N.Y. State Law § 34: Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations

§ 34. Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry

reservations. Title and jurisdiction of the following described tracts

or parcels of land has been ceded to the United States by this state on

condition that the jurisdiction so ceded should not prevent the

execution on such tracts of any process, civil or criminal, issued under

the authority of this state, nor prevent the laws of this state, not

imcompatible with the purposes for which such cession was made from

operating within the bounds of such tracts, and that the jurisdiction of

the United States shall continue so long only as such tracts shall be

applied to the use of providing for the defense and safety of this

state:

Three separate tracts of land in the county of Oneida, the county of

Albany and the county of Clinton, the first of which is described as

follows: "All that certain piece or parcel of land situate in the

village of Rome, county of Oneida, and state of New York, on which the

arsenal, armory and other buildings belonging to the United States, are

erected, distinguished as lots Nos. 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 and 15, in block No.

6 of said village, lying contiguous and forming one entire lot, and is

bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of lot

No. 7, in said block No. 6, and running thence westerly on the line of

Dominick street, N. 36Á 20' W., in 1796, 198 feet, to the northeasterly

corner of lot No. 3 in said block No. 6; thence at right angles with

Dominick street, southerly, 432 feet, to the south bank of the canal

connecting Wood creek with the Mohawk river; thence easterly on the

north bank of said canal to the southwesterly corner of lot No. 12 in

said block No. 6, 216 feet; thence running northerly at right angles

with Dominick street to the place of beginning, 340 feet. Also, lot No.

5 in block No. 7 bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at the

southwesterly corner of lot No. 6 in block No. 7, and running thence

westerly on the line of Dominick street, 66 feet to the southeasterly

corner of lot No. 4, in said block No. 7; thence northerly at right

angles with Dominick street, 200 feet, to the southerly line of Stone

alley; from thence easterly on the southerly line of Stone alley, and

parallel to Dominick street, 66 feet; from thence at right angles with

Dominick street, 200 feet, to the place of beginning." The second of

said tracts is described as follows: "And also all that certain piece or

parcel of land situate in the town of Watervliet, in the county of

Albany, and state aforesaid, at the place called Gibbonsville, on which

is also erected an arsenal and other buildings belonging to the United

States bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at an elm tree standing on

the bank of Hudson's river in the village of Gibbonsville, thence

running by the true meridian (the variation of the magnetic needle being

calculated at 5Á 30' to the west of north), north 75 1/2Á W., 11 chains

and 35 links; thence S. 14 1/2Á W., 3 chains and 86 links; thence N. 75

1/2Á W., 7 chains and 75 links; thence S. 14 1/2Á W., 3 chains; thence

S. 75 1/2Á E., 7 chains and 75 links; thence S. 14 1/2Á W., 3 chains and

71 links; thence S. 75 1/2Á E., 11 chains and 35 links, to the bank of

Hudson's river; thence S. 75 1/2Á E., to the main channel of the said

river; thence northerly along said channel to intersect a line drawn S.

75 1/2Á E., from the first station; and then N. 75 1/2Á W., to the place

of beginning." The third of such tracts is described as follows: "Lots

Nos. 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66 of the 80 acre lots in the tract granted

to the Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees, containing in the whole 480

acres, and also over a tract of 9 acres 3 roods and 5 poles, being the

east end or front of lot No. 60 in the same tract; which tracts are

situated at Rouse's Point in the county of Clinton, on the west bank of

Lake Champlain"; acquired for the defense and safety of the state.