(a) Exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the Hot Springs National Park known and described as part of the Hot Springs Mountain, and whose limits are particularly described by the following boundary lines: Commencing at stone monument number seven (7) set upon the west line of Reserve Avenue and marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain, and running thence in a northwesterly direction to a point upon the south line of Fountain Street to a stone monument numbered forty-two (42) and marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain, thence along the south line of Fountain Street to its intersection with Central Avenue or to stone monument number thirty-three (33), thence south along the east line of Central Avenue to where it is intersected by Reserve Avenue at stone monument number thirty (30), thence along the north boundary line of Reserve Avenue to stone monument number seven (7), the point of commencement, all in township two (2) south, range nineteen (19) west, in the County of Garland, State of Arkansas, being a part of the permanent United States Hot Springs Reservation, is ceded to the United States to be exercised so long as it shall remain the property of the United States, except that this cession of jurisdiction shall not prevent the execution of any process of the state, civil or criminal, on any person who may be on the reservation or premises.
(b) The right to tax all structures and other property in private ownership on the Hot Springs National Park accorded the state by 26 Stat. 844, Ch. 533, § 5, is reserved to the State of Arkansas.