United States v. Reed

This proceeding was commenced in the St. Louis Circuit Court in pursuance of an act passed by the Congress of the United States, entitled “An Act appropriating money for the purchase of a suitable site and erecting a building thereon in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, to be used for the purpose of a Custom House, Post Office and other Federal Offices.” Approved March 27th, 1872; and also, in pursuance of an act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, entitled, “An act giving the consent of the State of Missouri to the acquisition by the United States of so much land in the…