Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. forty-six feet north three hundred fifty-eight degrees fifty-one and five-tenths minutes east true at right angles from said southerly fence line, thence continuing north three hundred fifty-eight degrees fifty-one and five-tenths minutes east true in a direction at right angles to said southerly fence line, forty feet to an iron pin; thence turning to the right ninety degrees and proceeding north eighty-eight degrees fifty-one and five-tenths minutes east true about fifty-five feet to the westerly shore of the Niagara River, at present marked by an iron pin; thence turning to the right and proceeding southerly along the westerly shore of the Niagara River about forty feet to a point at present marked by an iron pin, at right angles, six hundred forty-six feet north three hundred fifty-eight degrees fifty-one and five-tenths minutes east true from above said southerly fence line; thence turning to the right and proceeding north two hundred sixty-eight degrees fifty-one and five-tenths minutes east true about sixty feet to the point of beginning. AND WHEREAS, The said United States has also caused to be filed and recorded in said office of the Secretary of State, by said agent, a map and description of said lands by metes and bounds, and a certificate of the Attorney-General of the United States that the United States is in possession of said lands and premises for the works and purposes mentioned in section 52, of article 4, chapter 592 of the consolidated laws of the State of New York, under a clear and complete title, NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHARLES S. WHITMAN, Governor of the State of New York, by the authority vested in me by said Act, do hereby, in the name and on behalf of the State of New York, cede, grant and release to the United States of America the jurisdiction of the State of New York on and over said parcel of land above described, the United States to hold, possess and exercise such jurisdiction subject to the condition that the State of New York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States on and over the property and premises so conveyed, so far as that all civil and criminal 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 jurisdiction had not been ceded, except so far as such process may 2 See note on p. 1800, ante. Deed Ceding Lands to the United States. affect the real or personal property of the United States and subject also to the other terms and conditions of said Act of the Legislature of the State of New York. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of New York, have subscribed my name and have caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of New York to this deed, in duplicate, this twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred seventeen. I, FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State of the State of New York, do hereby certify that the duplicate of this deed has been filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York. Dated September twenty-sixth, 1917. FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State, Examined and compared with the original. A. B. PARKER, Deputy Secretary of State. ERECTION OF NEW TOWN. AN ACT to divide the Town of Harmony and erect the Town of North Harmony. Passed December 19, 1918, two-thirds of all the members elected to the Board of Supervisors, and the Supervisor of the Town of Harmony, voting in favor thereof. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Chautauqua do enact as follows: Section 1. All that part of the present town of Harmony lying north of the following line, to wit: Beginning at the westerly boundary of the Town of Harmony at a point in conjunction with the north boundary of the Town of Clymer and the south boundary of the Town of Sherman, and extending in an easterly direction on a line straight with the north boundary of the Town of Clymer and the south boundary line of the Town of Sherman, to the Town of Busti at the northwest corner of Lot number forty-eight in the Town of Busti and following thence to the present boundary line between the Town of Harmony and Busti to Chautauqua Lake, is hereby erected into a new town to be known by the name of North Harmony, and the first Town Meeting in said Town of North Harmony shall be held at Stow, New York, Tuesday January 14, 1919, and R. D. Cowees, J. A. Powers and Homer Pringle are hereby appointed to preside at said Town Meeting and they shall appoint a Clerk, open and keep the polls, and possess and exercise the same powers as Justices of the Peace, when presiding in Town Meetings. Section 2. All the remaining part of the Town of Harmony shall be and remain a separate town by the name of Harmony. Section 3. Nothing in this act shall effect* the rights or abridge the term of office of any Justice of the Peace or any other Town Officer in either of said Towns, whose terms of office shall not have expired on the date this act becomes effective. Section 4. This act shall take effect the 1st day of January, 1919. *So in original. Erection of New Town. I, the undersigned, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Chautauqua County, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of an Act passed by the Board of Supervisors of said County on the 19th. day of December, 1918, and of the whole of said act. JOSEPH A. McGINNIES, Endorsed: Filed February 13, 1919, Clerk of the Board. FRANCIS M. HUGO, Secretary of State. |