Orleans, La. Orleans, Louisiana, shall offer to advance funds for the acquisition quarantine station at, of a site for a quarantine station in or near said city, the Secretary used therefor. of the Treasury may, in his discretion, receive such funds and expend the same in the immediate acquisition of such site, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to repay without Repayment. interest, from appropriations available for the acquisition of such site, the amounts so advanced or expended. Approved, May 25, 1926. CHAP. 381.-An Act Granting relief to the Metropolitan police, and to the officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for furnishing uniforms and all other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty there is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum not exceeding $75 per annum for each member of the Metropolitan police and officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia, to be expended subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Approved, May 25, 1926. CHAP. 382.-An Act To provide for the establishment of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes. May 25, 1926. [S. 4209.] [Public, No. 283.] National park. Ky., set apart for, when lands therefor vested in Description, Vol. 43, p. 958. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when title to lands within the area hereinafter referred to shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, there shall be, and there is hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the tract of land in the Mammoth Cave region in the State of Kentucky, being approximately seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen acres, recommended as a National Park by the Southern Appalachian National Park Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, in its report of April 8, 1926, and made under authority of the Act of February 21, 1925; which area, or any part or parts thereof as may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be known as the Mammoth Cave National Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept, as hereinafter provided, on behalf of the United thorized. States, title to the lands referred to in the previous section hereof, and to be purchased with the funds which may be subscribed by or through the Mammoth Cave National Park Association of Kentucky, and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Mammoth Cave National Park area: Provided, That any of said lands may be donated directly to the United States and conveyed to it, accepted. Proviso. Lands to be secured only by donation. Acceptance of title to lands conveyed, au Proviso. Direct conveyances |