Section 1. An addition to Philadelphia State Hospital of a mental, medical and surgical hospital building is hereby authorized to be constructed by The General State Authority on those certain lands heretofore or about to be conveyed to it by Mercy-Douglass Hospital, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and presently operating as a medical and surgical hospital in the City and County of Philadelphia, which lands are bounded and described as follows:
All those certain tracts of land situate in the Fortieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania more fully bounded and described as follows to wit:
Beginning at a point being the most southwestern corner of Fiftieth Street and Woodland Avenue; thence along the western line of Fiftieth Street south forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds east two hundred and thirty-six feet to a point; thence the following courses and distances south forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds west ninety-eight feet to a point; thence north forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds west one hundred eleven feet to a point; thence south forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds west thirty and five-tenths feet to a point; thence south forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds east fifteen feet to a point; thence south forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds west one hundred forty-three feet to a point; thence north forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds west fifteen feet to a point; thence south forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds west thirty and five-tenths feet to a point; thence south forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds east one hundred eleven feet to a point; thence north forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds east forty-seven feet to a point; thence south forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds east fifty feet to a point; thence south forty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds west one hundred forty-five feet to a point along the eastern line of Fifty-first Street as projected; thence along the aforesaid line of Fifty-first Street as projected north forty degrees thirty-two minutes thirty seconds west two hundred eighty-six feet to its intersection with the southern line of Woodland Avenue; and thence along Woodland Avenue north forty- nine degrees twenty-seven minutes thirty seconds east four hundred feet to a point the place of beginning.
Containing 1.862 acres, more or less, and upon erection, construction and completion said hospital building shall be constituted an addition to the Philadelphia State Hospital.
(1 amended Mar. 15, 1956, 1955 P.L.1294, No.399)