GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 323
SENATE BILL 479

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TO INCLUDE THE JOHNSTON COUNTY COUNTRY CLUB.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Smithfield are extended to include the following described property:
FIRST TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake in Ralph Johnson's line, runs thence with line of Lot No. 9 South 87 degrees East 1223 feet to a stake in the path; thence with the path North 10 degrees 30 minutes East 500 feet to a stake; thence North 88 degrees 30 minutes West 1697 feet to a stake, W. B. Johnson's line; thence South 50 degrees East 524 feet to a pine; thence South 6 degrees West 142 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 14.9 acres, more or less.
SECOND TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake 240 feet from the original corner in the high water of Holt's Lake and runs as the original line North 6 degrees 15 minutes East 1026 feet to a stake; thence North 77 degrees West 976 feet to a stake near a path; thence South 54 degrees 30 minutes West 348 feet to a stake in a ditch; thence South 3 degrees 30 minutes East 208 feet to a stake; thence South 10 degrees 30 minutes West 472 feet to the highwater mark of Holt Lake; thence as the highwater mark South 65 degrees East 202 feet to a stake; thence leaving the highwater mark North 16 degrees 15 minutes East 210 feet to a stake; thence South 56 degrees 15 minutes East 238 feet to a stake; thence North 87 degrees 15 minutes East 285 feet; thence South 70 degrees 45 minutes East 346 feet to a stake; thence 30 degrees 45 minutes East 281 feet to the BEGINNING, containing twenty-two (22) acres, more or less.
THIRD TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake in N. G. Rand's line and runs South 79 degrees West 40 poles to a stake on the West side of the Mill Path; thence North 3 1/2 degrees east 76 1/2 poles to a black gum in the run of a small branch; thence down the run of said branch, to a stake in R. E. Lee's line; thence with said line South 3 1/2 degrees West 75 1/2 poles to the BEGINNING, containing eighteen (18) acres, more or less.
FOURTH TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake in a branch at the edge of Holt's Lake and runs as a highwater mark of said Lake as follows:  South 31 degrees 30 minutes West 112 feet, South 15 degrees East 93 feet, South 19 degrees 15 minutes East 187 feet, South 31 degrees West 120 feet, North 85 degrees West 79 feet, South 29 degrees West 140 feet, South 19 degrees West 40 feet, South 28 degrees 15 minutes East 100 feet, South 27 degrees 45 minutes West 74 feet, South 12 degrees 45 minutes West 155 feet; South 55 degrees West 124 feet, South 83 degrees 15 minutes West 172 feet, South 47 degrees 15 minutes West 158 feet, South 81 degrees West 118 feet, North 28 degrees West 74 feet, North 79 degrees 15 minutes West 330 feet, North 76 degrees 15 minutes West 1012 feet to a stake the Ralph Johnson Corner; thence as his line North 6 degrees 15 minutes East 2010 feet to Lee's Branch; thence as the meanderings of said branch as follows:  South 51 degrees 15 minutes East 124 feet, South 41 degrees 15 minutes East 96 feet, South 6 degrees East 172 feet, South 39 degrees 30 minutes East 119 feet, South 26 degrees 30 minutes East 115 feet, South 8 degrees 35 minutes East 171 feet, South 20 degrees 30 minutes East 102 feet, South 28 degrees 15 minutes East 87 feet to a stake, Ed Lee's corner; thence as his line South 4 degrees 10 minutes West 1262 feet; thence North 81 degrees 30 minutes East 661 feet; thence North 4 degrees 40 minutes East 632 feet; thence South 69 degrees 45 minutes East 265 feet to the BEGINNING, containing by estimation 39 acres, more or less.  LESS AND EXCEPT a tract containing four (4) acres, more of less, conveyed to R. Ed Lee by the Johnston County Country Club, Inc., by deed dated April 15, 1939, and recorded in the Registry of Johnston County.
FIFTH TRACT:  BEGINNING at a stake on Lee's Branch, Johnston County Country Club, Inc., and R. Ed Lee's corner and runs as Lee's line North 80 degrees 45 minutes East 151 feet to a stake; thence South 13 degrees 30 minutes East 194 feet to a stake; thence South 45 degrees 30 minutes East 180 feet to a stake; thence South 3 1/2 East 116 feet to a stake on Lee's Branch; thence up the branch to the BEGINNING, containing two (2) acres, more or less.
SIXTH TRACT:  BEGINNING at an iron stake on North side of Holt Lake approximately 1000 feet North of the Country Club Pro Shop in the line between the lands purchased by The Country Club of Johnston County, Inc., from Nat Rand and Ralph Johnson it also being a corner of the lands purchased by D. W. Parrish from Ralph Johnson and the line runs as a new line with the Country Club of Johnston County, Inc., South 37 degrees and 25 minutes East 140 feet to an iron stake a new corner; thence South 18 degrees 30 minutes West 140 feet to a stake in the highwater mark of Holt Lake; thence as the highwater mark of Holt Lake in a westerly direction to a stake in the highwater mark of said pond, it being the original corner between the lands formerly owned by Nat Rand and the lands owned by Ralph Johnson now D. W. Parrish and the line runs as a dividing line between the above-mentioned property North 6 degrees and 15 minutes East 240 feet to the BEGINNING and being a portion of Nat Rand property purchased by the Country Club of Johnston County, Inc.
SEVENTH TRACT:  BEGINNING at an iron stake on the North side of Holt Lake approximately 1000 feet North of the Country Club Pro Shop, a corner in the line of the property purchased by The Country Club of Johnston County, Inc., from Nat Rand and Ralph Johnson; it being a corner of the land purchased by D. W. Parrish from Ralph Johnson and the line runs North 37 degrees and 25 minutes West 170 feet to a stake; thence North 43 degrees and 55 minutes West 199 feet to an iron stake a new corner with D. W. Parrish in the line of The Country Club of Johnston County, Inc., (Johnson Land); thence as its line South 70 degrees and 45 minutes East 104.5 feet to a stake and South 30 degrees and 45 minutes East 281 feet to the BEGINNING and being a portion of the land purchased by D. W. Parrish from Ralph Johnson and wife.
THERE IS EXCEPTED FROM THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY a lot conveyed to Willie Edward Lee by deed from Country Club of Johnston County, Inc., in Book 630, page 75, Johnston County Registry.  LESS AND EXCEPT a lot conveyed to H. M. McCormick and wife, recorded in Book 711, page 334, Johnston County Registry.
THERE IS ALSO LESS AND EXCEPTED FROM THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY OF THE COUNTRY CLUB OF JOHNSTON COUNTY THE FOLLOWING LOTS:
Lot 1  as recorded in Book 881, page 148;
Lot 2  as recorded in Book 881, page 334;
Lot 3  as recorded in Book 882, page 622;
Lot 5  as recorded in Book 881, page 278;
Lot 6  as recorded in Book 881, page 479;
Lot 7  as recorded in Book 881, page 246;
Lot 8  as recorded in Book 881, page 557;
Lot 9  as recorded in Book 881, page 288;
Lot 10 as recorded in Book 881, page 242;
Lot 11 as recorded in Book 881, page 244;
Lot 12 as recorded in Book 881, page 342;
Lot 13 as recorded in Book 881, page 681;
Lot 14 as recorded in Book 881, page 679;
Lot 15 as recorded in Book 881, page 481;
Lot 16 as recorded in Book 881, page 584;
Lot 17 as recorded in Book 881, page 336;
Lot 18 as recorded in Book 882, page 179;
and Lot 19 as recorded in Book 881, page 433.
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives