NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 499

SENATE BILL 215

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1067 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1955 SO AS TO FIX THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF LONG BEACH IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 1068 of the Session Laws of 1955 is amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The boundaries and corporate limits of said Town of Long Beach shall be as follows:

"BEGINNING at a point at the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean, said point being where the East line of Middleton Street projected would intersect said low-water mark according to a map of Yaupon Beach made by H. R. Hewett, surveyor, February 29, 1955, as appears in Map Book 4, Page 40, Office of the Register of Deeds of Brunswick County, North Carolina, said point also being approximately South 72 degrees 15 minutes East 1,340 feet from a stone marked U. S., same being the southwest corner of Fort Caswell property, from said BEGINNING point runs thence in a northwardly direction and along the East line of Middleton Street and the East line of Middleton Street projected approximately 6,400 feet to the center line of the Intra-Coastal Waterway; runs thence in a westwardly direction and with the center line of said Intra-Coastal Waterway approximately 34,335 feet to a point opposite the intersection of Little Davis Creek with the Intra-Coastal Waterway; runs thence South and with the run of Little Davis Creek approximately 2,000 feet to the northern marshes of Big Davis Creek; runs thence westwardly and with the northern marsh line of Big Davis Creek and the northern marsh line of Lockwoods Folly Sound approximately 12,000 feet to Lockwoods Folly Inlet; thence with Lockwoods Folly Inlet to the Atlantic Ocean; thence with the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean in an eastwardly direction approximately 45,000 feet to the place and point of BEGINNING, said lands being geographically bounded on the East by the Town of Yaupon Beach, on the South by the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean, on the West by Lockwoods Folly Inlet, on the North by the northern marsh line of Lockwoods Folly Sound, Big Davis Creek, center of Little Davis Creek, and the center line of the Intra-Coastal Waterway Canal."

Sec. 2. The second sentence of Section 4(b) of Chapter 1067 of the Session Laws of 1955 is amended by striking out, after the comma following the word "designated" and before the word "notarized" in the second line of said sentence, the word "and" and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "place in a sealed envelope which shall be".

Sec. 3. Section 4(b) of Chapter 1067, Session Laws of 1955, is amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"Upon the death or resignation of any member of the board of commissioners, or mayor, the board shall have the power to fill said vacancy until the next municipal election and subsequent appointment by the Governor of North Carolina."

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1959.