PRINTER'S NO. 3343
No. 2463 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, GLADECK AND McGILL, APRIL 12, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 12, 2000
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of Conservation and
2 Natural Resources, with the approval of the Governor, to
3 convey to William Peter R. Cross and/or his assigns a certain
4 tract of land situated in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery
5 County, in exchange for a certain tract of land.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Authorization.
9 The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, with
10 the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed
11 on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant and
12 convey to William Peter R. Cross and/or his assigns the
13 following tract of land bounded and described as follows:
14 All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situated in the
15 Township of Whitemarsh, County of Montgomery, Commonwealth of
16 Pennsylvania bounded and described as follows:
17 BEGINNING at a point corner to Tax Lot 4 in Block 56 and Tax
18 Lot 5 in Block 56, said point beginning distant South 45 degrees
19 05 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of 1,174.90 feet from a
1 point in the existing easterly right of way line of Bethlehem
2 Pike, said point at Bethlehem Pike being a common corner to Tax
3 Lot 4 in Block 56 and Tax Lot 5 in Block 56, and running thence;
4 along the aforementioned common line of Lots 4 and 5, North 45
5 degrees 49 minutes 50 seconds East, a distance of 63.80 feet to
6 a point thence; leaving said common line and crossing Lot 4,
7 North 86 degrees 34 minutes 10 seconds West, a distance of 96.3
8 feet to a point in the first mentioned common line thence along
9 the same, South 45 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds East, a
10 distance of 71.12 feet to the point and place of beginning.
11 CONTAINING 2,268.5 square feet of land, more or less as shown
12 on a plan prepared and surveyed by Andersen Engineering
13 Associated Incorporated.
14 Being a portion of Block 56, Lot 4, as contained in the deed
15 from Isaac Isard to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania dated
16 December 30, 1931, and recorded in Montgomery County Deed Book
17 1137, Page 570.
18 Section 2. Property to be conveyed to Commonwealth.
19 The conveyance authorized by section 1 shall be in exchange
20 for the conveyance by William Peter R. Cross and/or his assigns
21 to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of a tract of land bounded
22 and described as follows:
23 All that certain tract of land situated in the Township of
24 Whitemarsh, County of Montgomery, and the Commonwealth of
25 Pennsylvania, more particularly bounded and described as
26 follows:
27 BEGINNING at a point in the common line between Tax Lot 4 in
28 Block 56 and Tax Lot 5 in Block 56, said point being distant
29 South 45 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of
30 600.23 feet from a point in the existing easterly right of way
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1 line of Bethlehem Pike, said point at Bethlehem Pike being a
2 corner common to Tax Lot 4 in Block 56 and Tax Lot 5 in Block
3 56, and running thence; South 45 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds
4 East, a distance of 503.55 feet to a point thence; North 86
5 degrees 34 minutes 10 seconds West, a distance of 7.55 feet to a
6 point thence; North 45 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds West, a
7 distance of 498.03 feet to a point thence; North 46 degrees 29
8 minutes 10 seconds East, a distance of 5.00 feet to the point
9 and place of beginning.
10 CONTAINING 2,504 square feet of land, more or less.
11 Being a portion of Block 56, Lot 5, Parcel "B" as contained
12 in the deed from William Peter R. Cross and Lee Carol L. Cross
13 to William Peter R. Cross dated January 23, 1998, and recorded
14 in Montgomery County Deed Book 5214, Page 897.
15 Section 3. Conditions of conveyance.
16 Conveyance of the land described in section 1 shall be made
17 under and subject to all easements, servitude and rights of
18 others, including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and
19 rights of telephone, telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or
20 pipeline companies, as well as under and subject to any
21 interest, estates or tenancies vested in third persons, whether
22 or not appearing of record, for any portion of the land or
23 improvements erected, thereon.
24 Section 4. Execution of deed.
25 The deed of conveyance of the property described in section 1
26 shall be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by
27 the Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural
28 Resources in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
29 Section 5. Costs.
30 The parties to the transaction shall bear their respective
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1 costs.
2 Section 6. Effective date.
3 This act shall take effect immediately.
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