PRINTER'S NO. 1837
No. 1403 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY GREENWOOD AND LEWIS, DECEMBER 21, 1989
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 21, 1989
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to
2 accept a gift of certain real property situate in the
3 Township of Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
7 is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the Commonwealth of
8 Pennsylvania, a gift from the Preservation Fund of Pennsylvania,
9 Incorporated, of the following tract of land situate in the
10 Township of Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, bounded and
11 described as follows:
12 TRACT 1
13 All that land or right of way, beginning at a point in the
14 middle of River Road in the line of land belonging to Mary Ellen
15 Haas and running thence south 19 degrees 40 minutes east 1093.2
16 feet to a point 170 feet easterly from a post planted in the
17 easterly line of River Road, thence by a line curving toward the
18 east with a radius of 1433 feet a distance of 380 feet, thence
1 south 34 degrees 52 minutes east 872.4 feet more or less to the
2 line of land belonging to Rebecca Hogeland, being a strip of
3 land 30 feet lying 15 feet on each side of said described center
4 line which center line passes midway between two rows of young
5 apple trees, containing 1.615 acres more or less. The above
6 tract description had originally been recorded in Deed Book 318
7 page 426 in Bucks County.
8 TRACT 2
9 All that certain tract of land, being a strip of land 30 feet
10 wide extending from the line of land belonging to Reuben High on
11 the north (Tract 1 above described) to the line of land
12 belonging to the Rossiter Brothers on the south, said southerly
13 line also being the line of division between the townships of
14 Solebury and Upper Makefield, said tract of land being more
15 particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the
16 southerly line of land belonging to Reuben High near the
17 southern bank of Pidcock's Creek and running thence (1) along
18 other land belonging to the said Rebecca S. Hogeland south 34
19 degrees 52 minutes east 1120.5 feet to the line of land
20 belonging to Rossiter Brothers; thence (2) along Rossiter
21 Brothers' land said line being also along the Solebury and Upper
22 Makefield township division line south 79 degrees 51 minutes
23 west 32.4 feet; thence (3) along other land belonging to Rebecca
24 S. Hogeland north 34 degrees 52 minutes west 1100.3 feet to the
25 line of land of Reuben High; thence (4) along Reuben High's land
26 north 43 degrees ten minutes east 30.6 feet to the place of
27 beginning; containing 0.765 acres more or less. The above fee
28 simple tract description had originally been recorded in Deed
29 Book 314 page 414 in Bucks County.
30 Being the same lots or tracts of land granted and conveyed to
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1 the Preservation Fund of Pennsylvania, Incorporated, by Deed
2 dated December 12, 1986, and recorded in the Recorder's Office
3 for Bucks County.
4 Section 2. Title to the real property shall be taken in
5 accordance with 37 Pa.C.S. § 701 (relating to title to historic
6 property), and counsel for the Pennsylvania Historical and
7 Museum Commission shall make the certification required by that
8 section.
9 Section 3. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance
10 shall be borne by the Commonwealth.
11 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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