ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the acts and proceedings of Mar-
cus M. Fazen baker, as one of the justices of the peace

of the State of Maryland, in and for Garrett county,

Acts and pro-
ceedings make

during the period in which he acted as such justice, be

valid

and the same are hereby made as valid, and to have

the same effect and operation in law, as if the said

Marcus M. Fazenbaker had been legally appointed.

Approved March 27, 1884.

Chapter 134.

AN ACT to give the consent of the state to the pur-

chase of a lot of ground in Baltimore county, by

the United States of America, for the purpose of

erecting a building for a Marine Hospital, and to

cede to the United States of America jurisdiction

over the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the consent of the State of Mary-

land is hereby given to the purchase by the United

States of America of any lots or parcels of ground in

Consent given,

Baltimore county, for the purpose of erecting a build-

ing for a Marine Hospital, for the use of the United

States of America.

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

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

have been lawfully conveyed to the said United States

of America, be and it is hereby ceded, released and

Jurisdiction

relinquished to the United States of America over the

ceded, etc.

said lot or parcels 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 lots 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 said hospital shall not be used for the treatment

of contagious diseases, and that the land over which