Pennsylvania Act 1945-43 — CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITED STATES

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CONSENTING TO THE ACQUISITION OF LAND BY THE UNITED STATES
                  Act of Mar. 28, 1945, P.L. 91, No. 43               Cl. 29
                                  AN ACT

     Giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the
        acquisition by the United States of America of approximately
        eighty-nine acres of land in the Twenty-sixth and Forty-
        eighth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known
        as the League Island Navy Yard, 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 of the
     United States, to the acquisition by the United States of
     America of two tracts of land in the Twenty-sixth and Forty-
     eighth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known as
     the League Island Navy Yard, containing eighty-nine acres, more
     or less, the first tract containing approximately 76.2581 acres,
     consisting of the following parcels bounded and described as
     follows:
        PARCELS A, B, AND C:
        All of these certain lots or pieces of ground described and
     according to a plan made by Frederick T. Thorpe, Jr., Surveyor
     and Regulator, Second District, and dated June 7, 1941;
     beginning at the point of intersection of the line dividing the
     lands of the Manor Real Estate and Trust Company and the lands
     of the Girard Estate with the southwesterly right of way line of
     the Joint Belt Line of the Pennsylvania Companies and the
     Baltimore Companies as shown on the said plan; thence extending
     along the southwesterly right of way line of the Joint Belt Line
     of the Pennsylvania Companies and the Baltimore Companies in a
     southeasterly direction by an arc curving to the left with a
     radius of 1511.661 feet and with an arc distance of 998.470 feet
     to a point on said right of way line; thence extending still
     along said right of way line in a southeasterly direction by an
     arc curving to the left with a radius of 1491.61 feet and with
     an arc distance of 1553.887 feet to a point in the southerly
     right of way line of the Joint Belt Line of the Pennsylvania
     Companies and the Baltimore Companies, which point intersects
     with the westerly line of 21st. Street; thence extending 7
     degrees 12' 12" E., 268.069 feet to a point on the southerly
     line of Government Avenue (120 feet wide); thence extending
     along the said southerly line of Government Avenue S. 81 degrees
     23' 25" W. 2568.846 feet to a point; thence leaving Government
     Avenue and running N. 12 degrees 44' E. 1822.764 feet to a
     point; thence N. 9 degrees 56' W. 240.687 feet to a point;
     thence N. 1 degree 26' W. 122.656 feet to a point; thence
     extending N. 32 degrees 19' 05" W. 129.386 feet to a point;
     thence S. 57 degrees 40' 55" W. 10 feet to a point; thence N. 32
     degrees 19' 5" W., 329.477 feet to a point; thence extending
     along a line dividing the lands of the Manor Real Estate and
     Trust Company and the Girard Estate S. 75 degrees 27' 30" E.
     890.415 feet to the first mentioned point and place of
     beginning. Parcel A containing 4.4708 acres, more or less,
     Parcel B containing .9627 acres, more or less, Parcel C,
     containing 57.8794 acres, more or less, a total of 63.3129
     acres, more or less.
        PARCELS D, E, AND F:
        Beginning at the point of intersection of the center line of
     Sheaff Lane (33 feet wide) and the northeasterly right of way
     line of the Joint Belt Line of the Pennsylvania Companies and
     the Baltimore Companies; thence extending in a northwesterly
     direction along the northeasterly right of way line of the Joint
     Belt Line of the Pennsylvania Companies and the Baltimore
     Companies by an arc curving to the right with an arc distance of
     581.499 feet radius 1315.055 feet to a point lying on a line
     dividing the lands of the Manor Real Estate and Trust Company
     and the Girard Estate; thence extending along said line S. 75
     degrees 27' 30" E. 214.645 feet to a point in the center line of
     said Sheaff Lane; thence extending along the center line of said
     Sheaff Lane S. 13 degrees 17' 47" W. 530.709 feet to point and
     place of beginning. Parcel D containing 1.0997 acres, more or
     less, Parcel E containing .1819 acres, more or less, Parcel F
     containing .3090 acres, more or less, a total of 1.5906 acres,
     more or less.
        PARCEL G:
        Beginning at a point in the northerly line of Government
     Avenue (120 feet wide) whose location from Broad Street is
     described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the
     northerly line of Government Avenue (120 feet wide) and a line
     80 feet westwardly from the center line of Broad Street and
     parallel thereto; thence extending along the northerly line of
     Government Avenue N. 72 degrees 38' 17" W. 949.088 feet to a
     point of angle in the northerly line of the said Government
     Avenue; thence extending still along the northerly line of said
     Government Avenue S. 81 degrees 23' 25" W. 858.295 feet to the
     said point of beginning; thence extending still along the
     northerly side of said Government Avenue S. 81 degrees 23' 25"
     W. 776.958 feet to a point in the northerly line of Sproul
     Street (60 feet wide); thence extending along the northerly line
     of said Sproul Street N. 75 degrees W. 155.844 feet to a point;
     thence extending N. 15 degrees E. 62.720 feet to a point in the
     right of way in the Joint Belt Line of the Pennsylvania
     Companies and the Baltimore Companies; thence extending along
     the right of way of the Joint Belt Line of the Pennsylvania
     Companies and the Baltimore Companies S. 81 degrees 23' 25" W.
