A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow the bladen county board of EDUCATION to dispose of CERTAIN property at private sale.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 115C‑518(a) or Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the Bladen County Board of Education may convey to Bladen County Youth Focus Project, Inc., at private negotiation and sale, with or without monetary consideration, any or all of its right, title, and interest to the following described property:
BEGINNING at a point marked by a nail set where a Southeastwardly projection of the Northeastern margin of Newkirk Street intersects the center line of paved Martin Luther King Drive, said Point of Beginning being located along the center line of Martin Luther King Drive, North 38 degrees 56 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance of 31.10 feet from an old point marked by an old PK nail at the intersection of the paved center lines of Newkirk Street and Martin Luther King Drive; THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING and to and with the Northeastern margin of Newkirk Street, also the Southwestern line of Lot No. 1, as set out on map recorded in Map Book 2, Page 66, North 54 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 30.04 feet to an iron rod set; thence continuing along said margin of Newkirk Street, North 54 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 333.17 feet to a point marked by an iron rod set; thence with the Northwestern line of Lot No. 7, North 38 degrees 09 minutes 56 seconds East, a distance of 84.06 feet to an old point marked by an iron rod set; thence North 54 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with an old line, a distance of 198.76 feet to a new point in said line marked by an iron rod set; thence a new line North 36 degrees 49 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance of 186.01 feet to a point marked by an iron rod set; thence South 53 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East, a distance of 205.23 feet to a point marked by an iron rod set; thence North 36 degrees 49 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance of 200.00 feet to a point marked by an iron rod set; thence South 53 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East, a distance of 354.05 feet to a point marked by a nail set; thence continuing along said line, South 53 degrees 10 minutes 16 seconds East, a distance of 30.07 feet to a point marked by a nail set in the center of Martin Luther King Drive; thence with the center line of Martin Luther King Drive, South 40 degrees 46 minutes 44 seconds West, a distance of 378.76 feet to a point marked by a nail set; thence continue with the center line of Martin Luther King Drive, South 39 degrees 04 minutes 56 seconds West, a distance of 84.12 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 4.81 Acres, more or less, according to a Survey Map of same entitled "Map For BLADEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION ‑ MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE SITE", dated April 1, 2003, by Lloyd R. Walker, Professional Land Surveyor.
SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 115C‑518(a) or Article 12 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the Bladen County Board of Education may convey to Spaulding‑Monroe Association, Inc., at private negotiation and sale, with or without monetary consideration, any or all of its right, title, and interest to the following described property:
TRACT ONE:
Containing 0.182 acre, more or less as shown and described on a map or plat of the Addition to the Spaulding‑Monroe School property, in the town of Bladenboro, dated July 12, 1974, by Stuart Gooden, Registered Surveyor, copy of which is recorded in Book 206, Page 113, Bladen County Registry and incorporated herein by reference, and being described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a steel pipe, the beginning corner of a 2.60 acre tract that was conveyed to the Board of Education by Acie Monroe and wife by deed dated 26 April, 1951, and recorded in Book 117, Page 224, of the Bladen County Registry, and runs thence with the line of said 2.60 acre tract, South 85 degrees 35 minutes East 87 feet to a concrete monument in the corner of a ditch; thence South 10 degrees 2 minutes East 74 feet to a concrete monument; thence South 84 degrees 26 minutes East 104.1 feet to a stake; thence South 23 degrees 38 minutes West 45 feet to a nail in the center line of N. C. Highway 211; thence with the center line of N. C. Highway 211 North 65 degrees 22 minutes West 11.6 feet to a nail; thence with the Eastern line of the Board of Education's 7.64 acre tract, North 17 degrees 10 minutes East 110.35 feet to the beginning.
This being the identical property described in a deed dated August 13, 1974, from Cassie Monroe, widow, and Tessie Horne, widow, to the Bladen County Board of Education recorded in Book 206, Page 112, Bladen County Registry.

