CHAP. 551.--An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the United States government to acquire title and jurisdiction to five acres of land extending to high-water mark on Fisherman's island, in the county of Northampton, for the ...

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in writing the consent of this commonweath be, and is hereby, given to the acquisition of said title, so that congress may exercise such authority and jurisdictionover the said island as is within the contemplation of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States.

2. This state retains concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over the said place or island, so far as it lawfully can consistently with this act, and its courts, magistrates and officers may take such cognizance, execute such process and discharge other legal functions within the same as may not be incompatible with the true intent and meaning of this act.

3. If the purposes of this grant shall cease, or if there shall be for five years consecutively a failure on the part of the United States to use said place or island for the purpose herein expressed, then the jurisdiction herein granted shall cease.

4. The said place or island, and the buildings and improvements to be erected thereon for the purpose aforesaid, are hereby exempted from all taxes imposed by this state, or by the county of Northampton, so long as the same shall be held and used by the United States for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, and no longer.

5. Should the property herein granted be used for any other purposes than that specified herein by the United States government, or under its authority, then the same shall be subject to taxation as other property in the state.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.