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JURISDICTION OP THE UNITED STATES. [ART. 3.

Id s 14

14. All the lands that may be condemned under the provisions

Exemption
from taxation.

of this act, and the buildings and improvements erected, or to be

erected thereon, and the personal property of the United States, and

of the officers thereof, when upon said land, shall be exonerated and

exempted from taxation for State and county purposes, so long as

the said land shall continue to be owned by the United States, and

used for any of the purposes specified in this act, and no longer.

LIGHTHOUSES, BEACONS, AND OTHER AIDS TO NAVIGATION.

1874, c 193, s 1

15. The consent of the State is hereby given to the purchase by

Consent of State
to purchase by

the government of the United States, or under the authority of the

United States of
land for the

same, of any tract, piece, or parcel of land, not exceeding five acres,

erection of
lighthouses,

from any individual or individuals, bodies politic or corporate, within

beacons, etc.
21 Md 119

the boundaries or limits of the State, for the purpose of erecting

thereon lighthouses, beacons, and other aids to navigation; and all

deeds and conveyances of title-papers for the same shall be recorded,

as in other cases, upon the land records of the county in which the

lands so conveyed may lie; the consent herein and hereby given

being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth sec-

tion of the first article of the Constitution of the United States,

and with the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided.

Id s 2

16. With respect to land covered by the navigable waters within

Land covered
by navigable

the limits of the State, and on which a lighthouse, beacon, or other

water to be con-
veyed by gover-

aids to navigation has been built, or is about to be built, the gov-

nor, and juris-
diction ceded

ernor of the State, on application of an authorized agent of the

United States, setting forth a description of the site required, is

authorized and empowered to convey the title to the United States,

Number of acres

and to cede jurisdiction over the same; provided no single tract

limited

shall contain more than five acres.

Id s 3

17. The lots, parcels, or tracts of land so ceded to the United

Exemption
from taxation

States, together with the tenements and appurtenances for the pur-

pose before mentioned, shall be held exempt from taxation by the

State of Maryland.

Id s 4

18. This State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the

State to have
concurrent jur-

United States in and over the tracts of land aforesaid, so that crimi-

isdiction with
the United

nal and civil processes, issued under the authority of the State by

States.

any officer thereof, may be executed on said lands and in the build-

ings that may be erected thereon, in the same way and manner as

if jurisdiction had not been ceded; and exclusive jurisdiction shall

revert to and revest in this State whenever the said tract of land

shall permanently cease to be used and occupied by the United

States for any of the purposes heretofore enumerated.

PLACES CEDED TO THE UNITED STATES.

Jurisdiction

19. Jurisdiction over the following named places was ceded to

ceded.

the United States by the acts of Assembly cited herein: