GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 396
HOUSE BILL 823

AN ACT TO ANNEX TERRITORY TO THE TOWN OF BATH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Bath are extended to include the following described territory:
BEGINNING at a point in Bath Creek, the northwesternly corner of the Town Limits as shown on a map of record in Plat Cabinet C at Slide 58, Beaufort County Register of Deeds, the said point is N 68 degrees 40' W 300.00 feet from a concrete Monument in the easternly high water mark of Bath Creek, the said concrete monument is in the present northernly Town Limit Line which runs with the northernly right of way line of Bowen Avenue if extended northwestwardly to Bath Creek; thence from the said beginning point along a line bearing N 68 degrees 40' W crossing Bath Creek to a point 300.00 feet east of the westernly high water mark of Bath Creek; thence in a southernly direction a straight line to a point in the centerline of the Bath Creek Bridge, the last said point is 300 feet east of the western bridge abutment; thence continuing in a southernly direction 300.00 feet east of the western high water mark of Bath Creek crossing an un-named branch on the South side of the said bridge, the mouth of Glebe Creek, and the mouth of Credle Gut 300.00 feet east of a straight line drawn across the mouth of the said Branch, Creek and Gut at their respective confluences with Bath Creek, to a point 300.00 feet due east of the highwater mark at Cool Point; thence in a southernly direction 300.00 feet east of a line running from the said point at Cool Point to a point 300 feet east of the high water mark at Beasley Point; thence continuing in a southernly direction 300.00 feet east of the western high water mark of Bath Creek to a point 300.00 feet in an easternly direction from the high water mark at Archbell Point; thence crossing Bath Creek, along a line running from Archbell Point to Plum Point, to a point 300.00 feet in a westernly direction from the easternly high water mark at Plum Point; thence in a northernly direction 300.00 feet west of the eastern high water mark of Bath Creek crossing an un-named branch, Plum Point Gut and then Respess Shore to a point at the confluence of Back Creek; thence in a northeasternly direction along a line 300.00 feet west of the easternly high water mark of Back Creek, crossing Slade Gut along a line 300.00 feet west of a line drawn across the mouth of Slade Gut at its confluence with Back Creek, to a point in the centerline of the Back Creek Bridge, the said point is 300.00 feet in a northwesternly direction from the southernly bridge abutment; thence S 71degrees 07' E 250.00 feet to a point in Back Creek; thence a straight line across Back Creek to a point in Back Creek, the easternly corner of the Town Limits Line shown on the said map of record in Plat Cabinet C at Slide 58, and being shown on that map prepared by Hood L. Richardson, RLS dated March 14, 1989, titled 1989 Annexation Map, Town of Bath.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective June 30, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1989.