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and territories shall remain the property of the United States and be
used' for the purposes aforesaid.

1904, art. 96, sec. 25. 1898, ch. 33, sees. 1, 2.

27. 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 Cumber-
land, Allegany county, Maryland, for the purpose of erecting a public
building thereon. 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 com-
mitted without said lot or lots of ground 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 jurisdiction is granted by
this section, together with all buildings and personal property which
is or may be hereafter, with 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 pur-
pose aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1902, ch. 263, sees. 1, 2. 1904, ch. 357 secs. 1 2
1908, ch. 194.

28. The jurisdiction of the State of Maryland is hereby ceded to
the United States of America over so much land as has been or may
be hereafter acquired for public purposes of the United States; pro-
vided, that the jurisdiction hereby ceded 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 concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over
the said real or personal property of the United States, and such
criminal or other process as shall issue uuder 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 juris-
diction had been hereby ceded. All lands and tenements which may
be granted as aforesaid to the United States shall be and continue so
long as the same shall be used for the purposes in this section men-
tioned, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessment and other
charges which may be imposed under the authority of the State of
Maryland; provided, however, that the rights of citizenship and other