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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0296 and id is 1 raw text is: 144
Pass, and over all the land within tiWelve hundied yardIof the Fort, mea-
sured from the most salient parts of the works; over Battery Bienvenu,
and over all the land within twelve hundred yards of the most salient parts
of the same; over Tower Dupres, and over all the land within twelve
hundred yards of the most salient parts of the samei; and over such tract of
land as the United States may reserve or purchase for the site of works of
fortification at or near Proctor's Landing on Lake Borgne, not to exceed
the area lying within twelve hundred yards of the most salient parts of such
works of fortification: Prnvided alras, and the cession and jurisdiction
aforesaid are granted upon the express condition* that this Commonwealth
shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over
the said tracts of land, so far as that all civil and such criminal process as
may issue under the authority of this Commonwealth, against any person
or persons charged with crimes committed without the said tracts of land,
may be executed therein in the same way and manner as though this ces.
sion and consent had not been made and granted, except so ftr as such
process may effect the real or personal property of the United State3 within
the ceded territory.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, &c.; That the property over which
jurisdiction is granted by this act, shall he exonerated and dischared from
all taxes and assessments which ma- be levied or imposed under the al.
thority of this State, while the said tracts of land shall remain the property
of the United States, and shall be used for the purposes intended by this act.
(Signed) DAVID A. RANDALL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved, June 1t, 1810.
(Signed) ISAAC JOHNSON.
Governor of the State of Louikioa.
No. 158.] AN ACT
To Incorporate the Town of Plaquer.sir:e
SaCTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represrtotites
g.,1e1rt:ale- of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly, convened, That all tnat por.
MIDa. tion or tract of land, situated in the parish of lberville, at the mouth of bayou
Plaquemine, and fronting on the Mississippi river, contained within the
following limits, shall continue to be known by the name of the town of
Plaquemine: commencing at the mouth of the bayou Plgquemine, thence
following the river down to the line between the land of the widow and
heirs of John k. Iliuhse, deceased, and the plantation of Edwards and
Whithall; thence following the said line back foimn the river until it
strike a large ditch called the Plaqluelninle canal; thence following the
straight part of said canal by a direct line to the huyou Plaquemine ; and
thence up the said bayou to the Mississippi river, at the starting point.
SEC. 2. Be it fuvilit enacted, -c.; That the inhabitants residing within
kct of inorpo.the said limits o the town of Plaquemine, are hereby declared and con.
Moon. stituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Miayor
and Selectmen of the town of Plaquetnines; and by that name, they and](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0296&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)