TITLE 3 arsenals and other necessary structures, with their appendages. [1857, ch. 604, § 2.] Jurisdiction ceded. * S 149. The jurisdiction of the State of New York, in and over the said property referred to and set forth in the first and second sections hereof, shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned. [Same ch., $ 3.] Conditions.] $150. The said consent is given and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said property, so far as that all civil, criminal and other process which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York, may be executed thereon, in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. [Same ch., § 4.] Ib. Taxes, &c. Consent to purchase fand. * 151. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest in any respect to any portion of said property until the United States shall have acquired the title thereto, by purchase or otherwise. [Same ch., 5.] $152. The said property, when acquired by the United States, shall be and continue forever thereafter exonerated and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state; but the jurisdiction hereby ceded, and the exemption from taxation hereby granted, shall continue in respect to said property, and to each portion thereof, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States and be used for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer. [Same ch., § 6.] [ By act of April 17, 1857, the following cession was made: ] *S 153. The consent of the State of New York is hereby given to the purchase by the United States, at any time prior to the first day of January next, of land in the city of New York, for a site for a post-office in said city; and the owner or owners of any land in said city are hereby authorized to sell and convey the same to the United States for the purposes aforesaid. [1857, ch. 762, § 1.] S 154. The jurisdiction of the State of New York, in and over tion ceded. the land which may be sold and conveyed to the United States in pursuance of the preceding section, shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, subject to the restrictions herein after mentioned. [Same ch., § 2.] Jurisdic Conditions. Ib. *S 155. The said consent is given and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and to the said land, so far as that all civil and criminal and other process, which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York, may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. [Same ch., § 3.] * S 156. The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest in any respect to any land whatever, until the United States shall have acquired the title thereto by purchase or otherwise. [Same ch., § 4.] exempt S 157. The land which may be acquired by the United States, TITLE 1. under the provisions of this act, shall be and continue forever there- Land to be after exempted and discharged from all taxes, assessments and other from taxes. charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state; but the jurisdiction hereby ceded and the exemption from taxation hereby granted shall continue in respect to said lands, and to each portion thereof, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States and be used for public purposes, and no longer. [1857, ch. 762, § 5.] CHAPTER II. Of the Civil Divisions of the State. TITLE 1.-Of the several counties of the state. TITLE 3. Of the congress districts. TITLE 5. Of the several towns of this state. TITLE 6. Of the several cities in this state. TITLE 7.-General provisions concerning the erection and al tera TITLE I. Of the several Counties of the State. SEC. 1. Names of the different counties. 2 Their boundaries. 3. Lines to be taken as the magnetic needle pointed at the time of their establishment. 4. Rights of persons not to be affected by the description of boundaries. 5 Division line between counties separated by a river or creek. 6. In what county an island is to be deemed, which is crossed by the boundary line of two counties. 7. Concurrent jurisdiction in Kings, Richmond and New York over certain waters. 8. By officers of what counties process may be served on Seneca lake. counties. SECTION 1. The state shall be divided into fifty-six [sixty] Names of counties, called Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond, New York, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, Columbia, Albany, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Schenectady, Saratoga, Montgomery, Hamilton, Washington, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Cortland, Tompkins, Tioga, Steuben, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Yates, Wayne, Livingston, Monroe, Genesee, Orleans, Niagara, Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauque, [Chemung, Fulton, Wyoming and Schuyler.] S2. The extent and limits of the several counties shall be as Boundries follows: of counties. [2] Vol. 3. 