NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 33

SENATE BILL 17

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF ROANOKE RAPIDS TO USE CERTAIN REAL ESTATE FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The mayor and the governing authority of the City of Roanoke Rapids are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to use for the purpose of a public library any portion of the lots of land owned by the said city, and described as follows:

Certain lots or parcels of land situate in the City of Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina, fronting in the aggregate four hundred (400) feet on the West side of Roanoke Avenue and running back the same width one hundred and forty (140) feet to an alley, said property being bounded on the East by Roanoke Avenue; on the South by the property of the First Methodist Church; on the West by the alley between Roanoke Avenue and Jackson Street; and on the North by the southern line of Third Street, consisting of Lots Nos. 301, 303, 305, 307, 309, 311, 313, 315, 317, 319, 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, and 331, as shown and described on the maps or plats of the property of the Roanoke Rapids Power Company, Roanoke Rapids, N. C., made by the C. F. Gore & Company, Civil Engineers, of Weldon, N. C., December 18, 1915, and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds of Halifax County, N. C., in Plat Book No. 1, at pages 11, 12, 13 and 14, said lots having been conveyed to the City of Roanoke Rapids by deed of Roanoke Avenue Development Company, dated March 3, 1920, and recorded in Book 202, at page 15, Halifax Public Registry; reference to said map and deed being hereby made for greater certainty of description.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of March, 1961.