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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · May 9, 1888 · Chapter 233

Chapter 233. for the erection of a public building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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CHAP. 233.— An Act for the erection of a public building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.May 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lancaster, Pa.Public building. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, or otherwise provide a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania, a suitable and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, internal-revenue office, Site, plans, etc.pension office, and for other Government uses.
The site, and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish 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 Estimates.been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least forty feet, including streets and alleys; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Appropriation.Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in *Proviso*.Title.the United States, and the State of Pennsylvania 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 any civil process therein.
Approved, May 9, 1888.
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