Chapter 187. to provide for the erection of a public building at Detroit, Michigan
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CHAP. 187.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building at Detroit, Michigan.May 25, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Detroit, Mich.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a suitable lot of land in the city of Detroit, and cause to be erected on the ground so purchased a building suitable for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, of the customhouse, *Provisos*.post-office, pension office and other Government offices in that city: *Provided*, That if the said Secretary shall deem it advisable and economical to do so, he may, instead of purchasing an entire lot, buy sufficient land adjoining the ground on which the United States government building now stands, and erect the building herein provided for on said land, using such portion of the said building, or material thereof, as may be profitably done: *Provided, further*, That no money appropriated for this purpose Title.shall be available until a valid title shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Michigan shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the land so purchased, during the time the 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; and the site shall be of sufficient extent to leave an open space on all sides of the building to be erected, including streets and alleys, of at least forty feet Sec.
Two.— That the Secretary of the Treasury, in case he shall selectConditional sale of United States property. and purchase a lot of ground of sufficient extent, irrespective of and not including the site now occupied by the United States as a post-office site, shall be authorized and directed to sell, at public sale, for cash, after thirty days’ advertisement of the time, place, and terms of sale, and after the erection of the building provided for in the preceding section, the property in the city of Detroit now owned by the United States and occupied by the United States courts, the customhouse, the post-office, and other offices of the United States; and the money received from such sale shall be covered into the Treasury of *Proviso*.the United States: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in any and every case of an attempted sale, shall be authorized and empowered to reject any bid which in his opinion shall be less than the value of said premises, and re-offer them for sale in the manner above provided for until the said premises shall bring a fair price.
Sec. Three.— That the cost of the lot of ground, in case an entire newCost of site and building limited. lot shall be purchased, and the building to be erected thereon as herein provided, shall not exceed the sum of six hundred thousand dollars; and in case the Secretary of the Treasury shall purchase adjoining 97 ground to that on which the government building now stands, the cost of such additional ground and building to be erected thereon shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, May 25, 1882.