Chapter 261.
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CHAP. 261.— AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a public building in the city of Key West, Florida.February 28, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Key West, Fla.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to select, of the lands owned by the United States in the city of Key West, Florida, a suitable building site, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable brick or stone building for the use and accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, custom house, post-office, and other Government Cost.offices in that city, at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and the building hereby authorized shall be so erected as to afford an open space of not less than forty feet between it and any other building; and the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Appropriation.*Proviso*.Title.appropriated, for the purpose herein mentioned: *Provided*, That no money appropriated for said building and land shall be available until a valid title to the site selected is vested in the United States, nor until the State of Florida 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.
Approved, February 28, 1885.