Chapter 372. Providing for the purchase of additional property for the use of the post-office and other Government offices in the city of Brooklyn, State of New York
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CHAP. 372.— An Act Providing for the purchase of additional property for the use of the post-office and other Government offices in the city of Brooklyn, State of New York. March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theBrooklyn, N. Y.Purchase of additional property for public building at, authorized. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the property known as lot thirty-six, block twenty, Ward Four, lying on the east side of Washington street, one hundred and seventy-five feet north of Johnson street and one hundred and twenty-two feet ten inches south of Tillary street, in the city of Brooklyn and State of New York, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices in said city of Brooklyn: *Provided,* That the purchase price shall not*Proviso.*Limit of cost. exceed twenty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That no money shall be used for the purpose mentioned untilTitle, etc. a valid title to the site for the said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of New York shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof. Approved, March 2, 1899.