Chapter 75. appropriating money for the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building for a post-office and other government offices in the city of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota
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CHAP. 75.— An Act appropriating money for the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building for a post-office and other government offices in the city of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota.Apr. 11, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Site and building for post-office, etc., at Minneapolis, Minn. 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 post-office and internal-revenue and other government offices, at the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota; the site and buildings thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shallCost. not exceed the cost of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed*Proviso*. to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys; and that no money appropriated 44 Title.for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Minnesota shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. That the sum of sixty thousand dollars be, and the 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, April 11, 1882.