Chapter 127. for the erection of a public building at Denver, Colorado
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CHAP. 127.— An Act for the erection of a public building at Denver, Colorado.May 8, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Denver, Colo.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a proper site and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, with fireproof vaults, in the city of Denver, Colorado, for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post office, land-office, and other government offices in said city, at a cost not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars,Cost. including cost of site, which site shall be such as will afford an open space between the building hereby authorized and any other building of not less than forty feet; and the sum of one hundred thousand dollarsAppropriation. is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose herein mentioned: *Provided*, That no money*Proviso*.Title. shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to the laud for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States; and no expenditure of money shall be made on the building proposed to be erected ou said site until the State of Colorado shall duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site or the property of the United States that may be thereon, and shall cede jurisdiction over the same during the time that the United States shall remain the owner thereof.
Approved, May 8, 1882.