PRINTER'S NO. 183
No. 170 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. REED, MANMILLER AND PICCOLA, FEBRUARY 8,
1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 8, 1977
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 point in the centerline of Elmerton Avenue,
16 said point being situate south 82 degrees 30 minutes 57 seconds
17 east 50.00 feet from a railroad spike at the intersection of the
18 centerline of Elmerton Avenue and the centerline of Bamburger
19 Road, thence with Elmerton Avenue the following four courses:
1 (1) South 82 degrees 30 minutes 57 seconds east 1739.00 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 747.27 feet
8 to a railroad spike;
9 thence with lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquired
10 for the use of the Pennsylvania Game Commission south 19 degrees
11 58 minutes 22 seconds east 956.37 feet to a steel I-beam; thence
12 with lands leased to the Pennsylvania Department of
13 Transportation north 88 degrees 12 minutes 31 seconds west
14 334.94 to a steel I-beam; thence by the same south 15 degrees 45
15 minutes 08 seconds west 471.38 feet to a copper pin at lands now
16 or late of Roy A. Hollinger; thence with lands of said Hollinger
17 and lands of M. L. Lester north 78 degrees 39 minutes 30 seconds
18 west 1770.27 feet to a point; thence with lands of M. L. Lester
19 south 17 degrees 35 minutes 30 seconds west 429.00 to a point;
20 thence by the same south 78 degrees 24 minutes 30 seconds east
21 229.90 feet to a point in the center of Locust Lane; thence with
22 Locust Lane the following six courses:
23 (1) South 37 degrees 55 minutes 27 seconds west 114.38 feet
24 to a point;
25 (2) South 30 degrees 33 minutes 46 seconds west 166.20 feet
26 to a point;
27 (3) South 61 degrees 48 minutes 24 seconds east 70.50 feet
28 to a point;
29 (4) South 11 degrees 18 minutes 39 seconds west 157.01 feet
30 to a point;
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1 (5) South 30 degrees 18 minutes 42 seconds west 84.25 feet
2 to a point;
3 (6) South 23 degrees 18 minutes 39 seconds west 157.01 feet
4 to a point;
5 thence south 17 degrees 49 minutes 07 seconds west 159.61 feet
6 to a blazed oak tree; thence by lands of others south 70 degrees
7 22 minutes 25 seconds west 1028.12 feet to a point; thence south
8 68 degrees 39 minutes 25 seconds west 565.98 feet to a concrete
9 monument; thence south 13 degrees 50 minutes 02 seconds west
10 236.39 feet to an iron pin; thence north 89 degrees 44 minutes
11 14 seconds east 239.82 feet to an iron pin at corner of lands of
12 the Harrisburg School District; thence with lands of the latter,
13 south 48 degrees 31 minutes 45 seconds west 1050.00 feet to an
14 iron pin, thence with lands of the grantor herein the following
15 eight courses:
16 (1) North 25 degrees 54 minutes 11 seconds west 847.71 feet
17 to an iron pin;
18 (2) North 21 degrees 53 minutes 37 seconds east 1781.43 feet
19 to an iron pin;
20 (3) South 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds east 159.31 feet
21 to an iron pin;
22 (4) North 33 degrees 49 minutes 02 seconds east 304.95 feet
23 to an iron pin;
24 (5) South 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds east 667.57 feet
25 to an iron pin;
26 (6) North 07 degrees 47 minutes 47 seconds east 242.60 feet
27 to an iron pin;
28 (7) North 82 degrees 12 minutes 14 seconds west 1071.11 feet
29 to a point;
30 (8) North 03 degrees 20 minutes 14 seconds east 1380.43 to
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1 the place of beginning.
2 Containing 209.58 acres be the same more or less.
3 Subject to a sewer easement previously granted to the
4 Susquehanna Township Authority and also an easement for a
5 waterline previously granted to the Pennsylvania State Police
6 and also a right-of-way ingress and egress easement, said right-
7 of-way easement being of a width of 36 minutes and being the
8 easement previously granted to the Pennsylvania Department of
9 Transportation as access to the 10.587 acre parcel leased to the
10 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
11 Being composed of all or parts of the following tracts of
12 land:
13 52.86 acres, Grantor William Trullinger, Will Book N, page
14 416.
15 2.06 acres, Grantor Hyles Hagy, Jr., D.B. C.27, page 231.
16 1.949 acres, Grantor Jeanette Hagy McLaughlin, D.B. C.27,
17 page 234.
18 1.947 acres, Grantor Kathryn Hagy Snyder, D.B. C.27, page
19 233.
20 15.31 acres, Grantor Ida Hagy, D.B. C.27, page 239.
21 49.351 acres, Grantor Glen Gery Shale Brick Co., D.B. Q.22,
22 page 498.
23 1.29 acres, Grantor Janet Dare Bailey et al, D.B. X.25, page
24 461.
25 96.473 acres, Grantor National Mortgage Company, D.B. N.22,
26 page 507.
27 21.03 acres, Grantor Napolean K. Oyster, D.B. B.2, page 453.
28 38.8 acres, Grantor N. K. Oyster, D.B. B.2, Page 453.
29 29.13 acres, Grantor Archibald Graham, D.B. V.6, page 401.
30 7.66 acres, Grantor William A. Weaverstick, D.B. X.6, page
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1 221.
2 Being the same parcel or parcels as described in a survey
3 dated June 1, 1976 by Edward J. Prall, Registered Surveyor.
4 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all other
5 easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but not
6 confined to streets, roadways, and rights of any telephone,
7 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as
8 well as under and subject to any interests, estates or tenancies
9 vested in third persons whether or not appearing of record, for
10 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon.
11 Section 2. The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause
12 that the lands conveyed shall be used for public park,
13 recreation and conservation purposes by the County of Dauphin
14 and if at any time the said County of Dauphin or its successor
15 in function conveys said property or authorizes or permits said
16 property to be used for any purpose other than public recreation
17 and parks purposes, the title thereto shall immediately revert
18 to and revest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
19 Section 3. The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
20 Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of
21 the Department of General Services in the name of the
22 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with the approval of the Secretary
23 of Public Welfare and the Governor.
24 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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