NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 964

HOUSE BILL 1175

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAURINBURG TO CONVEY CERTAIN PROPERTY TO THE SCOTLAND COUNTY MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

 

WHEREAS, the City of Laurinburg owns a parcel of land consisting of .32 acres and situated in the City of Laurinburg; and

WHEREAS, such land is not now being used by the City of Laurinburg; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable that such property be used as a library for the colored citizens of Scotland County; and

WHEREAS, it is deemed that a conveyance of such property by the City of Laurinburg to the County Memorial Library for use as a colored library would work a benefit to all the citizens of the City of Laurinburg and to the citizens of Scotland County: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The City Council of the City of Laurinburg is hereby authorized and empowered to convey to the Scotland County Memorial Library for use as a colored library that portion of real estate described as follows, to wit:

A certain lot or parcel of land in Stewartsville Township, Scotland County, North Carolina, described as follows:

Situated in the City of Laurinburg, lying on the South side of the McGirt's Bridge Road, being a part of the colored cemetery property owned by the City of Laurinburg, and BEGINNING at a stake in the southern line of the McGirt's Bridge Road located South 70 degrees 23 minutes East 51 feet, measured along the southern line of the road, from the intersection of the southern line of the McGirt's Bridge Road with the northwestern line of the colored cemetery lot (as shown on a map entitled: "Town of Laurinburg, N. C., New Cemetery for Colored People", made by W. E. Matthews, Engineer, dated January 31, 1926), and runs thence with the McGirt's Bridge Road South 70 degrees 23 minutes East 237.4 feet to a corner in the southern line of the road; thence South 65 degrees 41 minutes West 170.9 feet to a stake, the southern corner of Lot No. 9 in Block E of the colored cemetery; thence North 24 degrees 19 minutes West 164.7 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 32/100th acre, more or less.

The lot of land above described is composed of all of Block E and a strip of land, 20 feet in width, lying between Block E and McGirt's Bridge Road, as shown on the plat of the colored cemetery made by W. E. Matthews, Engineer, dated January 31, 1926.

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 12th day of June, 1959.