ART. 96] PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND LAND. 2179

Public Buildings and Land.

1904, art. 96, sec. 22. 1900, ch. 593, sec. 1.

24. The consent of the State of Maryland is given to the purchase
by the United States of America of a lot or lots of ground in Laurel,
Prince George's county, for the purpose of erecting a public building
thereon.

Ibid. sec. 23. 1900, ch. 593, sec. 2.

25. Jurisdiction over said lot or lots of ground after the same shall
have been conveyed to the United States of America is ceded, released
and relinquished to the United States of America over the said lot or
lots of ground; provided, however, that all civil and such criminal
process as may issue under the authority of this State against any
person or persons charged with crimes and misdemeanors committed
without said lot or lots of grounds may be executed thereon in the
same way and manner as though this cession had never been made or
granted, and that the land over which such jurisdiction is granted,
together with all buildings and' personal property, which is or may be
hereafter within the bounds thereof belonging to the United States,
shall be exempted, exonerated and discharged from all state, county
and municipal taxes so long as the said lot or lots of ground shall
remain the property of the United States of America for the purpose
aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 24. 1892, ch. 568, secs. 1, 2.

26. The jurisdiction and control over the lands owned by the
United States located in Prince George's county, Maryland, and acquired
as above for the government hospital for the insane are vested in the
United States of America for its purposes; the metes and bounds,
courses and distances of which are particularly described in the deeds
and which are duly of record in the clerk's office of Prince George's
county, Maryland, to which reference is prayed; provided always, that
the cession and jurisdiction aforesaid are granted upon the express
condition that this commonwealth shall retain a concurrent jurisdic-
tion with the United States in and over the said lands and ceded ter-
ritory so far as that all civil and such criminal process as may issue
under the authority of the State against any person or persons charged
with crimes committed without said lands and ceded territory may be
executed therein in the same way and manner as though this cession
and consent had never been made and granted, except so far as such
process may affect the real and personal property of the United States
within the said ceded territory. The land's over which the jurisdiction
is granted by this section, together with all the personal property which
is or may be hereafter within the bounds thereof, belonging to the
United States or to any of its officers or agents, shall be exonerated
and discharged from all taxes and assessments which may be at any
time imposed by the authority of this State so long as the said lands