Chap. 494.—An ACT to give consent of this state to purchase by the
United States of a lot of land in the city of Portsmouth, for the use
of the lighthouse board.

Approved March 5, 1888.

Whereas the government of the United States desires to
purchase a site of land for the use of the lighthouse board,
fronting on the Elizabeth river, in that part of Portsmouth
called Gosport, said land adjoining the property now owned
ty said United States and binding on Water or First and

enry streets in said city; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the — assembly of Virginia, That
the consent of the general assembly of this state is hereby
‘given to the said purchase, so that congress may exercise
such authority and jurisdiction over the place so purchased,
as is within the contemplation of the seventeenth clause of
the eighth section of the first article of the constitution ot
the United States.

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2. This state retains concurrent jurisdiction with the Uni-
ted States over the said place or site, so that courts, magis-
trates, and officers of the state may take such cognizance,
execute such processes, and discharge such other legal func-
tions within the same as may not be incompatible with the
consent hereby given.

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 lighthouse 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 improve-
ments to be erected thereon for the purpose aforesaid, are
hereby exempted from all taxes imposed by this state, or by
the constituted authorities of the said city of Portsmouth,
80 long as the United States shall be and remain the owners
thereof.

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