JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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over so much land as has been or may be hereafter acquired
for the public purposes of the United States ; provided, that
the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest until the United
States of America shall have acquired the title to the lands,
by grant or deed, from the owner or owners thereof, and the
evidences thereof shall have been recorded in the office where,
by Jaw, the title to such land is required to be recorded ; and
the United States of America are to retain such jurisdiction
so long ae such lands shall be used for the purposes in this
section mentioned, and no longer; and such jurisdiction is
granted upon the express condition that the State of Maryland
shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States
in and over the said lands, so far as that civil process in all
cases not affecting the real or personal property of the United
States, and such criminal or other process as shall issue under
the authority of the State of Maryland, against any person or
persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed
within or without the limits of the said lauds, may be executed
therein, in the same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had
been hereby ceded.

CHAP. 268.

Jurisdiction
ceded to the
United
States over
certain
land.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all lands and tene-
ments which may be granted as aforesaid to the United States
ehall be and continue so long as the same shall be used for the
purposes in the last section mentioned, exonerated and dis-
charged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which
may be imposed under the authority of the State of Mary-
land ; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall apply
to Charles county.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

How long
grant shall
continue.