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. |