     492.540 feet to a point of curve; thence extending in a
     southwesterly direction by an arc curving to the right with a
     length of 170.982 feet radius 1491.61 feet central angle 6
     degrees 34' 4" to a point; thence extending S. 7 degrees 12' 12"
     E. 268.069 feet to a point in the southerly line of Government
     Avenue; thence extending along the southerly line of the said
     Government Avenue N. 81 degrees 23' 25" E. 1602.51 feet to a
     point; thence extending N. 29 degrees 40' W. 128.587 feet to the
     first mentioned point and place of beginning, containing 6.5087
     acres, more or less.
        PARCEL H:
        Beginning at a point in the southerly line of Government
     Avenue (120 feet wide) whose location from Broad Street is
     described as follows: Commencing at the southerly line of said
     Government Avenue and a line 80 feet westwardly from the center
     line of Broad Street and parallel thereto; thence extending
     along the southerly line of said Government Avenue N. 72 degrees
     38' 17" W. 926.365 feet to a point of angle in the southerly
     line of the said Government Avenue; thence extending still along
     the southerly line of the said Government Avenue S. 81 degrees
     23' 25" W. 2.695 feet to the said point of beginning; thence
     extending along the southerly line of the said Government Avenue
     S. 81 degrees 23' 25" W. 781.728 feet to a point; thence
     extending N. 29 degrees 40' W. 128.587 feet to a point on the
     northerly line of the said Government Avenue; thence extending
     along the northerly line of the said Government Avenue N. 81
     degrees 23' E. 840.880 feet to a point; thence extending S. 2
     degrees 27' E. 120.697 feet to the first mentioned point and
     place of beginning, containing 2.2350 acres, more or less.
        PARCEL I:
        Beginning at the point of intersection of the south line of
     Government Avenue (120 feet wide) and a line parallel with the
     center line of Broad Street and 80 feet westwardly therefrom;
     thence extending along the southerly line of Government Avenue
     N. 72 degrees 38' 17" W. 926.365 feet to a point of angle in the
     southerly side of Government Avenue; thence extending still
     along the southerly line of the said Government Avenue S. 81
     degrees 23' 25" W. 2.695 feet to a point; thence extending N. 2
     degrees 27' W. 120.697 feet to a point in the northerly line of
     said Government Avenue; thence extending along the northerly
     line of the said Government Avenue N. 81 degrees 23' 25" E.
     17.415 feet to a point of angle in the northerly line of
     Government Avenue; thence extending still along the northerly
     line of said Government Avenue S. 72 degrees 38' 17" E. 949.088
     feet to the point of intersection of the northerly line of
     Government Avenue and a line 80 feet westwardly from the center
     line of Broad Street and parallel thereto; thence extending
     along the line 80 feet westwardly from the center line of Broad
     Street and parallel thereto S. 15 degrees W. 120.102 feet to the
     first mentioned point and place of beginning, containing 2.6109
     acres, more or less.
        The second tract containing approximately 13.1124 acres of
     land consisting of the following parcel bounded and described as
     follows:
        Beginning at the point of intersection of the northerly line
     of Government Avenue (120 feet wide) and a line 80 feet
     westwardly from the center line of Broad Street; thence
     extending along the northerly line of the said Government Avenue
     the following courses and distance N. 72 degrees 38' 17" W.
     949.088 feet; thence S. 81 degrees 23' 25" W. 1635.253 feet to a
     point in the northerly line of Sproul Street (60 feet wide);
     thence extending along the northerly line of the said Sproul
     Street N. 75 degrees W. 155.844 feet to a point in the bed of
     Twentieth Street (60 feet wide); thence extending N. 15 degrees
     E. 82.720 feet to a point in the southerly right of way line of
     the four track joint railroad of the Pennsylvania Companies and
     the Baltimore Companies and thence extending along the same N.
     81 degrees 23' 25" E. 2245.865 feet to a point of curve; thence
     extending along the same right of way line by an arc curving to
     the right with a radius of 996.148 feet arc distance 356.555
     feet and central angle of 20 degrees 30' 29.236"; thence
     extending N. 11 degrees 53' 54.236" E. 15.567 feet to a point;
     thence extending S. 75 degrees E. 151.896 feet to a point in the
     westerly line of Broad Street, which point is at the distance of
     128.50 feet westwardly from the center line of Broad Street;
     thence extending S. 15 degrees W. 24.00 feet to a point; thence
     extending S. 75 degrees E. 1.50 feet to a point; thence
     extending S. 15 degrees W. 30.00 feet to a point; thence
     extending S. 30 degrees E. 66.468 feet to a point which is 80
     feet westwardly from the center line of Broad Street; thence
     extending S. 15 degrees W. 362.854 feet along a line parallel to
     the center line of Broad Street and 80 feet westwardly therefrom
     to the first mentioned point and place of beginning.
        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.