Pennsylvania Act 1974-179 — CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY TO UNITED STATES FOR NATIONAL PARK IN FAYETTE COUNTY

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CONVEYANCE - COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY TO UNITED STATES FOR NATIONAL PARK IN
                              FAYETTE COUNTY
                 Act of Jul. 20, 1974, P.L. 526, No. 179              Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the conveyance of a tract of land in Fayette County
        to the United States of America for national park purposes
        and ceding certain jurisdiction to the United States of
        America.

        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, is hereby authorized on behalf of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to convey to the United States of
     America for national park purposes for one dollar ($1), that
     tract of land situated in Wharton Township, County of Fayette
     and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on which is erected a boulder-
     type monument with a plaque attached commemorating Fort
     Necessity, bounded and described as follows:
        Beginning at a point in the center of the national pike at
     corner of land now or formerly of William Burley, Sr. and
     William Burley, Jr.; thence in the center of said national pike
     in a westerly direction 15 feet to a point; thence by other
     lands now or formerly of said Burleys in a southerly direction
     48 feet to a point; thence along land now or formerly of said
     Burleys in an easterly direction and parallel with the center of
     said national pike 15 feet to line of land now or formerly of
     Walter Fazenbaker; thence by said Fazenbaker line 48 feet to the
     center of said national pike, the place of beginning.
        Being the same property conveyed to the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania by deed of William Burley, Sr., and William Burley,
     Jr., dated July 3, 1926, recorded in the office of the Recorder
     of Deeds of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Volume
     47D, Page 476.
        Section 2.  The conveyance shall be made under and subject to
     all easements, servitudes and rights of others, including but
     not limited to streets, roadways, and rights of telephone,
     telegraph, water, electric, gas or pipeline companies, and to
     any estates or tenancies vested in third persons, whether or not
     of record, for any portion of the land or improvements erected
     thereon.
        Section 3.  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 4.  Exclusive jurisdiction over lands conveyed under
     the provisions of this act is hereby ceded to the United States
     of America by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania except that the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent
     jurisdiction over said tract of land for the purpose of serving
     of civil processes; and except that such criminal processes as
     may issue under the authority of the Commonwealth against any
     person or persons charged with crimes committed outside the
     tract conveyed may be executed therein in the same manner as
     though this cession had not been granted.
        Section 5.  Said tract of land shall be exempt from
     assessment for and payment of State and local taxes.
        Section 6.  This act shall take effect immediately.