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 FIFTIETH CGNGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 727-729. 1888. 357 and wharf, steam-tug. small boats, expenses forthe iiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and three thousand dollars. For the quarantine station at Port Townsend: For the purchase of Pm 'f°W¤¤°¤d· site, construction of disinfecting machinery, warehouse, small boats, hospital buildings and officers’ quarters, for expenses of maintenance for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifty-tive thousand five hundred dollars. Approved, August 1 1888. CHAP. 728.-An act to authorize condemnation of land for sites of public build- August L IBS8- ings, and for other purposes. __“`;" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case L¤¤df¤¤‘¤¤bF<=¤¤·‘¤- in which the Secretary of the Treasury or any other officer of the Government has been, or hereafter shall be, authorized to rocure real estate for the erection of a public building or for other pulilic uses he shall be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire the same for the United States by condemnation, under judicial process, whenever in <?<>¤¤¢¤¤¤¤¢i<>¤- his opinion it is necessary or advantageous to the Government to do so, and the United States circuit or district courts of the district wherein such real estate is located, shall have jurisdiction of pro- Jmsmaxonmumt. ceedings for such condemnation, and it shall be the duty of the At- °°S“"“ °°“"°s· torney-General of the United States, upon every application of the Secretary of the Treasury, under this act, or such other officer, to cause-proceedings to be commenced for condemnation, within thirty da s from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice. gEC. 2. The practice, plea ings, forms and modes of proceeding mmm. in causes arising under the provisions of this act shall conform, as near as may be, to the ractice, pleadings, forms and proceedings existing at the time in lilge causes in the courts of record of the State within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, August 1, 1888. CHAP. 729.-Au act to regulate the liens of judgments and decrees of the courts A¤K¤¤¤ L ¤F**l· of the Umte*l'. States. "`"'""“` `”"‘“""_' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That judgments B_{’gf§*y,°[}(fjlg: Fnjt; and decrees rendered in a circuit or district court of the United States neilé on pi-Opin it within any State, shall be liens on property throu hout such State in ““‘“’“· the same manner and to the same extent and under the same conditions only as if such 'udgments and decrees had been rendered by a court of general jurisdiction of such State: Provided, That whenever Fromm the laws of an State require a judgment or decree of a State court m*f;¤¢**d ¤¤d¢¤ sms to be registered; recorded, docketed, indexed, or any other thing to be done. in a particular manne1·, or in a certain office or county, or parish in the State of Louisiana before alien shall attach, this act shall be applicable therein whenever and only whenever the laws of such State shall authorize the judgments an decrees of the United States courts to be registered, recorded, docketed. indexed, or otherwise conformed to the rules and reqpirements relating to the judgments and decrees of the courts of the State. Sec. 2. That the clerks of the several courts of the United States l__£g$§¤¤f5¤·!s¤¤¤* shall prepare and keep in their respective offices complete and convenient indices and cross-indices of the judgment records of said