ART. 3. ] JURISDICTION OP THE UNITED STATES.

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11. If the said inquisition be set aside, the said court may direct

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another inquisition in the manner hereinbefore prescribed.

Proceedings, if
set aside

12, Every such inquisition shall describe the property taken,

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and the bounds and quantity of the land condemned, and shall state

Inquisition to
describe proper-

the valuation thereof; such valuation, when paid or tendered to the

ty condemned,
and state valua-

owner of said property, shall entitle the United States to the land

tion.

so valued and condemned, for the use and purposes set forth in said

Effect of pay-
ment, or tender

petition, as fully as if the same had been conveyed by the owner

of valuation

thereof to the United States for said use and purposes, with the

sanction of the General Assembly of this State; provided, always,

that if said valuation be tendered to the party entitled and refused,

the United States shall obtain no title to said land until they shall

have, by their said agent, or otherwise, brought said tender and

Proceedings of

refusal to the knowledge of said court; and said court shall pass

court on refusal
of tender.

an order directing that said valuation, tendered and refused as afore-

said, be paid over to the clerk of said court, to be retained by him,

or invested under the Older or direction of said court, for the use

and benefit of the party entitled, whenever he shall see fit to de-

mand the same; and the said court shall direct said clerk to pay

over the same to him, and said order shall have been complied with

by the United States; and the said court may, in its discretion,

before ordering any such valuation to be paid over to said clerk,

require said clerk to enter into an additional bond to the State of

Maryland, with security to be approved by said court, in such penal

sum as said court may direct, not exceeding double the amount of

such valuation; conditioned that the said clerk will well and faith-

fully keep all moneys paid over to him as such valuation, and will

well and faithfully comply with all the orders of said court in refer-

ence thereto; but nothing in this act contained shall authorize the

condemnation of more than ten acres of land in any one tract for

Number of acres
to which con-

the use of the United States.

demnation lim-
ited

13. Jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over such

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lands as shall be condemned as aforesaid, for their use for public

Jurisdiction
ceded to the

purposes, as soon as the same shall be condemned, under the sanc-

United States.

tion of the General Assembly of this State, hereinbefore given to

said condemnation; provided, always, that this State shall retain

concurrent jurisdiction with the United States, in and over all lands

Concurrent

condemned under the precisions of this act, so far as that all pro-

jurisdiction re-
served to State

cesses, civil and criminal, issuing under the authority of this State,

or any of the courts or judicial officers thereof, may be executed on

the premises so condemned, and in any building erected, or to be

erected thereon, in the same way and manner as if this act 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 act.