Chap. 66.—An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire
title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situate at Cape Henry, in
the county of Princess Anne. (S. B. 145.)

Approved March 10, 1914.

Whereas, it has been represented to the general assembly of
Virginia that it may be desirable for the United States to acquire,
by purchase or condemnation, certain lands at Cape Henry, in the
county of Princess Anne, on or near the Atlantic ocean and Chesa-
peake bay, to low water mark, for the purpose of erecting fortifica-
tions and other military purposes; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the consent of the Commonwealth be, and is hereby given to the
said purchase or condemnation, and when the same shall be made
or had, jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States govern-
ment 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 consent herein
given shall not extend to the purchase, condemnation, or acquisition
of more than one thousand acres of land for the purposes aforesaid ;
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 incom-
patible with the consent herein given, and the rightful authority
of the United States acquired, or to be acquired, under this act.

2. The said land and the privileges hereby ceded, the buildings,
fortifications, magazines, storehouses, wharves, docks, residences and
appurtenances thereto, which may be erected thereon, by the United
States government are hereby exempted from taxation, State or
county, so Jong as the same shall be held and used by the United
States for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, and no longer.

It being represented that the United States may desire to
acquire the property herein referred to at once, an emergency is
declared to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.