Chap. 325.—An ACT in Relation to the Establishment, in the State of Vir-
ginia, of a Branch of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,
and to Cede Jurisdiction to the United States over a Tract of Land in the
State of Virginia, not exceeding Five Hundred Acres, for that purpose.

Approved July 11, 1870.

Whereas, the board of managers of the National asylum for
disabled soldiers look with favor upon the state of Virginia as
possessing such advantages of climate and easy access as ren-
der it desirable to locate within her borders a branch asylum ;
and whereas, the necessary expenditures for buildings and
other improvements can be mare by said board of managers
only upon property under the control of the national govern-
ment: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the con-
sent of the legislature of this state is hereby given to the
board of managers of the National asylum for disabled volun-
teer soldiers, to locate a branch of that establishment in the
state of Virginia; and such jurisdiction is hereby ceded to
the United States over a tract of land, not exceeding five hun-
dred acres, to be selected by the board of managers, for the
purpose of locating thereon such branch asylum, a full descrip-
tion of which tract shall be filed in the office of the secretary
of the commonwealth, as is within the contemplation of the
seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of
the constitution of the United States. But this cession is
made subject to the following terms and conditions:

First—That the state retains concurrent jurisdiction with the
United States over the same piece or parcel of land, so that
the courts, magistrates, and officers of this state, may take such
cognizance, execute such process, and discharge such other
legal functions within the same, as may not be incompatible
with the consent hereby given.

Second—That if said branch asylum be not erected on said
land within five years from the passage of this act, or thovgn
it should be erected within that time, if, by reason of its fall-
ing into decay, or otherwise, there should be a failure to use
it for that purpose for five years, then the consent hereby given
shall cease and determine: provided, however, that no inmate
of any institution erected in this commonwealth, under the
rovisions of this act or of the act of congress therein re-
erred to, shall vote or hold office within this state.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.