3550 ARTICLE 96

An. Code, 1924, sec. 19. 1912, 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.
Cited in construing art. 56, secs. 240, et seq. U. S. v. Gordy, 58 Fed. (2nd), 1015.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 20. 1912, 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
have the land condemned for the use and benefit of the United States, such
condemnation proceedings to be instituted and conducted in accordance
with sections 5, 6, Y, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of this article;
provided, however, that the quantity of land condemned under the pro-
visions of this section shall not be subject to the limitation prescribed in
section 16 of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 21. 1912, sec. 21. 1904, sec. 21. 1900, ch. 67, sec. 21.

21. The provisions of sections 17 and 18 of this article shall apply to
all property or lands purchased or acquired by the United States under
the provisions of sections 19 and 20 of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 22. 1912, sec. 22. 1910, ch. 252 (p. 324).

22. The consent of the State of Maryland is hereby given the acquisi-
tion by the government of the United States of such land or right of way in
this State as may be required by it in the construction of a highway from
the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to Gettysburg, State of
Pennsylvania, as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, and all deeds, convey-
ances or papers for such land shall be recorded as in other cases, among
the lands records of the county where it lies, and if such land can not be
acquired by purchase or gift, or for any other reason perfect title thereto
can not be had, it may be condemned in the manner as is in other cases
provided for, by article 96 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws
of this State, the proceedings to be in the name of the United States, being
in conformity with the procedure in said article set forth.¹

¹ The act of 1912, ch. 640, authorized Governor to cede to United States government
certain highways and any state road or highway in any county and to grant right of
condemnation as to highways and rights of way where no satisfactory road exists or an
existing road is desired to be widened or straightened and to condemn property, neces-
sary for purposes of a memorial highway to Abraham Lincoln, in any county of state.