3022 ARTICLE 96.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, 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 purposes, as
soon as the same shall be condemned, under the sanction of the general
assembly of this State hereinbefore given to said condemnation; provided,
always, that this State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United .
State 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 exe-
cuted 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.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1888, 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 there-
on, 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 con-
tinue to be owned by the United States and used for any of the purposes
specified in this article, and no longer.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1900, ch. 67, sec. 19.

19. The consent of the State is given to the purchase by the government
of the United States, or under the authority of the same, from any indi-
vidual 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 forti-
fications of the United States, or for the purpose of erecting thereon bar-
racks, 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 of the first article of the constitution of the United
States and with the acts of congress in such cases made and provided.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20. 1900, ch. 67, sec. 20.

20. Whenever the United States are unable to agree with the owners
of the land described in section 19 of this article as to the purposes and for
the purchase thereof, or if the owners for any cause are incapable of making
a perfect title to the said land, the United States may institute proceedings
for the condemnation of the said land for the use and benefit of the United
States in the circuit court of the State for the county where the land lies,
or in the superior court of Baltimore city if the land lies in said city, and