Chapter 197. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a public building in the city of Pensacola, Florida, in place of the one recently destroyed by lire
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CHAP. 197.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a public building in the city of Pensacola, Florida, in place of the one recently destroyed by lire.June 10, 1882. Whereas all the public buildings of the United States at Pensacola,Preamble. Florida, were recently destroyed by fire, and there exists no suitable building in said city in which the business of the Government of the United States can be transacted or its courts held: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Pensacola, Fla.Public building., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase, at private sale or by condemnation, in pursuance of the statute of the State of Florida, all the land that he may deem necessary adjacent to the site latelySite. occupied by the United States custom house, post-office, and United States court rooms in the city of Pensacola, Florida, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable brick or stone building, with a fire-proof vault extending to each story, for the use and accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, customhouse, post office, and other government offices in that city, at a cost not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, including the purchase of land; and the building hereby authorized shall be so erected as to afford an open space of not less than fifty feet between it and any other building; and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in theAppropriated.
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose herein mentioned. Approved, June 10, 1882.