Consent of state to ac lands. Descrip tion of / lands. Chap. 15. AN ACT to cede jurisdiction to the United States of America over certain lands in the county of Rockland, to be occupied as a military and national park upon the palisades of the Hudson and for the purposes herein specified. BECAME a law February 11, 1896, with the approvel of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The consent of the state of New York is hereby given quisition of to the acquisition by the United States of America of the following described tract or parcel of land, upon payment of the taxes now due thereon, namely: All that tract or parcel of land in the county of Rockland and state of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the west line of the boulevard, so called, where the same intersects the boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey, and running thence northerly to a monument marked number six, on the map of palisades, by J. H. Serviss, dated eighteen hundred and sev enty-four, said map being on file at New City, in the county of Rockland and the state of New York; thence eastwardly on a straight line to the high-water line in the Hudson river at a point seven hundred feet south of the south line of the patent to George Lockhart, dated February twentieth, sixteen hundred and eightyfive, and thence in a southerly direction along the said high-water line to the boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey; and thence westerly along said boundary line to the point or place of beginning. And also all lands, docks, piers, bulkheads and buildings; water and lands under water; rights of navigation and dockage and riparian rights; and all rights, titles and forfeitures of, in or to the same; pertaining to said tract, or in front of, or between the same and the center of the Hudson river. And all the right, title and interest of the state of New York in or to the same or any part thereof is hereby ceded, set over and transferred to the United States; and it is provided that the United States may hold and use said tract or any part thereof for the purpose of preserving, securing and employing the same for military, naval and other purposes, as may be required, the same Jurisdic. tion ceded. to be applied from time to time to such of said purposes as may, be designated; and the United States may erect fortifications and other public buildings and lay out and maintain roads, drill grounds and other open spaces thereon, and build docks, piers, bulkheads and wharfs and do any and all things necessary or convenient for the purposes aforesaid; and the United States shall have, hold and occupy said lands thus acquired and shall exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the same and every part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned. tion when Concurrent tions as to use of lands. § 2. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall vest when plots and Jurisdic descriptions of the said lands thus acquired shall have been filed to vest, etc. in the office of the secretary of the state of New York; such jurisdiction shall begin when and continue no longer than the United States shall hold the fee of such lands and such consent is given jurisdic and jurisdiction ceded on the express condition that the state of tion. New York shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over said lands in so far as that all civil and criminal process duly issued under the laws of said state for acts done and offences committed within said state may be freely and fully executed on lands within said tract except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States; and Restrtcupon the further express condition that the cliffs, rocks and entry and plateau known as the palisades of the Hudson, and the rocks, trees and shrubs upon them and at their base, be preserved, saved and reserved from mutilation, change and destruction, save in so far as the actual occupancy thereof by the United States may require; that the militia of the state of New York shall be allowed to use, occupy and manoevre upon the same and that citizens of the state of New York shall have the right to pass over and go upon said lands and to use the same as a public place; all these used being, however, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the United States, or by any duly constituted authority thereunder; so far as such entry and use shall not interfere with the use and enjoyment thereof by the United States for the purposes for which the same may be acquired, designated or used by or under its authority, and that such use of all portions not specifically reserved shall continue until all parts shall be actually so occupied. tions from § 3. As long as the fee of the lands thus acquired shall remain Exempthe property of the United States, and no longer, said lands and all taxation, etc. of lands by owners. rights and interests therein, shall be and continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments or other tax which may be levied or Occupancy imposed under the authority of this state, and the United States present shall have power and authority to allow the occupancy of such lands to continue in the present owners, their heirs and assigns under such agreements as shall be sanctioned by the properly constituted authorities thereof without excepting lands so occupied from this provision. Purchase of burial § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 16. AN ACT making an appropriation for the purchase of grounds for burial purposes for the use of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. BCEAME a law February 11, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The trustees of the Syracuse State Institution grounds. for Feeble-Minded Children are hereby authorized to purchase sufficient grounds, in Oakwood cemetery, at Syracuse, for the tion there burial of four hundred and eight of such inmates of the instituAppropriation as may die while residing therein; and the sum of nineteen for. hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury belonging to the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, payable to the order of the treasurer of the institution, for carrying out the purposes of his act; subject to the approval of the comptroller as to the value of the grounds, and of the attorney-general as to the form and terms of the conveyance thereof. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap 18. AN ACT to cede jurisdiction to the United States of America over certain lands in the town of Southfield, county of Richmond, to be occupied as sites for fortifications and sea coast defenses. BECAME a law February 14, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: state to of lands. Section 1. The consent of the state of New York is hereby given Consent of to the purchase by the United States for fortification purposes purchase from Mrs. Sarah Schuyler Martin of two parcels of land, containing in the aggregate about six and one-half acres, situate, lying and being adjacent to each other, near to and southwest from the military post of Fort Wadsworth, on Staten island, in the town of Southfield, county of Richmond, and state of New York, as the same is described in the deed conveying said lands to the United States, recorded in Richmond county clerk's office, in liber two hundred and forty of deeds, page three hundred and seventyfour. And it is hereby provided that the United States may Jurisdic exercise jurisdiction and control over said lands and every part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned. tion ceded, vest. jurisdic § 2. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall vest when plats and When to descriptions of the said lands thus acquired shall have been filed in the office of the secretary of state of the state of New York; such jurisdiction shall continue no longer than the United States shall own such lands, and such consent is given and jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the state of New Concurrent York shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States tion. in and over such lands, so far as that all civil and criminal process, duly issued under the laws of said state, for acts done or offenses committed within said state, may be freely and fully executed on and within the said lands, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. from taxa § 3. So long as such lands thus acquired shall remain the prop- Exemption erty of the United States, and no longer, the same shall be and tion, etc. continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments and other charges Appropria tion for etc. which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 19. AN ACT making an appropriation for repairs and necessary expenses in rearranging the records and papers of the office of the state engineer and surveyor. BECAME a law February 14, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof repairs, as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying for repairs to and necessary expenses in rearranging the records and papers of the office of the state engineer and surveyor. § 2. The money hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid shall be payable by the state treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the state engineer and surveyor, to be expended by him for the purposes mentioned in section one of this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. How payable. Chap. 23. 'AN ACT to amend the insurance law relative to the cancelling of the authority of foreign companies. BECAME a law February 17, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, a majority being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section thirty-three of chapter six hundred and ninety of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An act in relation to insurance corporations, constituting chapter thirty-eight of the general laws," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 33. Reciprocal requirements.-If, by the existing or future laws of any state, an insurance corporation of this state having |