N.Y. State Law § 59-e: Deed or release of land so acquired to United States

§ 59-e. Deed or release of land so acquired to United States. The

governor may, if requested by any officer or agent of the United States

duly authorized under the hand and seal of any head of an executive

department of the government of the United States, execute a deed or

release to the government of the United States of the lands and the

structures and waters thereon, described in the survey and map filed in

the office of the secretary of state as hereinbefore provided, excepting

and reserving therefrom an easement for public highway purposes in and

over the lands acquired for highway purposes pursuant to this article.

Such deed or release may be so executed at any time after the commission

shall have entered upon and taken possession of such lands, structures

and waters. Such deed or release shall be in the form agreed upon by the

governor and the proper representative of the government of the United

States and shall convey title to the lands, structures and waters

described therein to the government of the United States, to be used for

purposes of public defense and shall cede to the United States the

jurisdiction over the tracts or parcels of land so described, to the

extent and in the manner hereinafter provided. Such deed or release

shall be executed in duplicate in the name of the state and under its

great seal. One of such duplicates shall be filed and recorded in the

office of the secretary of state of the state of New York, and the other

shall be delivered to the proper executive department of the government

of the United States.