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dious building, in ■which there shall be included such apartments as may be 

 necessary for the accommodation of the circuit court of the United States 

 for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, for the use of 

 the grand and petit jurors of the said county, for the ofBces of the clerk of 

 the said court and the marshal of said District, and for the preservation and 

 security of the books, papers, and records of the said court; and that they 

 will complete the said building, or so much of the same as may contain the 

 apartments and accommodations aforesaid, and shall prepare the same for 

 the said courts and offices, on or before the tenth day of March, 1848. And 

 upon such purchase being completed, the said corporation shall release and 

 forever quit claim unto the said Smithsonian Institution all the right and 

 title of the said corporation unto the said City Hall, and unto the possession 

 and occupation of the lot or square on which the same now stands. 



Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the said bond and re- 

 lease shall be executed by the said corporation, and sufficient evidence 

 tlioreof be laid before the President of the United States, the President be, 

 and he is hereby, authorized to grant unto the said corporation the right to 

 occupy and improve, for public purposes, all or any portion of that lot or 

 square of groimd in the city of Washington, including the Market Space, 

 lying between Seventh and Ninth streets west, and bounded on the north 

 by the south line of Pennsylvania avenue, and on the south by the north 

 line of B street north. And then, and in that case, there shall also be paid 

 to the corporation, towards the erection of the building, as provided in the 

 first section of this act, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, which sum 

 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- 

 propriated ; and the said sum of- thirty-five thousand dollars is hereby de- 

 clared to be in full of the apartments and accommodations specified in the 

 first section of this act; and the said apartaients and accommodations shall 

 forever remain subject to the occupation of the courts and their offices 

 aforesaid. 



Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That in case of the execution, by the 

 eaid corporation, of the bond and release aforesaid, the Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution be, and they are hereby authorized, by resolution 

 of the Board of Regents, to retrocede to the United States that certain 

 building site in the city of Washington, and in the public reservation com- 

 monly called the Mall, which, according to the provisions of the act organ- 

 izing said Institution, approved August 10, 1846, has become the property 

 of the said Institution; and, upon proper evidence being adduced, to the 

 satisfaction of the President of the United States, of said retrocession, the 

 President shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, by metes and bounds, so much of that public reservation 

 in the city of Washington, commonly called the Judiciary Square, as lies 

 south of the extension of the south line of E street north, being the same 

 lot or square on which the City Hall now stands; and the said conveyance 

 by the President shall be received in evidence in all courts of the extent 

 and boundaries of the lot or square of land which, by virtue of this act, 

 may become the property of the said Smithsonian Institution. 



Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of Public 

 Buildings in the city of Washington be, and he is hereby, authorized and 

 required to provide temporary accommodations in some suitable building 

 for the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, 

 and for its offices and records, until the tenth day of March, 1848. And 

 for the purpose of procuring said accommodations, the sum of one thousand 

 dollars, or so much of the same as may be required for that object, be, and 

 the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated. 



Senate, February 22, 1847. 

 On motion by Mr. Breese, the Vice-President was au- 



