Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 153

AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS ON BEHALF OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO TRANSFER CERTAIN LANDS AND BUILDINGS IN NEW CASTLE COUNTY TO THE LEVY COURT OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY.

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

Section 1. The State Board of Corrections is authorized and directed to execute and deliver in the name of and under the great seal of The State of Delaware, a deed conveying to The Levy Court of New Castle County, free of all liens and encumbrances, in consideration of the payment of $1.00 by The Levy Court of New Castle County to the General Fund of The State of Delaware, all its right, title and interest in and to all those ten certain tracts or parcels of land with the buildings thereon erected, situated in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, State of Delaware (said properties being known as the New Castle County Workhouse Farms and more particularly bounded and described in the office of the Recorder of Deeds & c., in and for New Castle County, in Deed Record C, Volume 57, Page 407). Being the same lands and premises which the Board of Trustees of the New Castle County Workhouse by deed bearing date the First Day of July, A. D. 1952, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds & c., in and for New Castle, in Deed Record C, Volume 57, Page 407, granted and conveyed to the State of Delaware for the use of the State Board of Corrections.

Section 2. The said lands and buildings to be conveyed shall be used by The Levy Court of New Castle County for park and recreational purposes.

Section 3. The said lands and buildings shall be conveyed on or before January 2, 1968.

Approved June 16, 1965.