Chap. 57.—An ACT making the provision of the act entitled “An act
ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands
acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the
acquisition thereof,” approved the 16th day of March, A. D., nineteen
hundred and eighteen and as amended by an act approved March 24,
1922, applicable to the old Cape Charles Lighthouses Reservation, on
Smith Island, in the county of Northampton. [H B 61]

Approved March 21, 1928.

Whereas, the government of the United States, by deed of
George W. P. Custis, dated the ninth day of June, anno domini,
eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, acquired title to a certain
tract of land on the easterly side of Smith island, in the county
of Northampton as a site for the Cape Charles lighthouse; and,

Whereas, no act of the general assembly of the State of
Virginia ceded jurisdiction thereover to the United States, as
contemplated by the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of
the first article of the Constitution of the United States; and,

Whereas, the said land is no longer required for lighthouse
purposes, but is required by the United States for coast guard
purposes; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the provisions of the act entitled “An act ceding to the United
States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for
public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisi-
tion thereof,” approved the sixteenth day of March, anno
domini, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended by an act
approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two shall be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the
said land on Smith island, in the county of Northampton. The
provisions of this act shall not be effective until the congress of
the United States shall have passed on act authorizing the trans-
fer of the aforesaid land from the department of commerce to
the treasury department.