Pennsylvania Act 1917-391 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

Act text

AN ACT

Giving consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the purchase by the United States of land belonging to the city of Philadelphia, on the Island of Tinicum, in the township of Tinicum, Delaware County; authorizing the city of Philadelphia to sell and make conveyance thereof; ceding jurisdiction over said land; and providing for the retention of concurrent jurisdiction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the United States on said land, for the service of legal processes thereupon.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby granted to the purchase by the Government of the United States of a tract of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon situate, lying and being on the Island of Tinicum, in the township of Tinicum, in the county of Delaware, in the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the river Delaware at low-water mark, and from thence, extending along the middle of the road or lane between this land and land of John Taylor, north, five degrees east, fifty-five perches and five-tenths of a perch, to a post, for a corner; thence, by the other land of the said Thomas Smith, south, eighty-five degrees east, twenty-eight perches and seven-tenths of a perch, to another post for a corner; thence, by other land of the said Thomas Smith, south, five degrees west, fifty-six perches, to low-water mark of the river Delaware; and from thence, down the said river, along the several courses and meanders thereof at low-water mark, to the place of beginning; said premises being known as the Lazaretto.

Section 2. The city of Philadelphia is authorized to sell at private sale the said property to the United States; and, upon a conveyance thereof, exclusive jurisdiction over the lands so purchased is hereby ceded to the United States by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and said lands shall be exempt from the payment of all taxes, State and local: Provided, That the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over the land so acquired by the United States, for the purpose of serving all civil processes: And provided further, That such criminal processes as may issue under the authority of the Commonwealth, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without the area so acquired, may be executed therein, in the same manner as though this cession had not been granted.