CHAP. 57.--An ACT making the provision of the act entitled "An act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof," approved the 16th day of ...

Whereas, the government of the United States, by deed of George W. P. Custis, dated the ninth day of June, anno domini, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, acquired title to a certain tract of land on the easterly side of Smith Island, in the county of Northampton as a site for the Cape Charles lighthouse
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Whereas, no act of the general assembly of the State of Virginia ceded jurisdiction thereover to the United States, as contemplated by the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States; and,

Whereas, the said land is no longer required for lighthouse purposes, but is required by the United States for coast guard purposes; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the provisions of the act entitled "An act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and authorizing the acquisition thereof," approved the sixteenth day of March, anno domini, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two shall be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the said land on Smith island, in the county of Northampton. The provisions of this act shall not be effective until the congress of the United States shall have passed on act authorizing the transfer of the aforesaid land from the department of commerce to the treasury department.