Pennsylvania Act 1945-57 — CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITED STATES

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CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITED STATES
                  Act of Apr. 4, 1945, P.L. 126, No. 57               Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of approximately
        sixty-five acres of land in the Fortieth Ward of the City of
        Philadelphia, known as the Naval Ammunition Depot at Fort
        Mifflin, 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 two parcels of land in the Fortieth Ward of the City
     of Philadelphia, known as the Naval Ammunition Depot at Fort
     Mifflin; the first parcel consisting of Tracts 4, 5, and 6A
     containing 49.0823 acres, more or less, bounded and described as
     follows:
        Beginning at the most Northerly corner of Tract No. 1, of the
     lands under condemnation by the United States of America, (Civil
     2811, filed October 8, 1942) said point being in the center line
     of Fort or Fort Mifflin Road, a distance of 192.126 feet along
     the center line of said road on a bearing, South 29  31' 41"
     East from an angle in said road; thence South 46  39' 19" West
     with the westerly line of said lands under condemnation, 52.751
     feet to a point; thence South 30  28' 00" West with the westerly
     line of said lands under condemnation 1943.000 feet to a point;
     thence leaving said lands and across the lands of the City of
     Philadelphia, North 56  21' 28" West 550.824 feet to the most
     Southerly corner of the lands of Mary Louise Lowrey; thence
     North 43  24' 15" West with the Southerly line of said Lowrey
     lands 210.836 feet to the most Southerly corner of the lands of
     Edgar N. Black and Daniel N. Black; thence continuing North 43
     24' 15" West with the Southerly line of the lands of said Edgar
     N. Black and Daniel N. Black, 41.049 feet to a point in the
     center line of the 20 foot wide macadam roadway known as Hog
     Island Road; thence North 25  45' 24" East 54.453 feet to an
     angle in said road; thence North 3  13' 10" East with said
     center line, 564.419 feet to an angle in said road; thence North
     6  07' 52" East with said center line, 273.901 feet to the
     Northwesterly line of the lands of Edgar N. Black and Daniel N.
     Black; thence North 46  39' 19" East with said Northwesterly
     line, 1583.992 feet to a point in the center line of Fort
     Mifflin road aforementioned, said point being 1487.122 feet
     Southeasterly along said Fort Mifflin road from the
     Southeasterly line of Penrose Ferry Road; thence South 29  17'
     41" East with the center line of said Fort Mifflin Road, 645.827
     feet to the most Northerly corner of the lands of Mary Louise
     Lowrey; thence continuing South 29  17' 41" East with said
     center line, 25.017 feet to an angle in said road; thence South
     29  31' 41" East with said center line, 192.126 feet to the
     point of beginning.
        The second parcel consisting of Tract 9A, containing 16.248
     acres, more or less, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at the Northwesterly corner of Tract No. 2 of the
     lands under condemnation by the United States of America (Civil
     2811, filed October 8, 1942) said point being on the stone
     Bulkhead and Pierhead line; thence South 39  20' 19" West with
     the Westerly line of said Tract and the Southwesterly extension
     thereof, 1671.307 feet to a monument in the center line of Fort
     Mifflin road, said monument marking the Northwest corner of the
     old Lazaretto property; thence with said center line North 29
     17' 41" West 527.237 feet thence across the lands of the City of
     Philadelphia, North 39  20' 19" East 907.5 feet, more or less,
     to an iron pipe; thence continuing North 39  20' 19" East a
     distance of 15.513 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North
     39  20' 19" East 186.357 feet, more or less, to a point; thence
     North 66  20' 19" East 186.357 feet, more or less, to a point on
     the stone Bulkhead Line as approved September 4, 1908, on the
     west bank of the Schuylkill River; thence along said stone
     Bulkhead Line South 77  17' 41" east 454.636 feet, more or less,
     to the point of beginning.
        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.