UNITED STATES 3551

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 23. 1910, ch. 252 (p. 324).

23. Jurisdiction is ceded to the United States over all such lands as
may be obtained by it for the aforesaid purpose; provided, however, that
concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over all lands obtained
under the provisions of the preceding section is hereby retained by the State
of Maryland so far as to crimes or misdemeanors committed thereon, and
that all process, both civil and criminal, of the State of Maryland, or any
municipal corporation thereof, may be executed upon the lands so obtained
or in the building thereon.

Public Buildings and Land.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 22. 1900, ch. 593, sec. 1.

24. 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 Laurel, Prince
George's County, for the purpose of erecting a public building thereon.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 25. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, 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