NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 997

SENATE BILL 798

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 505 OF THE 1969 SESSION LAWS TO CORRECT THE REDEFINING OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF BETHEL IN PITT COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 450 of the 1961 Session Laws and Chapter 505 of the 1969 Session Laws are hereby amended by deleting the metes and bounds description contained therein, and inserting in lieu thereof a new description of the corporate limits of the Town of Bethel to read as follows:

Beginning at a stake in western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway #11, said stake being located 150 feet northwardly from the intersection of the northern right-of-way line of Harper Drive with the western right-of-way line of N.C. Highway #11; thence with the western line of N.C. Highway #11; S. 2 degrees 00 minutes W., 300 feet; thence N. 81 degrees 30 minutes E., 210 feet to an iron stake by a fence; thence S. 3 degrees W., 1.172 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 87 degrees E., 432 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 3 degrees W., 967 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 12 degrees E., 235 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 20 degrees 15 minutes E., 453 feet to a point in the center line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad track; thence S. 7 degrees W., 700 feet to a point in the center of the Bethel-Robersonville road; thence continuing S. 7 degrees W., 1,736 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 8 degrees 30 minutes W., 296 feet to an iron stake on the south side of the Flat Swamp road; thence continuing S. 8 degrees 30 minutes W., 558.6 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 6 degrees 30 minutes W., 176.5 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 8 degrees 30 minutes W., 461.27 to the center of the VEPCO primary power transmission line; thence with the center of the VEPCO power line S. 78 degrees 27 minutes W., 2,497.15 feet to a hedgerow dividing the Bount and Carson properties; thence with the Bount-Carson line N. 3 degrees 35 minutes E., 880.7 to the center of N.C. Secondary Road No. 1430; thence with said road N. 74 degrees 52 minutes W., 165.0 feet; thence N. 29 degrees 12 minutes W., 1,718.45 feet; thence parallel and 150 feet westerly from the western right-of-way line of Norfolk Street N. 31 degrees 54 minutes E., 586.24 feet; thence N. 25 degrees 30 minutes W., 563.41 feet; thence N. 24 degrees 10 minutes W., 629 feet crossing U.S. Highway #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 ditch N. 7 degrees 30 minutes W., 495 feet to an iron stake; thence N. 72 degrees E., 715 feet; thence parallel and 150 feet westerly from the western right-of-way line of Robinson Street N. 6 degrees 30 minutes E., 2,400 feet more or less to the southern right-of-way line of Hammond Ave.; thence with the southern line of Hammond Ave., S. 84 degrees 00 minutes E., 720 feet more or less to the western right-of-way line of West Lane; thence with the western right-of-way line of West Lane N. 2 degrees 00 minutes E., 200 feet; thence S. 84 degrees 00 minutes E., 550 feet; thence N. 2 degrees 00 minutes E., 400 feet; thence S. 87 degrees 45 minutes E., 1,108 feet to the beginning.

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

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1969.