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Title 3 Appendix : Executive Orders

Chapter 029 : Public Property and Supplies

• Executive Order No. 29-59 (No. 02-25) [Transfer of Property in Waterbury from the Military Department to the Department of Buildings and General Services]

  WHEREAS, certain state-owned land and buildings (the “Property”) located in the Town of Waterbury, County of Washington, described more particularly below, presently is under the jurisdiction and control of the Military Department; and

  WHEREAS, the Military Department has determined the Property to be surplus to its needs; and

  WHEREAS, the Vermont Agency of Administration, Department of Buildings and General Services, desires to obtain jurisdiction and control of the Property.

  NOW THEREFORE, I, Philip B. Scott, by virtue of the power vested in me as Governor of the State of Vermont, do hereby transfer and set over to the Department of Buildings and General Services for its purposes, from the jurisdiction and control of the Military Department, the following land and premises, to wit:

  Being all the lands and premises conveyed to the State of Vermont by the following:

  Being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to the State of Vermont by warranty deed of the Town of Waterbury dated June 23, 1955 and recorded in Volume 54, Page 443 of the Waterbury Land Records. Said lands and premises are described in said deed as follows:

  “Being all and the same land and premises as conveyed to the Town of Waterbury by Harry F. Harvey by his warranty deed dated June 23, 1955 which deed is about to be recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Waterbury and being described in said deed as:

  ‘Being a part of all and the same land and premises as conveyed to Harry F. Harvey by J. W. Brisbin and Dorothy C. Brisbin by warranty deed dated April 24, 1953 and recorded in Book 54 Page 57 of the Land Records of the Town of Waterbury, and being that part particularly described as beginning at an iron pin near the northerly bank of Thatcher Brook in a line/ of fence between land of the grantor herein and land now or formerly of the Jewett estate; thence on said line N 18° 25’ E 241.9 ft. to an iron pin on the easterly bank of a small brook; thence N 1º41’ W 95.7 Ft. to an iron pin in a fence on line between land of the grantor herein and Clark land; thence N 53° 30’ W 122.1 ft. to an iron pin; thence N 78° 36’ W 160.0 ft. to an iron pin; thence N 51° 59’ W 113.8 ft. to an iron pin; thence N 28° 47’ W 161.8 Ft. to an iron pin; thence S 57° 51’ W 169.1 ft. to an iron pin near top of bank; thence S 30° 02’ E 192.4 ft. to an iron pin near the top of bank; thence S 48° 47’ E 348.8 ft. to an iron pin near top of bank; thence S 24° 22’ E 153.2 ft. to an iron pin near northerly bank of Thatcher Brook; thence S 77° 59’ E 72.5 ft. to point of beginning.

  A Waterbury Village right of way 33 feet wide was laid out to the property herein conveyed in 1932 as recorded in Book 44 Page 223 of said Land Records. The end of the center line of said right of way is on the first bound herein described approximately 136.9 feet N 18° 25’ E of the point of beginning.

  There is reserved from this conveyance a right of way for the use of the grantor herein his heirs and assigns, to be 20 feet wide with its most westerly boundary running from the intersection of the center line of the Waterbury Village right of way hereinabove referred to, with the most easterly line of the land herein conveyed, to the iron pin at the fourth corner mentioned in the metes and bounds description of the premises herein conveyed.

  Upon acceptance of this deed, the grantee herein covenants and agrees with the grantor herein for the benefit of the grantor herein and his heirs and assigns, and this covenant being a covenant running with the land to bind all successors in title of the grantee herein, that the grantee herein, or its successors in title, will construct and properly maintain a fence on such lines of the parcel herein conveyed as adjoin the remaining property of the grantor herein, and will construct and maintain a proper swinging type gate at the northerly end of the right of way herein described as reserved by the grantor.

  The grantor agrees with the grantee and for the benefit of the grantee and its successors in title, this being likewise a covenant running with the land to bind successors in title of the grantor, that it shall be the obligation of the grantor and his successors in title to keep the gateway at the northerly end of said right of way closed at all times when not being used by the grantor or his successors in title, for entry or exit.

  A plan of survey as made by Paul Bigelow in May, 1955 is appended to this deed and made a part of the description herein by reference thereto.

  Reference is hereby made to said deed, and plan of survey, to all references therein, to the record of said deed and to said Land Records in aid of this description.

  This conveyance is made subject to all provisions as contained in said deed from Harry F. Harvey to the grantor herein.

  This Executive Order shall take effect upon execution.

  Dated January 24, 2025