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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 357.

AN ACT to cede the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland,

of the United States of America, over so much land as has

been or may be hereafter required for public purposes of the

United States.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Jurisdiction of

land, That the jurisdiction of the State of Maryland is hereby

State land

ceded to the United States of America over so much land as

ceded for
public pur-

has been or may be hereafter acquired for public purposes of

poses of the
United

the United States; provided, that the jurisdiction hereby ceded

States.

shall not vest until the United States of America shall have

acquired the title to the lands, by grant or deed, from the

owner or owners thereof, and evidences thereof shall have

been recorded in the office where, by law, the title to said

land is required to be recorded ; and the United States of

America are to retain such jurisdiction so long as such lands

shall be for the purposes in this section mentioned, and no

longer; and such jurisdiction is granted upon the express

condition that the. State of Maryland shall retain a concur-

rent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said

Civil and
criminal

real or personal property of the United States, and such crimi-

process.

nal or other process as shall issue under the authority of the

State of Maryland against any person or persons charged

with crimes or misdemeanors committed within or without

the limits of said lands, may be executed therein, in the

same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had been hereby

ceded.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all lands and tenements

which may be granted as aforesaid to the United States

Exonerated

shall be and continue so long as the same shall be used for

from taxa-

the purposes in the last section mentioned, exonerated and

tion.

discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges

which may be imposed under the authority of the State of

Maryland ; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall

apply to Charles County.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.