Chap. 0778 An Act granting the consent of the commonwealth to the acquisition by the united states of america of certain land now used in connection with the fort devens military reservation and granting and ceding jurisdiction over such land.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed, the consent of the commonwealth is hereby granted to the acquisition by the United States of America of that certain parcel of land situated in the town of Ayer, county of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now used by the Department of the Army iD connection with the Fort Devens Military Reservation, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: -

Beginning at a point of the southerly side line of State Highway Route 2, said point being at the northeasterly corner of land of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company; thence along the southerly side line of said Route 2 by the

following courses and distances: South, 68° 33' 20"; East, 154.35 feet, more or less; South, 69° 14' 00"; East, 668.84 feet, more or less; South, 67° 00' 20"; East, 546.60 feet, more or less, to a point; thence South, 0° 27' 20"; West, 1,061.9S feet, more or less, to a point; thence North, 75° 59' 00"; West, 1,739.43 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North, 4° 02' 00"; East, 712.61 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North, 37° 40' 20"; East, 535.86 feet, more or less, to the aforesaid Boston Consolidated Gas Company; thence by land of said Boston Consolidated Gas Company, South, 68° 33' 20"; East, 30.0 feet, more or less; and North, 37° 40[ 20"; East, 30.0 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.  Containing 43 acres, more or less.

Section 2. Jurisdiction over the above-described land is hereby granted and ceded to the United States of America, but upon the express condition that the commonwealth shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States of America in and over said lands, in so far that all civil processes and such crimmal processes as may issue under the authority of the commonwealth against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without said lands and all processes for collection of taxes levied under authority of the laws of the commonwealth, including the service of warrants, may be executed thereon in the same manner as though this cession had not been granted; provided, that the jurisdiction in and over the lands above described shall revert to and revest in the commonwealth whenever such areas shall cease to be used for the purpose set forth in section one.

Section 3. This act shall take full effect as to the above-described parcel of land upon the depositing in the office of the state secretary before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, of a suitable plan of said parcel, but not otherwise. Approved August 16, 1950.