Chapter 239. to provide a building for the use of the United States circuit and district courts and post-office at Erie Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 239.— An Act to provide a building for the use of the United States circuit and district courts and post-office at Erie Pennsylvania.June 27, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Erie, Pa.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for and cause to be erected a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the circuit and district courts of the United 109 States, the post-office, internal-revenue offices, and other government offices, at the city of Erie, Pennsylvania.
The site, and buildings thereon,Site.Plans.Cost.*Proviso*. when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys; and that no money appropriated for 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 Pennsylvania shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, 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 any civil process therein.
Sec. 2. That tho sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and theAppropriation. same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in the purchase of said site and towards the construction of said building. Approved, June 27, 1882.