Section 35. Cession of jurisdiction to lands acquired for light-house purposes  


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  • The jurisdiction to such tracts of land,  not  exceeding  ten
      acres,   acquired   by  the  United  States  for  the  construction  and
      maintenance  of  light-houses  and  keepers'  dwellings   before   April
      eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred sixty-one, or as shall have been acquired
      since such date, or as shall be hereafter acquired, upon  the  selection
      by  an  authorized  officer  of  the  United States, the approval of the
      governor, the filing in the office  of  the  secretary  of  state  of  a
      description of the boundaries thereof, with the approval of the governor
      indorsed  thereon, and the filing in such office of a map thereof, which
      map shall be drawn with pen and India ink upon tracing cloth  and  shall
      be  otherwise  in  form  and  manner  suitable to the files, records and
      purposes of the office of the secretary of state, is ceded to the United
      States, upon condition that the jurisdiction so ceded shall not  prevent
      the  execution  thereon  of any process, civil or criminal, issued under
      the authority of the state, except as  such  process  might  affect  the
      property  of the United States therein, and that such jurisdiction shall
      continue in the United States so long only as the land shall be used and
      occupied for the purposes of the cession,  unless  the  consent  of  the
      state to a different use shall have been granted.