Chapter 130. to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Peoria, in the State of Illinois
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CHAP. 130.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Peoria, in the State of Illinois.May 9, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Peoria, Illinois. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a site for Public building.Purchase of site.and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, with commodious fireproof vaults, for the accommodation of the post-office, the United States courts, customhouse, bonded warehouse, internal revenue offices, and other government offices at the city of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from Hie in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, including street s and alleys.
The site and the building thereon, when completed upon Cost.plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred and *Proviso*.Appropriation, when available.Title.twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of Illinois shall have ceded her jurisdiction over the same.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended for the purpose provided in this act. Approved, May 9, 1882.