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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 308

AN ACT to give the consent of the State to the

purchase of certain lots of ground, not to exceed

one acre, in the city of Havre de Grace, by the

United States of America, for the purpose of

erecting a building for a Post Office, Custom House

and other Public Offices, 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

Consent given.

in the city of Havre de Grace, not to exceed one acre,

for the purpose of erecting a building for a post office,

custom house and other public offices 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

Jurisdiction

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

ceded, &c.

relinquished to the United States of America, over

the said lots 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 misdemeanors 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 jurisdiction is granted by

this act, together with all the buildings and personal

property which is or may be hereafter within the

Exempted from
taxation.

bounds thereof, belonging to the United States, shall

be exempted, exonerated and discharged from all

state, county and municipal taxes, so long as the said

lot or parcels of ground shall remain the property of

the United States of America, for the purposes afore-

said.

Approved April 8, 1884.