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 346 FOBTY -E1GI1TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 325-327. 1885. shall not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto exceeding the portion ot said seventy-five thousand dollars remaining after the site of said bu1ldmg shall have been paid for; and no plan shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum so remaining alter paying for the site of said building, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury  the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building, for which he shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the purchase of said site and the completion of said building exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: Pro- P¤•vi••· vided, That no part of the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be used until the State of Mississippi shall release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, and the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be the owner thereof, Approved, March 3, 1885. March 3, 18%. CHAP. 326.-—An act for thoerection of apublio building at Beading, Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of wummma of the United umm,, p., Stoves of America in Gongreee aseenbled, That e Secretaryof theTreas- Phone building. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, SM- and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with tire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-oilco, internal-revenue ollices, and other government offices, at the city of Beading, in the PIM, ¢¤¤f»¤*¤· State of Pennsylvania. The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to _ law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of P'°"'°· eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from iire in adjacent buildin by an open · space of not less than forty feet, including streets and stays. rand no _ money appropriated for this purpose shall be- available  avalid '*`“*°· title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Pennsylvania shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the sam during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners theredzéoiz all urposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said teandpthe service of civil process therein. Approved, March 3, 1885. Hatch IB- CHAP. 32'l.—An act to `de for the construct' f a use I Be it enacted by the Senate and Howeeqfhzreeentativee of the United ciunsm, w. States ofAme»·iea in Congren assembled, That c Becretaryof the Treas- Vyubuc bdmn nry be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a suitable Sum $'· site, and cause tobe erected thereon, at Clarksburg, in the State of West Virginia, a substantial and commodious public building, with llre-proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the United States courts and postomce and for other Government uses. The sito, and the building Plum. ww. ew thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be pmviously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of fifty thousand dollars; and for the purposes herein App¤>pri¤ti<>¤· mentioned the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby app riated out ot any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriat:d,P to be ex- Precise. pended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury : Provided, Title. That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said
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