32 - Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations. - New York Statutes

§ 32. Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations. Title and jurisdiction to the following tract or parcel of land has been ceded to the United States by this state upon condition that the jurisdiction so ceded should not prevent the execution on such tract of any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of this state, nor prevent the laws of the state, not incompatible with the purposes for which such cession is made, from operating within the bounds of such tract; and that the United States are to retain such jurisdiction so long only as such tract shall be used for the defense and safety of the city of New York: 1. At New Utrecht. A tract of land in the town of New Utrecht, Kings county, on the easterly side of the Narrows, at the entrance into the bay of New York, and upon a reef called Hendrick's reef, described as follows: Beginning at the northerly corner thereof, by land of Denyse D. Denyse, at high-water mark, and near the southeasterly side of a large rock, and running from thence S. 24