relinquishment of federal jurisdiction

relinquishment of federal jurisdiction Sec. 1908. Subject to the provisions of this part and to the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part, there is hereby relinquished to the respective State, Territory, Commonwealth, insular possession, or dependency of the United States such jurisdiction pertaining to the administration of estates of decedents as may have been ceded to the United States by said State, Territory, Commonwealth, insular possession, or dependency of the United States respecting the Federal reservation on which is situated any Veterans’ Administration facility while such facility is operated by the Veterans’ Administration; such jurisdiction with respect to any such property on any such reservation to lie to the same extent as if such premises hail not been ceded to the United States. Nothing in this 71 Stat. 149 section shall be construed to deprive any said State, Territory, Commonwealth, insular possession, or dependency of the United States of any jurisdiction which it now has nor to give any State, Territory, Commonwealth, insular possession, or dependency of the United States authority over any Federal official as such on such premises or otherwise.