Chap. 382.—An ACT ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over
certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State, and author-
izing the acquisition thereof, and any interest therein, and repealing all
prior aets and parts of acts in conflict with this act. [S B 261]

Approved March 16, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia: 1. That the
consent of the State of Virginia is hereby given in accordance with
seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the Con-
stitution of the United States to the acquisition by the United
States, by purchase, condemnation, lease, or in any other manner
whatsoever, of any land, or right or interest therein, in this State,
required for sites for custom houses, court houses, post offices, arse-
nals, depots, terminals, cantonments, military or naval camps or
bases or stations, aviation fields or stations, radio stations, storage
places, target ranges, or for any other military or naval purposes
whatsoever of the government.

2. That exclusive jurisdiction in and over any lands, or build-
ings, any right or interest which has been so acquired by the United
States, whether before or after the passage of this act, shall be and
the same is hereby ceded to the United States for all purposes,
herein provided except the service upon such sites of all civil and
criminal process of the courts of this State, which right of service
of said process within the bounds of said lands and sites is reserved
to this State; but the jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer
than the United States shall own or occupy such lands, or any
right or interest therein; and whenever such lands or buildings
abut upon the navigable waters of this State. such jurisdiction so
ceded shall extend to and include such of the underwater lands
adjacent thereto as lie between the line of low water mark and the
bulkhead or pierhead line as now established or as such lines may
be hereafter established.

3. The jurisdiction ceded shall not vest until the United States
shall have acquired the title to, or possession of the said lands, or
rights, or Interest therein, by purchase, condemnation, lease. or
otherwise; and so long as the said lands, or any rights, or interest
therein are held in fee simple by the United States, and no longer,
such rights, or interest, as the case may be, shall continue exempt
and exonerated, from all State, county and municipal taxation.
assessment or other charges, which may be levied or imposed under
the authority of this State. _

4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are to that
extent repealed.

- 5, An emergency existing by reason of the United States being
in a State of war, this act shall be in force and take effect from its
passage.