Chapter 34. to provide for the purchase of a site for a Post Office and other government buildings in the city of Baltimore, Maryland
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CHAP. 34.— An Act to provide for the purchase of a site for a Post Office and other government buildings in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.March 5, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Site for post office in Baltimore, Md. That the Secretary of the Treasury be and ho is hereby authorized and directed to purchase at private sale, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, the site selected by him in the square designated by him in his letter of December sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, bounded by Monument Square, Fayette, Lexington and North Streets, for a Post-Office and other government buildings and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated out of any money in Appropriations.the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of five hundred and 67 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. On. 34, 36, 37, 38. 1880. fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* that no money hereby appropriated*Proviso.* shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Maryland shall duly release and relinquish to the United States all jurisdiction over the said land or piece of ground, also all rights to tax or in any way assess said land 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 5, 1880.