1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 216.

Passed Mar.
3, 1846.

CHAPTER 215.

An act ceding to the United States jurisdiction over the
sites of Forts Madison and Severn.

Ceded and
vested.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the jurisdiction and control over the
lands owned by the United States, and constituting the
site of Fort Madison, on the Severn river, and the site of
Fort Severn, on Windmill Point, both situated on Annap-
olis harbor, in the county of Anne Arundel, be and the
same is hereby ceded and vested in the said United States

Proviso.

for military purposes; provided always, and the cession
and jurisdiction aforesaid are granted upon the express
condition, that this commonwealth shall retain a concur-
rent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the
said lands and ceded territory, so far as that all civil and
such criminal process as may issue under the authority of
this commonwealth, against any person or persons
charged with crimes committed without the said lands
and ceded territory, may be executed therein, in the same
way and manner as though this cession and consent had
not been made and granted, except so far as such process
may effect the real and personal property of the United
States within the ceded territory.

Exonerated
and discharg-
ed from all

taxes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, Thai the property over
which jurisdiction is granted by this act, shall be exone-
rated and discharged from all taxes and assessments,
which may be levied or imposed under the authority of
this State, while the said lands and ceded territory shall
remain the property of the United States, and shall be
used for the purposes intended by this act.

CHAPTER 216.

Passed Mar.

2, 1846.

A supplement to the act to regulate the issuing of licenses
to Traders, Keepers of Ordinaries, and others, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven,
chapter one hundred and seventeen, and imposing a tax
on brokers for the sale of merchandize.

Not lawful.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first day of May next, it
shall not be lawful for any person or persons, not being