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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · May 17, 1886 · Chapter 349

Chapter 349.

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CHAP. 349.— An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase an additional strip of ground on the east side of the United States court-house and post-office building at Fort Wayne, Indiana, to be paid for out of the appropriation already made.May 17, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Wayne, Ind. Purchase of land adjacent to public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, out of moneys already appropriated for the construction of the United States courthouse, post-office, and so forth, building at Fort Wayne, Indiana, a strip of land adjacent to the present site of the said building and on the east thereof, having a frontage of sixty feet on Berry street and running back with same width to an alley: *Provided*, That in no event*Provisos*.
Limit of cost. shall the cost of said additional land exceed the sum of nine thouand dollars: *Provided further*, That no money shall be paid from the TreasuryTitle. on account of said purchase until the Attorney-General of the United States shall certify that the title to said land is complete in the United States. Approved, May 17, 1886.
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