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Session Laws, 1892
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FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

767

CHAPTER 568.


AN ACT ceding to the United States of America the juris-


diction over certain property acquired by it for the use of


the Government Hospital for the Insane located in Prince


George's County, Maryland.


WHEREAS the United States of America have recently


acquired by purchase several tracts of land in Prince George's

Preamble.

County, Maryland, first by deed dated the thirty-first day


of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one from John C.


Heald and Emma B. Heald his wife, and secondly by deed


from Samuel Bieber and Johanna Bieber his wife, dated the


twenty-first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-


one, and


WHEREAS the said United States, desires from the State

Preamble.

of Maryland a cession of the right of jurisdiction over said


property which is right and proper to be done ; therefore,


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of


Maryland, That the jurisdiction and control over the lands,

Jurisdic-
tion ceded

owned by the United States located in Prince George's

to United

County, Maryland, and acquired as above for the Govern-

States

ment Hospital for the Insane be, and the same are hereby


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 recited in the foregoing


preamble 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 jurisdic-


tion 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 this 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 con-


sent had never been made and granted, except so far as such


process may effect the real and personal property of the


United States, within the said ceded territory.


SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands over


which the jurisdiction is granted by this act, together with

Discharged
from taxes.

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




 
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