27 - Authorization of acquisition by the United States, and cession of jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States and use for public purp
§ 27. Authorization of acquisition by the United States, and cession of jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States and use for public purposes, with reservation of right to serve process. The United States has been authorized to acquire the following tracts or parcels of land, and jurisdiction thereof has been ceded to the United States upon such acquisition, on condition that such jurisdiction should not prevent the execution thereon of any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of the state of New York, except as such process might affect the property of the United States therein, and that such jurisdiction shall continue in the United States, so long only as the land shall remain the property of the United States and be used for public purposes. 1. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York, fronting on Wall street, and occupied on February 7, 1857, by the United States as an assay office; and also the property north of the same, fronting on Pine street, and also the property adjoining said Pine street property on the east, and occupied by the United States, for revenue purposes, on February 7, 1857, as offices for the surveyor for the port of New York, and also that piece or parcel of land bounded by Park row, Beekman and Nassau streets, for the purpose of a post-office. 2. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the city of New York, and not exceeding in area fifty thousand square feet, for a site for a post-office. 3. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York, situated in the first ward of the city of New York, and constituting the entire square formed by Wall, William and Hanover streets, and Exchange place, and the Exchange building and improvements erected thereon, covering the whole of said square, for the purpose of a custom-house. 4. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York, being so much of land belonging to the corporation of such city, and immediately adjoining the northerly side or boundary of the land conveyed to the United States prior to January 1, 1879, by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, for a site for a post-office, as is now covered by two sidewalks, each 103 feet and six inches in length, by nineteen feet two inches in width, with a paved passage-way between eleven feet and eleven inches in width, making a total area of 218 feet and eleven inches in length, by nineteen feet and two inches in width. 5. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the city of New York, not exceeding in area two hundred thousand square feet, for the purpose of an appraiser's warehouse and other purposes. 6. In the city of Brooklyn. Certain tracts of lands in the city of Brooklyn described as follows: Six lots of land with the warehouses thereon erected, in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, on the south pier of the property of the Atlantic Dock Company, known as lots Nos. 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58, on the said south pier of the Atlantic Dock Company, on a certain map inscribed "map of property in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, port of New York, belonging to the Atlantic Dock Company, surveyed September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, by Willard Day city surveyor," said lots each being twenty-five feet front and rear, and one hundred feet deep on each side, for revenue purposes. 7. In the city of Brooklyn. A tract or tracts of land in the city of Brooklyn, for a site for a post-office. 8. At Hallett's point, Queens county. A tract or tracts of land at Hallett's point, Hell Gate, in Queens county, described as follows: Beginning at a point in the westerly line of lot number eighty-nine, and situated one hundred feet from the westerly side of Monson street, if the same were extended, which point is three feet six inches distantfrom the southwest corner of said lot number eighty-nine, and running thence northwesterly, at right angles to said Monson street, 154 feet, to low water of the East river; thence along low water line with a course about north, seventy-eight degrees east, about 210 feet to a point in the prolongation of the said westerly side of Monson street, if the same were extended; thence southwesterly parallel to the westerly side of Monson street and in a line one hundred feet distant therefrom, about one hundred and forty feet to the point or place of beginning. The said last mentioned line or boundary being coincident with the easterly side of the concrete foundations built for the electric tower at Hallett's point, for the purpose of establishing thereon light-houses or other aids to navigation. 9. At Coney Island, Kings county. Two certain tracts of land at Coney Island, Kings county, the first being described as follows: Beginning at a point where the angle included between the ranges to Centennial Tower and Romer Shoal light-house shall be 87