Chapter CLXXIX. *to provide for the Erection of a Post-office Building at Dover, in the State of Delaware*
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CHAP. CLXXIX.— An Act *to provide for the Erection of a Post-office Building at Dover, in the State of Delaware*. Feb. 21, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Building to be erected at Dover, Delaware, for a post-office. That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed a suitable brick building, with a fire-proof brick vault, at Dover, Delaware, for a post-office; and the sum of forty thousand dollars isAppropriation. hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditurePlans and estimates. shall be made or authorized for the full completion of said building beyond the sum herein appropriated: *Provided*, That no money hereby appropriatedMoney not to be used until title of site is obtained and jurisdiction is ceded and right to tax released. shall be used or expended until a 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 Delaware 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 owner thereof.
Approved, February 21, 1873.