Chapter 1

Section 1. All persons who are citizens of the United States and who are domiciled in this commonwealth are citizens thereof.

Section 10. Whoever wilfully injures, defaces or removes a signal, monument, building or appurtenance erected, used or constructed under the authority of the United States shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars, and be liable in tort to the United States for all damages so …

Section 2. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of the commonwealth shall extend to all places within its boundaries subject to the concurrent jurisdiction granted over places ceded to or acquired by the United States.

Section 3. Subject to such lateral boundaries as have been or shall be established between the commonwealth and adjacent coastal states, the territorial limits of the commonwealth shall extend seaward to the outer limits of the territorial sea of the United States. Such limits ar…

Section 4. The department of highways, in this chapter called the department, shall in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five and in every fifth year thereafter inspect all monuments or other marks defining the location of the boundary lines of the commonwealth, and if any of …

Section 5. No person shall wilfully or maliciously disturb or injure, or, except as herein provided, remove, obliterate, deface or cover up any monument or mark designating the boundary line of the commonwealth. Any person desirous of removing and replacing any such monument or m…

Section 6. The department, with the approval of the governor and council, may, upon the application of an agent of the United States, in the name and behalf of the commonwealth, convey to the United States the title of the commonwealth to any tract of land covered by navigable wa…

Section 7. The United States shall have jurisdiction over any tract of land within the commonwealth acquired by it in fee for the following purposes: for the use of the United States bureau of fisheries, or for the erection of a marine hospital, custom office, post office, life-s…

Section 7A. The governor, if he finds that the public interest will benefit thereby, may accept on behalf of the commonwealth retrocession of all or part of the legislative jurisdiction over property within the commonwealth over which such jurisdiction has been ceded to the Unite…

Section 8. In connection with their official duties persons employed by the United States geological survey or coast survey, or by the department, may enter upon land and erect works, stations, buildings and appurtenances; provided, that, in case of such entry or erection by pers…

Section 9. In case of entry by persons employed by the commonwealth, it shall pay all damages thereby caused. In case of entry, not constituting a taking, by persons employed by the United States, such persons shall pay all such damages. If the parties interested cannot agree upo…