NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 686

HOUSE BILL 568

 

 

AN ACT TO CONVEY THE STATE'S INTEREST IN A TRACT OF LAND USED BY SAINT AMBROSE EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.

 

WHEREAS, by Chapter 51 of the Public Laws of 1868-69, a lot at the northwest corner of Lane and Dawson Streets in the City of Raleigh was granted to a self-perpetuating board of trustees for a period of ninety-nine (99) years "for the purpose of a school for the education of children residing in and near the City of Raleigh"; and

WHEREAS, by Chapter 443 of the Public Laws of 1891, said trustees were empowered to sell said lot and reinvest the proceeds for the same purpose in some other real property in or near the City of Raleigh; and

WHEREAS, pursuant thereto said trustee sold said lot and purchased, by deed dated May 1, 1900, and recorded in the Wake County Registry in Book 157 at page 324, a lot at the southeast corner of Wilmington and Cabarrus Streets, being a parallelogram one hundred and twenty (120) feet on Wilmington Street and ninety (90) feet on Cabarrus Street; and

WHEREAS, for many years the trustees operated said school on said property in conjunction with Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church; and

WHEREAS, with the increase in public school facilities the need for the school authorized in the aforesaid laws ceased, and said school consequently was eventually discontinued; and

WHEREAS, for many years said property has been used, and still is used, for religious purposes by Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church, there being now located on said property a church building and rectory: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. All the right, title, interest and estate of every sort whatever of the State of North Carolina in and to that certain tract of land located  at the southeast corner of Wilmington and Cabarrus Streets in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, being a parallelogram one hundred and twenty (120) feet on Wilmington Street and ninety (90) feet on Cabarrus Street, is in consideration of the nominal sum of ten dollars ($10.00) hereby granted and conveyed in fee simple to the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, and their successors in office. The present members of the Board of Trustees created under Chapter 51 of the Public Laws of 1868-69 and Chapter 443 of the Public Laws of 1891 are hereby authorized and empowered to convey said property in fee simple absolute, without any restriction or limitation of any sort whatever, to the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry of Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, and their successors in office.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1959.