ORDINANCE NUMBER 619 DELIVERANCE OF A PROPER DEED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE BOROUGH

AN ORDINANCE; authorizing and empowering the proper officers of the Borough

of Donora to execute, acknowledge and deliver a proper deed of the Borough of

Donora, conveying certain properties hereinafter more fully described, to the

School District of the Borough of Donora.

WHEREAS by deed dated February 7, 1919, and recorded in the Recorder's

office of Washington County, Pennsylvania in D. B •. Vol. 475, at page 492, the

Union Improvement Company, a corporation, conveyed to the Borough of Donora

a strip of ground, known and designated as the "One Foot Reservation," being

a reservation of one foot around certain limits of the Borough of Donora

made by the Union Improvement Company in the laying out of said town; and

WHEREAS such deed was executed and delivered to the Borough of Donora

for the purpose of assisting the Borough in the proper assessment of improve-

ment claims of the Borough against abutting property, and with the thought

and intent that such property should be used by the Borough for the benefit

of ~he Borough and citizens thereof; and

WHEREAS the portion hereinafter described lies along the West boundary

line of the Borough of Donora; and

WHEREAS the School District of the Borough of Donora has caused to be con-

demned property on either side of said one foot reservation for the purpose of

supplying a site for a new high school and play ground; and

rm.EREAS the School District, in the carrying out of such plan, finds it

necessary to have the land described, and comprising a part of said one foot

reservation, for · the purpose aforesaid, and to that end have requested the

Borough of Donora to convey such property to wit; and

ffiEREAS the Council of the Borough of Donora deem it within the purpcae and

intent of the original grant to it 01' such :property, as well as being for the

benefit of the people generally, and has, therefore, expressed itself as willing

to convey such property to the said School District upon the payment by the

said School District of all costs in connection therewith; therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED, by the Council of the Borough of Donora, in

regular meeting assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority

in them vested, as follows, to wit:

FIRST: That the proper officers of the Borough of Donora, for the nominal

consideration of One ($1.00) Dollar, and the payment of all costs incident thereto,

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be and they are hereby authorized and empowered .to execute, acknowledge and

deliver a proper deed of the Borough of Donora, conveying to the School

District of the Borough of Donora the following described portion of the

One Foot Reservation conveyed to the Borough of Donora by deed of the Union

Improvement Company, as aforesaid, to wit:

Being one foot in width, and extending from a point.in such one foot

reservation where it intersects with the extended line dividing lots Nos . 20

and 21 in B Block No . 39 of the Union Improvement Company's General Plan of 0

the Borough of Donora; thence North 7 2' West, a distance of 424.48 feet; 0

thence North 77 ll' West, a distance of 114.60 feet to a point; thence North 0

14 34' est, a distance of 340.94 feet to a point.

SECOND: All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict herewith

are hereby repealed in so far as they conflict.

ORDAINED AND ENACTED into an ordinance this 4th day of March, 1929.

ATTEST:

GEO. W. ALLEN, Borough Secretary.

BOROUGH OF .DONDRA,

By JOHN • BEELER, President of Council.

EXAMINED AND APPROVED by me this 7th day of March, 1929.

ATTEST :

GEO. W. ALLEN, Borough Secretary .

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G. E . KOEDEL, Chief Burgess.

I DF'JtEtO' CERTIFY THAT

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