Public Law 46–50

That the Secretary of t he Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to procure a proper site for and cause to be constructed a suitable building, with a fire proof brick vault extending to each story, in the city of Charleston, West Virginia, for a post-office, and for the accommodation of United States revenue officers, and the United States courts and their officers; and the

Appropriation, site, plans, and completion.

sum of seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditures shall be made or authorized, for the purchase of a site and the full completion of said building, beyond the sum herein appropriated, upon plans to be previously- approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no money

Proviso.

Qualifications of site, title.

hereby appropriated shall be used or expended until the valid title to the laud for a site, which site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by au open space of at least fifty feet, including streets and alleys, shall be vested in the United States, nor

Jurisdiction of United States.

until the State of West Virginia shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that - may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.