2084 UNITED STATES. [ART. 96

1888, art. 96, sec. 17. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 13.

17. Jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over
such lauds as shall be condemned as aforesaid for their use
for public purposes, as soon as the same shall be condemned,
under the sanction of the general assembly of this State here-
inbefore given to said condemnation; provided, always, that
this State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United
States in and over all lands condemned iinder the provisions
of this article, so far as that all processes, 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 article 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 pur-
poses mentioned in this article.

Ibid. sec. 18. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 14

18. All the lands that may be condemned under the provisions
of this article, 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 article, and no longer.

1900, ch 67, sec. 19.

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 corporate, 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 forti-
fications 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 accord-
ance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the