1434 UNITED STATES—CONDEMNATION. [ART. 96.

other aid to navigation has been built, or is about to be built,
the governor of the State, on application of an authorized agent
of the United States, setting forth a description of the site re-
quired, is authorized and empowered to convey the title to the
United States, and to cede jurisdiction over the same; provided,
no single tract shall contain more than five acres.

1874, ch. 193, sec. 3.

3. The lots, parcels or tracts of land so ceded to the United
States, together with the tenements and appurtenances, for the
purpose before mentioned, shall be held exempt from taxation,
by the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 4.

4. This State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the
United States in and over the tracts of land aforesaid, so that
criminal and civil processes, issued under the authority of the
State by any officer thereof, may be executed on said lands and
in the buildings 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 enum-
erated.

1874, ch. 895, sec 1.

5. Whenever the United States are desirous of purcnasing or
procuring the title to any tract, piece or parcel of land, within
the boundaries or limits of this State, for the purpose of erecting
thereon any light-house, beacon-light, range-light, light-keeper's
dwelling, forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, buoys, public
piers, or necessary public buildings or improvements connected
therewith, and cannot agree with the owner thereof as to the
price and for the purchase thereof; or if the owner be feme-
covert, under age, non compos mentis, or out of the county
wherein the said land lies, or for any other cause is inca-
pable of making a perfect title to said lands, the United
States, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any
member of the president's cabinet, may apply by petition in.