Chapter LIX. for the Construction of an Addition to the United States court-house and Post-office Building in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for the Purchase of additional Ground adjoining the Site of said Building
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CHAP. LIX.— An Act for the Construction of an Addition to the United States court-house and Post-office Building in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for the Purchase of additional Ground adjoining the Site of said Building.March 18, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAddition to public building in Indianapolis, Ind., for the courts and public offices.Limit to cost. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to cause to be erected an addition to the building now owned by the United States in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, to correspond in design to the said building, and suitable for the further accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, local land-offices, and internal revenue and pension offices, at a cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars; said addition to be erected on the grounds now owned by the United States.
Sec. 2. ThatAdditional land to be purchased. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to negotiate for the purchase of the lot or part of lot lying east of and adjoining the ground on which the United States court-house and post-office building has been erected in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana,Cost how to be determined. at a cost to be agreed upon by the owner or owners of said lot or part of lot, and the judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States and the district attorney of the United States for Indiana, and the postmaster at Indianapolis, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury:No money to be expended until, &c.See *Post,* p. 353. *Provided,* That no money which may hereafter be appropriated for this purpose shall be used or expended in the purchase of said lot or part of lot until a valid title thereto shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Indiana shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and shall also duly release, and relinquish to the United States the light to tax or in any way assess said lot or part of lot, and 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, March 18, 1872.