Pennsylvania Act 1945-61 — CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITES STATES

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CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITES STATES
                  Act of Apr. 4, 1945, P.L. 135, No. 61               Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of a certain
        tract of land in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, containing
        approximately sixty-four acres, for use in connection with
        the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, 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 lying in the County of
     Lebanon, Pennsylvania, for use in connection with a military
     reservation officially designated Indiantown Gap Military
     Reservation, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning for the same at a point on the center line of the
     Public Road known as State Route No. 38049, where it is
     intersected by the Easternmost right-of-way line of the Lebanon
     and Tremont Branch of the Reading Railroad Company, said place
     of beginning being marked by an iron spike, and running thence
     North 38 degrees 58' East binding on the center of said road
     47.97 feet to an iron spike, thence Southeasterly by a line
     curving toward the right with a radius of 1502.69 feet parallel
     with and 40 feet Easterly from the aforesaid Eastern right-of-
     way line of said railroad for a distance of 377.30 feet to an
     iron pipe, thence South 11 degrees 25' East still parallel with
     and 40 feet Easterly at right angles from the aforesaid Eastern
     railroad right-of-way line for a distance of 665.19 feet to an
     iron pin, thence North 49 degrees 40' East parallel with and 20
     feet at right angles Southeasterly from the Electric
     Transmission Line of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
     for a distance of 886.37 feet to an iron pipe, thence South 40
     degrees 20' East 1065.48 feet to an iron pipe, thence South 40
     degrees 42' West 753.84 feet to a concrete monument, thence
     south 2 degrees 12' East 236.05 feet to a concrete monument,
     thence South 8 degrees 33' East 284.30 feet to a concrete
     monument, thence South 2 degrees 33' West 303.27 feet to an iron
     pipe, thence North 80 degrees 39' West 34.98 feet to an iron
     pipe, thence South 6 degrees 39' West 157.58 feet to a concrete
     monument, thence South 11 degrees 34' West 256.74 feet to an
     iron pipe, thence South 1 degree 57' West 273.57 feet to an iron
     pipe, thence South 29 degrees 36' West 874 feet to an iron pipe,
     thence South 34 degrees 21' West 1083.9 feet to an iron pipe at
     the distance of 31 feet, more or less, Easterly and 50 feet
     South of a line drawn Easterly in prolongation of the South side
     of the Indiantown Gap Station, and to intersect the aforesaid
     Eastern right-of-way line of the aforementioned Railroad
     Company, and thence with and binding on said right-of-way line
     the six following courses and distances, viz: North 15 degrees
     11' East 1765 feet, North 74 degrees 49' West 100 feet, North 15
     degrees 11' East 363.97 feet, Northerly by a line curving toward
     the left with a radius of 1940.08 feet for a distance of 900.70
     feet, North 11 degrees 25' West 1665.33 feet, and Northwesterly
     by a line curving toward the left with a radius of 1462.69 feet
     for a distance of 346.34 feet to the place of beginning.
     Containing 64.298 acres, more or less.
        Section 2.  Exclusive jurisdiction in and over the aforesaid
     parcel of land 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, to
     be used by the United States for military and other public
     purposes, with the exception of roads abutting on the said land
     which are not already under the jurisdiction of the United
     States.
        Section 3.  The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States is
     granted upon the express condition that the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the
     United States in and over the land 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.