Public Law 46–237

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, at private sale or by condemnation in pursuance of the statute of Ohio, a suitable lot of ground contiguous to the land now owned and occupied as a post-office site by the United States in the city of Toledo, State of Ohio, and to cause to be erected on the grounds, as enlarged by the purchase aforesaid, a building suitable for the accommodation of the courts of the United States, and of the Customhouse, bonded warehouse, and other government offices in that city; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of seventy-live thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under

Cost limited.

the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The lot of land to be purchased, and the building hereby authorized to be constructed, when completed, upon plans to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no money

Proviso.

to be appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Ohio shall cede its jurisdiction over the same and relinquish the right to tax or assess the same while the United States shall be owners thereof. And the site shall be of sufficient extent to leave an open space upon the east side of the building to be erected intituling the alley of at least twenty-five feet and upon the other sides, including streets and alleys of at least fifty feet.