Pennsylvania Act 1953-131 — ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND

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ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES TO ACQUIRE LAND
                 Act of Jul. 20, 1953, P.L. 507, No. 131              Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of approximately
        one hundred and thirty-four acres of land in the County of
        Butler, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, known as the Veterans
        Administration Hospital, and ceding jurisdiction to the
        United States.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     is hereby granted, in accordance with the seventeenth clause,
     eighth section of the first article of the Constitution by the
     United States, to the acquisition by the United States of
     America of two tracts of land in the Township of Butler, County
     of Butler, known as the Veterans Administration Hospital, the
     first tract being bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point on the center line of State Highway
     Route No. 68, at the distance of 534.4 feet measured S 88
     degrees 30' W from a point common to the lands of McCandless
     Heirs and Walter A. Kradel; thence extending S 88 degrees 30' W
     along the center line of said Highway, 620.6 feet to a point a
     corner common to the lands of Walter Kradel and the Hospital
     Grounds owned by the State of Pennsylvania; thence along the
     line of lands of said Hospital N 1/2 degree W, 1122 feet to a
     corner in line of land of said Hospital; thence continuing along
     land of said Hospital N 88 degrees 30' E, 627 feet to a monument
     set for a corner in line of land of ... Vangorder; thence
     southeast along line of lands of ... Vangorder, Graham and
     Walter A. Kradel (passing thru a monument located 35 feet
     northwest of the center line of Highway aforesaid), 1122 feet to
     the first mentioned point or place of beginning. Containing 16
     acres, more or less, and being a part of the same land conveyed
     to William H. Miller, unmarried, Grantor herein, by Walter A.
     Kradel et ux, by deed dated August 14, 1944, and recorded in the
     Office of Recorder of Deeds for Butler County, on the 14th day
     of August, 1944.
        The second tract consisting of two parcels being bounded and
     described as follows:
        111.87 acres, more or less, acquired by a judgment on a
     declaration of taking entered by the United States District
     Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on June 26, 1946,
     in an action entitled United States of America vs. Certain Lands
     in Butler County, Pennsylvania, the General State Authority,
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al, Civil Action No. 5817,
     which are described as follows:
        Parcel No. 1.  On the North by a public highway known as
     Traffic Route No. 422; on the East by a public road known as the
     Duffy road; on the South by lands of formerly Keefer now Kradel
     and Corder and the public road known as Traffic Route No. 68;
     and on the West by lands of formerly McKee, now Butler County
     National Bank and Trust Company, and Miller.
        Said tract of land being more particularly bounded and
     described by courses and distances as follows, to wit:
        Beginning at a point in the center line of the Butler-New
     Castle public road, also known as traffic route No. 422, being
     the Northwestern corner of the tract of land herein described;
     thence along the center line of said public road South 59 deg.
     24'30" East, two thousand five hundred forty-one and 88/100
     (2,541.88) feet to a point in the center line of said road;
     thence continuing along the center line of said road South 59
     deg. 47' East, ninety-four and 8/10 (94.8) feet to a point in
     the center line of said Butler-New Castle public road, being the
     northeastern corner of said tract; thence along the center line
     of a township road known as the Duffy road South 3 deg. 20'
     East, eight hundred thirty-eight and 31/100 (838.31) feet to a
     point in the center line of said township road; thence along
     lands of formerly Keefer now Graham and Kradel South 86 deg. 55'
     West, one thousand one hundred thirty-seven and 24/100
     (1,137.24) feet to a monument; thence along lands formerly of
     Keefer now W. F. Kradel South 2 deg. 20'30" East, one thousand
     one hundred twenty (1,120) feet to a point in the center line of
     the Butler-Petersville road, also known as traffic route No. 68;
     thence along the center line of said Butler-Petersville public
     road South 86 deg. 57' West, one thousand nineteen and 4/10
     (1,019.4) feet to a point in the center line of said public
     road; thence along the center line of said public road South 85
     deg. 34' West, one hundred (100) feet to a point in the center
     line of said Butler-Petersville public road; thence along the
     center line of said public road South 81 deg. 19' West, forty-
     two and 3/10 (42.3) feet to a point in the center line of said
     Butler-Petersville public road; thence along lands of formerly
     McKee, now Butler County National Bank & Trust Company, North 2
     deg. 19' West, one thousand one hundred nineteen and 50/100
     (1,119.50) feet to a monument on line of lands of now Catherine
     Miller; thence along lands of now Catherine Miller North 86 deg.
