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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 offices 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 accommoda- 

 tions aforesaid, and shall prepare the same for the said courts and offices, 

 on 'or before the tenth day of March, 1 848. 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 occupa- 

 tion of the lot or square on which the same now stands. 



Sec. 2. And he it further enacted^ That so soon as the said bond and 

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

 thereof 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 ground in the city ot Washington, including the 

 Market Space, lying between Seventh and Ninth streets west, and bound- 

 ed 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 treas- 

 ury not otherwise appropriated ; and the said sum of thirty-five thousand 

 dollars is hereby declared to be in full of the apartments and accommo- 

 dations specified in the first section of this act; and the said apartments 

 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 

 said corporation, of the bond and release aforesaid, the regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution be, and they are hereby authorized, by resolution of 

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

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

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

 ganizing 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 retroces- 

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

 the Smithsonian Institution, by metes and bounds, so much of that pub- 

 lic 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 Insti- 

 tution. 



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 accommo4ations, the sum of one thou- 



