Chap. 386.—An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor of Virginia to grant,
transfer and convey, to the United States of America two certain tracts or
parcels of submerged land in Mill Creek, Elizabeth City county, lying
adjacent to the Fort Monroe military reservation and containing approximately
36.2 acres, deed to define the jurisdiction of the State and the United States
over said lands. [H B 54]

Approved March 30, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. The Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia is
hereby authorized and empowered to grant, transfer and convey, and to
execute such deed or deeds as he shall deem proper to grant, transfer
and convey, to the United States of America, for military and naval
purposes and for purposes of public defense all right, title, interest
and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth in and to all those two certain
tracts or parcels of submerged land in Mill creek, Elizabeth City
county, adjacent to and lying northerly and westerly of the present
boundaries of the Fort Monroe Military reservation, which said tracts
or parcels are more particularly bounded and described as follows:

(1) Tract or parcel number one. Beginning at a creosoted timber
pile driven at mean low water to the north of Ingalls road, about five
hundred and fifty feet northerly of the crossing of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway and Ingalls road, which point is designated as station
number one, the coordinates of which point are: x-six hundred and
seventy-seven thousand, three hundred and eighteen and ninety-eight-
one hundredths (x-677,318.98), and y-one million, five hundred and
eighty-two thousand, one hundred and eighty-five and fifty-nine-one
hundredths (y-1,582,185.59) ; thence south fifty-nine degrees fifty-
three minutes and forty-four and six-tenths seconds east, two thousand,
two hundred and thirty-four feet (2,234) to a steel railroad rail desig-
nated as station number two, the coordinates of which are x-six hun-
dred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-three and
twenty-four-one hundredths (x-677,963.24), and y-one million five
hundred and eighty-one thousand eight hundred and twelve and four-
one hundredths (y-1,581,812.04) ; thence easterly following the arc of
a circle of nine hundred and eighty-five (985.0) feet radius (the coor-
dinates of the center of the circle are x-six hundred and seventy-eight
thousand, one hundred and twenty-seven and ninety-two-one hun-
dredths (x-678,127.92), and y-one million five hundred and eighty-two
thousand, and ninety-six and nine-one hundredths (y-1,582,096.09) a
distance of one thousand, seven hundred and thirty-six and eighty-
nine-one hundredths (1,736.89) feet to a steel rail at the point of
tangent of the curve, the coordinates of the said point of tangent being
x-six hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-eight
and nineteen-one hundredths (x-678,438.19), and y-one million, five
hundred and eighty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight and
twenty-five-one hundredths (y-1,581,988.25), thence south nineteen
degrees four minutes and twenty-one and four-tenths seconds west a
distance of five hundred and eighty-nine and thirty-eight-one hun-
dredths (589.38) feet to a creosoted pile on the mean low water line,
designated as station number three, the coordinates of which point are
x-six hundred and seventy-eight thousand, three hundred and seventy-
two and forty-seven-one hundredths (x-678,372.47), and y-one million,
five hundred and eighty-one thousand eight hundred and three and
eleven-one hundredths (y-1,581,803.11); thence south twenty-nine
degrees forty-eight minutes fifty-three and four-tenths seconds west
three hundred, sixty-seven and seven-one hundredths (367.07) feet to
a cross cut in the southerly stone wall of moat sluice way, designated
as station number five, the coordinates of which point are x-six hun-
dred and seventy-eight thousand, three hundred and eleven and sixty-
seven-one hundredths (x-678,311.67) and y-one million five hundred
and eighty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-six and ninety-five-
one hundredths (y-1,581,696.95) (said cross being designated as point
“F” on a map prepared in the office of the constructing quartermaster,
Fort Monroe, Virginia, October, nineteen hundred and eight, and is
the point of beginning of a thirty-nine and sixteen-one hundredths
(39.16) acre tract conveyed to the United States, the conveyance being
recorded in the office of the clerk of the court of Elizabeth City county,
Virginia, in deed book forty-nine, page five hundred and thirty-seven) ;
thence north seventy-six degrees one minute and fifty-seven and six-
tenths seconds west along the northerly boundary of said tract thirteen
hundred and twenty-five (1325) feet to the mean low water line desig-
nated as point number six, the coordinates of which point are x-six
hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-three
and six-one hundredths (x-677,883.06) and y-one million, five hundred
and eighty-one thousand eight hundred and three and fifty-five-one
hundredths (y-1,581,803.55) ; thence following the said mean low water
line in a northwesterly direction to the point of beginning. Containing
approximately six and nine-tenths (6.9) acres.

(2) Tract or parcel number two. Beginning at a creosoted timber
pile on the mean low water line designated as station number three
(being the same station number three referred to in the description of
tract number one) thence north nineteen degrees four minutes twenty-
one and four-tenths seconds east, five hundred and eighty-nine and
thirty-eight-one hundredths (589.38) feet to a steel railroad rail desig-
nated as “point of tangent’ (being the same “point of tangent”
referred to in description of tract number one), thence north nineteen
degrees four minutes and twenty-one and four-tenths seconds east, two
thousand seven hundred and eight and eighty-two-one hundredths
(2,708.82) feet to another creosoted pile on the mean low water line,
designated as station number four, the coordinates of which point are
x-six hundred and seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and _thirty-
one and seventy-four-one hundredths (x-678,731.74) and y-one million,
five hundred and eighty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-two and
eighteen-one hundredths (y-1,582,842.18) ; thence following the mean
low water line in a southerly direction to the point of beginning. Con-
taining approximately twenty-nine and three-tenths (29.3) acres.

The said two tracts or parcels are located in “Zone A” of ‘Grid
System for Progressive Maps of the United States,” and points in the
descriptions are referenced thereto. The arbitrary point of origin for
Zone A is one million (1,000,000) yards west and two million (2,000,000)
yards south of the intersection of the seventy-third meridian of longi-
tude with the parallel forty degrees and thirty minutes of latitude. The
units of the coordinates are in yards, the x coordinates are distances
east of, and the y coordinates north of, the point of origin.

Section 2. The Commonwealth of Virginia hereby cedes to the
United States of America exclusive jurisdiction over the tracts or
parcels of land hereinbefore described, reserving, however, to the Com-
monwealth of Virginia the right to serve civil or criminal processes
within the said tracts or parcels of land in suits or prosecution for or
on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred or crimes com-
mitted within said Commonwealth but outside of the said tracts or
parcels of land.

Section 3. Should the United States at any time abandon the said
lands or appropriate them or any part thereof to any other purpose
than those indicated in this act, then in that case the said lands or parts
thereof otherwise appropriated shall revert to and re-invest in the
Commonwealth of Virginia.

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its
passage.