PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1474                      PRINTER'S NO. 3024

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

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
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     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.          <--



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