Pennsylvania Act 1945-59 — 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. 131, No. 59               Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of approximately
        five hundred fifty-seven acres of land in the Township of
        South Lebanon, County of Lebanon, and Commonwealth of
        Pennsylvania, known as the Veterans' Administration Facility
        at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 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 the Township of South
     Lebanon, County of Lebanon, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
     containing five hundred fifty-seven acres ninety-seven and
     sixty-one hundredths perches, more or less, bounded and
     described as follows:
        BEGINNING at a nail, the intersection of the center line of a
     public road known as Lebanon Rexmont Road with the center line
     of another public road known as the State Road; thence extending
     along the center line of the said Lebanon Rexmont Road, the five
     following courses and distances: (1) North 24 degrees west 77.7
     perches to a nail; (2) North 17 degrees west 70.4 perches to a
     nail; (3) North 39 1/4 degrees west 37.7 perches to a nail; (4)
     North 1/2 degree west 176.4 perches to a point, and (5) north 3
     1/2 degrees west 16.4 perches to an iron pin; thence extending
     South 84 degrees east 35.4 perches to a stone; thence extending
     South 3 1/2 degrees east 16.45 perches to a stone; thence
     extending South 81 degrees east 66.6 perches to a stone; thence
     extending North 20 1/2 degrees west 13.73 perches to a stone;
     thence extending along land of H. Risser, north 49 degrees east
     19.4 perches to a nail in the center of another public road
     called the Lebanon and Buffalo Springs Road; thence extending
     along the center of said public road by land of Adam Fernsler,
     the three following courses and distances: (1) South 37 degrees
     east 22.06 perches to a nail; (2) South 56 degrees east 28.7
     perches to a nail, and (3) South 51 degrees east 27 perches to a
     nail; thence extending along the center of said public road by
     land of Benjamin Krall, south 49 1/2 degrees east 47.4 perches
     to a nail; thence leaving said public road by said land of
     Benjamin Krall, North 67 1/2 degrees east 89.9 perches to a
     post; thence extending south 165 perches to a point in the
     center of said public road called the Lebanon and Buffalo
     Springs Road; thence extending along the center of said public
     road, North 82 degrees west 27.7 perches to a point, the
     intersection of the center of the Lebanon and Buffalo Springs
     Road with the center of a public road called the Bismark Road;
     thence extending along the center of said public road called the
     Bismark Road, the two following courses and distances: (1) South
     25 degrees east 113.2 perches to a point; and (2) south 13
     degrees east 67.9 perches to a point, the intersection of the
     center line of said Bismark Road with the center line of said
     State Road; thence extending along the center line of said State
     Road the eight following courses and distances: (1) South 84
     degrees west 14.5 perches to a point; (2) North 71 1/2 degrees
     west 28.8 perches to a stone; (3) South 76 degrees west 24.4
     perches to a point; (4) North 61 1/2 degrees west 58 perches to
     a point; (5) North 68 1/2 degrees west 65.6 perches to a point;
     (6) South 86 degrees west 53.05 perches to a nail; (7) West 19
     perches to a nail, and (8) South 48 degrees west 29.2 perches to
     the first mentioned nail, the intersection of the center line of
     said State Road with the center line of Lebanon Rexmont Road.
        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.