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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland That a plat of ground, twenty-four feet

square, be and is hereby ceded to the United States of

Pint of ground,
ceded.

America within the ground surrounding the State

House and known as the State House Circle, located

at Annapolis, for the purpose aforesaid, the said plat to

be any part of said circle which may be agreed upon

by the secretary of state of the United States, and

the Honorable Robert M. McLane, Governor. And

the Governor of the State of Maryland is hereby em-

powered to execute to the United States such further

assurance or conveyance as the laws of the United

States require in the premises; provided, always, that

Concurrent ju-

this state shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the

risdiction.

United States, in and over the land hereby ceded, so

far that all processes, civil and criminal, issuing under

the authority of this state or any of the courts or judi-

cial officers thereof, may be executed on the premises

so ceded, and in or on any structure that may be

placed thereon, in the same manner and to the same

extent as if this cession had never been made.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.