Pennsylvania Act 1947-342 — 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. 797, No. 342              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 township of Logan, Blair County,
        Pennsylvania, containing approximately twenty-three 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 township of
     Logan, Blair County, Pennsylvania, for use as a site for a
     Veterans' Administration Hospital, bounded and described as
     follows:
        Beginning at an iron pin at the most southerly corner of the
     intersection of Pleasant Valley Boulevard and Twenty-seventh
     Street; thence, South 42 degrees 07' East, a distance of 1072.46
     feet to an iron pin on the northwesterly boundary line of lands
     now or formerly of D. Robert Menchey; thence, South 25 degrees
     51' West, along the said northwesterly boundary line, a distance
     of 806.92 feet to a point; thence, North 64 degrees 09' West, a
     distance of 994.14 feet, more or less, to the southeasterly line
     of Pleasant Valley Boulevard; thence, North 25 degrees 51' East,
     along the southeasterly line of Pleasant Valley Boulevard a
     distance of 1209.25 feet, more or less, to the beginning,
     containing approximately 23 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.