GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-53
SENATE BILL 1410

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN BOARD TO ANNEX AN AREA TO THE TOWN OF CHADBOURN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Chadbourn are extended to include the following described area:
BEGINNING at a point in a Northern line of the city limits of the Town of Chadbourn, N.C., as set out on map of Town of Chadbourn, N.C. as recorded in Map Book 52 Page 50, said Point of Beginning being located North 89 degrees 54 minutes 00 seconds East from a point marked by a concrete monument where said Northern line of the city limits crosses Blake Road, and having N.C. Grid Coordinates N=212,121.54, E-2,049,423.43, an approximate distance by scale of 1,150 feet to a point in the center of a Dunn Swamp drainage canal as shown within Tract 4 of a map of a subdivision of the J. R. Blake Land as recorded in Map Book 8 Page 3, Columbus County Public Registry, thence with the center of said canal Northwestwardly, crossing U. S. Highway 76 an approximate distance by scale of 1,300 feet to a point in said canal, the First and Southern corner of a 35 acre tract of lands of now or formerly John Milton Mills Blake as set out in Deed Book 178 Page 436; thence with the First and Southeastern line of said lines of Blake, old course and distance cited as North 36 degrees East 14 chains and 50 links to Evergreen Public Road thence continuing Northeastwardly across said Road to the Western corner of lands of Haworth, Inc.'s 19.52 acre tract; thence Northeastwardly, cited bearing being North 33 degrees 48 minutes 40 seconds East, a distance of 830.40 feet to a point, the Western corner of lands of now or formerly A. P. Worley thence continuing Northeastwardly with a line of said lands of A. P. Worley, Jr. to a point in said line where same is intersected by a Westwardly projection of the Northern property line of lands of now or formerly Thomas Carson Powell as set out in Deed Book 376 Page 073; thence a cited bearing South 82 degrees 37 minutes East to, and then with, and beyond said Northern line of lands of Thomas C. Powell as shown on survey of same dated July 24, 1986 by Soles & Walker, P.A., Registered Land Surveyors, to a point marked by an old nail in the center of N.C. Hwy 410; thence Southwardly with the centerline of N.C. Hwy 410 an approximate distance by scale of 120 feet to a point where said centerline is intersected by a ditch along the Northern property line of lands of Harry Edward Reed, Jr., as set out in Deed Book 520 Page 225; thence to and with the Northern line of said lands of Reed, the cited course and distance being North 89 degrees 15 minutes 49 seconds East, an approximate distance by scale of 1,000 feet to a point in said line at the intersection of ditches, thence Southwardly with a ditch leading through said lands of Reed, an approximate distance by scale of 1,050 feet to a point in a Southern line of lands of Reed, also a Northern line of lands of Horace Cox, thence Eastwardly along a ditch with the line between lands of Reed and Cox, an approximate distance by scale of 120 feet to a point, thence Southwardly along a ditch and beyond crossing U.S. Hwy 76 Bypass an approximate distance by scale of 1,300 feet to a point on the Southern Right-of-Way line of U.S. Hwy 76 Bypass, thence westwardly with the Southern Right-of-Way line of U.S. Hwy 76 Bypass, an approximate distance by scale of 530 feet to a point marked by an old iron in a ditch, the Northeastern corner of a 3.76 acre tract as set out on survey map entitled, "Survey for Alva G. Cole, Jr. and Carole Cole Bailey and Samuel D. Cole, Sr."dated by July 28, 1995 by Soles & Walker, P.A., Registered Land Surveyors; thence with the Eastern line of said 3.76 acre tract, cited bearing and distance being South 04 degrees 12 minutes 37 seconds West, 373.40 feet to a point marked by an iron in a ditch, thence with said ditch or canal in a Southeastwardly and then Southwardly direction, through lands of Wanda McClelland Barfield as shown on survey map entitled, "Survey for Wanda McClelland Barfield"dated December 03, 1996 by Soles & Walker, P.A., Registered Land Surveyors, and continuing Southwardly along the center of said canal, an approximate distance by scale from the Southeast line of Barfield, 200 feet to a point in an existing Northern city limit line, bearing North 89 degrees 54 minutes 00 seconds East, an approximate distance by scale of 650 feet Eastwardly from N.C. Hwy 410; thence in a generally Westwardly direction with the existing city limit lines of the Town of Chadbourn, N.C. as set out on aforementioned map of Town of Chadbourn, N.C., as recorded in Map Book 52 Page 50 to the Point of Beginning, containing, by scale, 196.00 acres, more or less.

