NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 251

HOUSE BILL 427

AN ACT TO REDEFINE AND EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, WASHINGTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The corporate limits of the Town of Plymouth in Washington County are hereby redefined and extended to include the following described territory:

BEGINNING at a point on Welch's Creek which is reached by extending the center line of Pine Street, located on the south edge of Little Richwood Subdivision, North 73 degrees West to a point on the North side of the track of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad right-of-way; thence running along said Atlantic Coastline Railroad right-of-way North 63 degrees 35 minutes East 1000 feet; thence North 73 degrees 30 minutes West 4092 feet to Welch's Creek. Running from beginning point South 73 degrees 30 minutes East 4092 feet to a point on the north side of the track on the Atlantic Coastline Railroad right-of-way; thence with the north side of and parallel with the track of said Atlantic Coastline Railroad right-of-way South 63 degrees 35 minutes West 1000 feet; thence South 73 degrees East 2720 feet through and with the center line of Pine Street of Little Richwood Subdivision to a point on the eastern side of Wilson Street extended; thence South 38 degrees East 525 feet to a point on the old Norfolk Southern Railway bed (now abandoned) where a ditch crosses same; thence with said ditch South 82 degrees East 389 feet; thence North 77 degrees East 165 minutes; thence North 57 1/2 degrees East 1226 feet; thence North 87 1/2 degrees East 1535 feet; thence North 75 degrees East 147 feet; thence North 85 degrees East 1490 feet; thence North 70 degrees East 181 minutes; thence North 85 degrees East 759 minutes to the run of Peacock Swamp; thence North 38 degrees East 838 minutes to a point located on the northeast edge of NCSR #1114 at the east edge of the swamp and highland of Peacock Swamp; thence northwardly, following the east edge of the swamp and the highland of Peacock Swamp or upper Conaby Creek to and across the Norfolk Southern Railway track at the point where the north edge of the right-of-way of said railroad is intersected by the east edge of the swamp and highland on the east side of Conaby Creek; thence with the north edge of said Norfolk Southern Railway right-of-way North 72 degrees 20 minutes East 5000 feet; thence North 73 degrees East 173 minutes; thence North 69 degrees East 200 minutes; thence North 62 degrees 15 minutes East 168 minutes to an iron marker in the north edge of the right-of-way of Norfolk Southern Railway Company; thence North 21 degrees 30 minutes West 1478 feet to an iron stake in the south edge of the right of way of NCSR #1300; thence North 27 degrees West 100 minutes to the southeast corner of Rebecca Spruill lot; thence with the east line of the Rebecca Spruill and Johnnie Johnson land North 27 degrees West 1546 minutes to an iron marker in the edge of Conaby Creek; thence up the run of Conaby Creek 1600 feet to an iron marker; thence North 19 degrees 45 minutes West 4540 feet to an iron marker in the south shore line of Roanoke River; thence up Roanoke River to the mouth of Welch's Creek; thence up Welch's Creek to the 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 April, 1969.