ART. 96] PUEOHASE OF LAND FOB LIGHT-HOUSES. 2079

1888, art. 96, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 193, sec. 1.

1. The consent of the State is given to the purchase by the
government of the United States, or under the authority of the
same, of any tract, piece or parcel of land not exceeding five
acres, from any individual or individuals, bodies politic or cor-
porate within the boundaries or limits of the State, for the
purpose of erecting thereon light-houses, 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 land so conveyed
may lie; 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. sec. 2. 1874, ch. 193, sec. 2.

2. With respect to land covered by the navigable waters
within the limits of the State, and on which a light-house,
beacon or 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 descrip-
tion of the site required, is authorized and empowered to con-
vey the title to the United States, and to cede jurisdiction over
the same; provided, no single tract shall contain more than
five acres.

Ibid. sec. 3. 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. 1874, ch. 193, 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 enumerated.