2023 New York Laws › STL - State › Article 3 - Cessions to the United States › 34 - Cession During Use for Purposes Thereof, With Sundry Reservations.

§ 34. Cession   during   use   for   purposes   thereof,  with  sundry
  reservations.  Title and jurisdiction of the following described  tracts
  or  parcels of land has been ceded to the United States by this state on
  condition  that  the  jurisdiction  so  ceded  should  not  prevent  the
  execution on such tracts of any process, civil or criminal, issued under
  the  authority  of  this  state, nor prevent the laws of this state, not
  imcompatible with the purposes for which  such  cession  was  made  from
  operating within the bounds of such tracts, and that the jurisdiction of
  the  United  States  shall continue so long only as such tracts shall be
  applied to the use of providing for  the  defense  and  safety  of  this
  state:
Three  separate  tracts of land in the county of Oneida, the county of
  Albany and the county of Clinton, the first of  which  is  described  as
  follows:  "All  that  certain  piece  or  parcel  of land situate in the
  village of Rome, county of Oneida, and state of New York, on  which  the
  arsenal,  armory and other buildings belonging to the United States, are
  erected, distinguished as lots Nos. 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 and 15, in block No.
  6 of said village, lying contiguous and forming one entire lot,  and  is
  bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of lot
  No.  7,  in said block No. 6, and running thence westerly on the line of
  Dominick street, N. 36° 20' W., in 1796, 198 feet, to the  northeasterly
  corner  of  lot  No.  3 in said block No. 6; thence at right angles with
  Dominick street, southerly, 432 feet, to the south  bank  of  the  canal
  connecting  Wood  creek  with  the  Mohawk river; thence easterly on the
  north bank of said canal to the southwesterly corner of lot  No.  12  in
  said  block  No.  6,  216 feet; thence running northerly at right angles
  with Dominick street to the place of beginning, 340 feet. Also, lot  No.
  5  in  block  No.  7  bounded  as  follows,  to  wit:  Beginning  at the
  southwesterly corner of lot No. 6 in block No.  7,  and  running  thence
  westerly  on  the  line of Dominick street, 66 feet to the southeasterly
  corner of lot No. 4, in said block No.  7;  thence  northerly  at  right
  angles  with  Dominick  street, 200 feet, to the southerly line of Stone
  alley; from thence easterly on the southerly line of  Stone  alley,  and
  parallel  to  Dominick street, 66 feet; from thence at right angles with
  Dominick street, 200 feet, to the place of  beginning."  The  second  of
  said tracts is described as follows: "And also all that certain piece or
  parcel  of  land  situate  in  the  town of Watervliet, in the county of
  Albany, and state aforesaid, at the place called Gibbonsville, on  which
  is  also  erected an arsenal and other buildings belonging to the United
  States bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at an elm tree standing  on
  the  bank  of  Hudson's  river  in  the  village of Gibbonsville, thence
  running by the true meridian (the variation of the magnetic needle being
  calculated at 5° 30' to the west of north), north 75 1/2° W., 11  chains
  and  35 links; thence S. 14 1/2° W., 3 chains and 86 links; thence N. 75
  1/2° W., 7 chains and 75 links; thence S. 14 1/2° W., 3  chains;  thence
  S. 75 1/2° E., 7 chains and 75 links; thence S. 14 1/2° W., 3 chains and
  71  links;  thence S. 75 1/2° E., 11 chains and 35 links, to the bank of
  Hudson's river; thence S. 75 1/2° E., to the main channel  of  the  said
  river;  thence northerly along said channel to intersect a line drawn S.
  75 1/2° E., from the first station; and then N. 75 1/2° W., to the place
  of beginning." The third of such tracts is described as  follows:  "Lots
  Nos.  61, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 66 of the 80 acre lots in the tract granted
  to the Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees, containing in  the  whole  480
  acres,  and  also over a tract of 9 acres 3 roods and 5 poles, being the
  east end or front of lot No. 60 in the  same  tract;  which  tracts  are
  situated  at Rouse's Point in the county of Clinton, on the west bank of
  Lake Champlain"; acquired for the defense and safety of the state.