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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · June 8, 1872 · Chapter CCCLXII

Chapter CCCLXII. authorizing the Construction of a public Building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Use of the Post-office and United States Courts in said City

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CHAP. CCCLXII.— An Act authorizing the Construction of a public Building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Use of the Post-office and United States Courts in said City.June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasurySite to be purchased in Philadelphia for building for post-office and courts. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, suitable for a site for the accommodation of the post-office and United States courts in said city, either adjoining the site of the present building used for said purpose, or elsewhere in said city, and to erect a building thereon at a cost, including the cost of the ground and premises so purchased, not exceeding the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars; the plans for said building to be approved by the Secretary of the TreasuryPlans. and the Postmaster-General: *Provided,* That no money which may hereafterNo money to be expended until valid title is acquired, and jurisdiction ceded, and the right to tax released. be appropriated for this purpose shall be used or expended for the purposes herein mentioned until a valid title to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Pennsylvania shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and shall also duly release and extinguish 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 or remain the owners thereof.
Approved, June 8, 1872.
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