Pennsylvania Act 1951-28 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

Act text

ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                  Act of Apr. 12, 1951, P.L. 214, No. 28              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 city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,
        Pennsylvania, containing approximately two hundred forty-
        seven 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 city of
     Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for use as a site
     for a Veterans' Administration Hospital, bounded and described
     as follows:
        Beginning at a point on the West line of Campania Avenue, at
     the intersection of said West line with the center line of
     Fishel Street; thence leaving said Avenue South 45 degrees
     23'07" West, a distance of 932.73 feet to a point in the center
     line of an unnamed street, at its intersection with the
     Northerly line of East Chester Street; thence along the center
     line of said unnamed street North 20 degrees 15'46" West, a
     distance of 734.13 feet to a point; thence continuing along the
     center line of said street North 30 degrees 19'38" West, a
     distance of 198.02 feet to a point; thence South 45 degrees
     26'07" West, a distance of 471.51 feet to a post, said post
     being a St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery property corner; thence by
     land of St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery and land of the City of
     Pittsburgh North 02 degrees 29'29" West, a distance of 1545.57
     feet to a point; thence along the Northerly line of land of the
     City of Pittsburgh North 77 degrees 12'40" West, a distance of
     1814.73 feet to a point on land of the Pennsylvania Railroad
     Company; thence along the Easterly line of said Railroad Company
     land North 01 degree 20'51" East, a distance of 1345.25 feet to
     a point; thence along the Southerly line of said Railroad
     Company land, the following courses and distances: South 88
     degrees 37'09" East, 978.74 feet; South 00 degree 07'09" East,
     165.00 feet; South 88 degrees 37'09" East, 692.59 feet; South 02
     degrees 28'10" East, 78.01 feet; South 80 degrees 52'09" East,
     1437.15 feet, and North 07 degrees 37'51" East, 418.18 feet to
     the Southerly right of way line of Allegheny River Boulevard;
     thence along said right of way line South 79 degrees 32'31"
     East, a distance of 1209.74 feet to a point; thence leaving said
     right of way line and along the Westerly line of Pennsylvania
     Railroad Company land South 08 degrees 07'51" West, a distance
     of 173.22 feet; thence along the Southerly line of said Railroad
     Company land, the following courses and distances: South 78
     degrees 51'09" East, 330.00 feet; South 76 degrees 52'09" East,
     237.60 feet; South 69 degrees 07'09" East, 190.00 feet; South 83
     degrees 09'09" East, 271.00 feet; thence along the Easterly line
     of said Railroad Company land North 21 degrees 27'51" East, a
     distance of 132.00 feet; thence along the Southerly line of said
     Railroad Company land South 75 degrees 17'09" East, a distance
     of 40.00 feet to a common corner of said Railroad Company land
     and land now or formerly of P. A. Caslin; thence along adjoining
     land now or formerly of said Caslin, the following courses and
     distances: South 19 degrees 12'10" West, 796.62 feet; South 88
     degrees 21'08" West, 280.98 feet; South 19 degrees 12'10" West,
     530.80 feet; South 64 degrees 57'10" West, 89.61 feet; South 58
     degrees 27'10" West, 165.00 feet; South 51 degrees 58'20" West,
     162.13 feet, and South 41 degrees 43'12" East, 355.65 feet to
     the center line of Verona Boulevard, a proposed street; thence
     along said center line and along adjoining land now or formerly
     of Mrs. S. Rockstein Barrett Heirs and Sisters of Divine
     Providence, the following courses and distances: South 46
     degrees 10'16" West, 1439.91 feet; North 33 degrees 38'12" West,
     13.40 feet, and South 56 degrees 21'48" West, 6.18 feet to the
     Easterly line of Ebel Street; thence along the Easterly line of
     Ebel Street North 25 degrees 16'12" West, a distance of 382.65
     feet, and North 00 degree 49'14" East, a distance of 147.17
     feet; thence leaving the Easterly line of Ebel Street North 89
     degrees 10'46" West, a distance of 145.85 feet; thence South 64
     degrees 47'14" West, a distance of 10.15 feet to the center line
     of Keen Way; thence North 12 degrees 10'46" West, a distance of
     51.34 feet; thence South 64 degrees 47'14" West, a distance of
     139.90 feet to the Easterly line of Campania Avenue; thence
     along the Easterly line of Campania Avenue South 25 degrees
     12'47" East, a distance of 277.46 feet to the Northerly line of
     Fishel Street; thence South 45 degrees 23'07" West, a distance
     of 53.02 feet to the Westerly line of Campania Avenue; thence
     along the Westerly line of Campania Avenue South 25 degrees
     12'47" East, a distance of 26.51 feet to the point of beginning.
        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.