PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3120, 3881

PRINTER'S NO. 3964

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1968

Session of

2015

INTRODUCED BY CHRISTIANA AND NEUMAN, APRIL 7, 2016

AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

price to be determined through a competitive bid process,

certain lands, buildings and improvements situate in South

Strabane Township, Washington County.; AND AUTHORIZING THE

DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS AND THE GOVERNOR,

TO GRANT AND CONVEY TO THE SALVATION ARMY, OR ITS SUCCESSORS

OR ASSIGNS, CERTAIN LANDS, BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS SITUATE

IN THE BOROUGH OF EAST STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

thereon described under subsection (b), the property being known

locally as the historic David Bradford House, situate in the

City of Washington, Washington County, for $1.

(b) Property description.--The property to be conveyed under

this section consists of two parcels of land containing 0.29

acres, including any improvements located thereon, situate in

the First Ward of the City of Washington, Washington County,

more particularly described as follows:

and shown upon a plan entitled Survey of Bradford House

dividing the property herein conveyed and property N/F Kenneth

R. and Sandra K. Dyson; thence along the Western line of South

Main Street, South 11° 38' East a distance of 18.36 feet to a

point on the line dividing the lot hereby conveyed and property

of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; thence along the line of

said land South 78° 22' West a distance of 100 feet to a point

marked by a railroad spike; thence continuing along said land

North 11° 38' West a distance of 5 feet to an iron pipe; thence

continuing along said land, South 78° 22' West a distance of 142

feet to a point on line dividing the property hereby conveyed

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of BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 0.08 acres.

BEING the same piece or parcel of land conveyed to the

General State Authority from Coen Oil Company by deed dated

April 3, 1963 and recorded April 5, 1963 in the Office of the

Recorder of Deeds of Washington County, Pennsylvania, in Deed

Book 1149, Page 289. The Department of General Services is the

TOGETHER with easements and rights of way fully set forth in

of the width of ten feet, extending from Strawberry Alley to the

line of lot formerly owned by Charles W. McWreath, and being the

same easement or right of way granted and conveyed to Gennie E.

Wilson (predecessor in title of the said Charlotta W. Wilson),

by Rachel M. Henderson, by deed dated April 11, 1895 and

recorded in said Recorder's Office in Deed Book 200, at Page 68.

The free and uninterrupted use, liberty and privilege of, and

passage in, along and over, a strip of ground fifteen feet in

width at the Western end of the lot of ground lying to the North

of the premises herein conveyed, N/F owned by First Federal

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Strawberry Alley to the lot of said First Federal Savings & Loan

Association; together with free ingress, egress and regress to

and for George F. Brink and Jay R. Brink, his wife, their heirs

and assigns, their tenants and under-tenants, lessees, occupiers

or possessors of the lot hereinabove conveyed, at all times and

seasons forever hereafter, into, along, over and out of the said

fifteen foot strip of ground, in common with the said First

passage in and over the premises last above described is the

The premises above described are subject to all the

exceptions, reservations, restrictions, covenants, conditions

and limitations set forth and contained in an Article of

Agreement entered into between First Federal Savings & Loan

Association of Washington and Charlotta W. Wilson, dated April

1, 1946, in Deed Book 711, Page 595.

The property mentioned in above easements and rights of way

as being the property of First Federal Savings and Loan

Association is N/F owned by Charles W. McWreath by deed from

First Federal Savings and Loan Association dated August 10,

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Drawing No. C-2711, dated August 1999; bounded and described as

follows:

BEGINNING at a point on South Main Street, on the line

dividing the property hereby conveyed and property of the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; thence along said South Main

Street South 11° 38' East, 35.0 feet to a point; thence South

78° 22' West, 242 feet to an existing railroad spike set; thence

Pennsylvania; thence along the same North 78° 22' East 142.0

BEING the same piece or parcel of land conveyed by Charles W.

McWreath and Laurabelle McWreath, husband and wife, to the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by deed dated August 17, 1959 and

recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Washington

County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book 1055, Page 252.

TOGETHER with the free and uninterrupted right of way into,

upon, over, along and through an alley or passageway on the

south side of the premises above described, which said right of

way was originally created under an Agreement of Sale for a lot

adjoining the premises above described, entered into between

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as it is for the use and benefit of the adjoining lots

forever". The said Hugh Wilson having died without carrying out

the terms of said written agreement, the Executors of the said

Hugh Wilson presented a petition to the Court of Common Pleas of

Washington County, asking for leave to prove said contract and

for leave to execute a deed to the said Alexander Sweeney,

conveying the property mentioned in said contract. On December

Executors of said Hugh Wilson, should make and execute a deed to

Sweeney, which deed is recorded in Deed Book Q, Volume 2, Page

85, and in said deed it was provided that the "alley" on the

north side of the lot thereby conveyed "and between it and

Blaine's lot", (the premises above described and conveyed),

should remain as it then was for the use and benefit of the

adjoining lots forever.

(c) Requirement for conveyance.--The conveyance under this

section shall be made under and subject to all lawful and

enforceable easements, servitudes and rights of others,

including, but not confined to, streets, roadways and rights of

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shall be made under and subject to the condition, which shall be

contained in the deed of conveyance, that no portion of the

property conveyed shall be used as a licensed facility, as

defined under 4 Pa.C.S. § 1103 (relating to definitions), or any

other similar type of facility authorized under State law. The

condition shall be a covenant running with the land and shall be

binding upon the grantee and its successors. Should the grantee

subsection, the title shall immediately revert to and revest in

David Bradford House

City of Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania

(1) Covenants. In consideration of the conveyance of the

aforementioned real property, Grantee covenants and agrees for

itself, its heirs, administrators, successors, and assigns that

the said herein conveyed property shall be subject to the

following historic preservation restrictions, and shall do or

refrain from doing with respect to the subject property all acts

required or prohibited by the following preservation

restrictions:

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(B) Historic Structures. The David Bradford

House, historic structures and buildings that

comprise the property shall be maintained and

preserved in accordance with the Secretary of the

Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic

Properties.

(C) Landscape. The landscape of the David

subject property and shall not be used in any manner

site development, ground disturbance, removal of

buildings, addition of buildings, or use inconsistent

with this covenant, or any other action, shall be

undertaken or permitted to the subject property

without the prior written approval of the

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

(E) Alterations/Modifications/Repairs. With the

prior written approval of the Pennsylvania Historical

and Museum Commission, alterations, modifications,

repairs or other work may be permitted to the subject

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and approve the requested work in writing.

Consent shall be implied if the Commission does

not issue a written response approving the

request.

(F) Archeology and Other Ground Disturbing

Activities. Mining, excavating, dredging or removing

from the subject property any natural resource which

approval of the Commission. Archeological

(I) Archeological discoveries. In the event

archeological materials are discovered during any

ground disturbing activities, work shall

temporarily cease and the Commission shall be

consulted for guidance and direction before

ground disturbing work may continue.

(II) Standards for Archeology. Any

archeological work conducted on the subject

property shall be performed in accordance with

the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and

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