74 Pa. Stat. § 120.44-1

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 120.44-1 - Jurisdiction over certain interior acres

For the purpose of resolving ambiguity or possible doubt of the intent to include the cessation of jurisdiction provisions of two interior areas of land consisting of 141.82 acres, more or less, and 69.36 acres, more or less, located within the perimeter or boundaries of first tract or area consisting of 7,604 acres, more or less, which are described in the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L. 541), 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 to two tracts of land in Lycoming and Union Counties, Pennsylvania, within the area formerly known as the Pennsylvania Ordnance Works and now a part of the Federal Prison Camp, bounded and described as follows:

Tract A.

All that certain piece or parcel of land situate in Brady Township, Lycoming County and Gregg Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, described as follows:

Beginning at a corner in the center of a former public road being a corner of the former William Bastian Estate south 40 degrees 14 minutes west 1147.04 feet to corner; thence south 39 degrees 33 minutes west 875.20 feet to center of a former township road and corner of the land of the former William Bastian Estate; thence by the center of said former road south 20 degrees 1 minute east 575.70 feet to a corner; thence south 1 degree 3 minutes east 620.15 feet to corner; thence south 28 degrees 29 minutes east 369.55 feet to corner in center of said former public road and corner of land formerly of George Enicke; thence south 53 degrees 37 minutes west 732.44 feet to a corner of lands formerly of George Enicke and John Farley; thence by the land formerly of said Farley south 29 degrees 2 minutes east 1067.25 feet to a corner; thence north 63 degrees 47 minutes east 253.16 feet to a corner; thence south 28 degrees 15 minutes east 381.83 feet to a corner of the lands formerly of John Farley and John Moyer; thence by the lands formerly of said Moyer north 64 degrees 40 minutes east 446.40 feet to the center of a former township road; thence by the center of said former road south 10 degrees 40 minutes east 710.30 feet to a corner in center of said former road and land formerly of John Moyer; thence north 62 degrees 4 minutes east 568.80 feet to a corner; thence north 8 degrees 33 minutes west 582.56 feet to a corner; thence north 11 degrees 49 minutes west 827.28 feet to a corner of land formerly of Elmer Mingle; thence north 36 degrees 48 minutes west 676.80 feet to a corner; thence north 29 degrees 42 minutes east 2271.35 feet to a corner and center of a former public road; thence by center of said former road north 43 degrees 52 minutes west 1338.45 feet to the place of beginning and containing 141.82 acres, more or less, being the same property conveyed by Homer Miller and Nolla, his wife, to Joseph P. Keliher by warranty deed dated January 16, 1937, and recorded in Lycoming County in Deed Book 299, page 97, and which property was conveyed by Joseph P. Keliher and Margaret M., his wife, to the United States of America by warranty deed dated March 3, 1938, and recorded in Lycoming County in Deed Book 303, page 401, and also recorded in Union County in Deed Book 65, page 268, all of the said lands formerly of Bastian, Enicke, Farley, Moyer and Mingle and the former roads aforesaid also having been acquired heretofore by the United States of America.

Tract B.

All that certain piece or parcel of land situate in Gregg Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, described as follows:

Beginning at a corner in center of a former public road being a corner of the land formerly of Sallie Oakes Brown north 23 degrees 56 minutes east 270.50 feet to a corner; thence north 5 degrees 45 minutes east 869.52 feet to a corner of the lands formerly of Sallie Oakes Brown and Joseph Piatt; thence by lands formerly of said Piatt north 61 degrees 3 minutes west 997.31 feet to a corner; thence north 31 degrees 56 minutes east 859.85 feet to a corner of the lands formerly of Joseph Piatt and Edward Schooly; thence by the lands formerly of Edward Schooly and John Bachman north 46 degrees 50 minutes west 919.86 feet to a corner of the lands formerly of John Bachman and John Fisher Estate; thence by the land of John Fisher Estate south 27 degrees 32 minutes west 1930.30 feet to a corner of the lands formerly of John Fisher Estate and Church property; thence by said Church property south 33 degrees 24 minutes west 142.03 feet to a corner in center of public road; thence by the said road south 41 degrees 30 minutes east 355.90 feet to a corner in center of said road and a former public road; thence by the center of the former public road south 62 degrees 5 minutes east 1864.25 feet to the place of beginning and containing 69.36 acres, more or less, being the same property conveyed by Samuel Everitt, Daniel F. Dietrick and William Koch, surviving executors of the Estate of Asa Everitt, deceased, to William A. Everitt by warranty deed dated September 12, 1910, and recorded in Union County in Deed Book "RR," page 192, and the said William A. Everitt having died intestate on January 11, 1937, thereby vesting title to the said property in Sallie Everitt, a widow, Margaret Lathrop and Douglas Lathrop, her husband, Anna E. Avery and Claude G. Avery, her husband, and Louise Everitt, single, who conveyed the same to the United States of America by warranty deed dated February 19, 1938, and recorded in Union County in Deed Book 65, page 233, all of the said lands formerly of Brown, Piatt, Schooly, Bachman and Fisher and the former road aforesaid also having been acquired heretofore by the United States of America.

74 P.S. § 120.44-1

1963, Aug. 24, P.L. 1148, § 1.