SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2120 PRINTER'S NO. 2636
No. 1716 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. BERKES AND WRIGHT, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
SENATOR MAZZEI, STATE GOVERNMENT, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
MARCH 7, 1972
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:
1 All that certain tract of land, situate in the Borough of
2 Yardley, County of Bucks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded
3 and described as follows:
4 Beginning at an iron bolt in East Afton Avenue, said bolt
5 being in the boundary between lands of the Yardleyville-Delaware
6 Bridge Company and the southeasterly boundary of lands owned by
7 Thomas Cryne; thence (1) along East Afton Avenue and along
8 boundary of lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge
9 Company and said Thomas Cryne, north thirty degrees forty-seven
10 minutes east, ninety-one and seven-tenths feet, to an iron pipe,
11 located about four feet from the southerly face of the coal
12 house belonging to the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company;
13 thence (2) along said Thomas Cryne's lands north sixty-four
14 degrees fifty-seven minutes west, fifteen and four-tenths feet
15 to corner; thence (3) still along said Thomas Cryne's lands
16 north fifteen degrees thirty-eight minutes west, seventy-two and
17 seven-tenths feet, more or less, to the low water mark of the
18 Delaware River, thence (4) southeasterly along the low water
19 line of the Delaware River, two hundred eighty-one feet, more or
20 less to the southerly boundary of lands owned by the
21 Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company; thence (5) along the
22 southerly boundary of lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware
23 Bridge Company, south thirty-four degrees fifty minutes west,
24 one hundred seventy-four and nine-tenths feet, more or less, to
25 an iron pipe, thence (6) along the southwesterly boundary of
26 lands owned by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company, north
27 fifty-eight degrees fifty-eight minutes west, one hundred
28 ninety-seven, and six-tenths feet, to place of beginning,
29 containing 0.818 acre, more or less, as shown on the attached
30 map, which is made a part hereof.
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1 The above described land includes (1) that tract conveyed by
2 George Justice, Executor of Harriet W. Longshore to the
3 Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company by deed dated October 10,
4 1893 and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and
5 for Bucks County in Deed Book 264, Page 457, (2) that tract of
6 land conveyed by Thomas Cryne to the Yardley-Delaware Bridge
7 Company by deed dated the 20th day of November, 1922, not yet
8 recorded, and (3) that tract of land, title of which is in the
9 Estate of Harriet W. Longshore, shown by her Will dated February
10 28, 1885 and registered in Bucks County Will Book 17, page 167.
11 SHOULD THE TRACT BE ABANDONED, TITLE SHALL IMMEDIATELY VEST <--
12 IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
13 SHOULD THE TRACT BE TAKEN BY CONDEMNATION FOR HIGHWAY
14 IMPROVEMENTS, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL NOT BE
15 LIABLE FOR DAMAGES FOR THE LAND OR THE IMPROVEMENTS AS A RESULT
16 OF TAKING ALL OR PART OF THE TRACT.
17 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all title
18 restrictions of record at the time of the enactment of this act.
19 Section 2. The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
20 Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of
21 Property and Supplies in the name of the Commonwealth of
22 Pennsylvania.
23 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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