Chapter 51. to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Paducah, State of Kentucky
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CHAP. 51.— An Act to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Paducah, State of Kentucky.April 14, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public building at Paducah, Ky. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be constructed, a suitable building, of bricks or stone, with fireproof vaults, for the accommodation of post-office, United States district court, and internal-revenue and other government offices, at the city of Paducah, State of Kentucky; and that for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money' in the Treasury notAppropriation, site, plans, and full completion. otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, upon the passage of this act, cause the proper plans and specifications to be made so that no expenditures shall be made or authorized, for the purchase of a site and the full completion of said building, beyond the sum herein appropriated upon plans to be previously approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; only one half of said sum toOne-half available during present fiscal year.*Proviso.*Title of site, qualifications.Jurisdiction o f United States. be expended during present fiscal year: *Provided,* That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be expended until a valid title to the site of said building which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, including streets and alleys shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Kentucky shall duly relinquish and release its jurisdiction over the same, and its right to tax said site and the property thereon belonging to the United States.
Approved, April 14, 1880.