NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 841

HOUSE BILL 1059

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF BARNARDSVILLE IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Town of Barnardsville in Buncombe County is hereby incorporated and declared to be a body politic under the name and style of "Barnardsville", and as such shall have all the rights, powers and privileges conferred upon incorporated cities and towns by Chapter 160 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 2. The corporate limits of the Town of Barnardsville shall be as follows:

"BEGINNING at a stake on the northern bank of U. S. Highway 197, being the main road leading from Barnardsville to Asheville, said stake being located on the East side of Whittemore Creek Bridge, and runs South 12 degrees 39 minutes West 4200 feet to a stake, being the southwest corner of the reservoir tract belonging to the Buncombe County Board of Education; thence South 69 degrees 00 minutes East 3200 feet to a stake on the bank of Paint Fork Creek, being in N. E. Wilson's northern line; thence North 71 degrees 02 minutes East 3200 feet to a stake on the bank of Dillingham Creek Road, being 3200 feet from the center line of the intersection of U. S. Highway 197 and Dillingham Creek Road; thence North 36 degrees 30 minutes East 4700 feet to a stake on the bank of U. S. Highway 197, being in W. S. Compton's eastern line; thence North 63 degrees 30 minutes West 2600 feet to the top of Razor Mountain; thence North 76 degrees 30 minutes West 1400 feet to a stake on the bank of Poverty Branch Road, being George Harris's northwest corner; thence South 72 degrees 10 minutes West 4400 feet to the point of BEGINNING."

Sec. 3. The governing body of said town shall consist of a mayor and three commissioners and such other officials and employees as may be authorized pursuant to Chapter 160 of the General Statutes. The mayor shall have a right to vote only in the case of a tie vote.

Sec. 4. E. W. Cannon is hereby appointed mayor and Charles D. Dillingham, R. Woodrow Dillingham and George Harris are hereby appointed town commissioners, all to serve until their successors are duly elected and qualified at the regular 1961 municipal election at which time, and biennially thereafter, the mayor and commissioners shall be elected at the regular biennial municipal elections.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.