Chapter CL. *for the Erection of a public Building for the Use of the United States in Covington, Kentucky*
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CHAP. CL.— An Act *for the Erection of a public Building for the Use of the United States in Covington, Kentucky*. Feb. 17, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Building to be built at Covington, Ky., for courts and government offices That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed a suitable brick building, with a fire-proof brick vault extending to each story in the city of Covington, Kentucky, for the accommodation of the United States circuit and district courts, post-office, and Other government offices; and the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money inAppropriation. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, of which not more than thirty thousand dollars shall be used in payment for the site; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditures shall be madePlans and estimates. or authorized, for the full completion of said building, beyond the sum herein appropriated: *Provided*, That no money hereby appropriated shall be used or expended until aMoney not to be used until jurisdiction is ceded and the right to tax released. valid title to the land for a site, independent and unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings, shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Kentucky shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.
Approved, February 17, 1873.