§ 27. Authorization of acquisition by the United States, and cession\nof jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States and use\nfor public purposes, with reservation of right to serve process. The\nUnited States has been authorized to acquire the following tracts or\nparcels of land, and jurisdiction thereof has been ceded to the United\nStates upon such acquisition, on condition that such jurisdiction should\nnot prevent the execution thereon of any process, civil or criminal,\nissued under the authority of the state of New York, except as such\nprocess might affect the property of the United States therein, and that\nsuch jurisdiction shall continue in the United States, so long only as\nthe land shall remain the property of the United States and be used for\npublic purposes.\n 1. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York,\nfronting on Wall street, and occupied on February 7, 1857, by the United\nStates as an assay office; and also the property north of the same,\nfronting on Pine street, and also the property adjoining said Pine\nstreet property on the east, and occupied by the United States, for\nrevenue purposes, on February 7, 1857, as offices for the surveyor for\nthe port of New York, and also that piece or parcel of land bounded by\nPark row, Beekman and Nassau streets, for the purpose of a post-office.\n 2. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the city of\nNew York, and not exceeding in area fifty thousand square feet, for a\nsite for a post-office.\n 3. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York,\nsituated in the first ward of the city of New York, and constituting the\nentire square formed by Wall, William and Hanover streets, and Exchange\nplace, and the Exchange building and improvements erected thereon,\ncovering the whole of said square, for the purpose of a custom-house.\n 4. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York,\nbeing so much of land belonging to the corporation of such city, and\nimmediately adjoining the northerly side or boundary of the land\nconveyed to the United States prior to January 1, 1879, by the mayor,\naldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, for a site for a\npost-office, as is now covered by two sidewalks, each 103 feet and six\ninches in length, by nineteen feet two inches in width, with a paved\npassage-way between eleven feet and eleven inches in width, making a\ntotal area of 218 feet and eleven inches in length, by nineteen feet and\ntwo inches in width.\n 5. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the city of\nNew York, not exceeding in area two hundred thousand square feet, for\nthe purpose of an appraiser's warehouse and other purposes.\n 6. In the city of Brooklyn. Certain tracts of lands in the city of\nBrooklyn described as follows: Six lots of land with the warehouses\nthereon erected, in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, on the south\npier of the property of the Atlantic Dock Company, known as lots Nos.\n53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58, on the said south pier of the Atlantic Dock\nCompany, on a certain map inscribed "map of property in the sixth ward\nof the city of Brooklyn, port of New York, belonging to the Atlantic\nDock Company, surveyed September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, by\nWillard Day city surveyor," said lots each being twenty-five feet front\nand rear, and one hundred feet deep on each side, for revenue purposes.\n 7. In the city of Brooklyn. A tract or tracts of land in the city of\nBrooklyn, for a site for a post-office.\n 8. At Hallett's point, Queens county. A tract or tracts of land at\nHallett's point, Hell Gate, in Queens county, described as follows:\nBeginning at a point in the westerly line of lot number eighty-nine, and\nsituated one hundred feet from the westerly side of Monson street, if\nthe same were extended, which point is three feet six inches distant\nfrom the southwest corner of said lot number eighty-nine, and
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