§ 26 — Cession during ownership by the United States and use for public purposes, with reservation of right to serve process

§ 26. Cession during ownership by the United States and use for public\npurposes, with reservation of right to serve process. Title and\njurisdiction to the following tracts or parcels of land have been ceded\nto the United States by this state, upon condition that the jurisdiction\nso ceded should not prevent the execution thereon of any process, civil\nor criminal, issued under the authority of the state, except as such\nprocess might affect the property of the United States therein, and that\nsuch jurisdiction shall continue in the United States so long only as\nthe land shall remain the property of the United States and be used for\npublic purposes:\n 1. In Cold Spring harbor, Queens county. A tract of land under water\nin Cold Spring harbor, Queens county, comprised within a circle two\nhundred feet in diameter, or less than one acre of surface, acquired for\na site for a light-house at the middle ground in said harbor.\n 2. On Staten Island. A tract or tracts of land on Staten Island, being\nsuch portions of the Marine Hospital grounds as have been conveyed to\nthe United States by the commissioners of the land office for\nlight-house and other purposes.\n 3. At sundry places for light-house purposes. Certain tracts of land,\nand land under water, from time to time deeded to the United States, and\noccupied for the construction and maintenance of light-houses and\nkeepers' dwellings, sketches and descriptions of which were filed in the\noffice of the secretary of the state, on or before April 20, 1874, as\nfollows:\n No. 1. Split Rock, Lake Champlain, Essex county, New York, containing\nfive acres, two quarters and six perches, conveyed to the United States\nby deed dated the fifteenth day of July, 1837.\n No. 2. Stuyvesant, county of Columbia, New York, containing five\nacres, conveyed to the United States by deed dated August thirteenth,\n1828.\n No. 3. Coxsackie, county of Greene, New York, containing five acres,\nconveyed to the United States by deed dated the third day of August,\n1828.\n No. 4. Four Mile Point, town of Coxsackie, county of Greene, New York,\ncontaining two acres, two roods and twenty-five rods, conveyed to the\nUnited States by deed dated the twelfth day of February, 1831.\n No. 5. Cedar-Island light, Gardiner's bay, town of Easthampton, county\nof Suffolk, New York, conveyed to the United States by deed dated the\ntwentieth of August, 1838.\n Also, the lands lying under water, and known as submarine sites,\nsketches and maps of which, by metes and bounds, have been furnished by\nthe United States and were filed in the office of the secretary of\nstate, on the twentieth day of April, 1874, viz.:\n No. 6. Hart's island, situated in Long Island sound, Westchester\ncounty, New York, at the south end of Hart island, under water and\nbeyond low water mark, containing three acres and seventy-five\nhundredths of an acre.\n No. 7. Execution Rocks, Long Island sound, one hundred feet in\ndiameter, containing less than an acre, situated seven-eighths of one\nmile north of Sands Point light, and five miles to the northeast of Fort\nSchuyler.\n No. 8. Robin's Reef, New York harbor, containing an area of less than\none acre.\n No. 9. Long-beach bar, entrance to Greenport harbor, Long Island,\nSuffolk county, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.\n No. 10. Stratford shoal, Long Island sound, New York, containing an\narea of less than one acre.\n No. 11. Race Rock, off Fisher's Island point, at the western entrance\nto Fisher's Island sound, Suffolk county, New York, containing an area\nof less than one acre.\n No. 12. Hudson city, middle ground, Hudson river, opposite the city of\nHudson, county of Columbia, New York, containing an area of less than\none acre.\n No. 13. Saugerties, on the mud flat on the north side of entrance to\nSaugerties creek, county of Ulster, New York, containing an area of less\nthan one acre.\n No. 14. Roah Hook, on the west side of the Hudson river, behind the\nangle of the dyke, south of Roah Hook, New York, containing an area of\nless than one acre.\n No. 15. Parada Hook, on a point of rocks, lower end of dyke, on west\nside of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less than one\nacre.\n No. 16. Nine-mile tree, Castleton, behind the center of dyke, on the\neast side of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less than\none acre.\n No. 17. Cross-over dyke, on north end of stone dyke below Albany, on\nthe west side of the Hudson river, New York, containing an area of less\nthan one acre.\n No. 18. Cuylers' dyke, on the east side of the Hudson river, on the\nlower or south end of dyke, near Albany, New York, containing an area of\nless than one acre.\n No. 19. Van Wie's point, on the south end of the stone dykes below\nAlbany, New York, on the west side of the Hudson river, containing an\narea of less than one acre.\n No. 20. Potter's or Sea-flower reef, Fisher's Island sound, Suffolk\ncounty, New York, about one and a half miles north of Fisher's island,\ncontaining an area of less than one acre.\n No. 21. Sand spit entrance to Sag Harbor, Suffolk county, Long Island\nsound, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.\n No. 22. Branford reef, abreast of Branford harbor, Long Island sound,\nNew York, containing an area of less than one acre.\n No. 23. Romer shoal, off Sandy Hook, entrance to New York harbor,\ncontaining an area of less than one acre.\n No. 24. Oyster Point, Plumb Gut entrance to Gardiner's bay, Long\nIsland sound, Suffolk county, New York, containing an area of less than\none acre.\n No. 25. The Stepping Stones, about one mile south of Hart island, Long\nIsland sound, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.\n No. 26. Mill reef, opposite New Brighton, in the Kill von Kull,\nRichmond county, New York, containing an area of less than one acre.\n