Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 377

AN ACT APPROVING THE SALE, TRANSFER AND CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN PUBLIC LAND BY THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO THE TOWN OF SMYRNA.

WHEREAS, the State of Delaware holds title to the following described parcel of land which is situate in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, State of Delaware; and

WHEREAS, said parcel of land is part of the same lands and premises which Cummins E. S. Speakman and wife by deed dated December 3, 1931 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Kent County, State of Delaware in Deed Record D, Volume 14, Page 45, conveyed to the State of Delaware; and

WHEREAS, the Town of Smyrna needs said parcel of land for the purpose of installing a sewage pumping station thereon, and wishes to purchase said land from the State of Delaware; and

WHEREAS, said parcel of land is under the supervision and control of the Delaware Home and Hospital for the Chronically Ill at Smyrna, which approves of the sale and conveyance of said land to the Town of Smyrna; and

WHEREAS, Title 7, Section 4520 (c), Delaware Code, requires that the Legislature specifically approve the transfer or conveyance of public lands;

NOW, THEREFORE,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. The sale, transfer and conveyance of the following described parcel of land by and from the State of Delaware to the Town of Smyrna is hereby specifically approved:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land with no improvements thereon erected, situate in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, State of Delaware, lying on the northwesterly side of Sunnyside Road, being bounded on the east by the aforesaid Sunnyside Road and on the southwest and north by other lands of the Grantor and having a frontage on the aforesaid westerly side of Sunnyside Road on One hundred. twenty (120')' feet and extending back therefrom between parallel line a distance of One hundred (100') feet and continuing within the aforesaid area, a total of 12,000 square feet of land, be the same more or less, and appearing on a Plot for proposed right of way for Sunnyside Pumping Station dated June, 1969, prepared by Whitman, Requardt & Associates, Consulting Engineers, Baltimore, Maryland.

Approved April 16, 1970.