Chapter CCCXXIV. to provide for a Building for the Use of the federal Courts, Post-office, internal Revenue, and other civil Offices, in the City of Little Rock, Arkansas
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CHAP. CCCXXIV.— An Act to provide for a Building for the Use of the federal Courts, Post-office, internal Revenue, and other civil Offices, in the City of Little Rock, Arkansas.June 7, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theSite to be purchased at Little Rock, Arkansas, and building erected for courts, post-office, &c. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be constructed, a suitable building, with a fire-proof vault extending to each story, at the city of Little Rock, in the State of Arkansas, for the accommodation of the United States circuit and district courts,281FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 324–327. 1872. post-office, internal revenue, and other government offices; and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, toAppropriation, plans, and estimates be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the full completion of said building and payment for the site thereof beyond the amount herein appropriated: *Provided,* That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used or expended, until a valid title to the site of said building shall be vested inNo part to be expended until, &c. the United States, and until the State of Arkansas shall duly release and relinquish its jurisdiction over the same, and its right to tax said site and the property which may be thereon during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.
Approved, June 7, 1872.