NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 628

HOUSE BILL 1093

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 639 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1953 RELATING TO THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF GATESVILLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 639 of the Session Laws of 1953 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"That the corporate limits of the Town of Gatesville shall be as follows:

"BEGINNING in the center line of Bennetts Creek at the point where said creek is crossed by the State highway (N. C. Route 37) bridge and running thence South 42 degrees West 221 feet to a point in the center line of said creek; thence, leaving the center line of said creek, North 23 degrees 30 minutes West to a point located on the northern shore of said creek, thence, North 23 degrees 30 minutes West 200 feet, North 14 degrees 30 minutes West 450 feet North 85 degrees West 118 feet, North 57 degrees West 213 feet, North 11 degrees 15 minutes West 527 feet to an iron pipe set on the western edge of the New Ferry Road; thence, North 84 degrees 30 minutes West 213 feet, North 11 degrees East 96 feet, North 81 degrees West 203 feet to a concrete post; thence, North 68 degrees 45 minutes West 242 feet to an iron axle; thence North 3 degrees 45 minutes East 96 feet, North 18 degrees East 188 feet, North 83 degrees West 178 feet, South 9 degrees West 76 feet, North 80 degrees West 819 feet, North 56 degrees 30 minutes West 1185 feet, North 69 degrees West 450 feet, North 74 degrees 55 minutes West 1505 feet, North 71 degrees 37 minutes West 525 feet and crossing Troy Road, North 70 degrees 40 minutes West 1425 feet, North 8 degrees 20 minutes East 245 feet to the center line of Court Street (N.C. Pub. Rd. No. 1112); thence, North 8 degrees 20 minutes East 245 feet, South 70 degrees 40 minutes East 1610 feet, South 71 degrees 37 minutes East 510 feet, South 74 degrees 9 minutes East 1540 feet, South 69 degrees 10 minutes East 255 feet, North 19 degrees East 450 feet, South 67 degrees East 948 feet to a point located on the eastern edge of a lane extending northward from High Steeet and separating lands owned by Mrs. Addie H. Hinton from lands belonging to James L. Wagoner; thence, South 84 degrees East 760 feet, to a point, which said point is so situated that the eastern line of Academy Street extended northward from its present northern terminus would intersect said point; thence, North 8 degrees West 1100 feet, North 85 degrees 45 minutes East 775 feet to a point located in the center line of a ditch which runs in a northerly and southerly direction and lies to the westward of Main Street and to the westward of the lands upon which is now located the Wyatt-Carter Building; thence, along the center line of said ditch, North 13 degrees West 181 feet, North 27 degrees West 322 feet, North 47 degrees West 129 feet; thence, leaving said ditch, North 29 degrees West 177 feet, North 25 degrees 45 minutes West 200 feet, North 21 degrees 15 minutes West 200 feet, North 17 degrees 15 minutes West 200 feet, North 15 degrees West 500 feet, North 12 degrees West 100 feet, North 9 degrees West 271 feet to a point located on a wire fence; thence, South 2 degrees 30 minutes West 1330 feet, North 86 degrees 5 minutes West 230 feet to the center line of Main Street (U. S. Hwy. No. 158 Business to Winton); thence, North 86 degrees 5 minutes West 230 feet, North 2 degrees 30 minutes East 1238 feet; thence, South 37 degrees 30 minutes East 1100 feet to a point located in the center line of a ditch which said ditch constitutes a part of the northern boundary of lands belonging to the Board of Education of Gates County and upon which is located the Gatesville High School; thence, South 80 degrees 30 minutes East 301 feet, South 32 degrees East 233 feet, South 54 degrees 30 minutes West 203 feet; thence, South 36 degrees 20 minutes East 538 feet, South 26 degrees 50 minutes West 610 feet, North 63 degrees 10 minutes West 280 feet to the center line of East Maple Street (U. S. Hwy. No. 158 Business to Sunbury); thence, North 40 degrees 5 minutes West 305 feet along northern edge of old County Home Lane; thence, North 26 degrees 50 minutes East 780 feet, South 45 degrees 30 minutes West 667 feet; South 82 degrees East 89 feet; South 60 degrees 45 minutes West 265 feet to the center line of a ditch; thence, along the center line of said ditch; South 45 degrees East 189 feet, South 40 degrees East 270 feet; South 14 degrees East 190 feet to a point in said ditch, which said point is the center line of a lane leading from Main Street to the eastward thereof and separating the Helen W. Williams home property from the T. E. Ellis old home property; thence, continuing along the center line of said ditch, South 1 degree East 259 feet, South 11 degrees West 92 feet, South 10 degrees, East 327 feet, South 35 degrees 30 minutes East 294 feet to a point in the center line of said ditch; thence, leaving said ditch, South 6 degrees 30 minutes West 100 feet, South 85 degrees West 99 feet, South 6 degrees East 44 feet, South 89 degrees West 59 feet, South 6 degrees East 83 feet, South 3 degrees 45 minutes East 679 feet, South 5 degrees 30 minutes East 423 feet, South 23 degrees 30 minutes East 286 feet to a point located on the northern shore of Bennetts Creek; thence, South 23 degrees 30 minutes East 30 feet to the center line of said creek; thence, South 55 degrees West 205 feet to the point of beginning.

"The above recited courses and distances are, according to a survey made by Graham Pollock, Surveyor, on April 17, 1971, and the bearings are magnetic bearings."

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 21st day of June, 1971.