In re Secretary of Treasury of United States

This is a proceeding by the secretary of the treasury to acquire real estate in New York city for the United States for the site of a new custom-house, under the authority conferred on him by the act of congress of September 14, 1888. By section 2 oí that act, the secretary of the treasury is authorized, in his discretion, “in lieu and stead of a purchase of a site for an appraisers’ -warehouse only to purchase or acquire by condemnation a site embracing an area sufficient for the erection of a new custom-house building in addition to said appraisers’ warehouse, or to purchase two sites in…