The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-02

No
svInr RESOLUTION CEDING TO THE UNITED STATES
JURISDICTION OVER LANDS IN THE STATE OF Lou.
IsIASA SET APART FOR NATIONAL cgMErERIEs
WHEREAS, The United States of America have
purchased or are about to purchase and set apart.
certain tracts of land in the State of Louisiana,
hereinafter described, to be used and maintained
at their own expense, Ia pe,petlid as national
cemeteries for the nterment of the remains of
United States soldiers, deceased and
8 WHEREAS, The laws Of said United States pro.
vide that no public money shall be expended for
the purchase OF any land within any State OF the
United States until cession OF the Jurisdiction by
the Legislature Of the State; aud
WHEREAS, A formal application has been fled
by the said United States, through their properly
accredited representative, for the aforesaid ces-
sion so far as relates to the lands hereinafter de-
scribed; now, therefore,
BE "a resoiUed 6y The Senate and House of
Representatives of he State of Louisiana Il.
General assembly concerned. That the State of
Louisiana renqnlsh all jurisdiction over the here
matter described lands and premises In said State
purchased, or to be purchased, and set apart for
the purposes aforesaid, and that such jurisdiction
be and the same is hereby coded to aud forever
vested In the said United States said land and
premises being bounded and described as fol.
lows: nF .frH
All that certain tract, piece or parcel Of land
situated, lying and being In the city of Baton
Rouge, and designated on map or a survey Of
said city made by Henry and VIM. G. Waller,
city surveyors, as squares numbers nineteen, (l9,)
twenty (20) and twentyone, OLD and bounded
ana described as follows
Squares nineteen (l9) and twenty, (2O.l com.
mencinR at point on the south side of Florida
street. at the intersection Of Duffocq street with
Florida street. thence by said Florida street north
eighty-eight degrees and SIX minutes east seven
hunerea Ieet, to the land of Pierre Baron, thence
by the land OF said Baron south one degree aud
hfy Tour minutes. east three hundred and ten feet
TO Convention street, thence by said Convention
street south eighty eight degrees and six minutes,
west seven hundred feet to Dufrocu street. thence
DufrOCu IN nd
Tour minutes, west three hundred and ten feet to /
the tirst named point containing two hundred and
seventeen Thousand square feet mgr OF less be.
from Victori1e Hende as per deed. dated April
fourteen, 1862.
Recorded in book F, folio $50 of the notarial
acts at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Square number twepty-one (2I) commencing AT
point on the south side of Florida street, seven
hundred feet from Dufrocq street, thence running
and six minutes east to the boundary line which
narks the corporation limits of the city of Baton
Rouge on the east two hundred and sixty three
ana one half feet; thence BY said line Of ncOrpo
ration south one degree and ffty.four minutes
east, three hundred and ten feet to Convention
street thence by said Convention street. eighty.
elght degrees and six minutes west, two hundred
and sixty-three feet and a half, TO the land of
hiss Semonis Bsrreno; thence by said land Of
Semonia Barreno north one degree and ifty-four
minutes west, three hundred and ten feet 10 the |
nrstnamed point containing eghty-one thousand
more
less, being the same land which Pierre Baron /
bought at sherif's sale on the twenty.thrd dsy of |
March, 1858, said sale being recorded on the /
notarial acts at Baton Refuge, Louisiana, book o,
Also, all that certain other tract of land. niece
or parcel OF land, situate, lying and being at Chsl.
metie, In the parish of st. Bernard and State of
louisiana, about four miles below the city of New
orleans, and on the easterly bank of the Missis
slppi river, and designated by the letters A. BIC.
-, and on map or plan drawn by Louis a.
NE late city surveyor, dated January 30 1867.
arg deposited IN the Office of the city notary for
reference as plan number twenty, (2O) according
wit: 80 aoi'o"s' W.
Two hundred and fifty t25o, fee, front sf,ssn
hundred ll5OO) feet in depth from 10 r he
same depth from TO eight hundre5 and th;r s-e
eight 1881 feet ten (l0l inches in denth ton,
+ and nine hundred and twenty-one feail Sas. 800.
(S) inches in depth from d to F, eouaI IN ,hs 81
gregste 10 about Is 60-l00ecres, being a nor,;es.
of the same property which was ACQUIRED kv IN
said city Of New Orleans by purchase fro,o
Charles Rxner, BY an act passed before Charles
B. Fortier, late notary Of the city Of New Or.
leans, on the eleventh day Of November, 1851.
Also, all that certain other tract, piece and par
eel OF land, situate in the parish OF East Baton
Rouge, IN said State Of Louisiana, and being DOT
ion of tract of land said to contain four hundred
400 acres, belonging to ]. Il. Gibbons, and more