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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · May 9, 1882 · Chapter 129

Chapter 129. for the erection of a public building at Quincy, Illinois

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CHAP. 129.— An Act for the erection of a public building at Quincy, Illinois.May 9, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Quincy, Illinois. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with Public building.Purchase of site.fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the post-office, United States courts, customhouse, bonded warehouse, internal-revenue offices, and other government offices, at the city of Quincy, Illinois.
The plans, specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously Cost.Appropriation, when available.*Proviso,*made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for Title.this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Illinois shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein.
Approved, May 9, 1882.
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