Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-10

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City Attorney to apply to the Chan
cellor for an order to sell any inter
est the City of Perth Amboy has in
the Cove" Or "Wet Dock" property,
such application was made, and the
said Chancellor, by an order dated
August 2, 1910, ordered and direct
ed that the said property shall and
may be sold by the said city to such
person or corporation as will pur-
chase the same, at public or private
sale, at q price to be fixed by the
governing body, but subject to the
approval of the Chancellor before a
conveyance shall be executed; such
sale to be authorized and the price
fixed by said governing body, and re-
ported to the Chancellor for appro-
val, all In accordance with the pro-
visions of said Act of March TWEEN
tieth, A. D., nineteen hundred; now
therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Board of Alder
men of the City Of Perth Amboy,
which is the governing body thereof,
that the City Of Perth Amboy sell
the lands known as the Cove or
wet Dock" property, described as
follows:
Beginning in the westerly line Of
Water street at the distance Of one
chain ON a course north twenty
four degrees and fifty minutes east
from the northerly line of South
Dock street, and at the northeastern
ly corner of a slip of land containing
four-tenths of an acre, returned to
John Brown on the tw~enty-frst day
of April, 1716, and recorded among
other tracts in Book A 2, page 81;
thence l. north sixty-ive degrees
and twenty-five minutes west four
chains; thence g., south twenty-four
degrees and fifty minutes west one
chain; thence 5, north sixty-fve de-
grees and twenty-five minutes west
three chains to the line of the lots
formerly patented to George VIII
locks. Samuel Gibson and others;
thence along said line 4, north TWEEN
ty-f1ve degrees and fifty minutes
east seven chains to North Dock
street; thence s, south sixty-f1ve de-
grees and twenty-five minutes east
one chain, more or less, to the north
westerly corner of a slip of land
patented to Thomas Gordon, on the
first day of April, 1903. and record
ed in Book c, page 266; thence
along the lines of the same 6, south
twenty-four degrees and fifty min
utes west one chain and eighty-one
links to 1.-The Marsh or Meadow
Ground; thence 7, south sixty-f1ve
degrees and twenty-five minutes
east nine chains to- low water mark
In the sound; thence %southerly along
low water mark four chains, more
or less, to a point bearing a course
OF south sixty-fye degrees and
twenty-five minutes east from the
beginning; thence from said point
north s~ixty-hve degrees and twenty
five minutes west three chains, more
or less TO the place OF beginning, to
Adrian Lyon, receiver of the Perth
Amboy ShipbufIding and Engineer
ing Company, who will purchase the
same, for the sum OF five thousand
dollars, which is hereby fixed as the
price to be paid therefor; that the
said sale be reported IN oath to the
Chancellor for hfa approval before
q conveyance shall be executed;
and that upon the approval of the
same by the said Chancellor, that g
deed be given for said lands, signed
by the mayor and attested by the
city clerk, with the common seal of
the city affixed; and that thereup-
on the said deed be delivered to said
purchaser by the treasurer of this
city, upon payment to him of said
sum OF i've thousand dollars"