74 Pa. Stat. § 120.100

Current through P.A. Acts 2024-18
Section 120.100 - Consent to acquisition of land

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 parcels of land in the Fortieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, known as the Naval Ammunition Depot at Fort Mifflin; the first parcel consisting of Tracts 4, 5, and 6A containing 49.0823 acres, more or less, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the most Northerly corner of Tract No. 1, of the lands under condemnation by the United States of America, (Civil 2811, filed October 8, 1942) said point being in the center line of Fort or Fort Mifflin Road, a distance of 192.126 feet along the center line of said road on a bearing, South 29°31'41" East from an angle in said road; thence South 46°39'19" West with the westerly line of said lands under condemnation, 52.751 feet to a point; thence South 30°28'00" West with the westerly line of said lands under condemnation 1943.000 feet to a point; thence leaving said lands and across the lands of the City of Philadelphia, North 56°21'28" West 550.824 feet to the most Southerly corner of the lands of Mary Louise Lowrey; thence North 43°24'15" West with the Southerly line of said Lowrey lands 210.836 feet to the most Southerly corner of the lands of Edgar N. Black and Daniel N. Black; thence continuing North 43°24'15" West with the Southerly line of the lands of said Edgar N. Black and Daniel N. Black, 41.049 feet to a point in the center line of the 20 foot wide macadam roadway known as Hog Island Road; thence North 25°45'24" East 54.453 feet to an angle in said road; thence North 3°13'10" East with said center line, 564.419 feet to an angle in said road; thence North 6°07'52" East with said center line, 273.901 feet to the Northwesterly line of the lands of Edgar N. Black and Daniel N. Black; thence North 46°39'19" East with said Northwesterly line, 1583.992 feet to a point in the center line of Fort Mifflin Road aforementioned, said point being 1487.122 feet Southeasterly along said Fort Mifflin road from the Southeasterly line of Penrose Ferry Road; thence South 29°17'41" East with the center line of said Fort Mifflin Road, 645.827 feet to the most Northerly corner of the lands of Mary Louise Lowrey; thence continuing South 29°17'41" East with said center line, 25.017 feet to an angle in said road; thence South 29°31'41" East with said center line, 192.126 feet to the point of beginning.

The second parcel consisting of Tract 9A, containing 16.248 acres, more or less, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the Northwesterly corner of Tract No. 2 of the lands under condemnation by the United States of America (Civil 2811, filed October 8, 1942) said point being on the stone Bulkhead and Pierhead Line; thence South 39°20'19" West with the Westerly line of said Tract and the Southwesterly extension thereof, 1671.307 feet to a monument in the center line of Fort Mifflin Road, said monument marking the Northwest corner of the old Lazaretto property; thence with said center line North 29°17'41" West 527.237 feet thence across the lands of the City of Philadelphia, North 39°20'19" East 907.5 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe; thence continuing North 39°20'19" East a distance of 15.513 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 39°20'19" East 186.357 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 66°20'19" East 186.357 feet, more or less, to a point on the stone Bulkhead Line as approved September 4, 1908, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River; thence along said stone Bulkhead Line South 77°17'41" East 454.636 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

74 P.S. § 120.100

1945, April 4, P.L. 126, § 1.