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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23, 26, 27. 1879. for the manufacmre of vinegar by the use of alcoholic vapor within such distance less than six hundred feet of any distillery or rectifying-house under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, June 14, 1879. CHAP. 26.-An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate for the June 18, 1879. purchase at private sale, or, if necessary, procure by condemnation, a site for a post- ti office in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oonyress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Post-cmec sitcin ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to negotiate and con- B=¤1ii¤¤<>¤>, Mdtract for the conditional purchase, at private sale, or, if necessary, procure by condemnation, in pursuance of the statutes of the State of Mary- land now in force, or any statute of said State which may hereafter be passed by its legislature for that purpose, a suitable piece of ground or site in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland for the erection of a building to be used for a post-office, court-house, and other public oitlices, the cost of the same not to exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars; and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appro- A1>DFoDfiMi0¤- priated, or so much as may be necessary therefor, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the costs and expenses of condemnation of said ground or site, if proceedings of condemnation are, in thejudgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, required to procure the same: Provided, That no money except the sum hereinbefore 1’r<wiS<». appropriated for expenses of condemnation be expended for purchase of said site until the purchase and contract for the same shall have been approved by Congress nor until a valid title to such ground or site is vested in the United States, and the State of Maryland shall have released and relinquished jurisdiction over the same, and exempted from taxation such site and such buildings as may hereafter be erected thereon, so long as the same are the property of the United States. Approved, June 18, 1879. CHAP. 27.-An act supplemental to "An act to establish post-routes. June 18, ]379_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following post-routes Pcsmoutes. be, and the same are hereby established. ALABAMA. Alabama. From Clinton to Ozark. From Clinton to Newton. _ ____ From Moscow, Alabama, to Caledoma, Mississippi. ARKANSAS. Arkansas. From El Dorado to Calhoun. GEORGIA. Georgia. From Clarksville, via Soquec, Batesville, and Burton’s to Hiassee. From Watkinsville to Liberty. _ From Clarksville, via Wilbanlds store to Kmg’s store. From Hahira, via Well’s Mills to Ava. IDAHO [claim From Oneida to Oxford. _ From Swan Lake Station to Oxford.