Pennsylvania Act 1947-341 — 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. 795, No. 341              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 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County,
        Pennsylvania, containing approximately fifty-one acres, for
        the 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 Wilkes-
     Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, for use as a site for a
     Veterans' Administration Hospital bounded and described as
     follows:
        Beginning at an iron pin set for a corner on the southerly
     right-of-way line of the State Highway, new Route No. 169,
     leading to Bear Creek, and in the southwesterly side line of
     lands of George Skelton; thence, from said beginning point and
     along the line of lands of George Skelton and along the line of
     lands of Parsons and Flick Estates, South 49 degrees 17' East,
     447.93 feet to an iron pin set for a corner; thence, from said
     pin South 14 degrees 01' West, 1246.77 feet to an iron pin set
     for a corner on the northerly right-of-way line of the State
     Highway, old Route No. 169; thence, from said pin along the
     northerly right-of-way line of said State Highway, old Route No.
     169, North 68 degrees 43 1/2' West 1921.88 feet to a point at
     the intersection of the said northerly right-of-way line of the
     State Highway, old Route No. 169, with the easterly right-of-way
     line of the State Highway, Route No. 515; thence, from said
     point and along the easterly, northerly and southeasterly right-
     of-way line of the said State Highway, Route No. 515 by the
     following eight straight and curved lines: (1) North 21 degrees
     16 1/2' East, 25.00 feet to a point; and thence, (2) North 68
     degrees 43 1/2' West, 25.00 feet to a point of curve; and
     thence, (3) by a curve to the right in a northwesterly
     direction, having a radius of 100.00 feet with a chord course of
     North 22 degrees 03 3/4' West, and a chord distance of 145.45
     feet and an arc right-of-way line distance of 162.88 feet to a
     point of compound curve; and thence, (4) by a curve to the right
     in a northeasterly direction, having a radius of 1382.69 feet
     with a chord course of North 36 degrees 35' East, and a chord
     distance of 573.40 feet and an arc right-of-way line distance of
     577.57 feet to a spike on said right-of-way line; and thence,
     (5) by a curve to the right in a northeasterly direction, having
     a radius of 1382.69 feet with a chord course of North 51 degrees
     25' East, and a chord distance of 141.31 feet and an arc right-
     of-way line distance of 141.38 feet to a point; and thence, (6)
     South 35 degrees 36 1/2' East, 25.00 feet to a point; and
     thence, (7) by a curve to the right in a northeasterly
     direction, having a radius of 1357.69 feet, with a chord course
     of North 58 degrees 28 1/2' East, and a chord distance of 193.30
     feet and an arc right-of-way line distance of 193.44 feet to a
     point; and thence, (8) by a curve to the right in a
     northeasterly direction, having a radius of 1357.69 feet, with a
     chord course of North 65 degrees 19' East, and a chord distance
     of 131.56 feet and an arc right-of-way line distance of 131.62
     feet to a point at the intersection of the southeasterly right-
     of-way line of State Highway, Route No. 515 with the southerly
     right-of-way line of the first above mentioned State Highway,
     new Route No. 169 leading to Bear Creek; thence, from said point
     and along the southerly right-of-way line of said State Highway,
     new Route No. 169, South 87 degrees 29' East 1071.72 feet to the
     line of lands of George Skelton the place of beginning,
     containing approximately 50.798 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.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     its final enactment.