AN ACT amending the charter of the town of Watha to extend the terms of office for the mayor and town council from two to four years, and to ANNEX DESCRIBED TERRITORY TO THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BOLTON.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Watha, being Chapter 158 of the 1909 Private Laws, as amended by Chapter 884 of the 1989 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.  The elected officers of the town shall be a mayor and three commissioners, and they shall be elected by all the qualified voters of the entire town. In 2005, and quadrennially thereafter, the mayor and the town commissioners shall be elected for four‑year terms or until their successors are elected and qualified. The commission's organizational meeting shall be fixed as provided in G.S. 160A‑68."
SECTION 2.  The corporate limits of the Town of Bolton are extended to include the following described territory:

TRACT ONE‑EAST

BEGINNING at an OLD TOWN MONUMENT with N.C. Grid Coordinates: N=221,191.759 and E=2,176,127.352; and runs thence South 78 degrees, 29 minutes 59 seconds East 4,459.69 feet to a NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence South 03 Degrees, 03 minutes, 55 seconds West 2,203.48 feet to another NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 80 degrees 55 minutes 10 seconds West 439.00 feet to another NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence South 08 degrees, 23 minutes, 54 seconds West 557.63 feet to another NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 80 degrees, 19 minutes 08 seconds West 1,720.45 feet to another NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 57 degrees, 08 minutes, 29 seconds West 2,811.07 feet to another NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 05 degrees 10 minutes, 46 seconds East 492.76 feet to an OLD TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 06 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East 471.07 feet to an OLD TOWN MONUMENT; thence South 88 degrees, 13 minutes, 35 seconds East 200 feet to an OLD TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 01 degrees, 46 minutes, 25 seconds East 804.81 feet to an OLD TOWN MONUMENT, the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING, and being all of that 260.73 acre tract of land as shown on that Map entitled "Plat to Extend the East Corporate Limits of the TOWN OF BOLTON" Dated 7 March, 2005, by Billy M. Duncan, Land Surveyor and being recorded in the Register of Deeds Office, Columbus County, North Carolina, on the 23rd day of March, 2005, at 3:26:01 p.m. in Plat Book 79, Page 11. Reference is made to said recorded plat for a more particular and accurate description of the premises described herein.

TRACT TWO‑WEST

BEGINNING at an OLD TOWN MONUMENT with the N.C. Grid Coordinates: N=208,233.482, E=2,175,586.827, said monument lying South 70 degrees 42 minutes, 35 seconds West 196.78 feet from N.C. Grid Monument "TON" with N.C. Grid coordinates: N=208,419.214, E=2,175,651.834; thence from said Beginning Point North 88 degrees, 22 minutes, 43 seconds West 604.31 feet to a NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 15 degrees 17 minutes, 48 seconds West 2,336.48 feet to a NEW TOWN MONUMENT; thence North 71 degrees, 38 minutes, 14 seconds East 1,374.16 feet to an OLD TOWN MONUMENT, the Northwest corner of the 1915 Act to Incorporate the City of Bolton; thence with the OLD TOWN OF BOLTON LIMITS South 01 degrees, 46 minutes, 25 seconds West 2,705.00 feet to the OLD TOWN MONUMENT, the POINT AND PLACE OF BEGINNING; and being all of that 55.56 acre tract of land as shown on that map entitled "Plat to Extend the West Corporate Limits of the TOWN OF BOLTON" dated 7 March, 2005, by Billy M. Duncan, Land Surveyor, and being recorded in the Register of Deeds Office, Columbus County, N.C., on the 23rd day of March, 2005, at 3:26:15 p.m. in Plat Book 79, Page 12.
Reference is made to said recorded Plat for a more particular and accurate description of the premises described herein.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective June 30, 2005.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2005.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives