Pennsylvania Act 1953-225 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                 Act of Jul. 28, 1953, P.L. 699, No. 225              Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquistion by the United States of America of two parcels of
        land situate in the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
        County, State of Pennsylvania, containing in the aggregate
        approximately 14.9799 acres, to be used 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 two parcels of land situate in the City of
     Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, State of Pennsylvania, to be
     used for a Veterans Administration Hospital.
                                 Parcel 1
        Beginning at the point of intersection of the Southeasterly
     line of Woodland Avenue and the Southwesterly line of University
     Avenue; thence along the Southwesterly line of University
     Avenue, the following five courses and distances: (1) South 64
     degrees 41'53" East a distance of 270.589 feet to a point of
     curve; thence (2) on a line extending in a Southeasterly
     direction on a curve to the right having a radius of 455 feet an
     arc distance of 302.456 feet to a point of compound curve;
     thence (3) on a line extending in a Southerly direction on a
     curve to the right having a radius of 1924.810 feet an arc
     distance of 1024.355 feet to a point of tangent; thence (4)
     South 3 degrees 52'50" West a distance of 155.838 feet to a
     point of curve; thence (5) on a line extending in a
     Southeasterly direction on a curve to the left having a radius
     of 393.365 feet an arc distance of 171.638 feet to a point of
     tangent; thence leaving the Southwesterly line of University
     Avenue South 88 degrees 42'00" West a distance of 290.110 feet
     to a point; thence North 0 degree 23'40" West a distance of
     394.560 feet to a point; thence North 48 degrees 02'56" West a
     distance of 113.678 feet to a point; thence North 22 degrees
     48'00" West a distance of 144.492 feet to a point; thence North
     18 degrees 19'03" West a distance of 68.600 feet to a point;
     thence North 27 degrees 03'16" West a distance of 59.324 feet to
     a point; thence North 34 degrees 34'22" West a distance of
     53.044 feet to a point; thence North 42 degrees 29'40" West a
     distance of 57.893 feet to a point; thence North 50 degrees
     29'17" West a distance of 599.837 feet to a point; thence North
     58 degrees 03'28" West a distance of 64.214 feet to a point;
     thence North 7 degrees 06'59" East a distance of 297.077 feet to
     a point; thence North 11 degrees 22'10" West a distance of
     240.410 feet to a point; thence North 34 degrees 24'09" West a
     distance of 232.383 feet to a point on the Southeasterly line of
     Woodland Avenue; thence following the Southeasterly line of
     Woodland Avenue North 70 degrees 18'07" East a distance of
     129.766 feet to the point of beginning. Containing approximately
     14.7841 acres.
                                 Parcel 2
        Commencing at a point on the Southeasterly line of Woodland
     Avenue, said point being the point of curve of the curve
     connecting the Southeasterly line of Woodland Avenue with the
     Northeasterly line of University Avenue; thence North 70 degrees
     18'07" East a distance of 83.032 feet to a point; thence South
     26 degrees 36'41" East a distance of 252.019 feet to the point
     of beginning; thence from said point of beginning South 26
     degrees 36'41" East a distance of 197.998 feet to a point;
     thence along a continuation of said line South 26 degrees 36'41"
     East a distance of 291.723 feet to a point; thence South 61
     degrees 28'36" West a distance of 27.406 feet to a point on the
     Northeasterly line of University Avenue; thence on a line
     extending in a Northwesterly direction on a curve to the left
     having a radius of 2014.810 feet an arc distance of 293.677 feet
     to a point of compound curve; thence continuing in a
     Northwesterly direction on a curve to the left having a radius
     of 545 feet an arc distance of 264.504 feet to a point; thence
     South 79 degrees 00'50" East a distance of 83.588 feet to the
     beginning. Containing approximately 0.1958 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.