Chapter 126. for the erection of a public building at Charleston, South Carolina
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CHAP. 126.— An Act for the erection of a public building at Charleston, South Carolina.Feb. 9, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Charleston, S. C.Public building.Site. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a site and cause to be erected thereon a substantial and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office and the circuit and district courts of 394 the United States, and for other Government uses, at the city of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina.
The site of the said buildingCost.Plans. shall not exceed in cost the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and the building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed in cost the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; 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 sums of one hundred thousand dollars for the site and two hundred thousand dollars for Open space.*Proviso*.Title.the building; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of South 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.
Sec. 2. That-as soon as the said building shall have been erected andPost-office property to be sold. occupied for the uses of the Government the Secretary of the Treasury shall advertise for sale, and shall sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the site and building now used and occupied as a post-office in the city of Charleston, and damaged by the recent earthquake shock in that city;, and the proceeds of such sale shall be covered into the Treasury. Sec. 3.
That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so muchAppropriation. thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 9, 1887.