PRINTER'S NO. 2810
No. 2155 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY HEPFORD AND MANMILLER, FEBRUARY 24, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 24, 1976
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Department of General Services with the approval
2 of the Department of Public Welfare and the Governor, to
3 convey to the County of Dauphin, 204 acres of land, more or
4 less, situated in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County,
5 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. The Department of General Services, with the
9 approval of the Department of Public Welfare and the Governor,
10 is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth
11 of Pennsylvania, to grant and convey to the County of Dauphin,
12 the following tract of land situated in the Township of
13 Susquehanna, County of Dauphin, and Commonwealth of
14 Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
15 Beginning at a railroad spike in the centerline of Elmerton
16 Avenue, said point being situate south 82 degrees 30 minutes 57
17 seconds east 110.00 feet from a railroad spike at the
18 intersection of the centerline of Elmerton Avenue and the
19 centerline of Bamburger Road, thence with Elmerton Avenue the
20 following four courses:
1 1. South 82 degrees 30 minutes 57 seconds east 1679.00 feet
2 to a railroad spike,
3 2. North 84 degrees 13 minutes 41 seconds east 916.97 feet
4 to a railroad spike,
5 3. South 78 degrees 39 minutes 46 seconds east 530.04 feet
6 to a railroad spike,
7 4. North 86 degrees 26 minutes 30 seconds east 709.36 feet
8 to a railroad spike;
9 thence with the westerly line of an easement previously granted
10 to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation by the grantors
11 herein - said easement being a 36 foot wide access to a 10,587
12 acre tract being leased to the Pennsylvania Department of
13 Transportation - the following five courses:
14 1. South 5 degrees 28 minutes 50 seconds east 212.94 feet to
15 a point,
16 2. By a curve to the left radius 2882.79 feet arc length
17 153.83 chord south 7 degrees 00 minutes 35 seconds east 153.86
18 feet to a point,
19 3. South 8 degrees 32 minutes 20 seconds east 325.32 feet to
20 a point,
21 4. By a curve to the right, radius 554.96 feet arc length
22 121.88 feet - chord south 2 degrees 14 minutes 50 seconds east
23 121.64 feet to a point,
24 5. South 38 degrees 39 minutes 14 seconds west. 100.00 feet
25 to a steel I-beam;
26 thence by lands leased to the Pennsylvania Department of
27 Transportation by the grantors herein south 15 degrees 45
28 minutes 08 seconds west 471.38 feet to a copper pin at lands now
29 or late of Roy A. Hollinger,
30 thence with lands of said Hollinger and lands of M. L. Lester
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1 north 78 degrees 39 minutes 30 seconds west 1770.27 feet to a
2 point.
3 thence with lands of M. L. Lester south 17 degrees 35 minutes 30
4 seconds west 429.00 feet to a point,
5 thence by the same south 78 degrees 24 minutes 30 seconds east
6 229.90 feet to a point in the center of Locust Lane, thence with
7 Locust Lane the following six courses:
8 1. South 37 degrees 55 minutes 27 seconds west 114.38 feet
9 to a point,
10 2. South 30 degrees 33 minutes 46 seconds west 166.20 feet
11 to a point,
12 3. South 61 degrees 48 minutes 24 seconds east 70.50 feet to
13 a point,
14 4. South 11 degrees 29 minutes 27 seconds west 579.98 feet
15 to a point,
16 5. South 30 degrees 18 minutes 42 seconds west 84.25 feet to
17 a point,
18 6. South 23 degrees 18 minutes 39 seconds west 157.01 feet
19 to a point;
20 thence south 17 degrees 49 minutes 07 seconds west 159.61 feet
21 to a blazed oak tree.
22 Thence by lands of others south 70 degrees 22 minutes 25 seconds
23 west 1028.12 feet to a point,
24 thence south 68 degrees 39 minutes 25 seconds west 565.98 feet
25 to a concrete monument,
26 thence south 13 degrees 50 minutes 02 seconds west 236.39 feet
27 to an iron pin,
28 thence north 89 degrees 44 minutes 14 seconds east 239.82 feet
29 to an iron pin at corner of lands of the Harrisburg School
30 District;
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1 thence with lands of the latter, south 48 degrees 31 minutes 45
2 seconds west 1050.00 feet to an iron pin,
3 thence with lands of the grantor herein the following eight
4 courses:
5 1. North 25 degrees 54 minutes 11 seconds west 847.71 feet
6 to an iron pin,
7 2. North 21 degrees 53 minutes 37 seconds east 1781.43 feet
8 to an iron pin,
9 3. South 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds east 159.31 feet
10 to an iron pin,
11 4. North 33 degrees 49 minutes 02 seconds east 304.95 feet
12 to an iron pin,
13 5. South 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds east 667.57 feet
14 to an iron pin,
15 6. North 7 degrees 47 minutes 47 seconds east 242.60 feet to
16 an iron pin,
17 7. North 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds west 1010.92 feet
18 to a point;
19 8. North 3 degrees 20 minutes 14 seconds east 1380.60 feet
20 to the place of beginning.
21 Containing 204.56 acres more or less of land, and being parts
22 of the same land acquired by Pennsylvania Lunatic Hospital, in
23 eminent domain proceedings before the Common Pleas Court of
24 Dauphin County on November 18, 1875 at 365 January Term 1896,
25 against lands of Margaret Oyster and May 16, 1893 at 671 June
26 Term 1893, against lands of Napoleon K. Oyster.
27 Subject to a sewer easement previously granted to the
28 Susquehanna Township Authority and also an easement for a water
29 line previously granted to the Pennsylvania State Police.
30 It is also agreed that the parties of the first part grant
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1 and convey a right-of-way ingress and egress easement to the
2 parties of the second part, said right-of-way easement being of
3 a width of 36 feet and being the easement previously granted to
4 the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as access to the
5 10.587 acre parcel leased to the Pennsylvania Department of
6 Transportation.
7 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all other
8 easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but not
9 confined to streets, roadways, and rights of any telephone,
10 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
11 well as under and subject to any interests, estates or tenancies
12 vested in third persons whether or not appearing of record, for
13 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
14 Section 2. The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause
15 that the lands conveyed shall be used for public park,
16 recreation and conservation purposes by the County of Dauphin
17 and if at any time the said County of Dauphin or its successor
18 in function conveys said property or authorizes or permits said
19 property to be used for any purpose other than public recreation
20 and parks purposes, the title thereto shall immediately revert
21 to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
22 Section 3. The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
23 Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of
24 the Department of General Services in the name of the
25 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with the approval of the Secretary
26 of Public Welfare and the Governor.
27 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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