Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 125 - LEVEY COURTS, NEW CASTLE COUNTY

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE LEVY COURT OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY TO SELL CERTAIN REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN SAID COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. The Levy Court of New Castle County is hereby authorized if it shall deem it advisable, to sell to the Mayor and Council of Wilmington for a nominal consideration, all the right, title, estate and interest in and to all or any part of certain real estate belonging to said County and in part held in the name of "State of Delaware for the use of New Castle County" and situate in the City of Wilmington, bounded and described as follows, to-wit:--

"Beginning at the intersection of the Northerly side of Eleventh Street (at forty-nine feet wide) with the Easterly side of Bennett Street (at forty-five feet wide); thence Northerly by the said side of Bennett Street, three hundred feet, ten and one-half inches more or less to the Southerly side of Twelfth Street; thence thereby Easterly seventy-three feet, seven and three-eighths inches in to the middle-distance between Bennett and Church Streets; thence Northerly, parallel to Bennett Street, sixty-two feet more or less to the low-water line in Brandywine River; thence Southerly by the low-water line of Brandywine River to its intersection with a line parallel to and sixteen feet Southerly from the Southerly side of Eleventh Street (measured at right angles thereto); thence Westerly and parallel to Eleventh Street to the Easterly side of Church Street( at fifty feet wide); thence thereby Northerly to the intersection of the Easterly side of Church Street with the Northerly side of Eleventh Street; thence Westerly by the Northerly side of Eleventh Street to the place of beginning."

Subject to such rights of way, reservations and restrictions as said Levy Court shall deem advisable.

Section 2. A deed of the Levy Court of New Castle County upon resolution of said Levy Court, executed and acknowledged by its President and attested by the Clerk of the Peace of New Castle County, shall pass title to said right, title, estate and interest belonging to said County in and to said land, or any part thereof.

Approved March 25, 1935.