Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. The consent of the commonwealth is hereby granted pursuant to Article 1, Section eight, Clause Seventeen of the Constitution of the United States to the acquisition by the United States, for use as a military reservation and related purposes, of a certain parcel of land situated in the town of Lincoln, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point in the southeasterly corner of said parcel said point being a National Park Service (NPS) disk set in a stone wall along a property line between land owned by the United States Government (Department of Air Force) and land of the United States Government (Department of the Interior), said point being at coordinates N528, 185.33 E659, 323.22 in the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System; proceeding thence from said disk N 86< 12' 45" W, 314.95 feet along land of the Department of the Interior on the South and land of the United States Air Force on the North, to a point; thence continuing along the boundary line between said lands the following nine (9) courses:

(1) N 08< 05' 43" E, 24.59 feet;

(2) S 89< 26' 07" W, 168.24 feet;

(3) N 80< 52' 31" W, 268.24 feet;

(4) S 07< 40' 34" W, 39.00 feet, more or less;

(5) S 50< 09' 15" W, 49.00 feet, more or less;

(6) N 89< 22' 48" W, 284.78 feet;

(7) N 06< 25' 12" E, 74.02 feet;

(8) S 89< 30' 09" W, 275.85 feet;

(9) S 46< 38' 16" W, 197.97 feet to a monument in Department of Interior boundary;

thence along Hanscom Drive (Access Road) N 27< 49' 13" W, 129.00 feet, more or less; and N 30< 30' 00" W, 657 feet, more or less, to lands of the United States Air Force; thence through lands of the United States Air Force the following nineteen (19) courses:

(1) N 41< 10' 14" E, 310.00 feet, more or less;

(2) N 76< 00' 00" E, 425.00 feet, more or less;

(3) N 51< 10' 18" E, 145.00 feet, more or less;

(4) N 34< 28' 43" E, 435.00 feet, more or less;

(5) S 31< 11' 20" E, 463.00 feet more or less;

(6) S 38< 00' 00" E, 451.00 feet, more or less;

(7) S 28< 46' 00" W, 147.00 feet, more or less;

(8) S 54< 10' 40" E, 135.12 feet;

(9) S 49< 01' 40" E, 50.33 feet;

(10) S 54< 43' 40" E, 50.22 feet;

(11) S 65< 44' 20" E, 77.88 feet;

(12) N 19< 58' 20" E, 117.72 feet;

(13) S 82< 10' 50" E, 73.06 feet

(14) S 15< 19' 20" W, 97.09 feet;

(15) S 75< 51' 00" E, 160.08 feet;

(16) S 75< 54' 10" E, 109.94 feet;

(17) S 26< 37' 40" W, 221.38 feet;

(18) S 27< 28' 28" W, 29.02 feet;

(19) S 25< 57' 02" W, 93.60 feet to the point of beginning.

Containing approximately 33.97 acres of land.

SECTION 2. Jurisdiction over the above described land is hereby granted and ceded to the United States, but upon the express condition that the commonwealth shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over said lands, to the extent that all civil processes and such criminal processes as may issue under the authority of the commonwealth against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without said land and all processes for collection of taxes levied under authority of the laws of the commonwealth, including the service of warrants, may be executed thereon in the same manner as though jurisdiction had not been ceded; provided that the exclusive jurisdiction in and over the above described land shall revert to and revest in the commonwealth whenever such land shall cease to be used for the purposes set forth in section one.

SECTION 3. Sections one and two of this act shall take effect upon the depositing in the office of the state secretary a suitable plan of the parcel of land described in section one, but not otherwise.