1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 159.

enclose the grounds known as Fort Severn, and running
thence north-westwardly with the said north-east side
of Scott street, to its intersection with the south-east side
of North East street, thence with the south-east side of
North East street to the river Severn, thence with the
shores of the Severn river and of the harbor of Annapolis

Proviso.

to the beginning; provided always, and the cession and
jurisdiction aforesaid, are granted upon the express
condition, that this Commonwealth shall retain a con-
current 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 au-
thority of this State, against any person or persons
charged with crimes committed without said lands and
ceded territory, may be executed therein in the same
way and manner as though this cession and consent had
never been made and granted, except so far as such pro-
cess may effect the real and personal property of the
United States, within the said ceded territory.

Exempted
from taxation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands
over which the jurisdiction is granted by this act, toge-
ther with all the personal property which is or may be
hereafter within the bounds thereof, belonging to the
United States, or to any of its officers or agents, shall
be exonerated and discharged from all taxes and assess-
ments which may be at any time imposed by the autho-
rity of this State, so long as the said lands and territo-
ries shall remain the property of the United Slates, and

be used for the purposes aforesaid.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall be of full force and1 effect from the day of its
passage.

CHAPTER 159.

Passed
March 1,1848

An act to make valid a certain devise to the Annual Con-
ference of the Maryland District of the Methodist Pro-
testant Church.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, a certain Charles Waters, of the city of
Baltimore, by his last will and testament, proven on the
fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
and of record in the office of the register of wills of Bal-
timore county, in Liber D. M. P., number twenty-one,
folio one hundred and seventy-one, and so forth, be-