Chapter 23. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell and convey the United States enstouihouse and post-office property at Eastport, in the State of Maine, lately destroyed by tire, the proceeds thereof to be invested in the purchase of a new site for and to provide for the erection of a new public bu
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CHAP. 23.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell and convey the United States enstouihouse and post-office property at Eastport, in the State of Maine, lately destroyed by tire, the proceeds thereof to be invested in the purchase of a new site for and to provide for the erection of a new public building at that place.Jan. 17, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Eastport, Me.customhouse and post-office property to be sold.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to sell at public auction, in the town of Eastport, Maine, to the highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in all of the newspapers published in the town of Eastport, the land and premises known as the United States customhouse and post-office, on Washington and Water streets in said town of Eastport, Maine, the time and place of said sale in said town to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at a date not later than sixty days after the passage of this act, with power to reject any or all bids, and to readvertise the said property in like manner as often as may be necessary to secure the vaine thereof, and the cost to be paid from the proceeds of sale of said property.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall invest the purchase-moneyProceeds to be used for purchase of new site and erection of building. of the said property received by him, so far as the same may go, in the purchase or acquisition by condemnation of a site, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable and commodious fireproof building, with tire-proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, custom house, and other Government offices, at the town of Eastport, Cost, etc.in the State of Maine.
The cost of said building, including site, approaches and heating apparatus, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from lire by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and *Proviso*.Title.alleys: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until the valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Maine shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein.
Sec. 3. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and theAppropriation. same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended for the purposes provided in this act. Approved, January 17, 1887.