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diction is granted, together with all buildings and personal
property, which is or may be hereafter within the bounds
thereof belonging to the United States, shall be exempted,
exonerated and discharged from all State, county and munici-
pal taxes so long as the said lot or lots of ground shall remain
the property of the United States of America for the purpose
aforesaid.

1892, ch. 568, secs. 1, 2.

24. The jurisdiction and control over the lands owned by
the United States located in Prince George's county, Maryland,
and acquired as above for the government hospital for the
insane are vested in the United States of America for its
purposes; the metes and bounds, courses and distances of
which are particularly described in the deeds and which are
duly of record in the clerk's office of Prince George's county,
Maryland, to which reference is prayed; provided always,
that the cession and jurisdiction aforesaid are granted upon
the express condition that this commonwealth shall retain a
concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the.
said lands and ceded territory so far as that all civil and such
criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State
against any person or persons charged with crimes committed
without said lands and ceded territory may be executed
therein in the same way and manner as though this cession
and consent had never been made and granted, except so far
as such process may affect the real and personal property of
the United States within the- said ceded territory. The lands
over which the jurisdiction is granted by this section, together
with all the personal property which is or may be hereafter
within the bounds thereof, belonging to the United States or
to any of its officers or agents, shall be exonerated and dis-
charged from all taxes and assessments which may be at any
time imposed by the authority of this State so long as the said
lands and territories shall remain the property of the United
States and be used for the purposes aforesaid.

1898, ch. 33, secs. 1, 2.

25. The consent of the State of Maryland is given to the
purchase by the United States of America of a lot or lots of
ground in Cumberland, Allegany county, Maryland, for the
purpose of erecting a public building thereon. Jurisdiction
over said lot or lots of ground, after the same shall have been