Pennsylvania Act 1943-239 — 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. 539, No. 239              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 the City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
        known as the Philadelphia Armor Plate 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 a
     tract of land in the Forty-first Ward of the City and County of
     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point on the Southeasterly side of Wissinoming
     Street (sixty (60) feet wide) at the distance of fifteen hundred
     twenty-eight (1,528) feet, three and three-quarter (3 3/4)
     inches measured North sixty-one (61) degrees, thirty-three (33)
     minutes, thirty-five (35) seconds East from a point, the
     intersection of the said side of Wissinoming Street with the
     Northeasterly side of Unruh Street (sixty (60) feet wide);
     thence extending North sixty-one (61) degrees, thirty-three (33)
     minutes, thirty-five (35) seconds East, along the said
     Southeasterly side of Wissinoming Street, sixty (60) feet, five-
     eighths (5/8) of an inch to a point; thence extending South
     twenty-eight (28) degrees, twenty-six (26) minutes, twenty-five
     (25) seconds East ninety-nine (99) feet, eight (8) inches to a
     point; thence extending North sixty-one (61) degrees, thirty-
     three (33) minutes, thirty-five (35) seconds East eighty-two
     (82) feet three and three-quarter (3 3/4) inches to a point in
     the line of land of the Kensington and Tacony Railroad; thence
     extending along the line of land of the Kensington and Tacony
     Railroad the three following courses and distances, to wit:
        (1)  South five (5) degrees, six (6) minutes, seven (7)
     seconds East one hundred twenty-two (122) feet, three and one-
     eighth (3 1/8) inches to a point;
        (2)  North eighty-four (84) degrees, fifty-three (53)
     minutes, fifty-three (53) seconds East, seventeen (17) feet to a
     point;
        (3)  South five (5) degrees, six (6) minutes, seven (7)
     seconds East one hundred ninety-seven (197) feet six (6) inches
     to a point on the Northwesterly side of Milner Street (sixty
     (60) feet wide) (stricken from the City Plan by Ordinance of
     Council, dated November 28, 1939, and amended December 27,
     1939); thence extending South sixty-one (61) degrees, thirty-
     three (33) minutes, thirty-five (35) seconds West, along the
     said Northwesterly side of Milner Street, thirty-one (31) feet,
     three and five-eighths (3 5/8) inches to a point; thence
     extending North twenty-eight (28) degrees, twenty-six (26)
     minutes, twenty-five (25) seconds West, along the line of land
     about to be conveyed by Henry Disston and Sons, Inc., to the
     United States of America, four hundred (400) feet to the first
     mentioned point and place of beginning, containing 20.49 acres.
        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.