ART. 96] UNITED STATES. 141

ARTICLE XCVI.

UNITED STATES.

	19. Consent of the State given to purchase land by United States for forts, magazines, arsenals, coast defences, bar- racks or other buildings; deed to be recorded. 20. United States may institute con- demnation proceedings 21. Sections 17 and 18 to apply to cases under sections 19 and 20. Public Building in Laurel 22. Consent of State to purchase of lot in Laurel, Prince George's county.	23. Jurisdiction over such lot ceded to United States; proviso. Claims of the State Against the United States. 24. Governor shall appoint agent or agents to prosecute such claims; compensation to be contingent; how to be fixed. 25. Vacancies; how filled. 26. Compensation of agents, how to be paid Antietam Battlefield Commission 27. Said commission may transfer to United States its lot on Antie- tam battlefield

1900, ch. 67.

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 individual or individuals, bodies politic or corpo-
rate 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 fortifications of the
United States, or for the purpose of erecting thereon barracks,
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.

Ibid.

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