Pennsylvania Act 1983-69 — PROJECT 70 CONVEYANCE - BLAIR COUNTY

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PROJECT 70 CONVEYANCE - BLAIR COUNTY
                  Act of Dec. 2, 1983, P.L. 253, No. 69               Cl. 85
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the transfer of a tract of land in Woodbury
        Township, Blair County, to the Blair County Historical
        Society, Inc.

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

        Section 1.  (a)  Pursuant to the requirements of section
     20(b) of the act of June 22, 1964 (Sp.Sess., P.L.131, No.8),
     known as the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act, the
     General Assembly hereby authorizes the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Fish Commission, to sell and convey a
     certain tract of land situated in Woodbury Township, Blair
     County, to the Blair County Historical Society, Inc., a
     nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for and in consideration of the
     sum of $1. The property is being conveyed to promote the public
     interest and the consideration for the conveyance is the Blair
     County Historical Society's promise to repair and maintain the
     structure.
        (b)  The land shall be free of restrictions on use and
     alienation prescribed by section 20 of the Project 70 Land
     Acquisition and Borrowing Act, upon:
            (1)  the payment of the consideration of $1 into the
        Project 70 Land Acquisition Sinking Fund; and
            (2)  the execution and filing of a document of release
        citing such transfer and release of the land conveyed by the
        Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Fish Commission,
        from the restrictions on use and alienation prescribed by
        section 20(b) of the act. The document of release shall, upon
        such transfer, be prepared and filed in the office of the
        recorder of deeds of Blair County. The document of release
        shall additionally provide that the release is contingent
        upon the Blair County Historical Society maintaining and
        preserving the site as a site of historical significance.
        Compiler's Note:  The name of the Pennsylvania Fish
            Commission, referred to in this section, was changed to
            the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission by Act 39 of
            1991. See 30 Pa.C.S. § 308 (relating to designation of
            commission).
        Section 2.  The land to be transferred by the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania, acting by and through the Pennsylvania Fish
     Commission, to the Blair County Historical Society, Inc. is more
     particularly described as follows:
        All that certain parcel of land with improvements erected
     thereon situate in the Township of Woodbury, Blair County,
     Pennsylvania, known as the Royer Mansion Tract, more fully
     bounded and described as follows, to wit:
        Beginning at an iron pin in the middle of Mill Lane at a
     common corner of lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
     now or formerly of Leroy M. Waite on the southern line of lands
     now or formerly of Edison Fry; thence and by the centerline of
     Mill Lane south 67 degrees 11 minutes east 475.00 feet, more or
     less, to a railroad spike set in the centerline of Route No.
     866; thence and by the centerline of Route 866 south 00 degrees
     59 minutes east 690.30 feet, more or less, to a point located
     north 00 degrees 59 minutes west 75.00 feet, more or less, from
     a railroad spike set in the centerline of the said Route No.
     866; thence by lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania north
     83 degrees 29 minutes 50 seconds west 260.00 feet, more or less,
     to a point; thence by the same south 54 degrees 07 minutes 15
     seconds west 236.56 feet, more or less, to a common corner of
     lands of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and lands now or
     formerly of Mike and Ruth Martin; thence by common line of lands
     of the Commonwealth and now or formerly Mike and Ruth Martin
     north 00 degrees 22 minutes west 420.00 feet, more or less, to a
     point, the common corner of lands of the said Martin and now or
     formerly Leroy M. Waite; thence by the common line of the said
     Waite and the Commonwealth north 00 degrees 08 minutes east
     758.45 feet, more or less, to the point and place of beginning.
        Containing 8.0 acres of land, more or less.
        Compiler's Note:  The name of the Pennsylvania Fish
            Commission, referred to in this section, was changed to
            the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission by Act 39 of
            1991. See 30 Pa.C.S. § 308 (relating to designation of
            commission).
        Section 3.  The deed of conveyance shall contain a clause
     that the lands conveyed shall be used for historical
     preservation purposes by the Blair County Historical Society and
     if at any time the Blair County Historical Society or its
     successor in function conveys the property or authorizes or
     permits the property to be used for any purpose other than for
     maintaining and preserving a site of historical significance,
     namely the so-called Royer Mansion, the title thereto shall
     immediately revert to and revest in the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania.
        Section 4.  The deed of conveyance shall be approved as
     provided by law and shall be executed by the Executive Director
     of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission in the name of the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Fish Commission.
        Section 5.  This act shall take effect immediately.