Chap. 0041 An Act to cede to the United States the jurisdiction of Nix's Mate. BE it enacted by the Senate arid House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the jurisdiction of Nix's Mate, in the harbor of Boston, and the soil thereof, being the property of this Commonwealth, be, and hereby is, granted to the United States of America, for the purpose of erecting a Beacon on the same, the Commonwealth to retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over said land, so far that all civil and criminal processes issued under the authority of this Commonwealth, or any officer thereof, may be executed on any part of said land, or in any building which may be erected thereon, in the same way and manner as if the jurisdiction had not been granted as aforesaid. Provided, that the United States cause to be built, on the aforesaid Nix's Mate, a beacon or monument, within two years from the passing of this act. [Approved by the Governor, February 20, 1832.]