Pennsylvania Act 1943-235 — 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. 533, No. 235              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 Crawford County, Pennsylvania, known as the Keystone
        Ordnance Plant, 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 in Crawford County,
     Pennsylvania, known as the Keystone Ordnance Plant, bounded and
     described as follows:
        Beginning at a point, at the intersection of the line between
     Crawford and Mercer Counties and the township line between
     Greenwood Township and East Fallow Field Township; thence: North
     along said line between Greenwood Township and East Fallow Field
     Township to a point at its intersection with the R/W line of
     highway No. 462; thence: Northeasterly and Northerly along the
     R/W line of highway No. 462 to its intersection with R/W line of
     highway No. 367; thence: Easterly, Northerly, and Northeasterly
     along the R/W line of highway No. 367 to its intersection with
     the most Northerly corner of the O. C. Blair 3.7 ac. tract, and
     the Southwesterly corner of the H. J. Mellon 1.6 ac. tract,
     thence: Northwesterly and Northeasterly along said Mellon tract
     to its intersection with the West line of Martha Westcott 160.4
     ac. tract; thence: Continuing Northwardly along to the West line
     of the said Westcott tract to the N. W. corner of said tract;
     thence: Easterly along the Northerly line of the said Westcott
     tract to the S. W. corner of the Lillian Hood 42.0 ac. tract;
     thence: Northwardly, Eastwardly, and Southwardly along the said
     Hood tract to the S. E. corner of said Hood tract; thence:
     Eastwardly along the North line of Lillian Hood 37.0 ac. tract,
     Howard Adsit 15.3 ac. tract, and Joseph Campanio 55.3 ac. tract
     to the N. E. corner of said Campanio tract; thence: N. 61
     degrees 3.4 ch. to a point; thence: N. 81 degrees 30' E. 16.5
     ch. to the S. W. corner of J. L. Smith 71.2 ac. tract; thence:
     Northwardly and Eastwardly along the said J. L. Smith tract to
     its N. E. corner; thence: N. 89 degrees 30' E. 25 ch. to a
     point; thence: S. 0 degrees 30' E. along the E. line of Raymond
     Bossard 73.2 ac. tract to the N. W. corner of Mrs. Harvey Clark
     20 ac. tract; thence: Eastwardly along the N. line of the said
     Clark tract, the J. R. Clark 20 ac. tract, J. Forestwood 11 ac.
     tract and Mrs. Pearl Bigusiak 272.0 ac. tract to the most
     Westerly corner of the J. R. Clark 7.15 ac. tract; thence:
     Northeastwardly and Southeastwardly along said J. R. Clark tract
     to its S. E. corner and the line of said Mrs. Pearl Bigusiak 272
     ac. tract; thence: Eastwardly, Northeastwardly, Southeastwardly,
     Westwardly, Southwardly, Westwardly and Southwestwardly to its
     intersections with highway No. 508; thence: Southwestwardly
     along said highway No. 508 to its intersection with the N. W.
     corner of the J. J. Flanigan 134.0 ac. tract; thence: East 9.9
     ch. to a point; South 12.1 ch. to a point; S. 88 degrees 30' E.
     23.0 ch. to a point; South 1 degree 30' W. 18.4 ch. to a point;
     S. 88 degrees E. 6.1 ch. to a point; S. 1 degree W. 17.5 ch. to
     a point; N. 88 degrees 30' W. 17.6 ch. to a point; S. 3 degrees
     30' W. 13.1 ch. to its intersection with the North line of Parr
     Dole 86.4 ac. tract; thence: Eastwardly and Southwardly along
     said Dole tract to its intersection with highway No. 367;
     thence: Eastwardly along highway No. 367 to its intersection
     with U. S. Highway No. 19; thence: Southwardly 17.83 ch. along
     U. S. Highway No. 19 to the S. E. corner of Price Williams 20.9
     ac. tract; thence: In a general Southwestwardly direction along
     the South line of the said Price Williams tract to its S. W.
     corner; thence: Southwardly to the North line of F. M. Vogan
     75.0 ac. tract; thence: Southwestwardly and Southeastwardly
     along the North line of said Vogan tract to its intersection
     with Loper Road; thence: Southwardly along Loper Road to the N.
     W. corner of Raymond Peterson 4.46 ac. tract; thence:
     Eastwardly, Southwardly, and Westwardly to the S. W. corner of
     the said Peterson tract and the intersection of Loper Road;
     thence: Southwardly along the said Loper Road to its
     intersection with the Crawford, Mercer Counties line; thence:
     Westwardly along said common line between Mercer and Crawford
     Counties, to the point of beginning containing 13,891.65 acres
     in East Fallow Field Township.
        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.