N.Y. State Law § 52: Governor may execute deed or release

§ 52. Governor may execute deed or release. Whenever the United

States, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any head of

an executive department of the government of the United States, or the

administrator of veterans' affairs of the government of the United

States, shall cause to be filed in the office of the secretary of state

of the state of New York, maps or plats and descriptions by metes and

bounds of any tracts or parcels of land within this state, except within

the Adirondack park as defined by section 9-0101 of the environmental

conservation law, where a special act of the legislature shall be

required, which have been acquired by the United States for any of the

purposes aforesaid, and a certificate of the attorney-general of the

United States that the United States is in possession of said lands and

premises for either of the works or purposes aforesaid, under a clear

and complete title, the governor of this state is authorized, if he

deems it proper, to execute in duplicate, in the name of the state and

under its great seal, a deed or release of the state ceding to the

United States the jurisdiction of said tracts or parcels of land as

hereinafter provided. Such maps shall be drawn with pen and India ink

upon tracing cloth and shall be otherwise in form and manner suitable to

the files, records and purposes of the office of the secretary of state,

and show such data thereon, or in relation thereto, as may be required

by the secretary of state.