PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 737 PRINTER'S NO. 1021
No. 702 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY J. L. WRIGHT, ZWIKL AND CORDISCO,
FEBRUARY 25, 1981
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 23, 1981
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Department of General Services, on behalf of the
2 Commonwealth, to acquire by gift certain land in Falls
3 Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. The Department of General Services, on behalf of
7 the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, is authorized
8 and empowered to acquire fee simple title from the Warner
9 Company, on behalf of the Commonwealth, certain land adjacent to
10 the property known as Pennsbury Manor in Falls Township, Bucks
11 County, bounded and described as follows:
12 Beginning at a corner of lands of the Commonwealth of
13 Pennsylvania, (Pennsbury Manor State Park) and on the
14 southwesterly side of Pennsbury Memorial Road (33.0 feet wide);
15 thence along lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 (Pennsbury Manor State Park), south 05 degrees 38 minutes, 15
17 seconds east 1,472.07 feet to a corner in line of lands of Tract
1 #6, Warner Company; thence along the same, north 35 degrees 01
2 minute 45 seconds west 166.80 feet to a concrete monument set
3 for a corner of other lands of Warner Company; thence along the
4 same, north 05 degrees 38 minutes 15 seconds west 1,470.26 feet
5 to a corner on the southwesterly side of the aforesaid Pennsbury
6 Memorial Road; thence along the same, south 35 degrees 20
7 minutes 15 seconds east 165.22 feet to a corner of lands of the
8 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and place of beginning, CONTAINING <--
9 2.764 ACRES.
10 Section 2. Title to the property shall be taken subject to
11 the easements presently on record or in existence.
12 Section 3. The property, a 300th birthday gift to the
13 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania representing the continuing
14 historical interest of the Warner Company, shall be under the
15 jurisdiction and control of the Pennsylvania Historical and
16 Museum Commission for preservation, care and maintenance as part
17 of the historical site known as Pennsbury Manor.
18 Section 4. The title to the property shall be taken in the
19 name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in fee simple and
20 before its acceptance shall be approved by the Office of the <--
21 Attorney General. AS PROVIDED BY LAW. <--
22 Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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