Chapter 800. To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the erection of a public building at Anniston, Alabama.” June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act for the erection Anniston, Ala
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CHAP. 800.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the erection of a public building at Anniston, Alabama.” June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act for the erection Anniston, Ala.Public building.Vol. 30, pp. 1003, 1076.of a public building at Anniston, Alabama, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be amended by adding thereto the following: “ *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and *Proviso.*Cession of jurisdiction of site.he is hereby, authorized to proceed with the erection of the building at Anniston, Alabama, in accordance with said Act. upon cession of jurisdiction to the United States of the site of the proposed building in compliance with section six hundred and twenty-eight, chapter fifteen, volume one, of the civil code of Alabama of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, which reads as follows: ‘The governor, upon application made to him in writing on behalf of the United States for that purpose, accompanied by the proper evidence of the purchase, describing the lands sought to be ceded, is authorized on the part of the State to cede to the United States jurisdiction over such lands, to hold, to use, and occupy the same for the purpose of the cession, and none other.
The jurisdiction thus ceded does not prevent the execution on such lands of any process, civil or criminal, under the authority of this State, nor prevent the laws of this State from operating over such lands; saving to the United States security to their property within the limits of the jurisdiction ceded, and exemption of the same and of such lands from taxation under the authority of this State during the jurisdiction ceded.’ ” Approved, June 6, 1900.