PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1474 PRINTER'S NO. 3024
No. 1256 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY W. W. FOSTER AND WARGO, JUNE 22, 1983
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 22, 1984
AN ACT 1 Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services, 2 with the approval of the Governor and the Department of 3 Public Welfare, to convey to Canaan Township 2.307 acres of 4 land, more or less, situate in Canaan Township, Wayne County, 5 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 Governor and the Department of Public Welfare, 10 is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the Commonwealth 11 of Pennsylvania to grant and convey, for a consideration of one- 12 half of the fair market value as determined by an independent 13 appraisal to Canaan Township, the following tract of land 14 situate in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 15 described in accordance with a plan prepared for Canaan 16 Township, dated May 9, 1983, as prepared by Alfred K. Bucconear, 17 Honesdale, Pennsylvania and bounded and described as follows: 18 All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying,
1 situate and being in the Township of Canaan, County of Wayne and 2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, 3 to witness: 4 Beginning at a point or corner, located in the centerline of 5 Pennsylvania Legislative Route No. 63102, being a common corner 6 of lands of Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane and 7 being located on a projection of the southern division line of 8 lands of Lewis C. and Margaret A. Henshaw - Deed: 375, Page: 9 193; thence, along the centerline of the aforesaid Pennsylvania 10 Legislative Route No. 63102, south 06 degrees 26 minutes 00 11 seconds west 209.00 feet to a point or corner; thence, departing 12 from said roadway, along the northern division line of lands of 13 William A. Salak - Deed: 368, Page: 365 and through lands of the 14 aforesaid Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, north 15 82 degrees 08 minutes 00 seconds west 453.58 feet to an iron pin 16 corner set; thence, continuing through lands of the aforesaid 17 Farview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, north 10 degrees 18 08 minutes 00 seconds east 241.60 feet to an iron pin corner 19 set, being the southwest corner of lands of the aforesaid Lewis 20 C. and Margaret A. Henshaw; thence, along the southern division 21 line of lands of the aforesaid Lewis C. and Margaret A. Henshaw, 22 south 77 degrees 54 minutes 00 seconds east 440.00 feet to the 23 place of beginning. 24 Containing, within bounds, 2.307 acres of land, inclusive of 25 that area occupied by road and utilities right-of-way. 26 Being a part of the same premises, which the Board of 27 Trustees of the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, acquired 28 by lawful condemnation, from Charles E. Keen, Ida C. Norris, 29 Nora L. Keen and James B. Keen, Jr., by proceedings and entries 30 as filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas 19830H1256B3024 - 2 -
1 of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, under Docket No. 209, June Term 2 1915. 3 The conveyance shall be made under and subject to all 4 easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but not 5 confined to streets, roadways and rights of any telephone, 6 telegraph, water, electric, sewer, gas or pipeline companies, as 7 well as under and subject to any interest, estates or tenancies 8 vested in third persons, whether or not appearing of record, for 9 any portion of the land or improvements erected thereon. 10 Section 2. The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause 11 that the lands conveyed shall be used for municipal purposes by 12 Canaan Township and if at any time the township or its successor 13 in function conveys said property or permits said property to be 14 used for any purpose other than those aforementioned, the title 15 thereto shall immediately revert to and revest in the 16 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 17 SECTION 3. THE PROCEEDS OF THIS SALE SHALL BE PAID INTO THE <-- 18 STATE TREASURY AND DEPOSITED IN THE CAPITAL FACILITIES 19 REDEMPTION FUND. 20 Section 3 4. The deed of conveyance shall be approved as <-- 21 provided by law and shall be executed by the Secretary of 22 General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of 23 Pennsylvania. 24 Section 4 5. Costs and fees incidental to this conveyance <-- 25 shall be borne by the grantee. 26 Section 5 6. This act shall take effect immediately. <-- F16L85RAW/19830H1256B3024 - 3 -