NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 825

HOUSE BILL 1172

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF SPENCER TO CONVEY, WITHOUT COST, TO ROWAN COUNTY CERTAIN PROPERTY.

 

WHEREAS, the Town of Spencer, North Carolina, is owner of certain property, hereinafter described, and the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Spencer so declare that said property is not necessary for municipal purposes; and

WHEREAS, Rowan County is contemplating on constructing an Industrial Education Center; and

WHEREAS, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Spencer desire to have the authority, at their option, to convey, without cost, the hereinafter described property to Rowan County as a site for the Rowan County Industrial Education Center: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Spencer, at their option, are hereby authorized and empowered to convey to Rowan County a warranty deed, in fee simple, without cost, in behalf of the Town of Spencer, for the property as hereinafter described, said property having been declared not necessary for municipal purposes, and being more particularly described as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Salisbury Township, County of Rowan and the State of North Carolina bounded as follows:

A vacant block of lots near the boundary to the present corporate limits of the Town of Spencer on its northwest side: BEGINNING at the stone corner at the western intersection of Eighth Street and Hudson Avenue, and runs thence with the margin of Eighth Street, in a northwesterly direction, 400 feet to Baldwin Avenue; thence with the margin of Baldwin Avenue, in a southwesterly direction, 318 feet to a stone in the margin of Baldwin Avenue; thence in a southerly direction, approximately 70 feet to a stone in the margin of Ninth Street; thence with the margin of Ninth Street in a southeasterly direction, 340 feet to Hudson Avenue; thence with the margin of Hudson Avenue in a northeasterly direction, 360 feet to the beginning corner at Eighth Street, comprising all of Block 73 on the map of property in and adjoining Spencer, North Carolina, known as "Henderson and Vanderford's Lanier Tract".

For back title see Deed Book 189, page 192, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, N. C.

BEGINNING at a stake in the old Henderson and Vanderford line, now Starnes' line, 20.6 feet South 15 minutes West from the South margin of Baldwin Avenue; thence with the old Henderson line, South 15 minutes West 305 feet to a stone, W. G. Walker's corner; thence with Walker's line North 65 degrees West 139.9 feet to a stake, a new corner in Walker's line; thence a new line North 32 degrees 15 minutes West 137.4 feet to a stake, a new corner; thence a new line North 57 degrees 45 minutes East 241 feet to the point of BEGINNING, and being a part of the property described in deed from James L. Siceloff and others to L. G. Starnes, recorded in Book of Deeds No. 253, page 238, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, N. C.

For back title see Deed Book 303, page 167, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, N. C.

BEGINNING at a stone at the East intersection of Hudson Avenue and 9th Street; thence South 57 degrees 45 minutes West 60 feet to a stake at the West intersection of Hudson Avenue and 9th Street; thence with the West margin of 9th Street North 32 degrees 15 minutes West 242.6 feet to a stake at the West intersection of 9th Street with L. G. Starnes' line; thence with Starnes' line North 15 minutes East 112.8 feet to a stake at the East intersection of 9th Street with Starnes' line; thence with the East margin of 9th Street South 32 degrees 15 minutes East 340 feet to the point of BEGINNING, same being that portion of 9th Street between Hudson Avenue and L. G. Starnes' line.

For back title see Deed Book 303, page 166, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rowan County, N. C.

BEGINNING at a stake at the West intersection of Hudson Avenue and 9th Street; thence with the margin of 9th Street, North 32 degrees 15 minutes West 242.6 feet to a stake at the intersection of 9th Street with L. G. Starnes' line; thence with Starnes' line South 15 minutes West 137.8 feet to a stone, Starnes' corner; thence with Starnes' line North 65 degrees West 139.9 feet to a stake, a new corner in Starnes' line; thence a new line South 32 degrees 15 minutes East 244.4 feet to a stake on the margin of Hudson Avenue, a new corner; thence with the margin of Hudson Avenue North 57 degrees 45 minutes East 150 feet to the point of BEGINNING, and being part of the land described in Deed Book 298, page 110.

For further back title see Deed Book 303, page 165, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, N. C.

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 14th day of June, 1961.