CHAP. 260.—An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United
States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the
purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building
for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.

Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to
Sewell’s Point Spit and the land adjacent thereto, covered by
the navigable waters belonging to the state, for the distance of
one and a quarter miles northward from buoy number three, as
laid down in coast chart number thirty-one, Chesapeake bay,
sheet number one of the United States coast survey, for a site
or sites for the establishment of a quarantine station and the
erection of suitable buildings for a hospital, and of one or more
separate buildings for the care of the sick and for the tempo-
rary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels arriving in
Hampton Roads, and shall, by a duly authorized agent of the
United States, make application therefor, describing the site
required for the said purposes and the area thereof, then the
governor of the state is authorized and empowered to convey
to the United States the said site or sites, and to cede to the
United States jurisdiction over the same: provided, that the
land conveyed and ceded shall not contain more than acres.

2. All the land and privileges over which jurisdiction is
hereby ceded, and the buildings and property which may be
placed thereon by the United States, shall be exempt from tax-
-ation so long as the same shall be used for the said purposes
hereinbefore mentioned: provided, that nothing in this act
shall take away or interfere with the jurisdiction of this state
for the purpose of serving and executing any legal process:
and provided further, that the title to the said land so conveyed
‘to the United States shall escheat and the possession thereof
revert to the state, unless said quarantine is established and

rate said road: provided, that said turnpike road shall not be
less than thirty feet nor more than sixty feet in width; and the
said company, in the construction of said turnpike road, shall
have the right to cross any and all public roads in its route.

7. The said company is hereby authorized to receive and
hold land or other species of property in payment of subscrip-
tions to its capital stock, and to convey or otherwise dispose of
the same: provided, that it shall not at any one time hold
more than two thousand acres of land.

8. It shall be lawful for the said company and the board of
supervisors of Norfolk county to enter into a contract for the
sale, lease, or other disposition of the county bridge over Deep
Creek river to said company.

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

Chap. 260.—An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United
States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the
purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building
for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.

‘Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to
Sewell’s Point Spit and the land adjacent thereto, covered by
the navigable waters belonging to the state, for the distance of
one and a quarter miles northward from buoy number three, as
laid down in coast chart number thirty-one, Chesapeake bay,
sheet number one of the United States coast survey, for a site
or sites for the establishment of a quarantine station and the
erection of suitable buildings for a hospital, and of one or more
separate buildings for the care of the sick and for the tempo-
rary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels arriving in
Hampton Roads, and shall, by a duly authorized agent of the
United States, make application therefor, describing the site
required for the said purposes and the area thereof, then the
governor of the state is authorized and empowered to convey
to the United States the said site or sites, and to cede to the
United States jurisdiction over the same: provided, that the
land conveyed and ceded shall not contain more than acres.

2. All the land and privileges over which jurisdiction is
hereby ceded, and the buildings and property which may be
placed thereon by the United States, shall be exempt from tax-
-ation so long as the same shall be used for the said purposes
hereinbefore mentioned: provided, that nothing in this act
shall take away or interfere with the jurisdiction of this state
for the purpose of serving and executing any legal process:
and provided further, that the title to the said land so conveyed
‘to the United States shall escheat and the possession thereof
revert to the state, unless said quarantine is established and

rate said road: provided, that said turnpike road shall not be:
less than thirty feet nor more than sixty feet in width; and the |
said company, in the construction of said turnpike road, shall -
have the right to cross any and all public roads in its route.

7. The said company is hereby authorized to receive and |
hold land or other species of property in payment of subscrip- ;
tions to its capital stock, and to convey or otherwise dispose of §
the same: provided, that it shall not at any one time hold.
more than two thousand acres of land.

8. It shall be lawful for the said company and the board of |
supervisors of Norfolk county to enter into a contract for the
sale, lease, or other disposition of the county bridge over Deep
Creek river to said company.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage. !

Chap. 260.—An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United
States of title to and jurisdiction over Sewell’s Point Spit. for the
purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital and erecting a building
for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.

“Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be i it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to'
Sewell’s Point Spit and the land adjacent thereto, covered by.
the navigable waters belonging to the state, for the distance of ;
one and a quarter miles northward from buoy number three, as
laid down in coast chart number thirty-one, Chesapeake bay,
sheet number one of the United States coast survey, for a site
or sites for the establishment of a quarantine station and the
erection of suitable buildings for a hospital, and of one or more
separate buildings for the care of the sick and for the tempo-
rary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels arriving in
Hampton Roads, and shall, by a duly authorized agent of the
United States, make application therefor, describing the site
required for the said purposes and the area thereof, then the
governor of the state is authorized and empowered to convey
to the United States the said site or sites, and to cede to the
United States jurisdiction over the same: provided, that the
land conveyed and ceded shall not contain more than acres.

2. All the land and privileges over which jurisdiction is.
hereby ceded, and the buildings and property which may be.
placed thereon by the United States, shall be exempt from tax-
-ation so long as the same shall be used for the said purposes
hereinbefore mentioned: provided, that nothing in this act.
shall take away or interfere with the jurisdiction of this state
for the purpose of serving and executing any legal process:
and provided further, that the title to the said land so conveyed |
‘to the United States shall escheat and the possession thereof
revert to the state, unless said quarantine is established and