Pennsylvania Act 1947-340 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                 Act of Jun. 21, 1947, P.L. 793, No. 340              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 the city of Harrisburg, Dauphin County,
        Pennsylvania, containing approximately twenty-seven acres,
        for use as a site for a Veterans' Administration Hospital,
        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 city of
     Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for use as a site for
     a Veterans' Administration Hospital, bounded and described as
     follows:
        Beginning at a point in the center of a manhole cover located
     at the intersection of the center lines of Rudy Road and Twenty-
     fifth Street; and running thence, North 87 degrees 53' East, a
     distance of 691.1 feet to an iron pin; thence, South 3 degrees
     00' East, a distance of 1150 feet to a pin; thence, South 87
     degrees 53' West, a distance of 1062.6 feet to a point; thence,
     North 2 degrees 40' West, a distance of 115 feet to a point;
     thence, North 2 degrees 22' West, a distance of 328.25 feet to a
     point; thence, North 3 degrees 32' West, a distance of 384.73
     feet to a stone; thence, North 7 degrees 44' East, a distance of
     182.4 feet to a point; thence, North 65 degrees 17' East, a
     distance of 374.1 feet to the point of beginning, containing
     approximately twenty-seven acres.
        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.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.