Pennsylvania Act 1974-182 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MONTOUR COUNTY

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN MONTOUR COUNTY
                 Act of Jul. 20, 1974, P.L. 533, No. 182              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies, with the
        approval of the Governor and the Department of Military
        Affairs, to sell and convey a tract of land situate in the
        Borough of Danville and Mahoning Township, County of Montour,
        Pennsylvania.

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

        Section 1.  The Department of Property and Supplies, with the
     approval of the Governor and the Department of Military Affairs,
     is hereby authorized to sell for a consideration of one dollar
     ($1) to the Borough of Danville to be used for municipal or
     charitable purposes, the following described tract of land,
     situate partly in the Borough of Danville and partly in Mahoning
     Township, County of Montour and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
     bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point a corner in line of land of Pennsylvania
     Canal now Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway Company and
     Reading Iron Company, also a corner of land now or late of Odd
     Fellows Cemetery Tract; thence south 2 degrees east, along land
     of the Reading Iron Company and crossing Mahoning Creek, 561
     feet to a point; thence south 47 degrees east, 198.8 feet to a
     point; thence south 36 3/4 degrees west, crossing the head of
     Mahoning Street, 369 feet to a point in the northeast side of a
     certain alley; thence north 53 1/4 degrees west, crossing a
     certain driveway 381 feet to a point in line of land of Rotary
     Athletic Field; thence by said land the following three courses
     and distance north 37 degrees east, 239.5 of a foot; north 52
     3/4 degrees west, 401 feet; south 37 degrees west, 353 feet to
     the northeast side of a certain road extending northeast and
     southeast, parallel with Susquehanna River at this point; thence
     by the same north 54 degrees west, 100 feet more or less to a
     point; north 58 degrees west, 260 feet more or less to a point;
     north 54 degrees west, 396 feet; north 32 degrees west, 288 feet
     and 66.01 feet; north 51 1/2 degrees west, 201.5 feet; south 81
     degrees west, 105.6 feet; thence south 43 degrees west, crossing
     the Mahoning Township Danville Borough Line, 82.5 feet to a
     point in the bed of said Mahoning Creek; then in the bed of said
     creek north 39 3/4 degrees west, 425.8 feet; north 23 3/4
     degrees west, 227.8 feet; north 62 1/2 degrees east, 134.66
     feet; thence leaving the bed of said creek, north 12 1/2 degrees
     west, 161.8 feet to a point; thence south 78 1/2 degrees east,
     recrossing said Township and Borough Line and along Pennsylvania
     Canal, now Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, 810 feet
     more or less to a point; thence south 71 degrees east, 363 feet;
     south 65 1/2 degrees east, 656.71 of a foot; south 72 1/2
     degrees east, 297 to the place of beginning.
        Being the same premises which Ferdinand Q. Hartman and wife,
     by Indenture dated December 11, 1928, and recorded in the office
     for the Recording of Deeds, &c., in and for Montour County,
     Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Volume 41, Page 463, &c., granted and
     conveyed unto the Danville Chamber of Commerce, its successors
     and assigns for the consideration of five thousand dollars
     ($5,000); and being the same premises which the Danville Chamber
     of Commerce by deed dated June 21, 1930 and recorded in the
     office for the Recording of Deeds &c., in and for Montour
     County, Pennsylvania in Deed Book Volume 42, Page 465, &c.,
     granted and conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the
     consideration of one dollar ($1).
        Excepting and Reserving, however, all the minerals under the
     surface of the land as set forth in Deed recorded in the
     aforesaid office in Deed Book No. 4, Page 950, &c., together
     with all and singular the said property, roads, lanes,
     improvement ways, water, watercourses rights, liberties,
     privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto
     belonging or in anywise appertaining and the reversions and
     remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof.
        Title to the tract of land shall revert to the Commonwealth
     when it is no longer used for municipal or charitable purposes.
        Section 2.  The deed of conveyance shall be approved by the
     Department of Justice and shall be executed by the Secretary of
     Property and Supplies in the name of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania.
        Section 3.  The nominal consideration shall be deposited in
     the General Fund.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.