Chap. 338.—An ACT ceding jurisdiction to the United States government
over certain tracts of land situated in Norfolk county, adjacent to the
Chesapeake and Albemarle canal. (S. B. 502.)

Approved March 27, 1914.

Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly of Virginia
that the United States has acquired by purchase the property of the
Chesapeake and Albemarle canal, extending from Norfolk harbor
through Norfolk county, to the North Carolina line, and has
opened the said canal to the free passage of vessels and other water
craft; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States government over
said tract or tracts of land, so that congress and the authorities
of the federal government shall have the lawful power and control
over and in the same, as specified in the seventeenth clause of the
eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United
States; provided, however, that the jurisdiction hereby ceded shalt
likewise extend to such other property adjacent to the above as
may hereafter be acquired by the United States, not to exceed one
thousand feet on each side of said canal from the center line thereof;
and provided, further, that the State retains jurisdiction over the
same in all matters relating to the violation of the laws of the
State, and the execution and service of all processes issued by or
from its courts, in pursuance of law, and in all matters not in-
compatible with the jurisdiction herein given, and the rightful
authority of the United States acquired, or to be acquired, under
this act.