KRS 3.050: Perryville battlefield to be conveyed to the United States.

(1) Whenever the United States Congress enacts a law authorizing the United States to

take over the Perryville battlefield, now in the hands of the Division of Parks, the

Governor shall appoint a commissioner who shall make and execute on behalf of

Kentucky, a deed conveying fee simple title to the United States for national

cemetery or park purposes, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Congress

when enacted, seventeen and three -fourths (17.75) acres of land, more or less, in

Boyle County, Kentucky, now owned and held by the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

together with all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereunto belonging. The

conveyance shall be made free of any cost or charge to the United States for the

property conveyed. The commissioner may ascertain by survey or otherwise the

metes and bounds of the land conveyed and include in the deed an appropriate

description of the land. The deed shall contain a clause to the effect that, when the

United States shall cease to use or maintain the land co nveyed as a national

cemetery or park, upon demand of the Governor of Kentucky, it shall revert to

Kentucky, and complete jurisdiction over it shall be again vested in Kentucky. The

deed shall be in a form agreeable to the provisions of the Act of Congress , when

enacted.

(2) When the conveyance to the United States is made, the jurisdiction of Kentucky

shall thereby be ceded to and vested in the United States over the land conveyed.

The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall continue no longer than the United Stat es of

America shall own the land.