Pennsylvania Act 1943-237 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                  Act of May 21, 1943, P.L. 537, No. 237              Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of a tract of
        land in the Thirty-eighth Ward of the City of Philadelphia,
        Pennsylvania, known as the Philadelphia Signal Depot, and
        ceding jurisdiction to the United States.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     is hereby granted, in 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 of
     America of a certain tract of land in the Thirty-eighth Ward of
     the City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known as the
     Philadelphia Signal Depot bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at the intersection of the Northwesterly line of
     Abbottsford Avenue, with the Southwesterly line of Wissahickon
     Avenue; thence: 5.54 degrees 09' 39" West, along said
     Northwesterly line of Abbottsford Avenue, a distance of 864.46'
     to its intersection with the Northeasterly property line of the
     Chestnut Hill branch (P.R.R.) Conn. Railway; thence: Continuing
     along the Northeasterly property line of said Chestnut Hill
     Branch (P.R.R. Conn. Railway) the following courses and
     distances: North 33 degrees 21' 17.75" West, 865.55' to a point;
     thence: North 41 degrees 16' 22" West, 25.50' to the point of
     curvature; thence: Along the arc of a curve to the right, with a
     radius of 591.70' a distance of 238.74', to the point of
     tangency to said curve; thence: North 20 degrees 42' 33.50"
     West, 530.51', to its intersection with the Easterly line of the
     C. Sewall Clark property; thence: Leaving said R. R. property
     and continuing along the Easterly line of said C. Sewall Clark
     property, the following two courses and distances: North 59
     degrees 05' 00" East, 86.87' to a point; thence: North 63
     degrees 08' 30" East, 459.45' to its intersection with the
     Easterly R/W line of Wissahickon Avenue; thence: Continuing
     along said Easterly R/W line of Wissahickon Avenue, the
     following courses and distances: South 40 degrees 48' 00" East,
     556.42' to a point; thence: South 40 degrees 13' 45" East,
     900.30' to a point; thence: South 40 degrees 12' 05" East,
     107.03', to its intersection with the Northwesterly line of
     Abbottsford Avenue, the point of beginning and containing a
     total of 27.055 acres.
        Section 2.  Exclusive jurisdiction in and over the aforesaid
     lands is hereby ceded to the United States of America by the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the erection of forts,
     magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings,
     with the exception of roads abutting on said lands, to be used
     by the United States for military and other public purposes
     which are not already under the jurisdiction of the United
     States.
        Section 3.  The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States of
     America is granted upon the express condition that the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent
     jurisdiction with the United States in and over the lands and
     buildings aforesaid, in so far that civil process in all cases,
     and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against anyone charged with
     crime committed outside said land, may be executed thereon in
     the same manner as if this jurisdiction had not been ceded. The
     United States shall retain such jurisdiction so long as the said
     land shall be used for the purposes for which jurisdiction is
     ceded and no longer.
        Section 4.  The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States
     shall be upon the further condition that the Commonwealth
     reserves to itself and its political subdivisions whatever power
     of taxation it may constitutionally reserve, to levy and collect
     all taxes now or hereafter imposed by the Commonwealth and its
     political subdivisions upon property, persons and franchises
     within the boundaries so ceded.
        Section 5.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     its final enactment.