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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to give the consent of the State to the

purchase of certain lots of ground in the City of

Baltimore by the United States of America, for

the purpose of erecting a building for a Post

Office, Court House and other Public Offices, and

to cede to the United States of America jurisdic-

tion over the same, and authorizing the Mayor

and City Council of Baltimore to grant and con-

vey certain lots of ground belonging to them to the

United States of America.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Consent giv-
en.

by of Maryland, That the consent of the State of
Maryland is hereby given to the purchase, by the

United States of America, of any lots or parcels of

ground in the City of Baltimore, for the purpose of
erecting a building for a Post Office, Court House

and other Public Offices of the United States of

America.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That jurisdiction over

the said lot or parcels of ground, after the same shall

Ceded, releas-

have been lawfully conveyed to the said United

ed and relin-

States of America, be and it is hereby ceded, re-

quished.

leased and relinquished to the United States of

America over the said lot or parcels of ground so

far as 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 mis-

demeanors committed without said lot or parcels of

ground, may be executed therein in the same way

and manner as though this cession had never been

made and granted, and that the land over which the

Exempted
from taxes.

jurisdiction is granted by this act, 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 or municipal taxes, so

long as the said lot or parcels of ground shall re-