Chapter 381. to authorize the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building for the United States district court, post-office, and other government offices at the city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 381.— An Act to authorize the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building for the United States district court, post-office, and other government offices at the city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.August 3, 1882.Williamsport, Pa.Public building. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*,Purchase of site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post office, and other government offices, at the city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The plans, specifications, and fullPlans, cost. estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed for the site and building complete the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the site shall*Proviso.* leave Ilie building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings, by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the UnitedTitle.
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 civil process therein. Approved, August 3, 1882.