Chap. 153.—An ACT Giving the Consent of this State to the Purchase by
the United States, of a lot of Land, in the city of Portsmouth, for the
use of a Light House Board.

Approved June 27, 1870.

Whereas, the government of the United States desires to
purchase a site of land, for the use of the light house board, in
that part of the city of Portsmouth called Gosport, said land
binding on Randolph and Water streets, in said city, as will
more fully appear by the boundaries defined in the deed
of sale to be executed by Mary Ann Hatton and Samuel
Watts: )

1. Be it therefore enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That the consent of the general assembly of this state
is hereby given to the said purchase, so that congress may ex-
ercise such authority and jurisdiction over the place so pur-
chased as is within the contemplation of the seventeenth clause
of the eighth section of tlre first article of the constitution of
the United States.

2. This state retains concurrent jurisdiction with the United
States over the said place or site, so that courts, magistrates,
and officers of the state may take such cognizance, execute such
processes, and discharge such other legal functions within the
same, as may not be incompatible with the consent hereby

iven. :

3. That if the purposes of this grant shall cease, or if there
shall be for five years consecutively a failure on the part of the
United States or the light house board to use said place for
the purpose herein expressed, then the jurisdiction herein
granted shall cease.

4, The said lot of land and the buildings and improvements
to be erected thereon for the Purpose aforesaid, are hereby
exempted from all taxes imposed by this state, or by the con-
stituted authorities of the said city of Portsmouth, so long as
the United States shall be and remain the owners thereof.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.