as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description in which any person or persons have now any right, title or interest, or upon which any person or persons now own or have any structures or improvements, until the United States of America shall have compensated such person and persons for such right, title and interest, and for such buildings, structures and improvements, and acquired the title of such person and persons thereto; and said grant shall not be effectual until the United States of America shall have further compensated the parties who, at and before the cession of said jetty reservation, owned like interests or owned structures and improvements upon the territory heretofore ceded by this State to the United States of America for a jetty reservation. A. D. 1912. 300; 189 0, In case of the failure of the United States of America and Compensation, how deany persons interested as aforesaid, or owner as aforesaid, to termined. agree upon the proper compensation to be paid as above pro- 1896, XXII, vided, the United States of America is authorized to have XXIII, 422. the same determined by the verdict of a jury upon application by petition to the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, which shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said Court is required to be served, and the same shall be heard without delay at a term of said Court and under the direction of the presiding Judge thereof, and such determination shall be final and without appeal; and upon the amount so found being paid, with the cost of Clerk and Sheriff, if any, the right and title of the parties thereto shall vest in the United States of America. included in All streets, roads and highways within the said tracts or Streets, etc., parcels of land except Central Avenue, as above stated, are above grant vacated and discontinued from the time said grant becomes effectual. vacated. in Charleston to United 39. All those marsh lands next adjacent to Castle or Fort Certain lands Pinckney, not already ceded to the United States of Harbor ceded America, and consisting of fifty acres of marsh lands, more States for a or less, be, and the same are hereby, granted unto the United sanitarium. States of America for the purpose of the erection, construc- 962. tion and maintaining of a Home or Sanitarium for disabled officers, soldiers and sailors of the army and navy of the United States of America. 1898, XXII, A. D. 1912. Land to be taxes. Said lands shall be, and continue, so long as the same shall exempt from be used for the purpose aforesaid, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of the State of South Carolina. Plat of land to be made Secretary of The proper officers of the United States in charge of such and filed with institution shall cause to be executed a plat of the lands which may be acquired for the purpose herein mentioned, and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State of this State. Title of the State to cer town of Moul Charlest on 4. 40. The right, title and interest of this State to, and the tain lands in jurisdiction of this State over, the following described tract trieville, or parcel of land, and land covered with water, situated in County. the town of Moultrieville, on Sullivan's Island, in the 1903, XXIII, County of Charleston, in this State, are hereby granted and ceded to the United States of America for the enlargement of the military reservations on said island, to wit: All that tract and parcel of land, and land covered with water, bounded on the west by the Fort Moultrie Reservation and parade ground; on the south by lands recently acquired by the United States for fortification purposes; on the east by lands recently acquired by the United States for garrison purposes, and on the north by a line following the meandering or indentations of a line in the sea one hundred yards beyond high-water line; the easterly and westerly boundaries to be extended to meet this last mentioned line: Provided, That there is hereby reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within said lands of all process, civil or criminal, law fully issued by the Courts of this State, and not incompatible with this cession: Provided, further, That the portion of Central Avenue within the tract herein ceded shall be forever kept open as a public street, and shall, together with its continuation through the government reservation, be kept in proper condition and repair by the government; and this cession shall in no way interfere with any private rights or any franchise heretofore legally granted with reference to said Central Avenue: And Provided, further, That this State reserves the right to authorize the laying and maintaining of tracks for railroad or traction purposes on or across the portion of Central Avenue ceded, or on lands contiguous thereto, and lying within fifteen feet of the same. A. D. 1912. grant. The grant hereinbefore made is upon condition that the Condition of said grant shall not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description in which any person or persons have now any right, title or interest, or upon which any person or persons now own or have any structures or improvements, until the United States of America shall have compensated such person or persons for such right, title and interest, and for such buildings, structures and improvements, and acquired the title of such person or persons thereto. Failure to agree on com In case of the failure of the United States of America and any persons interested as aforesaid, or owner as aforesaid, pensation. to agree upon the proper compensation to be paid as above. provided, the United States of America is authorized to have the same determined by the verdict of a jury, upon application by petition to the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the same, and which shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said Court is required to be served, and the same shall be heard without delay at a term of said Court and under the direction of the presiding Judge thereof, and such determination shall be final and without appeal, and upon the amount so found being paid, with all costs of the proceedings, if any, the right and title of the parties shall vest in the United States of America. All streets, roads and highways, except Central Avenue, within the said tract or parcel of land, are vacated and discontinued from the time the said grant becomes effectual. Certain lands in Char and lands water. 