Chap. 158.—An ACT Giving the Consent of the State for the Purchase
by the United States of Land within this State for the Erection of
Light Houses,

Approved March 11, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the consent of the state be and the same is hereby given to
the purchase by the government of the United States, or under
the authority of the same, of any tract, niece or parcel of land,
from any individual or individuals, bodies politic or corporate,
within the boundaries or limits of the state, for the purpose of
erecting thereon light houses, and other needful public build-
ings connected therewith, and all deeds, conveyances of title-
papers for the same, shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon
the land records of the county in which the land so conveyed
may lie; and in hke manner may be recorded a sufficient de-
scription, by metes and bounds, courses and distances, of any
tract or tracts, legal divisions, of any public land belonging to
the United States, which may be set apart by the general gov-
ernment for any or either of the purposes before mentioned,
by an order, patent or other official document or papers so
describing such land; the consent herein and hereby given
being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth
section of the first article of the constitution of the United
States, and with the acts of congress in such cases made and
provided.

But this consent is given subject to the following terms and
conditions, to wit:

First. That this state retains concurrent jurisdiction with
the United States over all such tracts, pieces or parcels of
land, so that 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 incom-
patible with the consent hereby given.

Second. That if the purposes of any such grant should
cease, or there should be, for five years consecutively, a failure
on the part of the United States to use any of such lands for
the purpose above stated, then the jurisdiction hereby ceded
shall cease and determine, as to the place so failing to be used,
and the same shall revert to the commonwealth of Virginia.

2. The lots, parcels or tracts of land so selected, together
with the tenements and appurtenances for the purposes before
mentioned, shall be held exempt from taxation so long as the
United States shall be and remain the owners thereof.

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