Chapter LXV. appropriating Moneyfor the Purchase of a suitable Site, and erecting a Building thereon, in the City of Saint Louis, Missouri, to be used for the Purposes of a Custom-house, Post-office, and other federal Offices
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CHAP. LXV.— An Act appropriating Moneyfor the Purchase of a suitable Site, and erecting a Building thereon, in the City of Saint Louis, Missouri, to be used for the Purposes of a Custom-house, Post-office, and other federal Offices.March 27, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatSite to be procured in Saint Louis, Mo., for building for Custom-house, post-office, &c.Appropriation. the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to purchase, at a private sale, or by condemnation in pursuance of the statutes of the State of Missouri, a suitable lot in the city of Saint Louis, for the purpose of erecting thereon a building, to be used for the purposes of a Custom-house, post-office, United State court, and other federal offices; and that the sum of five hundred44FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 65, 66, 72, 73. 1872. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of said lot;Former appropriations,1870, ch. 292.Vol. xvi. p. 297.1871, ch. 21.*Ante,* p. 12. and that the sum of three hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes,” and extended by an act entitled An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the civil service of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for additional appropriations for the service of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be applied toward the erection of the building above mentioned; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made;Plans, &c.No expenditure to be made until a valid title is obtained, jurisdiction ceded, and right to tax relinquished.Limit to expenditure. but no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the construction of said building until a valid title to the land for the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Missouri shall cede its jurisdiction over said site and shall 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: *Provided,* That no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the site exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, nor for the full completion of said building and site exceeding two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 27, 1872.