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FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 568.
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AN ACT ceding to the United States of America the juris-
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diction over certain property acquired by it for the use of
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the Government Hospital for the Insane located in Prince
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George's County, Maryland.
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WHEREAS the United States of America have recently
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acquired by purchase several tracts of land in Prince George's
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Preamble.
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County, Maryland, first by deed dated the thirty-first day
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of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one from John C.
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Heald and Emma B. Heald his wife, and secondly by deed
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from Samuel Bieber and Johanna Bieber his wife, dated the
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twenty-first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-
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one, and
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WHEREAS the said United States, desires from the State
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Preamble.
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of Maryland a cession of the right of jurisdiction over said
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property which is right and proper to be done ; therefore,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That the jurisdiction and control over the lands,
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Jurisdic-
tion ceded
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owned by the United States located in Prince George's
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to United
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County, Maryland, and acquired as above for the Govern-
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States
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ment Hospital for the Insane be, and the same are hereby
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vested in the United States of America for its purposes;
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the metes and bounds, courses and distances of which are
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particularly described in the deeds recited in the foregoing
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preamble and which are duly of record in the clerk's office
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of Prince George's County, Maryland, to which, reference
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is prayed ; provided always, that the cession and jurisdic-
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tion aforesaid, are granted upon the express condition, that
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this commonwealth shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction
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with the United States, in and over the said lands and ceded
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territory so far as that all civil and such criminal process
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as may issue under the authority of this State, against any
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person or persons charged with crimes committed without
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said lands and ceded territory, may be executed therein in
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the same way and manner as though this cession and con-
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sent had never been made and granted, except so far as such
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process may effect the real and personal property of the
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United States, within the said ceded territory.
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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands over
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which the jurisdiction is granted by this act, together with
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Discharged
from taxes.
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all the personal property which is or may be hereafter within
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the bounds thereof, belonging to the United States, or to
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any of its officers or agents, shall be exonerated and dis-
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charged from all taxes and assessments which may be at
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