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rtion thereof, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States, and be used for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer. The cession of the site of the Watervliet Arsenal is made in the same or equivalent terms, except that, instead of defense and safety of the city and port of New York, etc., the language is, defense and safety of the said State, and no longer. South Carolina in 1805, by legislative enactment, ceded to the United States, in Charleston harbor and on Beaufort River, various forts and fortifications, and sites for the erection of forts, on the following conditions, viz.: That, if the United States shall not, within three years from the passing of this act, and notification thereof by the Governor of this State to the Executive of the United States, repair the fortifications now existing thereon or build such other forts or fortifications as may be deemed most expedient by the Executive of the United States on the same, and keep a garrison or gar