Public Law 46–102

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and ca use to be erected, a suitable building, with proper fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, post-office, land-office, internal-revenue offices, and other government offices at the city of Montgomery, Alabama. The site and buildings thereon when completed, upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the

Proviso.

Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Alabama 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, for all

Proviso.

purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein: And provided further, That the lot of land so purchased for a site shall be such as to afford an open space between the building hereby authorized, and any other building, of not less than forty feet.

Sec. 2.

That the sum of forty thousand dollars be, and the same is

Appropriation.

hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in the purchase of said site and towards the construction, of said building.