ART. 96.] STATE JURISDICTION CEDED. 2087

conveyed to the United States of America, is ceded, released
and relinquished to the United States of America over the said
lot or lots of ground; provided, however, that all civil and
such criminal process as may issue under the authority of
this State against any person or persons charged with crimes
and misdemeanors committed without said lot or lots of
ground may be executed thereon in the same way and manner
as though this cession had never been made or granted, and
that the land over which jurisdiction is granted by this section,
together with all buildings and personal property which is or
may be hereafter, with the bounds thereof belonging to the
United States, shall be exempted, exonerated and discharged
from all State, county and municipal 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.

1902, ch. 263. secs. 1, 2. 1904, ch. 357, secs 1, 2
26. The jurisdiction of the State of Maryland is hereby
ceded to the United States of America over so much land as
has been or may be hereafter acquired for public purposes of
the United States; provided, that the jurisdiction hereby ceded
shall not vest until the United States of America shall have
acquired the title to the lands, by grant or deed, from the
owner or owners thereof, and evidences thereof shall have
been recorded in the office where, by law, the title to said
land is required to be recorded; and the United States of
America are to retain such jurisdiction so long as such lands
shall be for the purposes in this section mentioned, and no
longer; and such jurisdiction is granted upon the express con-
dition that the State of Maryland shall retain a concurrent
jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said real or
personal property of the United States, and such criminal or
other process as shall issue under the authority of the State of
Maryland against any person or persons charged with crimes
or misdemeanors committed within or without the limits of
said lands may be executed therein, in the same way and
manner as if no jurisdiction had been hereby ceded. All lands
and tenements which may be granted as aforesaid to the
United States shall be and continue so long as the same shall
be used for the purposes in this section mentioned, exonerated
and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges
which may be imposed under the authority of the State of
Maryland; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall
apply to Charles county.