Pennsylvania Act 1949-8 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                   Act of Mar. 5, 1949, P.L. 21, No. 8                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 Erie County, Pennsylvania, for use as 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 or parcel of land lying in the City
     of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, for use as a veterans'
     administration hospital, bounded and described as follows:
        Commencing at an iron pipe located at the most southerly
     corner of the intersection of East 38th Street Boulevard and Old
     French Road, said iron pipe being designated as Station
     Y714,227.36/X1,372,646.08; thence, southerly, along the westerly
     line of Old French Road a distance of 305.0 feet to an iron pin,
     the point of beginning; thence, continuing southerly, and along
     the westerly line of Old French Road, a distance of 819.15 feet
     to an angle iron; thence, South 65 degrees 08' West a distance
     of 901.9 feet to an iron pipe; thence, North 24 degrees 38' West
     a distance of 1071.9 feet to an ironwood tree located on the
     southerly line of East 38th Street Boulevard; thence,
     northeasterly, along the southerly line of East 38th Street
     Boulevard, a distance of 809.5 feet to a point; thence, South 24
     degrees 34' East, a distance of 288.8 feet to a point; thence,
     North 65 degrees 05' East, a distance of 319.1 feet to the point
     of beginning, containing approximately 23.503 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, dockyards 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.