Chapter 325. to provide for the erection of a public building at Aberdeen, Mississippi, for use as a post-office, United States court, and for United States internal-revenue officials, and for other Government purposes,March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
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CHAP. 325.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building at Aberdeen, Mississippi, for use as a post-office, United States court, and for United States internal-revenue officials, and for other Government purposes,March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Aberdeen, Miss.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected a suitable fire proof building at Aberdeen, in the State of Mississippi, for the accommodation of the United States district court, post office, internal-revenue officials, and for other Government purposes; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in theAppropriation.
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars; but it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, after the site for said building shall have been purchased, to cause a planSite.Plans, cost, etc. and specifications to be prepared, which said plan and specifications 346 shall not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto exceeding the portion of said seventy five thousand dollars remaining after the site of said building shall have been paid for; and no plan shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum so remaining after paying for the. site of said building, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in the purchase of a site and the erection of a suitable building, for which he shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the purchase of said site and the completion of said building exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That no part of the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be used until the State of Mississippi shall release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, and the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be the owner thereof, Approved, March 3, 1885.