There was compensation paid in that case:
Posted on: January 10, 2019 at 10:18:32 CT
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And in the subsequent Appropriation Act of March 3, 1873, 17 Stat. 523, a further provision was inserted as follows:
"For purchase of site for the building for custom house and post office at Cincinnati, Ohio, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars."
Do you have any actual examples? Possibly ones more recent than 1875?