Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. the point of beginning; reserving to the parties of the first part herein and to the public a perpetual right of way for ingress and egress, ten feet wide, along the southerly boundary of the DeCordova Property, between Point Street and the Maxwell Property as stipulated in a warranty deed dated November 2, 1903, by which the Maxwell Property was conveyed to Samuel A. Maxwell by Leon L. Peo; AND WHEREAS, The said United States has also caused to be filed and recorded in said office of the Secretary of State, by said agent, a map and description of said lands by metes and bounds, and a certificate of the Attorney-General of the United States that the United States is in possession of said lands and premises for the works and purposes mentioned in section 52, of article 4, chapter 59 of the consolidated laws of the State of New York, under a clear and complete title, NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLES S. WHITMAN, Governor of the State of New York, by the authority vested in me by said Act, do hereby, in the name and on behalf of the State of New York, cede, grant and release to the United States of America the jurisdiction of the State of New York on and over said parcel of land above described, the United States to hold, possess and exercise such jurisdiction subject to the condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States on and over the property and premises so conveyed, so far as that all civil and criminal process, which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such jurisdiction had not been ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States and subject also to the other terms and conditions of said Act of the Legislature of the State of New York. may IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of New York, have subscribed my name and have caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of New York to this deed, in duplicate, this sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred seventeen. [GREAT SEAL] By the Governor, Attest: CHARLES S. WHITMAN. FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State. Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. STATE OF NEW YORK, Office of the Secretary of State. I, Francis M. Hugo, Secretary of State of the State of New York, do hereby certify that the duplicate of this deed has been filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, Dated, March sixteenth, 1917. FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State. Examined and compared with the original. A. B. PARKER Deputy Secretary of State. 2815 DEED TO THE UNITED STATES OF LANDS, STRUCTURES AND WATERS FOR PURPOSES OF PUBLIC DEFENSE. (Application dated April 14, 1917.) THIS INDENTURE made this 21st day of April, 1917, between the STATE OF NEW YORK, party of the first part, and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, party of the second part: WITNESSETH:-WHEREAS, Chapter 59 of the Laws of 1909 of the State of New York, constituting Chapter 57 of the Consolidated Laws of said State and known as the "State Law", was amended by Chapter 13 of the Laws of 1917 of said State by inserting a new article-4-A- therein, which was thereafter amended by Chapter 130 of the Laws of 1917 of said State, whereby provision is made for the acquisition of lands, structures or waters, situated within the boundaries of the State of New York, for purposes of public defense, or for other public purposes incidental thereto, and WHEREAS, by said laws as amended, the sum of $2,500,000. was appropriated for the purpose of the acquisition of said lands, structures or waters, and WHEREAS, certain lands, structures and waters, hereinafter described, have been duly acquired pursuant to the provisions. of said acts, and a survey and map thereof filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York on the 4th day of April, 1917, a copy of which is hereunto attached and made a part hereof and marked "Exhibit A", and WHEREAS, the Commission, created and constituted by said acts, pursuant to the provisions thereof, immediately upon such filing of said survey and map in the Office of said Secretary of State, entered upon and took possession of all the lands, structures and waters described on such survey and map, and WHEREAS, said acts provide that the Governor of the State of New York on the request by any officer or agent of the United Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. States duly authorized under the hand and seal of any head of an executive department of the Government of the United States, may execute a deed or release to the Government of the United States, of the lands and the structures and waters thereon, described in a survey and map filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, excepting and reserving therefrom certain easements, as provided in said acts, at any time after said commission shall have entered upon and taken possession of such lands, structures and waters; such deed or release to be in the form agreed upon by the Governor and the proper representative of the Government of the United States, and WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of New York has been duly requested by Frederic V. Abbot, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, an officer or agent of the United States, duly authorized under the hand and seal of Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, Head of the War Department, being an Executive Department of the Government of the United States, (which request and authorization are hereunto attached and made a part hereof and marked respectively "Exhibit B" and "Exhibit C") to execute such deed or release, and WHEREAS, the form of such deed or release has been agreed upon by the Governor and the proper representative of the Government of the United States, and WHEREAS, said acts further provide that jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States over the tracts or parcels of land so described to the extent and in the manner in such acts more specifically provided, NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the above recited statutes, the party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Seven Hundred Five Thousand ($705,000.) Dollars, lawful money of the United States to it in hand paid, by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, has granted and released, and by these presents doth hereby grant and release unto the said party of the second part, its successors and assigns, FOREVER: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the property line of the land formerly of the Rockaway Pacific Corporation and the Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. United States Coast Guard Reservation with the line of mean low water of Rockaway Inlet, said point being N. 29°-24-47.7′′ W. 896 Ft. more or less from a stone monument known as U. S. C. G. monument No. 120; thence along said property line S. 29°-24′-47.7′′ E. 2724 Ft. more or less to a point in the line of mean low water of the Atlantic Ocean; thence along said line of mean low water of the Atlantic Ocean 6122 Ft. more or less to a point; thence N. 11°-35'-22.3" W. 1120 Ft. more or less to an iron pipe designated as No. 111 on map herein referred to; thence S. 78°24′-37.7" W. 100.0 Ft. to a point; thence N. 11°-35′-22.3′′ W. 1146.83 Ft. to a point; thence N. 69°-49′-38′′ E. 4943.56 Ft. to a point; thence N. 29°-24'-47.7" W. 505.0 Ft. more or less, on a line parallel and 500.0 Ft. distant from the said property line formerly of the Rockaway Pacific Corporation and the United States Coast Guard Reservation to a point in the line of mean low water of Rockaway Inlet; thence along said line of mean low water of Rockaway Inlet 538 Ft. more or less to the point of beginning, containing 317.4 acres, more or less, as more specifically described on said map, filed in the Office of said Secretary of State on the 4th day of April, 1917, a copy of which is hereunto attached and made a part hereof and marked "Exhibit A", subject to an easement of ingress and egress of the Rockaway Pacific Corporation, its successors, grantees and assigns, over the easterly 500 feet, measured at right angles to the easterly boundary line of property above described, of a strip of land one hundred feet wide between parallel sides appurtenant to the remaining lands not appropriated as aforesaid and reputed to belong to the Rockaway Pacific Corporation, and also subject to the rights of the public to use for public highway purposes the said easterly 500 feet of said 100 foot strip of landsaid strip of land out of which said easements are excepted and reserved is indicated on said map by two dotted lines, one on the north and the other on the south side of said strip, running from east to west, the easterly line of said strip being coincident with the easterly line of the lands above described; excepting and reserving, however, out of the lands first herein above described, so much thereof as are embraced within said 100 foot strip, westerly of said 500 foot part thereof, which lands so excepted and reserved and not hereby conveyed are described as follows: Beginning at a point on lands now or lately owned by the |