Chapter LX. to provide for a Building for the Use of the Post-office, Custom, house
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CHAP. LX.— An Act to provide for a Building for the Use of the Post-office, Custom, house. Pension-office, United States Circuit and District Courts, and internal Revenue Offices, at Hartford, Connecticut.March 18, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatBuilding to be constructed at Hartford, Conn., for public, offices and courts of the United States.Limit to cost. the Secretary of the Treasury be and lie is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed a suitable building at Hartford, Connecticut, for the accommodation of the Custom-house, post-office, pension-office, United States circuit and district courts, and internal revenue offices, at a cost not exceeding three hundredFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 60, 62, 63, 65. 1872.43 thousandFire-proof vault.Plans and estimates.No money to be expended until, &c.See *Post,* p. 353. dollars; said building to be constructed with, a fire-proof vault extending to each story, and 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 beyond the sum of three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no money which may hereafter be appropriated shall be used or expended for the purposes herein mentioned until a valid title to the land for the site of such building, which, it is understood, the city of Hartford proposes to donate for tins purpose, shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Connecticut 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, March 18, 1872.