There is excepted herefrom all of that certain tract containing approximately 5.1 acres, more or less, designated "Annexed Area "A'"on aforesaid map of Chadbourn, N.C. as recorded in Map Book 52 Page 50.

BEGINNING at a point in a Eastern line of the city limits of Chadbourn, N.C. as set out on Map of Town of Chadbourn, N.C., as recorded in Map Book 52 Page 50 said point of beginning being located South 00 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds East from a point marked by a concrete monument where said Eastern line of the city limits crosses Old U.S. Hwy. 74-76 (Strawberry Boulevard), and having N.C. Grid Coordinates N-209,637.11, E=2,056,138.84, an approximate distance by scale of 600 feet to a point where said city limit line is intersected by the center of the existing Soules Swamp Chadbourn Watershed Canal; thence Eastwardly with the center of said Chadbourn Watershed Canal an approximate distance by scale of 5,000 feet to a point in the centerline of paved S.R. 1005, thence with the centerline of said S.R. 1005 Northwardly, crossing Old U.S. Hwy 74-76, an approximate total distance by scale of 1,350 feet to a point where said S.R. 1005 crosses a ditch; thence to and with said ditch in a West-Northwest direction an approximate distance by scale of 600 feet, crossing lands of Mrs. Cecil Fitz to a point in a Western line of lands of said Fitz lands; thence continuing with said ditch Northwestwardly to its intersection with the Northern line of lands of now or formerly Chadbourn Tobacco Warehouse as recorded in Deed Book 293 Page 544; thence with the Northern line of said tract in a Westwardly direction to the Northwest corner of said tract also in Eastern line of lands of now or formerly J.S. Singletary and Lucian P. Stephens as set out in deed recorded in Deed Book 370 Page 956; thence Southwardly with said Eastern line of lands of said Singletary and Stephens, and then lands of Jesse Densil Worthington as set out in deed recorded in Deed Book 402 Page 378, an approximate total distance by scale of 650 feet to a point in said line normal to and 350 feet Northwardly from the centerline of Old U.S. Hwy 74-76; thence Westwardly 350 feet normal to and Northwardly from the centerline of Old U.S. Hwy 74-76, an approximate distance by scale of 2,000 feet to a point in the eastern line of lands of Chadbourn Cemetery as set out on map entitled, "Map of Chadbourn Cemetery"dated October 25, 1971, by Willis & Walker, Registered Land Surveyors; thence with said line of Chadbourn Cemetery, also a Western line of lands of Frederick Boege, Jr. as set out in deed recorded in Deed Book 389 Page 874, Northwardly, an approximate distance by scale of 500 feet to a point, the Northeastern corner of said lands of Chadbourn Cemetery; thence Westwardly with the Northern line of said lands of Chadbourn Cemetery, along a ditch, an approximate distance by scale of 500 feet to the Northwestern corner of said lands of Chadbourn Cemetery, thence a new line in a Westwardly projection of said Northern line of said lands of Chadbourn Cemetery, an approximate distance by scale of 850 feet to a new point in the center of an existing Chadbourn Watershed Drainage Canal; thence Northwardly with the center of said canal, an approximate distance by scale of 650 feet to a point, a corner of the existing city limits of the Town of Chadbourn, N.C., said point being a the terminus of line L18 on aforementioned  map as recorded in Map Book 52 Page 50; thence with an existing city limit line North 83 degrees 05 minutes 06 seconds West 486.87 feet to a point marked by an iron pipe; thence with an existing city limit line South 00 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds East an approximate distance by scale of 1,900 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing, by scale, 127.00 acres, more or less.
Section 2.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective only by adoption of an ordinance by the Town of Chadbourn.
Section 3.  Real and personal property in the territory annexed pursuant to this act is subject to municipal taxes as provided in G.S. 160A-58.10.
Section 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of July, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives