NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 533

HOUSE BILL 643

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF MURPHY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The corporate limits of the Town of Murphy are hereby extended to include the following described territory:

"BEGINNING on a point in the center of the Hiwassee River and on the West boundary of the present corporate limits, said point bears South 68 degrees 30 minutes East 350 feet from the iron pipe corner on the summit of Hitchcock bluff and runs thence northward down the center of the Hiwassee River as it meanders an approximate distance of 900 feet to a point West of the North corner of the Sewage Disposal Plant property, as leased from U.S.F.S., and runs thence East approximately 200 feet to a metal marker, the North corner of the above property and runs thence South 44 degrees 00 minutes East, with the northeast boundary of said property, 472.5 feet to a metal marker, the East corner of the said Disposal Plant property then leaving said property and running thence South 9 degrees 33 minutes East approximately 934 feet to a metal number 360-3A on the Tennessee Valley Authority boundary, said marker being on the Murphy corporate limit line and runs thence northwest, with the present corporate limits down the center line of the ridge as it meanders approximately 1000 feet to a point where an iron pipe stood on the lower bank of old road leading from Murphy to Granview, and runs thence North 46 degrees 30 minutes West continuing with the present corporate limits 102 feet to a point where an iron pipe stood, on the East bank of the Hiwassee River, a corner of present corporate limits and runs thence North 68 degrees 30 minutes West, with the present corporate limits, approximately 100 feet to a point in the center of Hiwassee River, the point of BEGINNING. Containing 15 acres more or less."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 13th day of May, 1965.