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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 742

Chesapake and Ohio canal, and the Treasurer of the State of
Maryland is hereby authorized to pay said sum on the
warrant of the Comptroller, for the objects and purposes
herein specified to, or upon the order of the persons entitled
to receive the same.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 743.
AN ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction
over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this
State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the consent of the State of Maryland is hereby given in

Consent given.

accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section of the
first Article of the Constitution of the United States, to the
acquisition by the United States by purchase, condemnation
or otherwise of any land in this State required for sites for
custom houses, courthouses, postoffices, arsenals or other
public buildings whatever, or for any other purposes of the
government.
2. That exclusive jurisdiction in and over any land so

Jurisdiction
ceded.

acquired by the United States shall be and the same is
hereby ceded to the United States for all purposes except
the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal process
of the courts of this State, but the jurisdiction so ceded shall
continue no longer than the said United , States shall own
such lands.
3. The jurisdiction ceded shall not vest until the United
States shall have acquired the title to said lands by purchase,

Exempt from
taxation.

condemnation or otherwise; and so long as the said lands
shall remain the property of the United States when acquired
as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue
exempt and exonerated from all State, county and municipal
taxation, assessment, or other charges which may be levied
or imposed under the authority of this State.
4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
Approved April 5, 1906.