NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 678

HOUSE BILL 1266

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT ALL SESSIONS OF SUPERIOR AND DISTRICT COURT OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY SHALL BE HELD IN THE NEW COUNTY SEAT OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 324, Session Laws of 1975, is amended by adding after Section 4 thereof the following:

"Sec. 4.1. All sessions of the superior and district courts shall be held in the new county seat of Brunswick County when the courthouse is completed and ready for occupancy. The board of county commissioners shall adopt an ordinance designating the date the sessions of court shall begin in the new county seat and shall publish said ordinance once a week for four weeks prior to such date in a newspaper having general circulation in the county."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 7A-133 is amended by striking from the column headed "Additional Seats of Court" the word "Shallotte".  It is the intent of this section to authorize that the new county seat of Brunswick County shall be the sole seat of court for the superior and district courts of Brunswick County.

Sec. 3.  Whereas, the Old Waynesboro Commission is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina for the purpose of restoring the site of the former Town of Waynesboro, located on the banks of the Neuse River just to the Southwest of the City of Goldsboro, which town gave Goldsboro the Court Seat as well as many of its early homes and citizens, and in connection with such restoration promote and provide historical and recreational facilities that would be of great value to the citizens of Goldsboro, Wayne County and the surrounding area; and

Whereas, in order to carry out such program it is necessary that the commission acquire approximately 24 acres of land along the banks of the Neuse River and belonging to the City of Goldsboro; and

Whereas, the City of Goldsboro is the owner of a tract of land consisting of some 24 acres which had previously been used as a landfill site and which is now surplus property and which many years ago was the original site of a portion of Old Waynesboro; and

Whereas, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Goldsboro has, after due study and deliberation found and determined that the said 24 acres of land is no longer required or needed for any municipal purpose, and is surplus city property; and

Whereas, the Board of Aldermen of the City of Goldsboro is of the opinion and has determined that the best interest of the City of Goldsboro and its citizens will be served by conveying said 24 acres of land, without consideration, to the Old Waynesboro Commission in order to assist this nonprofit corporation in instituting and carrying on its historic preservation and recreational program with its resultant benefits to the citizens of Goldsboro, Wayne County and surrounding area; and

Whereas, in order to convey this 24 acres to the Old Waynesboro Commission, without consideration, the City of Goldsboro must have the authorization of the 1977 Legislature; Now, therefore, The Board of Aldermen of the City of Goldsboro is hereby authorized to convey, without monetary consideration, to the Old Waynesboro Commission that certain tract or parcel of land situated in or near the City of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Wayne County, and more particularly described as follows:

"Situated in the Township of Goldsboro, County of Wayne, and State of North Carolina, and known as being a portion of that land now owned by the City of Goldsboro at the western terminus of Old Waynesboro Road, adjoining Paul E. Murray, near the Neuse River and being more particularly described as follows: Commencing for boundary at a point in the centerline of Old Waynesboro Road (60 feet wide), the southwest corner of a tract of land now owned by Paul E. Murray, tract number 1, Volume 735, page 44, said point being referenced by a concrete monument set north 42° 22' 48" west 30.00 feet (9.144m) on the westerly right-of-way of said road, said point being further defined as having North Carolina Grid Coordinates; north 592,116.54, east 2,293,258.88; thence north 47° 35' 15" east 145.34 feet (44.300m), along the centerline of Old Waynesboro Road, to a point; thence south 06° 16' 32" east 300.56 feet (91.611m), along a line 25 feet west of and parallel with the centerline of a ditch flowing toward Big Ditch, passing through a reference iron pin set at 37.15 feet on the easterly right-of-way of said Old Waynesboro Road, to an iron pin set; thence south 18° 32' 41" west 163.02 feet (49.688m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 05° 51' 37" west 318.06 feet (96.945m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 34° 47' 23" east 40.43 feet (12.323m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 37° 35' 53" west 227.51 feet (69.345m) a portion of this line being 25 feet west of a ditch flowing toward Neuse River, said ditch being the westerly line of lands now owned by the City of Goldsboro, Volume 912, page 767, to an iron pin set; thence north 62° 29' 07" west 62.48 feet (19.044m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 51° 23' 00" west 80.64 feet (24.579m). parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 60° 07' 05" west 148.41 feet (45.235m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set on the east line of a 32.14 acre parcel of land owned by the Old Waynesboro Commission, Volume 828, page 222; thence north 03° 42' 05" east 705.99 feet (215.186m), along the east line of said 32.14 acre parcel of land, to an iron pin set; thence north 41° 56' 55" west 480.00 feet (146.304m), along a line of said 32.14 acre parcel. to an iron pin set; thence south 85° 59' 05" west 1,019.00 feet (310.591m), along the north line of said 32.14 acre parcel, to an iron pin set on the top of bank of the Neuse River; thence north 02° 48' 57" west 193.42 feet (58.954m), along said bank, to an existing iron pin; thence north 00° 25' 32" west 56.19 feet (17.127m), along said bank to an iron pin set; thence north 57° 27' 16" east 518.02 feet (157.892m), along a line 25 feet southerly and parallel with the centerline of a ditch flowing to Neuse River, to an iron pin set; thence north 60° 59' 38" east 168.12 feet (51.243m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence north 82° 08' 25" east 125.95 feet (38.390m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence south 85° 28' 42" east 140.05 feet (42.687m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set; thence north 46° 53' 14" east 140.37 feet (42.785m), parallel with said ditch, to an iron pin set on the southwesterly line of a 6.5 acre parcel of land owned by Paul E. Murray, said iron pin being referenced by an existing concrete monument found north 42° 22' 48" west 19.00 feet (5.791m); thence south 42° 22' 48" east 976.44 feet (297.619m), along the southwesterly line of said Murray property to the place of beginning of the parcel herein described, containing 23.912 acres (9.6769 hectares), subject to two (2) 20 feet wide utility easements centered on existing sanitary sewer pipelines and also a 60 feet wide access and utility easement of an extension of the Old Waynesboro Road as shown on a plat entitled "Property to be Conveyed to the Old Waynesboro Commission by the City of Goldsboro", dated March 4, 1977, as prepared by Olsen Associates, Inc., Engineers-Architects-Surveyors, Raleigh, North Carolina."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1977.