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GRAFTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
This reservation is situated at Grafton, in Taylor County, and contains an area of 3.40 acres.
Title.
1. Decree of condemnation for the above property in Exparte Jedediah W. Yates et al. in the district court of the United States for the district of West Virginia. Rendered March 30, 1871, and filed with the record in said cause in the clerk's office of said court at Clarksburg.
2. Deed from William D. Mackin and wife et al., dated October 26, 1874, conveying above property. Recorded in liber 12, folio 323, etc., of the deed records of Taylor County.
3. Deed from William D. Mackin and wife et al., dated June 21, 1878, conveying a strip of land around the cemetery containing 6.994 square feet of ground. Recorded in book 14, page 187, etc., of same records.
Jurisdiction.-See "General act of cession."
Source: U.S. Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks, By Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army, Pub. 1916. Transcribed by: Paula Bradley
WEST VIRGINIA GENERAL ACT OF CESSION
In pursuance of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, the consent of the Legislature of West Virginia is hereby given to the purchase or condemnation, whether heretofore or hereafter made or had by the government of the United States, or under its authority, of any tract or parcel of land within the limits of the State, for the purpose of erecting thereon light-houses, beacons, signal stations, post offices, customs houses, court houses, locks, ham, and works for the improvement of the navigation of any water course and other needful buildings or structures. The evidences of title to such land shall be recorded as in other cases. But the quantity of land to be so acquired shall not exceed twenty-five acres in any one place.
The State of West Virginia reserves the right to execute process, civil or criminal, within the limits of any lot or parcel of land so acquired by the United States as aforesaid. (Chap. 20, acts of 1881, Code of West Virginia, 1906, sections 4 and 5.)
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