1903, XXIII, 6. 41. The right, title and interest of this State to, and the jurisdiction and control of this State over, a strip of land, leston County and land covered with water, four hundred feet wide and covered with lying two hundred feet on each side of the centre line of the route selected by the United States of America for inland waterways between Charleston harbor and a point opposite McClellanville, is hereby granted and ceded to the United States of America, for the purpose of constructing and improving the said inland waterways between Charleston harbor and a point opposite the town of McClellanville, in the said Charleston County, and is described as follows, to A. D. 1912, wit: From the cove back of Sullivan's Island following the deepest water of Sullivan's Island Narrows to the bend next east of the point known as Spanish Fort; thence the route leaves the natural waterway, and a marsh cut is to be made across a long bend; thence along the deepest part of the natural waterway to Branch Inlet, and thence back of Isle of Palms to Meeting Reach, and through same to Seven Reaches; thence through Seven Reaches to Dewees Inlet; thence to and through Bull Yard Sound and into Capers Inlet; thence to and through Santee Pass to Price's Inlet; thence to and through Bull Narrows, having one marsh cut across a bend at or near the narrowest part of this passage; thence through Bull Creek and across the marsh to Sewee Creek; thence across marsh to Van Ross Creek; thence down same and across the marsh to Vanderhorst Creek; thence through marsh to Belvedere Creek; thence up Belvedere Creek and through marsh to Salt Pond Creek; thence up Salt Pond Creek and through marsh to Graham's Creek; thence up Graham's Creek, cutting across one sharp bend and through marsh to Owendaw Creek; thence down Owendaw Creek and Harbor River to Long Creek; thence by Long Creek and a marsh cut to Bull River; thence down Bull River to Five Fathom Creek, which junction is the nearest point in the proposed route to McClellanville: Provided, That there is hereby reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within said lands of all process, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the Courts of the State, and not incompatible with this cession. Dredging The material dredged from the proposed channel in order be deposited to widen and deepen the same may be disposed of by deposmarsh lands. iting such material upon the adjoining marsh lands outside of the strip of land designated herein, if such disposal be found necessary or desirable for construction or maintenance of said channel: Provided, That by the use of said adjoining lands for purposes aforesaid, the United States of America shall not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the said lands outside of the strip four hundred feet wide, excepting the right to deposit material thereon. material may on adjoining Condition of grant. The grant hereinbefore made is upon the condition that the said grant shall not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description in which any person or persons have now any right, title or interest, or upon which any person or persons have now any legal structures or improvements, until title shall have been acquired by the United States of America to said right, title or interest, or to such structures or improvements. All lands and tenements which may be granted as aforesaid to the United States of America shall be, and continue (so long as the same shall be used for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned), exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of the State of South Carolina. A. D. 1912. ence for erect building. 1904, XXIV, 42. The right, title and interest of this State to, and the Lot in Florjurisdiction of this State over, the following described lot ing public or parcel of land are hereby granted and ceded to the United States of America, for the erection of a public building, to 460. wit: That lot of land in the City of Florence, County of Florence, and State of South Carolina, situate on the northwestern corner of Evans and Irby streets, fronting on each street one hundred and fifty feet, and known on the plat of the City of Florence, made by J. W. Brunson, surveyor, May 5th, 1896, as the eastern part of lot No. 21, in sectional block C, and bounded north by lot No. 20, east by Irby Street, south by Evans Street and west by part of lot No. 21: Provided, That there is hereby reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution within said lot of all processes, civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the Courts of this State, and not incompatible with this cession. 43. The consent of the State of South Carolina is hereby Jurisdiction given in accordance with the 17th clause of the 8th Section, ots in Columof Article I., of the Constitution of the United States to bia, Spartanthe acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condem- HT, and nation, or otherwise of the several lots or parcels of land in 1904, XXIV, this State hereinafter mentioned or described, to wit: 1. A site in or near the city of Columbia, County of Richland, city of Cofor a weather bureau for the government. 2. A site in the lumbla. city of Spartanburg, County of Spartanburg, for a postoffice city of Sparand courthouse, described as follows: Beginning at the tanburg. southwest corner of North Church and Walnut streets in said city, and running thence westerly with said Walnut street, one hundred forty-one and two-tenths feet to stake; thence south 29 degrees east, one hundred and forty-seven over certain burg, Rock Hill, Georgetown. 470. |