Pennsylvania Act 1929-98 — ACCEPTING A CONVEYANCE TO THE STATE

Act text

ACCEPTING A CONVEYANCE TO THE STATE
                  Act of Mar. 28, 1929, P.L. 88, No. 98               Cl. 67
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the acceptance of a grant of land by the
        Commonwealth, located in Northumberland County, and releases
        of mortgages thereon, and for the use and occupancy of such
        land.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania hereby accepts the grant of land by the
     Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company made by its
     indenture dated April first, one thousand nine hundred and
     twenty-seven, and acknowledged April twenty-ninth, one thousand
     nine hundred and twenty-seven, said tract of land being more
     fully described as follows:
        All that certain piece or parcel of land, being a portion of
     the Robert Taggart Tract situated in Coal Township,
     Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
     follows, viz: Beginning at a stone in the south line of the
     Robert Taggart tract, the southwest corner of the herein
     described land and the northeast corner of land of George W.
     Johns, thence through the Robert Taggart tract by other land of
     the grantor north two degrees and thirty-eight minutes west (N.
     2 degrees 38 minutes W.) four hundred (400) feet, and north
     eighty-one degrees and thirty minutes east (N. 81 degrees 30
     minutes E.) nine hundred and seventy-eight and six-tenths
     (978.6) feet to a point in the west line of land heretofore
     conveyed to the Roaring Creek Water Company; thence by said line
     south three degrees and twenty-four minutes east (S. 3 degrees
     24 minutes E.) one hundred and eight (108) feet to the northeast
     corner of land of the grantee; thence by said land for the three
     following courses and distances, viz., south eighty degrees and
     eleven minutes west (S. 80 degrees 11 minutes W.) seven hundred
     and seventy-three and three-tenths (773.3) feet, south three
     degrees and forty-three minutes east (S. 3 degrees 43 minutes
     E.) three hundred (300) feet, and south sixty degrees and
     seventeen minutes east (S. 60 degrees 17 minutes E.) three
     hundred and thirty (330) feet, to a point in the south line of
     the Robert Taggart tract; thence along the south line of the
     Robert Taggart tract south eighty degrees and twenty-three
     minutes west (S. 80 degrees 23 minutes W.) one hundred and three
     (103) feet to a set stone, and north sixty-six degrees and ten
     minutes west (N. 66 degrees 10 minutes W.) four hundred and
     thirty-five and five-tenths (435.5) feet to the place of
     beginning--containing four (4) acres and one hundred and twenty
     (120) perches of land, strict measure.
        Being a part of a larger tract of land known as the Robert
     Taggart tract, which the Mount Carmel Coal and Iron Company, by
     deed dated January twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred
     and seventy-two, and recorded in the office for the recording of
     deeds, et cetera, in and for the county of Northumberland, in
     Deed Book number sixty-two, page four hundred and sixty, granted
     and conveyed unto the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
     Company.
        The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby also accepts the
     releases of mortgages on said tract of land given by the
     aforesaid Central Union Trust Company.
        Section 2.  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby vests the
     use and occupancy of said tract of land in the Board of Trustees
     of the Shamokin State Hospital, and said board is hereby
     authorized to use such lands in conjunction with other lands now
     in its possession for the uses and purposes for which said State
     hospital was created and is maintained, and the Board of
     Trustees of said Shamokin State Hospital are hereby directed to
     have the deed granting said land and the aforesaid releases of
     mortgages recorded in the office for the recording of deeds in
     Northumberland County.