PRINTER'S NO. 2120
No. 1716 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. BERKES AND WRIGHT, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Authorizing and directing the Department of Property and
2 Supplies with the approval of the Department of
3 Transportation to sell and convey a certain lot or tract of
4 ground with improvements thereon located in the borough of
5 Yardley, County of Bucks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
6 the Borough of Yardley, Pennsylvania.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. The Department of Property and Supplies, with the
10 approval of the Department of Transportation, is hereby
11 authorized on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
12 sell and convey to the Borough of Yardley, County of Bucks,
13 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for a consideration of one dollar
14 ($1) the following described tract of land with any improvements
15 thereon, situate in the Borough of Yardley, County of Bucks, and
16 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the southwest corner of the
17 intersection of Pennsylvania Route 32 (River Road) and
18 Pennsylvania Route 432 (Yardley-Newtown Road) and further
19 identified as follows:
20 All that certain tract of land, situate in the Borough of
1 Yardley, County of Bucks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded
2 and described as follows:
3 Beginning at an iron bolt in East Afton Avenue, said bolt
4 being in the boundary between lands of the Yardleyville-Delaware
5 Bridge Company and the southeasterly boundary of lands owned by
6 Thomas Cryne; thence (1) along East Afton Avenue and along
7 boundary of lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge
8 Company and said Thomas Cryne, north thirty degrees forty-seven
9 minutes east, ninety-one and seven-tenths feet, to an iron pipe,
10 located about four feet from the southerly face of the coal
11 house belonging to the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company;
12 thence (2) along said Thomas Cryne's lands north sixty-four
13 degrees fifty-seven minutes west, fifteen and four-tenths feet
14 to corner; thence (3) still along said Thomas Cryne's lands
15 north fifteen degrees thirty-eight minutes west, seventy-two and
16 seven-tenths feet, more or less, to the low water mark of the
17 Delaware River, thence (4) southeasterly along the low water
18 line of the Delaware River, two hundred eighty-one feet, more or
19 less to the southerly boundary of lands owned by the
20 Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company; thence (5) along the
21 southerly boundary of lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware
22 Bridge Company, south thirty-four degrees fifty minutes west,
23 one hundred seventy-four and nine-tenths feet, more or less, to
24 an iron pipe, thence (6) along the southwesterly boundary of
25 lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company, north
26 fifty-eight degrees fifty-eight minutes west, one hundred
27 ninety-seven, and six-tenths feet, to place of beginning,
28 containing 0.818 acre, more or less, as shown on the attached
29 map, which is made a part hereof.
30 The above described land includes (1) that tract conveyed by
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1 George Justice, Executor of Harriet W. Longshore to the
2 Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company by deed dated October 10,
3 1893 and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and
4 for Bucks County in Deed Book 264, Page 457, (2) that tract of
5 land conveyed by Thomas Cryne to the Yardley-Delaware Bridge
6 Company by deed dated the 20th day of November, 1922, not yet
7 recorded, and (3) that tract of land, title of which is in the
8 Estate of Harriet W. Longshore, shown by her Will dated February
9 28, 1885 and registered in Bucks County Will Book 17, page 167.
10 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all title
11 restrictions of record at the time of the enactment of this act.
12 Section 2. The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
13 Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of
14 Property and Supplies in the name of the Commonwealth of
15 Pennsylvania.
16 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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