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imposed under the authority of the State of Maryland; provided, that the
United States of America shall retain such jurisdiction so long as the
said adjoining lands shall be owned by the United States, and no longer;
and provided further, that such jurisdiction is granted upon the express
condition that the State of Maryland shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction
with the United States of America in and over the said lands so far as that
civil processes in all cases not affecting the real or personal property of
the United States of America, and such criminal or other processes as shall
issue under the authority of the State of Maryland, against any person or
persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within or without
the limits of the said lands, may be executed therein, in the same way and
manner as if no jurisdiction had been hereby ceded.

An. Code, sec. 30. 1910, ch. 543 (p. 1076).

30. The cemetery located near Point Lookout, in St. Mary's county,
created and established by the legislature of Maryland by the acts of 1870,
chapter 85, and 1874, chapter 407, for the interment of the Point Lookout
Prison Confederate .prisoners who died while in prison there, be and the
same is hereby authorized to be ceded to the United States government for
the purpose of its perpetual care; and that upon satisfactory assurance
that the properly designated authority of the United States government
is prepared to accept the grant thereof by the State of Maryland for its
perpetual care, the title of said cemetery and its appurtenances shall be
transferred by the present holders of said title to the properly designated
grantee of the United States.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1906, ch. 743, sec. 1.

31. The consent of the State of Maryland is hereby given in accordance
with the seventeenth clause, eighth section of the first article of the consti-
tution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States by
purchase, condemnation or otherwise of any land in this State required
for sites for custom houses, courthouses, postoffices, arsenals or other public
buildings whatever, or for any other purposes of the government.

An. Code, sec. 32. 1906, ch. 743, sec. 2.

32. Exclusive jurisdiction in and over any land so acquired by the
United States shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States
for all purposes except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal
process of the courts of this State, but the jurisdiction so ceded shall
continue no longer than the said United States shall own such lands.

An. Code, sec. 33. 1906, ch. 743, sec. 3.

33. The jurisdiction ceded shall not vest until the United States shall
have acquired the title to said lands by purchase, condemnation or other-
wise ; and so long as the said lands shall remain the property of the United
States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and con-
tinue exempt and exonerated from all State, county and municipal taxation,
assessment, or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the
authority of this State.