Pennsylvania Statutes Title 71 P.S. State Government § 1772. Grant of land to Commonwealth accepted

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°38′ W.) four hundred (400) feet, and north eighty-one degrees and thirty minutes east (N. 81°30′ 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°24′ 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°11′ W.) seven hundred and seventy-three and three-tenths (773.3) feet, south three degrees and forty-three minutes east (S. 3°43′ E.) three hundred (300) feet, and south sixty degrees and seventeen minutes east (S. 60°17′ 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°23′ W.) one hundred and three (103) feet to a set stone, and north sixty-six degrees and ten minutes west (N. 66°10′ 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.