Pennsylvania Act 1955-271 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

Act text

AN ACT

Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the acquisition by the United States of America of approximately one thousand two hundred sixty-six acres of land in the Township of Coolbaugh, County of Monroe, Pennsylvania, known as Tobyhanna 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 tract of land situate in the Township of Coolbaugh, County of Monroe, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, known as the Tobyhanna Signal Depot, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point in the northwesterly boundary line of the Tobyhanna Signal Depot Military Reservation, which point is North 77 degrees 31 minutes 30 seconds East 25 feet from the point where the center line of Pennsylvania State Route No. 45036 intersects said boundary line and which beginning point is also North 77 degrees 31 minutes 30 seconds East 1325 feet more or less from pipe monument No. 48B; thence from said beginning point North 77 degrees 31 minutes 30 seconds East 4412.10 feet more or less to pipe monument No. 48A being the most northeasterly corner of the Tobyhanna Signal Depot Military Reservation; thence South 12 degrees 23 minutes East 3095.30 feet to pipe monument No. 48 thence South 12 degrees 23 minutes East 3888.50 feet to pipe monument No. 47; thence North 77 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds East 74.29 feet to pipe monument No. 46; thence South 1 degree 05 minutes 30 seconds West 403.79 feet to pipe monument No. 45; thence South 89 degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds East 1674.09 feet to pipe monument No. 44; thence South 89 degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds East 350 feet to westerly right of way line of Pennsylvania State Route No. 490; thence following the westerly right of way line of said Route 490 southerly as the road meanders approximately 3400 feet to a point where said westerly right of way of line of Route 490 intersects the southerly boundary line of the Tobyhanna Signal Depot Military Reservation; thence north 89 degrees 42 minutes 30 seconds West 750.71 feet to pipe monument No. 40; thence South 17 degrees 53 minutes West 510.15 feet to pipe monument No. 39; thence South 29 degrees 43 minutes West 178.65 feet to pipe monument No. 38; thence South 28 degrees 50 minutes West 32.70 feet to pipe monument No. 23; thence South 29 degrees 59 minutes West 347.12 feet to pipe monument No. 22; thence North 60 degrees 09 minutes West 802.01 feet to pipe monument No. 21; thence South 29 degrees 52 minutes West 429.81 feet to pipe monument No. 20; thence North 60 degrees 07 minutes West 1803.25 feet to a point in the southerly boundary line of the Tobyhanna Signal Depot Military Reservation; thence North 29 degrees 52 minutes East 100 feet, more or less, to the southeasterly line of an existing road; thence on a straight line in a northwesterly direction being the line of perimeter fence if extended southeasterly 150 feet, more or less, to the southeasterly corner of said existing perimeter fence; thence in a northwesterly direction along said perimeter fence a distance of 6600 feet, more or less, to the northwesterly corner of said perimeter fence; thence leaving said fence in a northerly direction and at a distance of 25 feet easterly of and parallel to the center line of State Route No. 45036 a distance of 4180 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing 1265.81 acres, more or less.

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.