Pennsylvania Act 1985-91 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN DELAWARE COUNTY

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY IN DELAWARE COUNTY
                  Act of Dec. 17, 1985, P.L. 333, No. 91              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and directing the Department of General Services,
        with the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of
        Environmental Resources, to sell and convey to the City of
        Philadelphia a tract of reclaimed land between the old
        shoreline and present dike line extension of the Delaware
        River in the Township of Tinicum, Delaware County,
        Pennsylvania, contiguous to and having common boundaries with
        lands presently owned by the City of Philadelphia, and to
        quitclaim other areas near said land taken by the City of
        Philadelphia for the Philadelphia International Airport.

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

        Section 1.  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor and the Secretary of Environmental
     Resources, is authorized and directed on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to sell and convey to the City of
     Philadelphia, a municipal corporation of Pennsylvania, its
     successors and assigns, for a consideration equal to the fair
     market value as determined by an appraisal of the Department of
     General Services, the following tract of reclaimed land situate
     along the Delaware River, in the Township of Tinicum, County of
     Delaware, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
                           FORMER TURNING BASIN
                    PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
        All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land situate in
     the Township of Tinicum, County of Delaware, Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania being a Former Turning Basin of the United States
     Emergency Shipping Board Fleet Corporation and now filled and
     being more particularly described as follows, to wit:
        Beginning at a point for a corner in the low water line of
     the Delaware River as established September 12, 1917, and being
     a corner of a Patent granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     to the United States Emergency Shipping Board Fleet Corporation
     as recorded in Patent Book H, Volume 79, Page 37, etc.; thence
     extending from said point of beginning along the said low water
     line of the Delaware River, along the said Patent to the United
     States Emergency Shipping Board Fleet Corporation, north 55
     degrees 08 minutes 20 seconds west a distance of 412.92 feet to
     a point for a corner; thence extending still along same, north
     74 degrees 50 minutes 00 seconds west a distance of 1181.40 feet
     to a point for a corner; thence still along same, north 84
     degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds west a distance of 828.00 feet to
     a point for a corner; thence still along same, north 63 degrees
     00 minutes 00 seconds west a distance of 507.00 feet to a point
     for a corner at the low water line of the Delaware River as
     established in 1885; thence extending along the said low water
     line of 1885, north 79 degrees 12 minutes 00 seconds west a
     distance of 750.00 feet to a point for a corner; thence
     extending still along same, north 85 degrees 10 minutes 00
     seconds west a distance of 531.52 feet to a point for a corner
     in the westerly edge of the Former Turning Basin and being the
     northeasterly corner of a Patent granted by the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania to American International Corporation as recorded
     in Patent Book H, Volume 78, Page 262, etc.; thence extending
     along the said westerly line of the Former Turning Basin, along
     the said Patent to American International Corporation, south 27
     degrees 04 minutes 15 seconds east a distance of 2431.49 feet to
     a point for a corner at the former stone dike of a former island
     known as Little Smith Island, now filled and incorporated with
     other lands adjacent and contiguous hereto; thence extending
     along the said former stone dike line as extended along the
     southerly line of the Former Turning Basin, north 69 degrees 00
     minutes 40 seconds east a distance of 3121.16 feet to the first
     mentioned point and place of beginning.
        Containing within said bounds, 96.526 acres of land, more or
     less, exclusive of that portion of the above described land
     being in the vicinity of the former 14 1/2 acre island known as
     Little Smith Island which was surveyed for the Commonwealth as
     Printz Island and was granted by Patent of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania to Thomas and Aubrey Smith as recorded in Patent
     Book H, Volume 43, Page 321, etc., on February 13, 1841. And
     said island was subsequently dredged for the said Former Turning
     Basin and since refilled along with other lands now or formerly
     of the City of Philadelphia, adjacent to and contiguous with the
     above described tract of land.

        Compiler's Note:  The Secretary of Environmental Resources,
            referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 18 of
            1995. The functions of the secretary were transferred to
            the Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources and
            the Secretary of Environmental Protection.
        Section 2.  The Department of General Services, with the
     approval of the Governor and the Secretary of Environmental
     Resources, is also hereby authorized to release and quitclaim
     for nominal consideration any right, title or interest of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (riparian or otherwise) in, to and
     for all the land west of the above described tract within the
     bounds of the acreage condemned by the City of Philadelphia by
     virtue of ordinance approved December 18, 1945, (page 535), as
     amended by ordinance approved February 4, 1947, (page 39), and
     under proceedings to No. 175 1/2, September Term, 1947, in the
     Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, for the Philadelphia
     Southwest Airport (now Philadelphia International Airport); and
     also that land condemned by the City of Philadelphia by virtue
     of ordinance approved November 22, 1955, (page 862), as the
     property of or claimed by Marion A. Crothers; Philadelphia,
     Baltimore and Washington R.R. Co. and Tinicum Real Estate
     Holding Corp., for the Philadelphia International Airport.

        Compiler's Note:  The Secretary of Environmental Resources,
            referred to in this section, was abolished by Act 18 of
            1995. The functions of the secretary were transferred to
            the Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources and
            the Secretary of Environmental Protection.
        Section 3.  The deed of conveyance and quitclaim deed shall
     be approved as provided by law and shall be executed by the
     Secretary of General Services in the name of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania.
        Section 4.  Costs and fees incidental to the conveyance and
     quitclaim shall be borne by the grantee.
        Section 5.  This act shall take effect immediately.