Section 21. Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction thereupon without reservation  


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  • The United States has been authorized  to
      acquire  the  following  tracts  or  parcels  of  land, and jurisdiction
      thereof has been ceded to the United States  by  this  state  upon  such
      acquisition:
        1. On the Long Island coast. Certain tracts of land on the Long Island
      coast,  each  tract  not  exceeding  one-half acre in area, for building
      sites for life saving stations.
        2. Priming Hook, Columbia county. A tract of  land  one-half  acre  in
      area  at  Prymon's  Hook,  otherwise called Priming Hook point, Columbia
      county, for a site for a beacon light.
        3. Calver's plat, Columbia and Rensselaer counties. A tract or  parcel
      of land consisting of one acre of the south point of the island known as
      Calvers  plat.  Said island lies in the Hudson river, part in the county
      of Columbia, and part in the county of Rensselaer, and in  the  town  of
      Schodack; the said acre conveyed under this title is bounded as follows:
      Beginning at a stake and stones at the south point of said Calvers plat,
      and  runs  north to stake and stones at a point on the west side of said
      island, 6 chains; thence S. 85.5° E., 3 chains to  high-water  mark,  to
      the  water's edge on the east shore of said island; then S. 12.25° W., 3
      chains and 11 links to a point on the shore;  thence  S.  73.75°  W.,  1
      chain and 75 links to a point on the shore; thence S. 35.5° W., 2 chains
      and  30  links  to  the  place  of  beginning at the south point of said
      island, for the construction and maintenance of a  light-house,  beacons
      and keepers' dwellings.
        4.  Near  Mull's  plat,  Rensselaer  county. A tract or parcel of land
      lying in the Hudson river, in the county of Rensselaer, and state of New
      York, lying north of a line running S. 76° 45' E., and more particularly
      described as follows, viz.: Beginning at a stake set up at the west side
      of an island known as Mull's plat, on a course of S. 76° 45' E. from the
      northeast corner of Barrent Ten Eyck's  brick  house,  now  occupied  by
      Thomas  C.    Houghtailing, and runs from the said stake along a line of
      marked trees standing on the north point of an island known as  Parcey's
      island,  and now in the possession of the parties of the first part, and
      then runs from the aforesaid stake S. 76° 45' E., 6 chains and 60  links
      to  the  water's  edge  on  the  east side of the aforesaid island; then
      northerly along the water's edge and east side  thereof,  to  the  north
      point of the aforesaid island; then southerly along the water's edge and
      west  side to the place of beginning, containing an acre of land, be the
      same  more  or  less,  for  the  construction  and  maintenance   of   a
      light-house, beacons and keepers' dwellings.
        5.  Poplar island, Rensselaer county. A tract or parcel of land in the
      town of Schodack, county of Rensselaer, and  on  the  north  end  of  an
      island  known  by  the  name  of Poplar island, bounded and described as
      follows, viz.: Beginning at a stake set  upon  the  west  shore  of  the
      aforesaid  island,  and  on a course of S. 78° 30' E. from the northeast
      corner of William O. Lawton's brick store, and runs thence from the said
      stake, N. 78° 30' E., 3 chains and 60 links to a stake on the east  side
      of said island; then along the east side thereof, N. 9° W., 3 chains and
      59  links,  to a point on the north end of the aforesaid island; then S.
      80° W., 2 chains, to a point on the north and west shore of said island;
      then along the west shore thereof, S. 14° 15' W., 4 chains and 4  links,
      to  the place of beginning, containing one acre of land be the same more
      or less, for the construction and maintenance of a light-house,  beacons
      and keepers' dwellings.
        6.  Water  supply  at  West  Point.  Such tracts of lands, lands under
      water, rights of way  and  easements,  at  or  near  the  United  States
      military  post  at  West Point, as have been acquired or may be required
    
      for the purpose of  increasing  the  water  supply  of  such  post,  the
      commanding officer of said post being authorized to enter upon any lands
      to make surveys thereof for such purpose.
        7.  Land  in  the  city  of Buffalo. Such lands now owned by the state
      under the waters of Niagara river or in the vicinity of  said  river  in
      the  city  of  Buffalo,  including  such lands as are now used for canal
      purposes in the city of Buffalo and as may be deemed  abandoned  by  the
      department of transportation, as may be required by the United States in
      the  construction  of  a  ship canal from Lake Erie to the foot of Squaw
      island in the city of Buffalo.
        8. Sacketts Harbor. In the village  of  Sacketts  Harbor  or  town  of
      Hounsfield,  county  of Jefferson, to carry water through pipes from the
      waters of Lake Ontario and Henderson bay to Madison  barracks,  for  the
      water  supply  at  that point of the military post of the United States,
      and to acquire the title of lands necessary for  that  purpose,  or  the
      right  of way only. And the state of New York hereby cedes to the United
      States the right to lay such pipes under and along the highways of  said
      state,  provided  the same are restored to as good condition as the same
      were in before such pipes were laid, and to enter upon said highway  and
      keep  the  said  pipes  in  repair,  upon the same condition, and hereby
      concedes jurisdiction to the said  United  States  over  the  lands  and
      franchises  which the United States has acquired for the purpose of such
      water supply, or may acquire.