Chapter 317. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange property purchased at Abingdon, Virginia, as a site for a public building, for more suitable property, and for other purposesMarch 2, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asse
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CHAP. 317.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange property purchased at Abingdon, Virginia, as a site for a public building, for more suitable property, and for other purposesMarch 2, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Abingdon, Va.Public building.Site may be exchanged.Vol. 22, p. 153.*Provisos*. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to exchange the property purchased as a site for the public building authorized to be erected at Abingdon, Virginia, by the act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for other property more suitable for the purpose: *Provided*, That such other suitable property can be obtained without any additional cost to the United States: *Provided further*, That such other or new site so secured shall not be located east of the site now owned by the United States and herein authorized to be exchanged but nothing in this act shall be construed to require an exchange, of site.
Sec. 2. That the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, andAppropriation. the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the construction of such building at Abingdon, Virginia, as will furnish such accommodations for the United States courts and the post-office there as the business of each now require. Approved, March 2, 1887.