NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 864

SENATE BILL 353

 

 

AN ACT TO DIVIDE NORTH CAROLINA INTO ELEVEN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  For the purpose of selecting representatives to the Congress of the United States, the State of North Carolina shall be divided into eleven districts as follows:

FIRST DISTRICT: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington Counties;

SECOND DISTRICT: Edgecombe, Franklin, Greene, Halifax, Lenoir, Northampton, Vance, Warren and Wilson Counties;

THIRD DISTRICT: Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Harnett, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson and Wayne Counties;

FOURTH DISTRICT: Chatham, Davidson, Johnston, Nash, Randolph and Wake Counties;

FIFTH DISTRICT: Caswell, Forsyth, Granville, Person, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Wilkes Counties;

SIXTH DISTRICT: Alamance, Durham, Guilford and Orange Counties;

SEVENTH DISTRICT: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke, New Hanover, Robeson and Scotland Counties;

EIGHTH DISTRICT: Anson, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and Union Counties;

NINTH DISTRICT: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Davie, Iredell, Rowan, Stanly, Watauga and Yadkin Counties;

TENTH DISTRICT: Avery, Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Mitchell and Rutherford Counties;

ELEVENTH DISTRICT: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Polk, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey Counties.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 16th day of June, 1961.