Pennsylvania Act 1947-242 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                 Act of Jun. 10, 1947, P.L. 533, No. 242              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 or parcel of land in York County, Pennsylvania, for use
        in connection with the New Cumberland General 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 certain tract or parcel of land lying in Fairview
     Township, York County, Pennsylvania for use in connection with a
     military reservation, officially designated New Cumberland
     General Depot, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point, said point being South 19 degrees, 9';
     West 784 feet, more or less, from a concrete monument set in the
     center line of Springer Lane; South 77 degrees, 6'; East 117.80
     feet, more or less, from the established Southwest corner of the
     lands of the United States Government and the common Northwest
     corner of the lands of John J. Kestrevec the five following
     courses and distances: through the lands of John J. Kestrevec
     South 81 degrees, 32'; East 187.84 feet, more or less, South 08
     degrees, 28'; West 385 feet, more or less; North 81 degrees,
     32'; West 440 feet, more or less; North 08 degrees, 28'; East
     385 feet, more or less, and South 81 degrees, 32'; East 252.16
     feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. Containing 3.88
     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.