NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 455

HOUSE BILL 538

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 225, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1927, TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT IN CARTERET COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 225, Private Laws of 1927, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The corporate limits of the Town of Newport, in Carteret County, are hereby extended to include and embrace the following described areas:

"BEGINNING at a point in the center of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad track where the same is intersected by the North line of the town limits of Newport; runs thence South 58 degrees West, along the present line of the town limits, 1870 feet to a point in the old J. L. Bell line; thence North 4 degrees 27 minutes East, (North 0 degrees 20 minutes West true meridian), along the old J. L. Bell line, 1963.16 feet to a point in the old W. S. Bell line, it being also the North line of the W. J. B. Shull tract; thence North 54 degrees East to the center of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad track; and thence South 29 degrees 04 minutes East, true meridian, along the center of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad track to the point of BEGINNING.

"BEGINNING at a point in the East line of the right-of-way of United States Highway 70 where the same is intersected by the North line of the town limits of Newport; runs thence North 1 degree West, along the East line of the right-of-way of United States Highway 70, 332 feet to a point, the corner of the Newport Missionary Baptist Church lot; thence South 79 degrees 27 minutes East, along the North line of the Newport Missionary Baptist Church lot, 188 feet to a point; thence South 0 degrees 30 minutes East, along the East line of the Newport Missionary Baptist Church lot, 240 feet to the North line of McCain Avenue; thence North 89 degrees 25 minutes East, along the North line of McCain Avenue, 288 feet to a point; and South 74 degrees 55 minutes East, continuing along the North line of McCain Avenue, 370 feet to the West line of Church Street, thence South 14 degrees 40 minutes West, along the West line of Church Street, 60 feet to the town line ditch, the present town line; thence North 74 degrees 55 minutes West, along the present town line, 351 feet; and thence South 89 degrees 25 minutes West, continuing along the present town line, 473 feet to the East line of United States Highway 70, 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 6th day of May, 1959.