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220-12 December 4, 2012 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, on April 1, 1957, the Township of West Orange (the “Township”) conveyed certain Township owned land located at Block 25, the easterly 10 feet of Lot11 (the “Property”), to the contiguous property owners, Francis J. Moran, Sr. and Lillian Moran, his wife, (the “Morans”), owners of the property located at Block 25, Lot 10; and WHEREAS, the Township has been informed by Estate of Francis J. Moran, Sr. that the Deed of Conveyance transferring title to the Property to the Morans (the “Deed”) was never recorded (Exhibit A); WHEREAS, a review of the deed abstracts for Block 25, Lots 10, 11, 12 and 13 and the metes and bounds description contained on the Deed at issue was performed by the Municipal Engineer/Director of Public Works, Leonard R. Lepore, P.E. on November 16, 2012 in an effort to ascertain historical clarification regarding the transfer of the Property by the Township to the Morans; and WHEREAS, a review of the deed abstracts confirmed the following history with regard the Property and surrounding lots: The Morans purchased Block 25, Lot 10 in August, 1952. At that time the property was 30 feet wide by 100 feet deep. The description from that deed began 250 feet from the intersection of the northerly line of Nutman Place with the westerly line of Valley Road, and then extended westerly another 30 feet along Nutman Place, which point would then be 280 feet from the intersection of Nutman Place and Valley Road. The unrecorded Deed dated April 1, 1957 between the Township and the Morans began 280 feet from the intersection of Nutman Place and Valley Road then 1