N.Y. State Law § 26: Cession during ownership by the United States and use for public purposes, with reservation of right to serve process

§ 26. Cession during ownership by the United States and use for public

purposes, with reservation of right to serve process. Title and

jurisdiction to the following tracts or parcels of land have been ceded

to the United States by this state, upon condition that the jurisdiction

so ceded should not prevent the execution thereon of any process, civil

or criminal, issued under the authority of the state, 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 Cold Spring harbor, Queens county. A tract of land under water

in Cold Spring harbor, Queens county, comprised within a circle two

hundred feet in diameter, or less than one acre of surface, acquired for

a site for a light-house at the middle ground in said harbor.

2. On Staten Island. A tract or tracts of land on Staten Island, being

such portions of the Marine Hospital grounds as have been conveyed to

the United States by the commissioners of the land office for

light-house and other purposes.

3. At sundry places for light-house purposes. Certain tracts of land,

and land under water, from time to time deeded to the United States, and

occupied for the construction and maintenance of light-houses and

keepers' dwellings, sketches and descriptions of which were filed in the

office of the secretary of the state, on or before April 20, 1874, as

follows:

No. 1. Split Rock, Lake Champlain, Essex county, New York, containing

five acres, two quarters and six perches, conveyed to the United States

by deed dated the fifteenth day of July, 1837.

No. 2. Stuyvesant, county of Columbia, New York, containing five

acres, conveyed to the United States by deed dated August thirteenth,

1828.

No. 3. Coxsackie, county of Greene, New York, containing five acres,

conveyed to the United States by deed dated the third day of August,

1828.

No. 4. Four Mile Point, town of Coxsackie, county of Greene, New York,

containing two acres, two roods and twenty-five rods, conveyed to the

United States by deed dated the twelfth day of February, 1831.

No. 5. Cedar-Island light, Gardiner's bay, town of Easthampton, county

of Suffolk, New York, conveyed to the United States by deed dated the

twentieth of August, 1838.

Also, the lands lying under water, and known as submarine sites,

sketches and maps of which, by metes and bounds, have been furnished by

the United States and were filed in the office of the secretary of

state, on the twentieth day of April, 1874, viz.:

No. 6. Hart's island, situated in Long Island sound, Westchester

county, New York, at the south end of Hart island, under water and

beyond low water mark, containing three acres and seventy-five

hundredths of an acre.

No. 7. Execution Rocks, Long Island sound, one hundred feet in

diameter, containing less than an acre, situated seven-eighths of one

mile north of Sands Point light, and five miles to the northeast of Fort

Schuyler.

No. 8. Robin's Reef, New York harbor, containing an area of less than

one acre.

No. 9. Long-beach bar, entrance to Greenport harbor, Long Island,

Suffolk county, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 10. Stratford shoal, Long Island sound, New York, containing an

area of less than one acre.

No. 11. Race Rock, off Fisher's Island point, at the western entrance

to Fisher's Island sound, Suffolk county, New York, containing an area

of less than one acre.

No. 12. Hudson city, middle ground, Hudson river, opposite the city of

Hudson, county of Columbia, New York, containing an area of less than

one acre.

No. 13. Saugerties, on the mud flat on the north side of entrance to

Saugerties creek, county of Ulster, New York, containing an area of less

than one acre.

No. 14. Roah Hook, on the west side of the Hudson river, behind the

angle of the dyke, south of Roah Hook, New York, containing an area of

less than one acre.

No. 15. Parada Hook, on a point of rocks, lower end of dyke, on west

side of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less than one

acre.

No. 16. Nine-mile tree, Castleton, behind the center of dyke, on the

east side of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less than

one acre.

No. 17. Cross-over dyke, on north end of stone dyke below Albany, on

the west side of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less

than one acre.

No. 18. Cuylers' dyke, on the east side of the Hudson river, on the

lower or south end of dyke, near Albany, New York, containing an area of

less than one acre.

No. 19. Van Wie's point, on the south end of the stone dykes below

Albany, New York, on the west side of the Hudson river, containing an

area of less than one acre.

No. 20. Potter's or Sea-flower reef, Fisher's Island sound, Suffolk

county, New York, about one and a half miles north of Fisher's island,

containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 21. Sand spit entrance to Sag Harbor, Suffolk county, Long Island

sound, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 22. Branford reef, abreast of Branford harbor, Long Island sound,

New York, containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 23. Romer shoal, off Sandy Hook, entrance to New York harbor,

containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 24. Oyster Point, Plumb Gut entrance to Gardiner's bay, Long

Island sound, Suffolk county, New York, containing an area of less than

one acre.

No. 25. The Stepping Stones, about one mile south of Hart island, Long

Island sound, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.

No. 26. Mill reef, opposite New Brighton, in the Kill von Kull,

Richmond county, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.