19-2-7. [Santa Fe national cemetery; jurisdiction ceded; limitation.]
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That exclusive jurisdiction be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States over the tract of land comprised within the cemetery known as the Santa Fe national cemetery, area about nine and one-half acres, in Santa Fe county; provided, however, that the state of New Mexico reserves the right to serve civil or criminal process within said cemetery reservation in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred or crimes committed in said state but outside of said cemetery reservation.
History: Laws 1913, ch. 36, § 1; Code 1915, § 5566; C.S. 1929, § 146-105; 1941 Comp., § 8-206; 1953 Comp., § 7-2-6.