3024 ARTICLE 96.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, 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 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
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.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, 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 jurisdiction with the United States in and over
the said lands and ceded territory 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 lands 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 and territories shall remain the prop-
erty of the United States and be used for the purposes aforesaid.

An. Code, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 25. 1898, ch. 33, secs. 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 Cumberland,
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