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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · March 3, 1885 · Chapter 327

Chapter 327. to provide for the construction of a courthouse and post-office at Clarksburg, West Virginia

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CHAP. 327.— An Act to provide for the construction of a courthouse and post-office at Clarksburg, West Virginia.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Clarksburg, W. Va.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at Clarksburg, in the State of West Virginia, a substantial and commodious public building, with fire proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the United States courts and post-office and for other Government uses.
The site, and the building Plans, cost, etc.thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of fifty thousand dollars: and for the purposes herein Appropriation.mentioned the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be *Proviso*.Title.expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said 347 site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of West Virginia shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States-shall be the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein: *Provided*, That it shall be the duty of *Proviso*.the Secretary of the Treasury after the site for said building shall have been purchased to cause a plan and specifications of said building to be prepared which said plan and specifications shall not involve an expenditure in the erection and completion of said building and the approaches thereto exceeding the portion of said fifty 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.
Approved, March 3, 1885.
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