TRACT TWO:
In the Town of Bladenboro, on the North side of and a short distance from State Highway #211, between it and run of Bryan Swamp; lying immediately East of that certain 7.64 acre tract or parcel of land particularly described in deed executed by Acie Monroe et al., surviving children and heirs at law of Calvin Monroe, deceased, to the Bladen County Board of Education under date of March 27, 1939, and recorded in Book 102, at Page 386, Bladen County Registry; and being a part of that certain tract or parcel of land allotted to Curley Monroe in a division by mutual partition of the estate lands of Calvin Monroe, deceased, made on or about May 12, 1923, known as Lot #7 in said division and containing 6 3/4 acres, more or less, concerning which see deeds recorded in Book 121, at Page 682, in Book 90 at Page 15, and in Book 121, at Page 645, Bladen County Registry. A particular description of the tract or parcel of land hereby conveyed, as surveyed by A.A. Robbins, Sr., Registered Surveyor, in November of the year 1950, is as follows, viz.:
BEGINNING at a stake in the second line of the 7.64 acre tract above referred to, North 17 1/4 degrees East 110.5 feet from the center line of State Highway #211 and at the point where said second line of said 7.64 acre tract is intersected by a ditch, and runs thence from said beginning corner, along said ditch South 85 1/2 degrees East 87 feet to a stake on the East edge of another ditch; thence along the East edge of the latter ditch North 19 degrees East 203 feet to a bend in said ditch and its intersection with still another ditch; thence along the East edge of the same ditch North 22 degrees East 169 feet to another ditch; thence along said other ditch South 82 degrees East 92 feet to a stake on same; thence North 12 degrees East 550 feet to a stake in the run of Bryan Swamp; thence down the run of said swamp in a Westerly direction 100 feet to a stake in said run, the Northeast corner of the 7.64 acre tract above referred to; thence as a line of that tract South 22 1/2 degrees West 611 feet to a stake, a corner of said tract; thence as another line of that tract 17 1/4 degrees West 332 feet to the beginning corner, and containing 2.60 acres, more or less.
This being the identical property described in a deed dated April 26, 1951, from Acie Monroe and his wife, Cassie Monroe, to the Board of Education of Bladen County, recorded in Book 117, Page 224, Bladen County Registry.

TRACT THREE:
In the Town of Bladenboro in Bladenboro Township and being more specifically described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land containing .7 acres more or less and being described as follows:
BEGINNING at a concrete corner, the Southeast corner of a .182 acre tract described in a deed to Bladen County Board of Education from Cassie Monroe et al., dated August 13, 1974, recorded in Book 206, Page 112, Bladen County Registry and runs thence with the Eastern line of said .182 acre tract North 10 degrees 2 minutes West 74 feet to a concrete monument in the corner of a ditch; thence North 16 degrees 30 minutes East as the ditch and with the Eastern line of a 2.60 acre tract described in Book 117 Page 224, Bladen County Registry, a distance of 203.0 feet to a bend in the ditch and its intersection with another ditch: thence along the East edge of the same ditch North 22 degrees East 169 feet to another ditch, thence South 85 degrees 12 minutes West 92 feet to a stake; thence in a Southwesterly direction a distance of approximately 460 feet to the point of beginning containing .7 acres more or less.
See deeds recorded in Book 117, Page 224, and in Book 206, Page 112, Bladen County Registry for further reference as to the location of the above described lands.
This being the identical property described in a deed dated August 26, 1977, from Cassie Monroe, widow, and Tessie Horne, widow, to the Bladen County Board of Education, recorded in Book 222, Page 728, Bladen County Registry.

TRACT FOUR:
BEGINNING at a point in the Charles Ivey line in or near the center of State Highway #211, the Southeast corner of Jessie B. Hall Estate, and runs thence with the old Ivey‑Monroe line South 71 1/4 East 5.71 chains to a stake in said line and in the center of a ditch, at or near an oak tree and on the North side of said State Highway #211, same being the Southwest corner of Curley Monroe, also the Southeast corner of the Public School 8/10 acre lot; thence as a new line North 17 1/4 East 6.25 chains to a stake, a new corner, in Curley Monroe's line; thence with Curley Monroe's line North 22 1/2 East 9.17 chains to a stake in the run of Bryan Swamp, his corner; thence down the run of Bryan Swamp to a stake therein, the Northeast corner of Jessie B. Hall Estate, which on a straight line is South 85 1/4 West 5.70 chains distant from the last preceding corner; thence with the West line of Jessie B. Hall Estate South 22 1/2 West 13.17 chains to the beginning corner, and containing 7.64 acres, more or less.
Above boundaries include the two lots containing 8/10 and 1 2/10 acres, more or less, conveyed by Calvin Monroe to A. M. Kelly et al., County Board of Education, by deed dated June 26, 1909, filed for record on July 6, 1909, and recorded in Bladen County Registry in Book 51, at Page 246; the lands described in deeds recorded in Bladen County Registry, in Book 90, Page 247, and in Book 97, Page 281; also 29/100 acre, more or less, on the Southeast thereof, being a part of the lands allotted to Curley Monroe in a division by mutual partition of the lands of Calvin Monroe, deceased, made on or about May 12, 1923, and known as Lot # 7 in said division. 
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.