Chapter 19. to provide for the erection of a public building for the use of the United States courts, post-office, and other Government offices in the city of Carson City, in the State of Nevada
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CHAP. 19.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building for the use of the United States courts, post-office, and other Government offices in the city of Carson City, in the State of Nevada.Jan. 13, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Carson City, Nev.Public building. Purchase of site for. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Carson City, in the State of Nevada, a suitable building, with a fireproof vault, for the accommodation of the United States courts, the post-office, and other Government offices in said city, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least 282 FORTY EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 19, 20, 22. 1885. fifty feet, including streets and alleys; the site, and building thereon, Plan.Cost.*Proviso*.Title.when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the cost of one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for said building shall be available until a valid title to the site selected is vested in the United States, nor until the State of Nevada shall cede 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. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is herebyAppropriation. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned. Approved, January 13th, 1885.