1. The county of SUFFOLK shall contain all that part of this Suffolk. state bounded easterly and southerly by the Atlantic ocean; northerly by the Long Island sound; and westerly by Lloyd's neck, or Queen's village, Cold Spring harbor, and the east bounds of the township of Oyster Bay, and the same line continued due south to the Atlantic ocean; including the Isle of Wight, now called Gardiner's island, Fisher's island, Shelter island, Plumb island, Robin's island, Ram island, and the Gull islands. TITLE 1. Queens. Kings. Richmond. New York. Westchester. [3] Vol. 3. Putnam. 2. The county of QUEENS shall contain all that part of this state bounded easterly by Suffolk county; southerly by the Atlantic ocean; northerly by the Long Island sound; and westerly by the west bounds of the townships of Newtown and Jamaica; including Lloyd's neck, or Queen's village, and the islands called the Two Brothers, and Hallet's island, and all the islands in the sound opposite to the said bounds, and southward of the main channel. 3. The county of KINGS shall contain all that part of this state bounded easterly by Queens county; northerly by the county of New York; westerly by the middle of the main channel of the Hudson river, from the southern boundary of the county of New York to the ocean; and southerly by the Atlantic ocean; including Coney island and Barren island, together with all the islands south of the town of Gravesend. 4. The county of RICHMOND shall contain the islands called Staten island, Shooter's island, and the islands of meadow on the west side of Staten island, and all the waters and lands under water of this state around the same, situate to the southward and westward of the middle of the main channel of the bay and harbor of New York, as far as the bounds of this state extend. 5. The county of NEW YORK shall contain the islands called Manhattan's island, Great Barn island, Little Barn island, Manning's island, Nutten island, Bedlow's island, Bucking island, and the Oyster islands; and all the land under water within the following bounds: Beginning at Spyten Duyvel creek, where the same empties itself into the Hudson river on the Westchester side thereof, at low water mark, and running thence along the said creek, at low water mark, on the Westchester side thereof, to the East river or sound; then to cross over to Nassau, or Long island, to low water mark there, including Great Barn island, Little Barn island, and Manning's island; then along Nassau or Long Island shore, at low water mark, to the south side of the Redhook; then across the North river, so as to include Nutten island, Bedlow's island, Bucking island, and the Oyster islands, to the west bounds of the state; then along the west bounds of the state, until it comes directly opposite to the first mentioned creek, and then to the place where the said boundaries began. 6. The county of WESTCHESTER shall contain all that part of this state bounded southerly by Long Island sound; easterly by the east bounds of the state; northerly by the north bounds of the manor of Cortlandt, and the same line continued east to the bounds of the state, and west to the middle of Hudson's river; and westerly, by a line running from thence down the middle of Hudson's river, until it comes opposite to the bounds of the State of New Jersey, on said river; then west to the same; then southerly along the west,bounds of this state to the line of the county of New York; and then along the same easterly and southerly to the sound or East river, including Captain's island, and all the islands in the sound to the east of Frog's neck and the northward of the main channel. 7. The county of PUTNAM shall contain all that part of this state bounded south by the county of Westchester; easterly by the east bounds of the state; northerly by a line beginning in the middle TITLE 1. of Hudson's river, west of the southwesternmost end of Break-neck hill, and running thence east to the southwesternmost end of said hill; then north fifty-two degrees east, to the north bounds of the lands granted to Adolph Philipsie; then along the same east, to the east bounds of the state; and westerly by the middle of Hudson's river. 8. The county of DUTCHESS shall contain all that part of this Dutchess. state bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state; southerly by the county of Putnam; westerly by the counties of Orange and Ulster; and northerly by a line beginning at a point in the middle of the Hudson river, due east from the south bank of Sawyer's kill, on the west side of Hudson's river; then east to a line heretofore settled and established between Robert R. Livingston and Zachariah Hoffman, deceased, and others, as their mutual boundary, so far as it respected them individually, and running thence along the same as far as it runs, and the same course continued to the southernmost bend of Roeloff Jansen's kill; then along the southerly and easterly bounds of the manor of Livingston, to the northwest corner of the Oblong, in the division line between this state and the State of Massachusetts; and then along the said line easterly, to the division line between this state and the State of Connecticut. 