Chapter 112. to provide for the construction of a public building at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi
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CHAP. 112.— An Act to provide for the construction of a public building at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.March 2, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public building, Jackson, Miss. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise procure a suitable site for a public building, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use of the United States district and circuit courts, the land-office, internal-revenue service, and post-office; the plans and 380 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. HI. On. 112, 128. 1881. estimates for said building having first been prepared, examined, and R. S. 3734.approved, as required by section thirty-seven hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, upon calculations and Cost.*Proviso.*specifications that will insure the completion of the building at a cost not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be used until a valid title to the site selected shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Mississippi shall have ceded to the United States jurisdiction over the same for all purposes, during the time the government shall be or remain the owner thereof, except for the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State and the service of civil process therein.
Appropriation.And the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Approved, March 2, 1881.