Pennsylvania Act 1943-252 — 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. 567, No. 252              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 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for a supply depot,
        known as the United States Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg,
        Pennsylvania, 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 a
     tract of land partly in the Borough of Mechanicsburg and partly
     in the Township of Hampden, County of Cumberland, Pennsylvania,
     known as the United States Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg,
     Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point on the boundary line between the land of
     the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company and the lands of J. B.
     Musser, J. B. Kohler Estate, and the Estate of D. Wilcox Mfg.
     Co. and other lands of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Co., said
     point being 59 feet distant perpendicularly from the center line
     of the double tracks of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, in a
     Northerly direction therefrom and N. 24 degrees 18' W., 62 feet
     from Valuation Station 401 + 92.2, said Station lying on center
     line of said double tracks; thence, from said point of beginning
     and along said boundary line, N. 20 degrees 18' W., 1299.8 feet
     to a point; thence along the boundary between lands of the
     Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, and J. B. Musser N. 65
     degrees 26' E., 666.5 feet to a point on said boundary line;
     thence, N. 65 degrees 41' E. 659.5 feet to a point on said
     boundary line; thence along the boundary line between lands of
     J. B. Musser and Samuel Fetrow, N. 31 degrees 51' W., 1354.3
     feet to a point on the center line of public road known as
     Brandy Lane; thence along the center line of Brandy Lane and the
     land of Samuel Fetrow, N. 39 degrees 52' E. 1044.5 feet to a
     point on the boundary line between lands of Samuel Fetrow and W.
     H. Hollinger; thence along said boundary line S. 47 degrees 52'
     E. 109.5 feet to a point; thence along the boundary line between
     lands of Samuel Fetrow and W. H. Hollinger, N. 38 degrees 47' E.
     117.0 feet to a corner; thence, along the boundary line between
     lands of W. H. Hollinger and Ida Eberly, N. 47 degrees 19' W.
     107.3 feet to a point on the center line of Brandy Lane; thence
     along said center line of Brandy Lane and the lands of Ida
     Eberly and M. D. Quigley, N. 40 degrees 26' E. 1429.5 feet to a
     point, which intersects with the center line of Salem Church
     Road, which line is the Westerly line of land owned by Mary
     Bowman Estate, said line extending N. 45 degrees 50' W., along
     the center line of Salem Church Road, 928.9 feet to a point on
     the boundary line between lands of the Mary Bowman Estate and
     Jacob Rupp; thence leaving said road and crossing the land of
     Jacob Rupp N. 47 degrees 40' E. 1594 feet to a point on the
     boundary line between lands of Jacob Rupp and Jacob H. Hertzler;
     thence along said boundary line N. 2 degrees 32' E. 1395.3 feet
     to a corner; thence along the boundary between lands of Jacob
     Rupp and Jacob R. Hertzler and Mary Cameron, S. 88 degrees 13'
     E. 530.9 feet to a corner; thence along the boundary line
     between the land of Mary Cameron and J. H. Koller, N. 2 degrees
     8' E. 336.3 feet to a corner; thence along the boundary line
     between the land of J. H. Koller and Edward Eberly, S. 69
     degrees 40' E. 1922.3 feet to a corner; thence along the
     boundary line between the lands of Jacob H. Koller and Edward
     Eberly, S. 4 degrees 36' E. 209 feet to a corner; thence along
     the boundary line between the land of J. H. Koller and Edward
     Eberly, S. 69 degrees 56' E. 230 feet to a point in the center
     line of the public road known as Brandy Lane; thence along said
     center line of Brandy Lane and land of H. Koller S. 40 degrees
     06' E. 753.76 feet to a corner; thence leaving Brandy Lane and
     crossing the land of Charles Eberly, S. 65 degrees 17' E. 103.4
     feet to a corner; thence continuing across the land of Charles
     Eberly; N. 85 degrees 04' E. 1843.3 feet to a point; thence S.
     40 degrees 56' E. 1000.1 feet to a point on the boundary line
     between said land, and land of Samuel A. Kirkpatrick; thence,
     along the boundary line between land of Samuel A. Kirkpatrick
     and lands of Charles Eberly and Ray Asper, N. 85 degrees 04' E.
     845.2 feet to a corner; thence, along the boundary line between
     lands of Samuel A. Kirkpatrick and John Minsker S. 3 degrees 53'
     E. 252.8 feet to a corner; thence along the boundary line
     between lands of Samuel A. Kirkpatrick and John Minsker N. 86
     degrees 17' E. 203 feet to a point on the Westerly line of
     public road known as Sporting Hill Road; thence along the
     Westerly line of Sporting Hill Road and the land of Samuel A.
     Kirkpatrick, S. 2 degrees 58' E. 1389.9 feet to a point; thence,
     continuing along said line and the Easterly line of the land of
     Mrs. C. A. Heiges, 25 feet; thence continuing along the Westerly
     line of Sporting Hill Road being the Easterly line of Mrs. C. A.
     Heiges' property S. 31 degrees 02' E. 213.0 feet to a point;
     said point being 425 feet distant perpendicularly from center
     line of public road known as Trindle Road in a Northerly
     direction therefrom; thence across the lands of Mrs. G. A.
     Heiges, J. H. DeVaen, J. M. Huresh, L. I. and B. L. Blosser, R.
     E. Rise, Vance Geesey, Linda Fraelich, Helen Bashore, A. F.
     Blessings, E. W. Thompson, Paul Kimmel, W. A. Bushey, F. G.
     Kaufman, George W. Wolf, South 64 degrees 03' W. 3493.1 feet to
     a point, said point being 425 feet distant perpendicularly from
     the center line of Trindle Road in a Northerly direction
     therefrom; thence, across the lands of George W. Wolf, William
     R. Gregg, Samuel R. Ream, Edward Woolford, William D. Daniel, J.
     E. Waterson, William D. Daniel, Morris H. Bishop, O. A. Heim,
     Charles Brandt, Samuel Fetrow, S. 63 degrees 30' W. 3514.6 feet
     to a point on the boundary line between the lands of Samuel
     Fetrow and the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company; thence along
     said boundary line S. 28 degrees 12' E. 386.6 feet to a point on
     the Northerly right-of-way line of the public road known as
     Trindle Road, said point being 25 feet distant perpendicularly
     from center line of said road; thence along said Northerly
     right-of-way line of said road, parallel to a 25 feet distance
     from center line thereof, the following courses and distances to
     wit: Along a curve to the right with a radius of 1495 feet, a
     chord bearing of S. 72 degrees 47' W. and a chord length of 245
     feet to a point; thence S. 77 degrees 29' W. 870.5 feet to a
     point; thence S. 32 degrees 04' W. 95.5 feet to a point; thence
     S. 77 degrees 17' W. 864.6 feet to the point of beginning,
     containing 821.81 acres of land, more or less all bearings true
     North.
        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
     final enactment.