Chap. 390.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ceding
to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for
public purposes within the State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof
and interest therein, and repealing all prior acts and parts of acts in
conflict with this act, approved March 16, 1918. [H B 116]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction
over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State, and
authorizing the acquisition thereof, and any interest therein, and re-
pealing all prior acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, ap-
proved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: ©

Sec. 1. The consent of the State of Virginia is hereby given in
accordance with seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article
of the Constitution of the United States to the acquisition by the
United States, by purchase, condemnation, lease, or in any other man-
ner whatsoever, of any land, or right or interest therein, in this State,
required for sites for custom houses, court houses, hospitals, sana-
toria, postoffices, arsenals, depots, terminals, cantonments, military or
naval camps or bases or stations, aviation fields or stations, radio sta-
tions, storage places, target ranges, or for any other military or naval
purposes whatsoever of the government.

Sec. 2. Exclusive jurisdiction in and over any lands, or buildings,
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 there-
in; 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.

Sec. 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, as-
sessment or other charges, which may be levied or imposed under the
authority of this State.

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extent repealed.

3. An emergency existing this act shall be in force and take effect
from its passage.