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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 331.

AN ACT to give the consent of the state to a grant

by the Visitors and Governors of St John's College

of a lot of ground, part of the College campus, or

to the grant of any other lot within the corporate

limits of the city of Annapolis which may be se-

lected by the United States authorities, not exceed-

ing fifty feet square, to the United States of America

for the purpose of erecting thereon a statue to the

memory of Baron De Kalb, 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 grant by the visitors and

governors of St. John's College to the United States

of America of a lot of ground, part of the college

Consent to
grant.

campus, in the city of Annapolis, or to the grant of

any other lot of ground within the corporate limits of

the city of Annapolis, to which the United States may

acquire a title, not exceeding fifty feet square, for the

purpose of erecting thereon a statue to the memory

of Baron De Kalb.

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

over either of said lots of ground, after the same shall

have been lawfully conveyed to the United States of

America, be and it is hereby ceded, released and re-

linquished to the United States of America, provided

Jurisdiction re-
linquished.

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 com-

mitted without either of the said lots of ground may

be executed therein in the same manner as though the

cession had never been made and granted, and that

the land over which jurisdiction is granted by this act,