NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 584

HOUSE BILL 1152

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 115-126 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA SO AS TO EXCLUDE THE BURLINGTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AS TO THE SALE OF CERTAIN DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The provisions of G.S. 115-126 shall not apply to the Burlington City Board of Education in the sale of certain real property now owned by the Burlington City Board of Education more particularly described as follows:

"TRACT ONE: A certain tract or parcel of land in Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of L.C. Jones, J. Q. Gant, M. P. Church, Graham Wilson, and others and bounded as follows:

BEGINNING at an iron bolt, corner with said church lot, Jones, and Wilson in center of macadam road to Burlington, N.C.; running thence N. 57 1/2 degrees W. 1.81 1/2 Chains to an iron stake in center of said road 15 ft. east of Gant's corner; thence S. 31 3/4 degrees W. 7.47 chains to an iron bolt 15 ft. east and 10 ft. north of Gant's line; thence S. 83 degrees E. (B.S. 83 1/2 degrees) 5.23 chains to an iron bolt in said church lot line in west side of a road; thence N. 8 degrees W. 1.98 chains to an iron bolt, corner with said church lot in west side of said road; thence N. 16 2/3 degrees E. 4.07 chains to the BEGINNING, and being all of that property described in deed from J. Q. Gant et ux to S. E. Pate et al by deed dated March 10, 1920, and recorded in Deed Book 71 at page 80, Alamance County Registry.

TRACT TWO: That certain tract or parcel of land in Burlington Township, Alamance County, State of North Carolina; adjoining the lands of the Gant Estate, W. L. Minor, West Davis Street Extension, L. C. Jones and Lawrence Tickle, more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at an iron stake, corner with Lawrence Tickle in the line of the Gant Estate, running thence with the line of the Gant Estate, S. 59 degrees 50' E. 139.7 ft. to a "Gant Monument"; thence a new line with the said Gant Estate S. 67 degrees 15' E. 349.5 ft. to an iron stake (another iron stake set on this line N. 67 degrees 15' W. 10 ft. from the corner), corner with the said Gant Estate on the west side of West Davis Street Extension and in W. L. Minor's line; thence with the said W. L. Minor's line, N. 10 degrees W. 44.6 ft. to an iron stake on the west side of West Davis Street Extension and corner with the said W. L. Minor; thence along the west side of said West Davis Street Extension, N. 6 degrees 11' W. 150 ft. to an iron stake; thence again with the west side of the said West Davis Street Extension, N. 6 degrees 24' E. 145 ft. to an iron stake; thence again with the west side of the said West Davis Street Extension, N. 21 degrees 03' E. 156.5 ft. to a point in the center of N.C. Highway No. 100 (iron stake set on this line, S. 21 degrees 03' W. 29.8 ft. from the corner in the road) and in the line of L.C. Jones; thence along the center of the said N.C. Highway No. 100 and with the line of the said L.C. Jones, N. 56 degrees 10' W. 258.3 ft. to a point in the center of the said N.C. Highway No. 100 and over the center of a culvert, corner with Lawrence Tickle in the line of L.C. Jones; thence with the line of the said Lawrence Tickle, S. 33 degrees 20' W. 475 ft. to the BEGINNING (iron stake set on this line S. 33 degrees 20' W. 28 ft. from the corner in the road), containing 3.65 acres more or less.

The above description was obtained from a survey made by W. T. Hall, Civil Engineer, December 30, 1940. This is the same property described in deed from Roger Gant et al to Thomas D. Cooper et al, dated May 5, 1941, recorded in Deed Book 146 at page 216, Alamance County Registry.

The above two tracts constitute all of the property of the Burlington City Board of Education lying immediately South of West Webb Avenue (N.C. Highway 87) and immediately West of West Davis Street, in Burlington township, Alamance County, North Carolina. It is intended to describe hereby all of the property of the Burlington City Schools at such location, whether or not the same is described with precision by the above two metes and bounds descriptions."

Sec. 2. The Burlington City Board of Education shall have and is hereby granted the power to sell and convey said real property in whole or in part at a private sale or sales for such consideration, upon such terms and to such grantee or grantees as in the judgment of the Burlington City Board of Education shall be in the best interest of the Burlington City Schools, and the Burlington City Board of Education is authorized and empowered in its discretion to cause said property to be conveyed by deed or deeds containing such covenants of title as it deems appropriate.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1971.