74 Pa. Stat. § 115.9

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32
Section 115.9 - Land in Butler County; consent to purchase

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 tracts of land in the Township of Butler, County of Butler, known as the Veterans Administration Hospital, the first tract being bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the center line of State Highway Route No. 68, at the distance of 534.4 feet measured S 88°30' W from a point common to the lands of McCandless Heirs and Walter A. Kradel; thence extending S 88°30' W along the center line of said Highway, 620.6 feet to a point a corner common to the lands of Walter Kradel and the Hospital Grounds owned by the State of Pennsylvania; thence along the line of lands of said Hospital N 1/2 ° W, 1122 feet to a corner in line of land of said Hospital; thence continuing along land of said Hospital N 88°30' E, 627 feet to a monument set for a corner in line of land of ... Vangorder; thence southeast along line of lands of ... Vangorder, Graham and Walter A. Kradel (passing thru a monument located 35 feet northwest of the center line of Highway aforesaid), 1122 feet to the first mentioned point or place of beginning. Containing 16 acres, more or less, and being a part of the same land conveyed to William H. Miller, unmarried, Grantor herein, by Walter A. Kradel et ux, by deed dated August 14, 1944, and recorded in the Office of Recorder of Deeds for Butler County, on the 14th day of August, 1944.

The second tract consisting of two parcels being bounded and described as follows:

111.87 acres, more or less, acquired by a judgment on a declaration of taking entered by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on June 26, 1946, in an action entitled United States of America vs. Certain Lands in Butler County, Pennsylvania, the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al, Civil Action No. 5817, which are described as follows:

Parcel No. 1. On the North by a public highway known as Traffic Route No. 422; on the East by a public road known as the Duffy road; on the South by lands of formerly Keefer now Kradel and Corder and the public road known as Traffic Route No. 68; and on the West by lands of formerly McKee, now Butler County National Bank and Trust Company, and Miller.

Said tract of land being more particularly bounded and described by courses and distances as follows, to wit:

Beginning at a point in the center line of the Butler-New Castle public road, also known as traffic route No. 422, being the Northwestern corner of the tract of land herein described; thence along the center line of said public road South 59 deg. 24'30" East, two thousand five hundred forty-one and 88/100 (2,541.88) feet to a point in the center line of said road; thence continuing along the center line of said road South 59 deg. 47' East, ninety-four and 8/10 (94.8) feet to a point in the center line of said Butler-New Castle public road, being the northeastern corner of said tract; thence along the center line of a township road known as the Duffy road South 3 deg. 20' East, eight hundred thirty-eight and 31/100 (838.31) feet to a point in the center line of said township road; thence along lands of formerly Keefer now Graham and Kradel South 86 deg. 55' West, one thousand one hundred thirty-seven and 24/100 (1,137.24) feet to a monument; thence along lands formerly of Keefer now W. F. Kradel South 2 deg. 20'30" East, one thousand one hundred twenty (1,120) feet to a point in the center line of the Butler-Petersville road, also known as traffic route No. 68; thence along the center line of said Butler-Petersville public road South 86 deg. 57' West, one thousand nineteen and 4/10 (1,019.4) feet to a point in the center line of said public road; thence along the center line of said public road South 85 deg. 34' West, one hundred (100) feet to a point in the center line of said Butler-Petersville public road; thence along the center line of said public road South 81 deg. 19' West, forty-two and 3/10 (42.3) feet to a point in the center line of said Butler-Petersville public road; thence along lands of formerly McKee, now Butler County National Bank & Trust Company, North 2 deg. 19' West, one thousand one hundred nineteen and 50/100 (1,119.50) feet to a monument on line of lands of now Catherine Miller; thence along lands of now Catherine Miller North 86 deg. 45'30" East, seventy-nine and 20/100 (79.20) feet to a monument; thence along lands of formerly McKee now Catherine Miller North 2 deg. 34' West, two thousand three hundred three and 68/100 (2,303.68) feet to a point in the center line of the Butler-New Castle public road, the place of beginning. Containing one hundred nine and 45/100 (109.45) acres strict measure, as per survey of L.C.D. Greenough, C.E., dated September, 1937. Being the same premises which Charles P. Robinson et al, by deed dated the first day of September, A.D. 1937, and recorded on January 21, 1938, in the Recorder's Office of Butler County, Penna., in Deed Book No. 493, page 53, granted, conveyed and confirmed unto the General State Authority, its successors and assigns.

Parcel No. 2. Beginning at the Southeast corner of the tract herein conveyed at a point in the center of a public road, said point being 890.8 feet South six (6) degrees thirty-two (32) minutes West from a point in the center of a public road known as the Duffy Road; thence South sixty-one (61) degrees thirty-nine (39) minutes West, 20.11 feet along the center line of said public road to a point; thence North thirteen (13) degrees thirty-three (33) minutes West, 264.02 feet along the center line of a thirty-three foot Private Road; thence along same North fifty-nine (59) degrees forty-four (44) minutes West, 270.0 feet to a point in the center of said thirty-three foot Private Road, the southwest corner of the tract herein conveyed; thence leaving said thirty-three feet Private Road North seventeen (17) degrees ten (10) minutes East, 276.2 feet along other lands of the grantor to a post, the northwest corner of the tract herein conveyed; thence South seventy-five (75) degrees fifteen (15) minutes East, 273.16 feet along other lands of grantor to a post, the northeast corner of the tract herein conveyed; thence South six (6) degrees thirty-two (32) minutes West, 487.4 feet along other lands of grantor to a post on line of the thirty-three foot Private Road above mentioned; thence South thirteen (13) degrees thirty-three (33) minutes East, 96.0 feet along line of said thirty-three feet Private Road and lands of grantor to a point in the center of a Public Road, the place of beginning. Containing 2.42 acres, according to a survey made by L.C.B. Greenough, C.E., November, 1938, of a portion of the Waldron Farm owned by Butler Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Being the same premises which the Township of Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, by deed dated the 31st day of October, 1938, and recorded on the 9th day of December, 1938, in the said Recorder's Office in Deed Book No. 497, page 83, granted, conveyed and confirmed into the General State Authority, its successors and assigns.

74 P.S. § 115.9

1953, July 20, P.L. 507, § 1.