CHAPTER 2
AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS TO TOWN OF GEORGETOWN.
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO TRANSFER A PORTION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC LANDS IN THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN TO THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That the Governor and the Secretary of the State of Delaware are hereby authorized and directed to execute in the name of and under the great seal of the State of Delaware, a deed conveying unto the Town of Georgetown, a municipal corporation of the State of Delaware, in consideration of the payment of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) by the said The Town of Georgetown to the State of Delaware all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate in the Town of Georgetown, Georgetown Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware, more particularly bounded and described as follows, to-wit ;
Beginning at a monument at the east corner of the intersection of Laurel Road with West Pine Street ; thence from said beginning point North forty-four degrees and eighteen minutes East along the line of Pine Street a distance of twenty feet ; thence South forty-five degrees forty-two minutes East one hundred and sixty-two feet;. thence curving to the right on the arc of a circle the radius of which is eighty-two feet, a distance of forty feet; thence curving to the left on the arc of a circle the radius of which is four hundred and sixty-four feet, a distance of one hundred and five feet to the Easterly side of Gardiner Avenue ; thence along the Easterly side of Gardiner Avenue, North twenty-nine degrees fifty-three minutes West seventy-eight and one-half feet to a point in line with the Southeasterly side of Laurel Road leading Southwesterly ; thence across Laurel Road, North twenty-eight degrees thirty-four minutes West thirty and ninety-six one hundredths feet to a
point in the Northwesterly line of Laurel Road leading Southwesterly; thence along the Northeasterly side of Laurel Road leading Northwesterly, as it is now located North forty-five degrees forty-two minutes West one hundred and ninety-six and three-tenths feet, to the Place of Beginning, -- CONTAINING Four Thousand Three Hundred and Ninety Square Feet, -- being a part of the same lands deeded to the State of Delaware by William Linden Rawlins et al, bearing date the 15th day of December, A. D., 1939, and now of record in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at Georgetown, Delaware, in Deed Book No. 322, Page 188 &c., Reference thereunto being had will more fully and at large appear.
Section 2. That the said land to be conveyed shall be used by the Town of Georgetown for the purpose of widening the street known as "Laurel Road" where the same intersects with the street known as "West Pine Street".
Approved February 24, 1955.