Chapter 275. to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Shreveport, State of Louisiana
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CHAP. 275.— An Act to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Shreveport, State of Louisiana.July 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Shreveport, La.Public building.Purchase of site.Appropriation. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected, a suitable building of bricks or stone, with fireproof vaults, for the accommodation of the post-office, United States courts, internal-revenue, Signal Service, customs, and other government officers, at the city of Shreveport, State of Louisiana; and that for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 153 FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS.
SESS. I. CH. 275-277. 1882. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, upon the passage of this act, cause the proper plans and specificationsPlans. to be made, so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the purchase of a site and the full completion of said building beyond the sum herein appropriated upon the plans to be previously approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no part ofProviso.Title. the money herein appropriated shall be expended until a valid title to the site of said building, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from Are in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, including streets and alleys, shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Louisiana shall duly relinquish and release its jurisdiction over the same, and its right to tax said site and the property thereon belonging to the United States.
Approved, July 7, 1882.