NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 716

HOUSE BILL 1013

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 200 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1935, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF TRUSTEES OF THE NEWTON-CONOVER CITY ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 200 of the Private Laws of North Carolina, Session 1935, is hereby amended by adding a new Section, to be numbered "Section 1½", immediately following the present Section 1, to read as follows:

"Sec. 1½. (a) Qualified voters residing in the area hereinbefore defined as "Old Conover Special School Tax District" shall vote for the Trustees residing in that district only and the qualified voters residing in the area hereinbefore defined as the "Old Newton Graded School District" shall vote for the Trustees residing in that district only, so that the Conover representatives shall be elected exclusively by voters and residents of the Conover district and the Newton representatives shall be elected exclusively by voters and residents of the Newton district. At each election herein provided for, the Town of Conover shall provide a separate ballot to be used in the election of Trustees of the School Unit containing the names of the Conover candidates only and the City of Newton shall provide a separate ballot to be used in the election of Trustees of the School Unit containing the names of the Newton candidates only.

"(b)      For the purposes of conducting the elections herein provided for, the division and boundary line separating the said Old Conover Special School Tax District and the Old Newton Graded School District is hereby established and re-defined as follows: BEGINNING at the intersection of the Newton School District line and the Startown School District line in the St. Pauls Church Road West of Newton near Queens Store and as shown on a map designated as "Map 50N" in the office of the Tax Supervisor of Catawba County, and runs thence southeastward crossing the lands of Arthur Little and Charlie Bryon Bolick and Ira Edgar Bolick to the common corner of Ira Edgar Bolick, Oliver Glenn Bolick and Percy C. Little; thence continuing southeastward across the land of Percy C. Little to his corner in the branch a short distance West of Westside Boulevard (Highway No. 321); thence eastward to the intersection of the said highway and a branch; thence northward with the highway, 654 feet to Earl Bost and O. G. Bolick's corner at the East side of the highway; thence with Earl Bost's and Charles Albert Bollinger's lines, eastward 430.2 feet to Bollinger's and Bost's corner; thence eastward along Earl Bost's line to the common corner of Earl Bost and P. M. Dellinger in West 26th Street; thence eastward with West 26th Street to Highway No. 16 (North Main Avenue); thence South with North Main Avenue, to East 25th Street; thence with East 25th Street eastward to North College Avenue; thence southward with North College Avenue to the Southern Railroad track and the Newton corporate limits line; thence with the corporate limits line eastward to the northeast corner of the Newton corporate limits; thence with the corporate limits line southward to the intersection of the corporate limits with the South fork of McLins Creek; thence with said creek eastward to the intersection of the creek and the Southern Railroad and at the Pond Trestle. All voters residing North of the foregoing line shall vote in the Conover district and all voters residing South of the foregoing line shall vote in the Newton district."

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 on July 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1961.