216 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 140. AN ACT giving the assent of the State of Mary- land to the purchase of a parcel of land -by the United States Government from William H. Dorsey and others, and ceding to the United States of America the jurisdiction over the site of the Northwest Beacon building or light house, and the parcel of land thereto appurten- ant, in a line with the Brewerton Channel, in the Patapsco River, in this State.
Purchase site for light house.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the consent of the State of Maryland is hereby given to the purchase by the Government of the United States from William H. Dorsey and others, of a lot or parcel of ground lying on Leading Point, in Anne Arundel County, for the purpose of erecting thereon a light house, being the Northwest Beacon Building, in a line with Brewerton Channel, in the Patapsco River, in this State, the metes and bounds of which are as follows : Beginning at a point on a line in range with the Brewerton Channel, in the Patapsco
Boundary.	River, and running west twenty-two degrees north from a stone planted on the western shore of Thomas' Cove, which place of beginning is distant one hundred and eighty yards from said stone so planted ; thence north, twenty-two degrees east, two hundred feet ; thence west, twenty-two de- grees north, one hundred feet ; thence south, twenty-two degrees west, four hundred feet ; thence east, twenty-two degrees south, one hun- dred feet ; thence north, twenty-two degrees east, two hundred feet, to the place of beginning.
Jurisdiction.	Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the jurisdiction and control over the said parcel of land is hereby ceded to the United States, reserving, nevertheless, to the State of Maryland, concurrent jurisdiction over the said lot or parcel of ground, so far as may be necessary to authorize the service thereon of process issued by any court or officer of this State.