Chapter 107. for a public building at Frankfort, Kentucky
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CHAP. 107.— An Act for a public building at Frankfort, Kentucky.Apr. 26, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Frankfort, Ky.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise procure a site, which shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Frankfort, in the State of Kentucky, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use of the Federal courts, the post-office, and internal-revenue and other government offices located there; the plans and estimates for said building havingPlans, estimates. first been prepared, examined, and approved as required by section thirty-seven hundred and thirty four of the Revised Statutes of the[R.
S. 3734, 737](/us/rs/t/s3734/737). United States; said plans to be based upon calculations and specifications that will insure the purchase of a site and the completion of the building at a cost not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars,Cost.Appropriation. which said sum is hereby appropriated for the purposes herein named out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be*Proviso*. 50 Title.used until a valid title to the site selected shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Kentucky 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 to enforce the criminal laws of the State and for the service of civil process therein.
Approved, April 26, 1882.