Chapter 103. to provide for the erection of a public building at Wilmington, North Carolina
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CHAP. 103.— An Act to provide for the erection of a public building at Wilmington, North Carolina.Feb. 4, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wilmington, N. C.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with a fireproof vault extending to each story, for the accommodation of the post-office, customhouse, United States court rooms, and other Government offices, at the city of Wilmington, in the State of North Carolina.
The site,and building 379 thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previouslyPlans. made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which shall furnishEstimates. sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for*Provisos*.Title. this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of North Carolina 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 civil process therein: *Provided*, That the site on which the said building shall be erected shall beOpen space. so selected as to leave an open space around the same of not less than forty feet in width, including streets and alleys.
Approved, February 4, 1887.