Chapter 26. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate for the purchase at private sale, or, if necessary, procure by condemnation, a site for a post-office in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland
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CHAP. 26.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate for the purchase at private sale, or, if necessary, procure by condemnation, a site for a post-office in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland.June 18, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America. in Congress assembled*,Post-office «item Baltimore, Md. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to negotiate and contract for the conditional purchase, at private sale, or, if necessary, procure by condemnation, in pursuance of the statutes of the State of Maryland now in force, or any statute of said State which may hereafter be passed by its legislature for that purpose, a suitable piece of ground or site in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland for the erection of a building to be used for a post-office, court-house, and other public offices, the cost of the same not to exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars; and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated,Appropriation. or so much as may be necessary therefor, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the costs and expenses of condemnation of said ground or site, if proceedings of condemnation are, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, required to procure the same: *Provided,* That no money except the sum hereinbefore*Proviso.* appropriated for expenses of condemnation be expended for purchase of said site until the purchase and contract for the same shall have been approved by Congress nor until a valid title to such ground or site is vested in the United States, and the State of Maryland shall have released and relinquished jurisdiction over the same, and exempted from taxation such site and such buildings as may hereafter be erected thereon, so long as the same are the property of the United States.
Approved, June 18, 1879.