§ 29. Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction\nthereupon, during use for purposes thereof, with reservation of right to\nserve process. The United States has been authorized to acquire the\nfollowing tracts or parcels of land, and jurisdiction thereof has been\nceded to the United States upon such acquisition on condition that the\njurisdiction so ceded should not prevent the execution thereon of any\nprocess, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of the state,\nexcept as such process might affect the property of the United States\ntherein, and that such jurisdiction shall continue in the United States\nso long only as the land shall be used and occupied for the purposes of\ncession, unless the consent of the state to a different use has been\ngranted.\n 1. In the city of Brooklyn. A tract or tracts of land in and adjacent\nto the city of Brooklyn, described as follows: Commencing at the stone\nmonument, No. 1, at the corner of Flushing avenue and the Williamsburgh\nroad; thence S. 82Á 25' W., 599 3/12 feet to stone monument No. 2;\nthence N. 82Á 30' W., along Flushing avenue, 4,152 feet 6 3/4 inches to\nstone monument No. 3; thence N. 7Á 16' E., along Navy street, 903 feet\nto the point J; thence N. 25Á 39' W., 479 4/12 feet to point K; thence\nN. 40Á 47' E., 1,357 7/12 feet to the point L; thence northeastwardly\nuntil it intersects the continuation of the Williamsburgh line at the\npoint M, at the distance of 130 feet from the block; thence eastwardly\nby and with the said continuation of the Williamsburgh line to the\ncenter of the channel at the point N; thence along the center of the\nchannel to the point O, at the intersection of the line A B, continued;\nthence S. 57Á 30' E., to the point A, equidistant between two piles,\ndriven at low water mark; thence S. 57Á 30' E., 991 3/12 feet to the\npoint B; thence S. 42Á E., 1,025 feet to the point C; thence S. 35Á 30'\nE., 200 feet to the point D; thence S. 29Á E., 271 4/12 feet to the\npoint E; thence S. 4Á E., 189 3/12 feet to the point F; thence S. 34Á\n30' W., 93 feet to the point G, in the center of the Wallabout creek;\nthence along the center of said creek to the point H; thence S. 68Á W.,\n244 feet to the point I; thence S. 0Á 55' E., 219 5/12 feet to the\ncommencement, at the monument No. 1; provided, nevertheless, that the\ncity of Brooklyn shall not be deprived of any vested rights in and over\nVanderbilt and Clinton avenues, as now laid out and graded, or the\nrights of sewerage which the said city may now possess over the property\nlying between the Naval Hospital grounds and the easterly boundary of\nthe present navy yard.\n The free, common and unrestricted use and navigation of the waters and\nchannels of the Wallabout bay, from the westerly line of Vanderbilt\navenue in front thereof, and extending therefrom easterly and northerly\nto the East river, is hereby reserved to the people of this state; and\nthe United States shall not in any way or manner injure, affect or\nobstruct the free and entire use and navigation of the said channel, or\nthe landing places or wharves at the foot of, or where Clinton and\nVanderbilt avenues, or either of them, reach or may extend to the said\nchannel. Such acquisition has been authorized for the purpose of a navy\nyard and naval hospital, according to the plan furnished by the naval\ndepartment.\n 2. On Staten Island. A tract of land on Staten Island, Richmond\ncounty, owned by William H. Aspinwall, lying mainly between the lands of\nthe United States and New York avenue, for the purpose of building and\nmaintaining forts, magazines, arsenals and other necessary structures.\n 3. On Long Island. A tract or tracts of land on Long Island, Queens\ncounty, in a direction opposite Fort Schuyler, East river (and\nconcurrent jurisdiction over all the shores, flats and waters contiguous\nto such lands, within 400 feet from low water mark, measured toward the\nchannel, and over the land lying between hi
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