     45'30" East, seventy-nine and 20/100 (79.20) feet to a monument;
     thence along lands of formerly McKee now Catherine Miller North
     2 deg. 34' West, two thousand three hundred three and 68/100
     (2,303.68) feet to a point in the center line of the Butler-New
     Castle public road, the place of beginning. Containing one
     hundred nine and 45/100 (109.45) acres strict measure, as per
     survey of L. C. D. Greenough, C. E., dated September, 1937.
     Being the same premises which Charles P. Robinson et al, by deed
     dated the first day of September, A. D. 1937, and recorded on
     January 21, 1938, in the Recorder's Office of Butler County,
     Penna., in Deed Book No. 493, page 53, granted, conveyed and
     confirmed unto the General State Authority, its successors and
     assigns.
        Parcel No. 2.  Beginning at the Southeast corner of the tract
     herein conveyed at a point in the center of a public road, said
     point being 890.8 feet South six (6) degrees thirty-two (32)
     minutes West from a point in the center of a public road known
     as the Duffy Road; thence South sixty-one (61) degrees thirty-
     nine (39) minutes West, 20.11 feet along the center line of said
     public road to a point; thence North thirteen (13) degrees
     thirty-three (33) minutes West, 264.02 feet along the center
     line of a thirty-three foot Private Road; thence along same
     North fifty-nine (59) degrees forty-four (44) minutes West,
     270.0 feet to a point in the center of said thirty-three foot
     Private Road, the southwest corner of the tract herein conveyed;
     thence leaving said thirty-three feet Private Road North
     seventeen (17) degrees ten (10) minutes East, 276.2 feet along
     other lands of the grantor to a post, the northwest corner of
     the tract herein conveyed; thence South seventy-five (75)
     degrees fifteen (15) minutes East, 273.16 feet along other lands
     of grantor to a post, the northeast corner of the tract herein
     conveyed; thence South six (6) degrees thirty-two (32) minutes
     West, 487.4 feet along other lands of grantor to a post on line
     of the thirty-three foot Private Road above mentioned; thence
     South thirteen (13) degrees thirty-three (33) minutes East, 96.0
     feet along line of said thirty-three feet Private Road and lands
     of grantor to a point in the center of a Public Road, the place
     of beginning. Containing 2.42 acres, according to a survey made
     by L. C. B. Greenough, C. E., November, 1938, of a portion of
     the Waldron Farm owned by Butler Township, Butler County,
     Pennsylvania. Being the same premises which the Township of
     Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, by deed dated the 31st day
     of October, 1938, and recorded on the 9th day of December, 1938,
     in the said Recorder's Office in Deed Book No. 497, page 83,
     granted, conveyed and confirmed into the General State
     Authority, its successors and assigns.
        Section 2.  Exclusive jurisdiction in and over the aforesaid
     lands is hereby ceded to the United States of America by the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the erection of forts,
     magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings,
     with the exception of roads abutting on said lands to be used by
     the United States for military and other public purposes which
     are not already under the jurisdiction of the United States.
        Section 3.  The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States of
     America is granted upon the express condition that the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent
     jurisdiction with the United States in and over the lands and
     buildings aforesaid, in so far that civil process in all cases
     and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against anyone charged with
     crime committed outside said land may be executed thereon in the
     same manner as if this jurisdiction had not been ceded. The
     United States shall retain such jurisdiction so long as the said
     land shall be used for the purposes for which jurisdiction is
     ceded and no longer.
        Section 4.  The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States
     shall be upon the further condition that the Commonwealth
     reserves to itself and its political subdivisions whatever power
     of taxation it may constitutionally reserve to levy and collect
     all taxes now or hereafter imposed by the Commonwealth and its
     political subdivisions upon property, persons and franchises
     within the boundaries so ceded.
        Section 5.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     its final enactment.