§ 28. Cession during use for purposes thereof, with reservation of\nright to serve process. Title and jurisdiction to the following tracts\nor parcels of land have been ceded to the United States by this state,\non condition that the jurisdiction so ceded should not prevent the\nexecution thereon of any process, civil or criminal, issued under the\nauthority of the state, except as such process might affect the property\nof the United States therein, and that such jurisdiction shall continue\nin the United States so long only as the land shall be used and occupied\nfor the purposes of cession, unless the consent of the state to a\ndifferent use has been granted.\n 1. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land, and land under\nwater in the city of New York, not exceeding two hundred and fifty feet,\nbeing a portion of the eastern end or extremity of the lands and lands\nunder water, formerly known as the Battery extension, including the open\nslip or basin at the easterly end thereof, together with a right of way\nor passage not less than seventy-five feet in width, from such lands\nover and across the lands adjacent thereto, known as the Battery ground,\nwhich the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York have\nbeen authorized to convey to the United States, acquired for the purpose\nof erecting and establishing a barge office and other suitable buildings\nand structures for the transaction of the public business connected with\nthe United States revenue service, and for the landing of revenue and\nother government boats and barges, for the use, accommodation and\nconvenience of the United States custom-house for the port of New York,\nthe title of this state in which the commissioners of the land office\nhave been directed to convey.\n 2. In Kings county. Two certain tracts of land in Kings county,\ndescribed as follows: All that certain tract, piece or parcel of upland,\nsalt meadow and marsh, bounded as follows: Beginning at the corner of\nthe Wallabout bridge road, and the road leading to Williamsburgh, and\nrunning from thence westerly along the bridge road and land of John\nRyerson, to a corner; thence westerly along the land of John Ryerson, to\na corner; thence westerly along the same and a small creek in the\nmeadow, to the Wallabout bay; thence northerly by the said Wallabout\nbay, to the Wallabout creek; thence easterly by the creek aforesaid to\nthe south corner of the dock; thence westerly by land of Ida Schenck and\nthe dock, including the road sixty feet (the road to be for the use of\nthe parties interested in the dock and landing); thence 140 feet to the\nroad leading from Williamsburgh to a corner eighty-eight feet from the\ncreek; thence along said road southerly to the place of beginning,\nexcepting and reserving to Francis Skillman, his heirs and assigns, one\nundivided half of the dock, and a privilege of a landing at the dock for\nthe owner or occupant of the farm adjoining the herein described\npremises, lately sold to Charles Bostwick, esquire. Also, all that\ncertain piece of land and meadow on the easterly side of the road to\nWilliamsburgh, beginning against the road at the bridge, and running\nfrom thence easterly and southerly by the Wallabout creek to a stake at\nthe said creek; thence westerly to a notched post against the road;\nthence northerly along the road to the place of beginning, altogether in\nupland, salt meadow and marsh about thirty-three acres, according to a\nsurvey and map of the said lands, made by Jeremiah Lott, in the month of\nApril, 1824. The tracts of land, the jurisdiction whereof is hereby\nceded, being the same which were, by an indenture bearing the date the\n1st day of July, 1824, conveyed by Sarah Schenck, widow of Martin\nSchenck, Jane Schenck, widow of Jeromus Schenck, Jacob Harris and Ida\nhis wife, and Isaac Harris and Mary Ann his wife, all of the county of\nKings, and state of New York, to the secretary of the navy, the\nsecretary of the tr
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