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clerk, require said clerk to enter into an additional bond to the State.
with security to be approved by said court, in such penal sum as said
court may direct, not exceeding double the amount of such valuation.
conditioned that the said clerk will well and faithfully keep all moneys
paid over to him as such valuation, and will well and faithfully comply
with all the orders of said court in reference thereto; but nothing in
this article contained shall authorize the condemnation of more than
ten acres of land in any one tract for the use of the United States.

1904, art. 96, sec. 17. 1888, art. 96, sec. 17. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 13.

17. Jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over such
lands as shall be condemned as aforesaid for their use for public pur-
poses, as soon as the same shall be condemned, under the sanction of
the general assembly of this State hereinbefore given to said condemna-
tion; provided, always, that this State shall retain concurrent juris-
diction with the United States in and over all lands condemned under
the provisions of this article, so far as that all processes, civil and
criminal, issuing under the authority of this State, or any of the
courts or judicial officers thereof, may be executed on the premises so
condemned, and in any building erected or to be erected thereon, in
the same way and manner as if this article had not been passed; and
exclusive jurisdiction shall revert to and revest in the State whenever
the said premises shall cease to be owned by the United States and
used for some of the purposes mentioned in this article.

Ibid. sec. 18. 1888, art. 96, sec. 18. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 14.

18. All the lands that may be condemned under the provisions of
this article, and the buildings and improvements erected or to be
erected thereon, and the personal property of the United States, and
of the officers thereof, when upon said land, shall be exonerated and
exempted from taxation for state and county purposes, so long as the
said land shall continue to be owned by the United States and used for
any of the purposes specified in this article, and no longer.
As to exemptions from taxation, see art. 81, sec. 4.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1900, ch. 67, sec. 19.

19. The consent of the State is given to the purchase by the govern-
ment of the United States, or under the authority of the same, from
any individual or individuals, bodies politic or corporate, of any tract,
piece or parcel of land within the boundaries or limits of the State for
the purpose of erecting thereon forts, magazines, arsenals, coast
defences or other fortifications of the United States, or for the purpose
of erecting thereon barracks, quarters and other needful buildings for
the use of garrisons required to man such forts, magazines, arsenals,
coast defences or fortifications; and all deeds and title papers for the
same shall be recorded as in other cases upon the land records of the
county in which the land so conveyed may be; the consent herein given
being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth section