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street to the eastern corner of the public square; thence approximately north 6 degrees, east 90 feet to the southeast corner of Lot No. 73 on West Fort street; thence along the west side of West Fort street and its extension northward approximately north 13 degrees, 30 minutes, east 1.030 feet to low-water mark on the cove or north side of Sullivan's Island; thence along low-water mark eastward to the original point of beginning: Provided, That the portions of the streets and avenues within the tract herein ceded shall be forever kept open as public streets; and this cession shall in no way interfere with the private rights of any franchise heretofore legally granted, with reference to Middle street and Central avenue: And provided, further, That there is hereby reserved to this State a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution upon or within said lands of all process, civil and criminal, lawfully issued by the Courts of this State, and not incompatible with this cession.

A. D. 1912.

grant.

The grant hereinbefore made is upon condition that it Condition of shall not be effectual as to any portion of the premises embraced in the foregoing description, in or to which any person or persons have now any right, title or interest, or upon which any person or persons now own or have any buildings, 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 shall have acquired the right, title and interest of such person or persons thereto or therein.

Certain streets also

180.

Method of

The streets and avenues between the east and west lines of the original reservation of Fort Moultrie, as said reservation existed on January 1, 1894, are hereby granted and 11909, XXVI, ceded to the United States of America, subject to the same provisos and conditions as are contained in this sub-division. In case of the failure of the United States of America, condemning. and any person interested as aforesaid, or owner as aforesaid, to agree upon the proper compensation to be paid, as above provided, the United States of America be, and hereby is, authorized to have the same determined by the verdict of a jury, upon application by petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, which Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the same, and which petition

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A. D. 1912.

Land may be purchased by

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shall be served as by law a summons in a civil action in said Court is required to be served; and the said cause 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, title and interest of such person or owner thereto and therein shall vest in the United States of America.

Sec. 4. The United States, or such person or persons as United States may be by them authorized, shall have a right to purchase, and maga in any part of this State that may be thought most eligible, the fee simple of any quantity of land, not exceeding two thousand acres, for the purpose of erecting arsenals and magazines thereon.

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If parties Sec. 5. If the person or persons whose land may be land to be chosen for the above mentioned purpose, should not be disCiv. '02, 5. Posed to sell the same, or if the persons appointed to make the purchase should not be able to agree upon terms with such owner or owners of the said land, the same shall be valued, upon oath, by a majority of persons to be appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of the County where such land is situated for that purpose; and the land shall be vested in the United States, upon their paying the amount of such valuation to the owner or owners of such land.

Concurrent jurisdiction

the State.

Civ. '02, § 6.

Sec. 6. The said land, when purchased, and every person retained by and officer residing or employed thereon, whether in the service of the United States or not, shall be subject and liable to the government of this State, and the jurisdiction, laws, and authority thereof; that the United States shall exercise no more authority or power, within the limits of the said land, than they might have done before acquiring the same, or than may be necessary for the building, repairing, or internal government of the arsenals and magazines thereon to be erected, and the regulation and management of the same, and of the officers and persons by them to be employed in or about the same: Provided, always, That the said land shall forever be exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State.

A. D. 1912.

Land for

U. S.

386.

Sec. 7. Whenever it shall be made to appear to any one of the Circuit Courts of this State, upon the application of public uses of any authorized agent of the United States, that the said Civ. '02, § 7; United States are desirous of purchasing any tract of land, 1904, XXIV, and the right of way thereto, within the limits of this State, for the public uses of the said United States, and that the owner or owners of said lands are unknown, non-residents or minors, or from any other cause are incapable of making a perfect title to said lands; or in case the said owners, being residents and capable of conveying, shall, from disagreements in price, or any other cause whatever, refuse to convey the said lands to the United States, the presiding Judge of the said Court shall order notice of said application to be published in some newspaper nearest to where the said lands lie, also in one newspaper published in the city of Columbia, once in each week for the space of six weeks, which notice shall contain an accurate description of the said lands, together with the names of the owners or supposed owners, and shall require all persons interested in the said lands to come forward, on a day to be specified in said notice, and file their objections, if any they should have, to the proposed purchase; and at the time specified in said notice the said Court shall empanel a jury in the manner now provided by law, to assess the value of the said lands at their fair market value, and all damages sustained by the owners of the lands so appropriated by reason of such appropriation, which amount, when so assessed, together with the entire costs of said proceedings, shall be paid into the County Treasury of said County in which said proceedings are had; and thereupon the Sheriff of the said County, upon the production of the certificate of the Treasurer of said County that the said amount has been paid, shall execute to the United States, and deliver to their authorized agent, a deed of the said lands, reciting the proceedings in said cause, which said deed shall convey to the said United States a good and absolute title to the said lands against all persons whomsoever. The money so paid into the County Treasury shall there remain until ordered to be paid out by a Court of competent jurisdiction. The Judge directing the money to be paid to a County Treasurer, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall require

A. D. 1912.

Submarine sites for light

other aids to

of such Treasurer a bond in double the amount of money so ordered to be paid by him, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by said Judge. Said bonds shall be payable to the State of South Carolina, for the use and benefit of such persons, severally, as are entitled to said money. Said bond shall be executed and approved and filed with the Clerk of said Court before receiving said money. In all cases of publication of notice under this Section, the Court shall require the same proof as in cases of publication of notice in civil cases.

Sec. 8. Whenever the United States desire to acquire houses and title to land belonging to the State and covered by the navinavigation. gable waters of the United States, within the limits thereof, Civ. '02, § 8. for the site of a light-house, beacon, or other aid to naviga

tion, and application is made by a duly authorized agent of the United States, describing the site required for one of the purposes aforesaid, then the Governor of the State is authorized and empowered to convey the title to the United States, and to cede to the said United States jurisdiction over the same: Provided, No single tract shall contain more than ten (10) acres, and that the State shall retain concurrent jurisdiction so far that all process, civil or criminal, issuing under the authority of the State, may be executed by the proper officers thereof upon any person or persons amenable to the same within the limits of land so ceded, in like manner and to like effect as if this Section had never been enacted. Any person or persons who shall moor any vessel, scow, boat, or raft, to any buoy, or beacon, or floating guide, placed by the United States Light House Board in the navigable waters of this State, or who shall, in any manner, make fast thereto any vessel, boat, scow, or raft, and any person or persons who shall wilfully destroy, injure, or remove any such beacon or guide, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the common jail not exceeding three months. Said forfeitures may be recovered by an action of tort, complaint, or indictment before any Court competent to try the same; one-half accruing to the informer or complainant, and the other half to the County in which the trial shall be had.

A. D. 1912.

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Sec. 9. The jurisdiction of the State of South Carolina is hereby ceded to the United States of America over so much ceded to the land as is necessary for the public purposes of the United over all lands States: Provided, That the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall acquired for not vest until the United States of America shall have diction not to acquired the title to the lands, by grant or deed, from owner or owners thereof, and the evidences thereof shall from owners, have been recorded in the office, where, by law, the title to concurrent such land is recorded; and the United States of America are risdiction. to retain such jurisdiction so long as such lands shall be civ. '02, § 9. used for the purposes aforementioned, and no longer; and such jurisdiction is granted upon the express condition that the State of South Carolina shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said lands, so far as that civil process, in all cases not affecting the real or personal property of the United States, and such criminal or other process as shall issue under the authority of the State of South Carolina, against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within or without the limits of the said lands, may be executed therein, in the same way and manner as if no jurisdiction had been thereby ceded.

Lands exempt from

tion.

Sec. 10. All lands and tenements which may be granted, as aforesaid, to the United States, shall be and continue, so State taxalong as the same shall be used for the purposes in the last Section mentioned, exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments, and other charges which may be imposed under the authority of the State of South Carolina.

Civ. '02, § 10.

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Sec. 11. The consent of the State of South Carolina be, and is hereby, given to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase or gift, or by condemnation according to law, United States of such forest lands or such other property as it may acquire ment of a naby purchase, or deed, or otherwise, in this State, as, in the reserve. opinion of the Federal Government, may be needed for the Civ. '02, § 11. establishment of such national forest reserve in that region: Provided, That the State shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over such lands so far that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State against any person charged with the commission of any crime without

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