NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 306

HOUSE BILL 405

 

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The corporate limits of the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, are hereby extended so that they shall embrace within the corporate limits the following additional territory:

"BEGINNING at a point in existing city limit line, said point being at the intersection of Pigeon House Branch and Crabtree Creek; thence along the existing city limit line as follows: In a generally westerly direction with the center line of Pigeon House Branch to its point of intersection with a line 800 feet long and perpendicular to the eastern boundary line of Louisburg Road; thence in a southwesterly direction along a line parallel to and 800 feet from the eastern boundary line of Louisburg Road to a point in the northern boundary line of the Woodcrest Subdivision as shown on plat entitled Woodcrest Raleigh, North Carolina', dated October, 1955, prepared by Herndon Edgerton, Engineer; thence North 7 degrees 00 minutes West 294.3 feet to a point; thence South 50 degrees 23 minutes West 737.7 feet to a point; thence South 63 degrees 42 minutes West 30 feet to the center line of Fenton Street; thence along the center line of Fenton Street South 23 degrees East 35.3 feet; thence South 58 degrees 30 minutes West 284.6 feet to a point; thence South 56 degrees 03 minutes West 124.2 feet to a point; thence South 33 degrees 39 minutes West 219.2 feet to a point, said point being in the rear property line of lots facing Dennis Avenue on the North side and said point also being the southeast corner of the aforementioned Woodcrest Subdivision; thence in a northwesterly direction along the rear of lot lines of lots on the North side of Dennis Avenue; a distance of approximately 305 feet to its point of intersection with a line 400 feet long and perpendicular to the eastern boundary line of Louisburg Road; thence in a northeasterly direction a distance of 1,510 feet, more or less, along a line 400.0 feet East of and parallel to the eastern right of way line of Louisburg Road to a point; thence in a westerly direction along the northern line of the property of Andrew J. Proescher and wife, Gladys B. Proescher, approximately 425 feet to a point; thence in a southeasterly direction along the eastern right of way line of Louisburg Road to a point in the dividing line between Tracts 5 and 6 of the W. F. Taylor Estate; thence in a northwesterly direction along the dividing line between Tracts 5 and 6 of the W. F. Taylor Property (a distance of 630 feet, more or less)    to a point, said point being the northwest corner of the property of Seby B. Jones and wife, Christina R. Jones; thence in a southeasterly direction along the southern line of the Old Louisburg Road, a distance of 925 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a northwesterly direction to a point on the northwestern side of Seaboard Airline Railroad, said point being located along a line 300 feet West of and perpendicular to the center line of the Seaboard Railroad tracks; thence in a northerly direction along a line 300 feet West of and parallel to the Seaboard Railroad tracks to its intersection with the center line of Crabtree Creek, all descriptions being along the present city limit line; thence in an easterly and southerly direction along the center line of Crabtree Creek as it meanders to a point in the present city limit line, said point being at the intersection of the center line of Pigeon House Branch, the point of beginning; and being all of the property on both sides of the Old Louisburg Road (U. S. Highway No. 1, North) lying between the northeast city limit line of the City of Raleigh and Crabtree Creek."

Sec. 2. The owners of property within the area described herein shall list and pay ad valorem taxes, both real and personal, to the City of Raleigh for the year beginning January 1, 1960.

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

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective as of January 1, 1960.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of April, 1959.