CHAPTER 57
FORMERLY
SENATE BILL NO. 73
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT, BEING CHAPTER 108 OF VOLUME 47, LAWS OF DELAWARE, ENTITLED: "AN ACT EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF CAMDEN" BY ADDING NEW AREAS THERETO.
WHEREAS, three referenda were duly held pursuant to three resolutions first adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Camden and pursuant to Chapter 120, Volume 42, Laws of Delaware, as amended; and
WHEREAS, a majority of the qualified voters and real estate owners of each of the three territories proposed to be annexed and included in the limits of the said Town of Camden voted approval to be included within the limits of the Town of Camden.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (Two-thirds of all the members elected to each House thereof concurring therein):
Section 1. Amend Chapter 108 of Volume 47, Laws of Delaware by adding thereto the following new sections to read as follows:
"Section 1. Section (2)F.
ALL those certain lands situated in North Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, just South of the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden and adjacent to same and bounded as follows:
On the North by the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden, on the East by State Route 1113, on the South by the Camden Voshell Mill Road, on the West by Main Street (State Route 1113A), and being more particularly described
as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of Main Street (13A) where the aforesaid centerline intersects the present Town of Camden Town Boundary, said point being approximately 122 feet + North of the intersection of the North right-of-way line of the Camden Voshell Mill Road projected and the centerline of Main Street (13A). Thence from the point of beginning by and with the present Town boundaries the following three courses and distances: (1) In an Easterly direction to a bend point in the present Town boundary and described as being 68 feet East of Main Street and 122 feet North of the North right-of-way line leading from Main Street to Star Hill, in the ordinances of the Town of
Camden (dated March 1962); (2) In a northeasterly direction 1,765.50 feet to a point in the center of East Street;
(3) In a northerly direction such a distance as to intersect the centerline of State Route #13. Thence by the same in a Southwesterly direction such a distance as would intersect the centerline of the Camden Voshell Mill Road. Thence by the same in a Northwesterly direction such a distance as would intersect the centerline of Main Street (13A).
Thence by the same in a Northeasterly direction to the point of beginning. Contents thereof be what they may.
ALL those certain lands situated in North Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, just Southwest of the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden and adjacent to same and bounded as follows: On the North by the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden; on the
East by State Route #13A; on the South by lands now or
formerly of Carroll Realty Corporation, Inc.; on the West
by lands now or formerly of Penn Central Railroad and Willow Grove Road (Route #10), and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of Main Street (13A) where the aforesaid centerline intersects the present Town of Camden Town boundary, said point being approximately 122 feet + North of the intersection of the North right-of-way line of the Camden Voshell Mill Road projected and the centerline of Main Street (13A). Thence from the point of beginning in a Southwesterly direction, by and with the centerline of Main Street (13A) such a distance as to intersect the Northerly property line of Carroll Realty Corporation, Inc., projected to the centerline of Main Street (13A). Thence by the aforesaid Northerly property line of Carroll Realty Corporation, Inc., in a Southwesterly direction such a distance as to intersect the Easterly right-of-way line of lands now or formerly of the Penn Central Railroad. Thence by the same in a Northerly direction such a distance as would intersect the centerline of Willow Grove Road (Route #10). Thence by the same in a Northeasterly direction such a distance as would intersect a point described as being in the Eastern limits of "The Town of Wyoming", being the southwest corner for the present limits of the Town of Camden as described in ordinances of the Town of Camden (dated March 1962). Thence from the aforedescribed point in a southeasterly direction along the present Town of Camden, town boundaries a distance approximately 1,671.5 feet + to a point along the North right-of-way of South Street (Old Camden to Willow Grove County Road), said point being distance 250 feet West of the intersection of West Street with said road. Thence in
a Northeasterly direction continuing by the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden to the point of beginning. Contents thereof be what they may.
ALL those certain lands situated in North Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, just North and East of the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden and adjacent to same and bounded as follows: On the North by Isaac Branch; on the East by State Route 13; on the South and West by the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden; and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of State Route 13, said point being the intersection of the centerline
of Isaac Branch with the aforesaid centerline of Route 13. Thence with the centerline of Route 13 in a Southwesterly direction such a distance as to intersect the present Town boundaries of the Town of Camden. Thence by the present Town boundaries those courses and distances as to intersect with the centerline of Isaac Branch. Thence by the meanderings of the centerline of the aforesaid Isaac Branch to the point of beginning. Contents thereof be what they may."