NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 172
SENATE BILL 363

AN ACT TO CONFIRM CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS AND TO RATIFY ACTIONS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The corporate limits of the City of Gastonia are hereby declared to include the following described areas:
"ALL THOSE TRACTS OF LAND LYING IN GASTON COUNTY AND BEING contiguous to the presently existing southern boundary of the City of Gastonia, and being in the irregular shaped 17.6971 acre tract, bounded on the north by the City of Gastonia and on the south and west by Catawba and Avon Creeks, which Creeks mark the northern boundary of the lands of S. C. Downey Construction Company, Inc., whose lands are also located within the presently existing boundaries of the City of Gastonia, said 17.6971 acre tract being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the center of Catawba Creek, the said beginning point being, now or formerly, the common corner of the lands of Fern Forest Land Company as described in Deed book 524 at Page 522, and the lands of S. C. Downey Construction Company, Inc. as described in Deed Book 1258 at Page 365, both of which deeds are duly recorded in the Gaston County Registry; said beginning point further lying South 04 degrees 50 minutes 05 seconds East 434.99 feet from an iron pin in the southeastern margin of Buckingham Avenue, said iron pin being the northwest corner of Lot No. 11, Block 20, as shown on Plat Book 19 at Page 85 in the Gaston County Registry; thence from said beginning point and with the centerline of Catawba Creek as it meanders in a westerly direction to a point in the center of Avon Creek, which point lies South 88 degrees 54 minutes 55 seconds West 74.62 feet from a concrete monument situated in the southernmost portion of Lot 8 in Block G as shown on that certain map or plat duly recorded in Plat Book 22 at Page 44 of the Gaston County Registry; the traverse calls of the centerline of said Creeks being measured from a concrete monument and control corner which lies North 04 degrees 50 minutes 05 seconds West 70.18 feet from the beginning point in the centerline of Catawba Creek, said concrete monument and control corner also lying South 04 degrees 50 minutes 05 seconds East 364.81 feet from an iron pin in the southern margin of Buckingham Avenue; thence from said concrete monument the traverse lines of said Creeks being more particularly described by the following calls: (1) South 52 degrees 22 minutes 29 seconds West 357.92 feet; (2) South 55 degrees 01 minutes 29 seconds West 306.26 feet; (3) South 55 degrees 07 minutes 41 seconds West 309.68 feet; (4) North 60 degrees 06 minutes 33 seconds West 241.25 feet; (5) North 51 degrees 10 minutes 45 seconds West 266.94 feet; (6) North 69 degrees 45 minutes 19 seconds West 619.72 feet; (7) North 11 degrees 40 minutes 09 seconds West 115.85 feet to a concrete monument situated in the southernmost portion of Lot 8 in Block G as shown on Plat Book 22 at Page 44 in the Gaston County Registry, said concrete monument also lying North 88 degrees 54 minutes 55 seconds East 74.62 feet from the centerline of Avon Creek; thence from the centerline of Avon Creek North 88 degrees 54 minutes 55 seconds East 1878.81 feet to a point which is situated South 04 degrees 50 minutes 05 seconds East 286.10 feet from an iron pin the southern margin of Buckingham Avenue, the northwest corner of Lot 11 in Block 20 of Plat Book 19 at Page 85, which is recorded in the Gaston County Registry; thence from said point South 04 degrees 50 minutes 05 seconds East 148.89 feet passing a concrete monument at 78.71 feet to a point in the centerline of Catawba Creek, the point and place of BEGINNING, containing a total area of 17.6971 acres more or less.
THE SAME BEING a portion of Lots 8, 9, 9A and all of lots 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 in Block G as shown in Plat Book 22 at Page 44 in the Gaston County Registry; all of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and a portion of Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block P; and a portion of Lots 1, 2, 11 and 12 and all of Lot 10 in Block O, all as shown on that certain plat recorded in Plat Book 28 at Page 25 in the Gaston County Registry, together with a portion of Lot 9 in Block H as shown on that certain plat recorded in Plat Book 25 at Page 12 in the Gaston County Registry; also the same being a portion of the lands now owned by Fern Forest Land Company as described in Deed Book 524 at Page 522 in the Gaston County Registry located to the South thereof.
The same being the identical property as shown on that certain map or plat drawn by the Office of the City Engineer for the City of Gastonia entitled 'City Limits Extension Map City Limits Extension at Fern Forest Drive and Buckingham Avenue', dated February 16, 1979, File #79A-84, and recorded in Plat Book 36 at Page 13 of the Gaston County Registry."
Sec. 2. (a)  Any and all official acts, actions, expenditures and levies of taxes or assessments by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Gastonia since January 1, 1964, with respect to or affecting the territory and properties described in Section 1 of this act are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.
(b)	All elections, and the results thereof, previously held in and for the City of Gastonia are hereby validated.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1979.