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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Daniel Rohrback and Diana Rohrback his wife, to

the Antietam National Cemetery Company, dated
the twenty-fifth day of September, Anno Domini,

eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and recorded in Li-

ber L. B. N., number one, folios one hundred and

eighty-eight and one hundred and eighty-nine, one

of the land records of the said county of Washing-

ton, in the said State of Maryland, be, and the same

Ceded, con-

is hereby ceded, conveyed, transferred and granted,

veyed, &c , to
United States

with all the rights, privileges, hereditaments and ap-

purtenances thereunto belonging or pertaining to the

United States of America, in fee simple, to have and

to hold forever.

Jurisdiction

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

and control.

control over the land conveyed by this act, as here-

inbefore provided, be, and the same are hereby grant-

ed and ceded to the United States of America ; Pro-

vided always, That this cession and jurisdiction are

granted upon the express condition that this Com-

monwealth, shall retain, concurrent jurisdiction with

the United States in, and on the said ceded lands, so

Civil and
criminal pro-

far as, that all civil and such criminal process as may
issue under the authority of this State against any

cess.

person or persons charged with crimes committed

without the limits of said National Cemetery and in

the State of Maryland, may be executed 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 prop-

erty of the United States, within the limits of the

said National Cemetery.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the lands convey-

ed as herein provided, and over which jurisdiction is

granted by this act, together with all personal prop-

erty which may hereafter be within the bounds of

said cemetery belonging to the United States, or to

any of the officers or agents of the United States,

Taxes and

shall be exonerated and discharged from all taxes

assessments.

and assessments which may be at any time imposed

by the authority of this State, so long as the said

lands shall remain the property of the United States,
and be used for the purposes indicated in the act of

this Assembly, passed March twenty-third, eighteen

hundred and sixty-five, hereinbefore referred to.