NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 450

HOUSE BILL 614

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION ONE OF CHAPTER 771, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, SO AS TO FIX THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BETHEL IN PITT COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 771, Session Laws of 1957 be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 171, Private Laws of 1911; Section 1 of Chapter 228, Private Laws of 1921; Section 1 of Chapter 97, Private Laws of 1927, and Section 1 of Chapter 754, Session Laws of 1953, be and the same are hereby amended to the end that the corporate limits of the Town of Bethel in Pitt County are redefined, relocated and extended so as to include and embrace the following described territory:

"BEGINNING at a concrete monument on the western side of the Bethel-Greenville road; said monument being located 177 feet North of the northern boundary of the South View Cemetery; thence North 65 degrees West 2000 feet to a concrete monument, a corner; thence North 25 degrees 30 minutes West 1634 feet to a concrete monument, a corner; thence North 24 degrees 15 minutes West 629 feet crossing U. S. Highway No. 64 and South Railroad Street to a point in the center of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad leading to Tarboro; thence along and with the eastern side of a ditch North 7 degrees 30 minutes West 495 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence North 72 degrees East 1075 feet to a concrete monument, a corner; thence North 6 degrees 30 minutes East 1425.7 feet to a concrete monument on the North side of Carson Street, a corner; thence North 53 degrees 45 minutes East 500 feet to an iron stake on the West side of Rives Street, a corner; thence North 6 degrees 30 minutes East 150 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 83 degrees 30 minutes East 666.5 feet to an iron stake in D. S. Harper's line, a corner; thence North 2 degrees East 960 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 87 degrees 40 minutes East 1050 feet to an iron stake on the northern side of Harper Drive and the western side of N. C. Highway No. 11, a corner; thence with the western line of said highway South 2 degrees West 150 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence crossing said highway North 81 degrees 30 minutes East 210 feet to an iron stake by a fence, a corner; thence South 3 degrees West 1172 feet to an iron stake; thence South 87 degrees East 432 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 3 degrees West 967 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 12 degrees East 235 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 20 degrees 15 minutes East 435 feet to a point in the center line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad track, a corner; thence South 7 degrees West 700 feet to a point in the center of the Bethel-Robersonville road; thence continuing the same course South 7 degrees West 1736 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 8 degrees 30 minutes West 296 feet to an iron stake on the South side of the Flat Swamp road; thence continuing same course South 8 degrees 30 minutes West 558.6 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 6 degrees 30 minutes West 176.5 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence North 80 degrees West 710 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence South 4 degrees 30 minutes West 140 feet to an iron stake, a corner; thence North 80 degrees West 390 feet to a stake on the West side of the Bethel-Greenville road, a corner; thence with the West side of said road North 4 degrees 30 minutes East 140 feet to the point of BEGINNING."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 17th day of May, 1961.