9. The county of ROCKLAND shall contain all that part of this Rockland. state bounded southerly and southwesterly by the line of the county of Westchester, where the same crosses Hudson's river, and the division line between this state and the State of New Jersey; easterly by the middle of Hudson's river; and northerly and northwesterly by a line drawn from the middle of the said river west to the mouth of Poplopen's kill, and running thence on a direct course to the east end of the mill-dam formerly of Michael Weiman, across the Ramapough river; and then a direct course to the twenty mile stone standing in the said division line between this state and the State of New Jersey. 10. The county of ORANGE shall contain all that part of this Orange. state bounded easterly by the middle of Hudson's river; southerly by the county of Rockland and the division line between this state and the State of New Jersey; westerly by the River Mongaap and the division line between this state and the State of Pennsylvania; and northerly by a line drawn from a point in the middle of Hudson's river, opposite the northeast corner of a tract granted to Francis Harrison and company, called the five thousand acre tract, to the same northeast corner; and running thence westerly along the north bounds of the same tract, and the north bounds of another tract granted to the said Francis Harrison, to the tract commonly called Wallace's tract; then along the lines of the same, northerly and westerly, to the northeasterly bounds of a tract granted to Jacobus Kip, John Cruger and others; then westerly along the northeasterly and northerly bounds thereof, to the northwest corner of the same; then westerly to the northeast corner of a tract of three thousand five hundred acres granted to Rip Van Dam and others; then southerly along the same, to the northeast corner of a tract of three thousand acres granted to Henry Wile 147 VOL. 3. TITLE 1 man; then along the north bounds thereof to the Paltz river, commonly called the Wallkill; then southerly up the said river to the southeast corner of a tract of four thousand acres, granted to Gerardus Beekman and others; then westerly and northerly, along the southerly and westerly bounds thereof, to the northeast corner thereof; then northwesterly, along the north bounds of the tract granted to Jeremiah Schuyler and company, to the middle of the Shawangunk kill; then southwesterly, through the middle of said kill, to the north part of the farm formerly in the occupation of Joseph Wood, junior; and then west to the said river Mongaap. Ulster. Sullivan. [5] 11. The county of ULSTER shall contain all that part of this state bounded as follows: Beginning in the middle of Hudson's river, opposite to the north end of Wanton island, and running thence in a direct line to the said north end; then north forty-eight degrees west, four hundred and forty-five chains, to the west bounds of the patent granted to Johannes Hallenbeck; then along the same, south eight degrees west, seventy-one chains, to or near the end of a stone wall in the forks of the road between the houses now or heretofore of Hezekiah Wynkoop and Daniel Drummond; then north eightynine degrees west, eighty-seven chains, to stones near a chestnut tree cornered and marked, being the corner of lots number one and two, in the subdivision of great lot number twenty-six of the Hardenburgh patent; then along the division line between said lots, north fifty-nine degrees and thirty minutes west, seventy-eight chains, to a rock oak tree, being the corner of the land now or heretofore of Gilbert E. Palen and Jonathan Palen; then south twenty-four degrees west, four hundred and eleven chains, to the line run by Jacob Trumpbour, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, for the division line between the counties of Ulster and Greene; then along the said line until it intersects the northeasterly bounds of great lot number eight, in said patent; then along said bounds to the easterly bounds of the county of Delaware; then along the same southwesterly to the bounds of the county of Sullivan; then southeasterly along the same to the county of Orange; then easterly along the northerly bounds of the county of Orange, to the middle of Hudson's river; and then up along the same to the place of beginning. 12. The county of SULLIVAN shall contain all that part of this state bounded as follows: Beginning in the westerly bounds of the state, opposite to the most southeasterly corner of lot number twenty-eight in the subdivision of great lot number two in the Hardenburgh patent, and running thence down the Delaware river along the division line between this state and the State of Pennsylvania, to a point opposite to where the River Mongaap falls into the Delaware river; then up and along the said River Mongaap, until an east course will strike the Shawangunk kill at the north bounds of the farm formerly occupied by Joseph Wood, junior; then east to the middle of the said Shawangunk kill; then down along the said middle to the mouth of the Plattekill; then up along the same to the southerly bounds of the patent of Rochester; then along the same, north forty-nine degrees thirty minutes west, twelve miles and a half; then north forty degrees east, to the division line between |