NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 92

HOUSE BILL 149

 

 

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF EDENTON IN CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The corporate limits of the Town of Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, as set forth in Chapter 105 of the Private Laws of 1925 are hereby extended to include the following additional territory, to wit:

BEGINNING at the northeast corner of the present town limit of the Town of Edenton, said point being located at the intersection of Ryders Lane (Coke Avenue) and U. S. Highway No. 17 North; thence in a northwesterly direction, and along the present town limit 562 feet, more or less, to a point in the present town limit line; thence in a northeasterly direction, and parallel to the right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 17 and 200 feet North of the northern right-of-way line, 3,299 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 47 degrees West 296 feet, more or less, to a point; thence North 67 degrees West 1,157 feet, more or less, to a point, said point being located in the southern line of the right-of-way of the Norfolk Southern Railway Company; thence along the right-of-way of said Railway Company 3,519 feet to a point; thence South 33 degrees 05 minutes West 994 feet to a point; thence South 32 degrees 45 minutes West 630 feet to a point; thence South 15 degrees 30 minutes West 329 feet to a point; thence South 15 degrees 15 minutes West 179 feet to a point; thence South 10 degrees 30 minutes West 131 feet to a point; thence South 09 degrees 30 minutes West 253 feet to a point; thence South 40 degrees 40 minutes East 1,011 feet to a point located in the northern line of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 17; thence in a southeasterly direction and along the northern line of said right-of-way 66 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a southerly direction and across U. S. Highway No. 17 to a point at the intersection of the right-of-way of said U. S. Highway No. 17 and the center line of the Old Hertford Road, said right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 17 being 100 feet in width; thence in a southwesterly direction and along the center line of the Old Hertford Road 400 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a westerly direction and parallel to the southern line of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 17 and 200 feet South of the southern right-of-way line, 3,730 feet, more or less, to a point in the present town limit of the Town of Edenton, North Carolina, said present town limit line being located in the center line of Ryders Lane (Coke Avenue); thence in a northeasterly direction along the present town limit line 234 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

Sec. 2. The property included within the extended corporate limits of the Town of Edenton, above described, shall be subject to taxation as other property in the Town of Edenton for the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 1959, and the citizens residing in said territory shall be entitled to all the privileges and benefits of other citizens of the said town.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 18th day of March, 1959.