2023 New York Laws › STL - State › Article 3 - Cessions to the United States › 21 - Authorization of Acquisition and Cession of Jurisdiction Thereupon Without Reservation.

§ 21. Authorization   of   acquisition  and  cession  of  jurisdiction
  thereupon without reservation. 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 Unity
  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.