AN ACT removing certain described property from the corporate limits of the city of roanoke rapids and from the corporate limits of the city of lumberton.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The following described property is removed from the corporate limits of the City of Roanoke Rapids:
Being a strip of land 70 (seventy) feet in approximately 656± feet east of the eastern right‑of‑way line of N.C.S.R. 1710 and approximately 900± feet northeast of the intersection of N.C.S.R. 1734 and N.C.S.R. 1710 in Weldon Township, Halifax County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at an existing iron pipe found, the southeast corner of a 13.892 acre tract of land shown on a drawing titled "Plat Showing Property Being Conveyed to Duquesne Energy, Inc. from Rightmeyer Machine Rentals, Inc.", recorded at Plat Cabinet 6, Page 22‑T of the Halifax County Registry. Said point of beginning having North Carolina Grid (N.A.D. 83) coordinates of N(Y) = 980,659.58 feet and E(X) = 2,405,954.45 feet and said point of beginning being further located S 08º 14' 55" W 100.16 feet with and along the eastern right‑of‑way line of N.C.S.R. 1710 and S 89º 42' 48" E ‑ 690.50 feet from an existing concrete monument found at the intersection of the northern right‑of‑way line of N.C.S.R. 1734 and the eastern right‑of‑way line of N.C.S.R. 1710; thence from the point of beginning so located, N 89º 42' 48" W ‑ 71.32 feet to a point; thence N 11º 20' 22" E ‑ 967.45 feet to a point; thence S 89º 47' 37" E ‑ 71.34 feet to a point; thence S 11º 20' 22" W ‑ 967.55 feet to the point and place of beginning containing 67,723 square feet (1.555 acres) plus or minus.
SECTION 2.  The following described property is removed from the corporate limits of the City of Lumberton:
Lying and being in Back Swamp Township, Robeson County, North Carolina, about 3.55 miles southwest of the center of the City of Lumberton, about 0.2 miles northeast of the intersection of N.C. Highway No. 41 with Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316), on the northeast side of and adjoining Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316), and on the southeast side of and adjoining Ledgen Road (Secondary Road No. 2334). This parcel is bounded on the southwest by Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316), on the northwest by Ledgen Road (Secondary Road No. 2334), on all other sides by other lands of Robeson County, a body politic and corporate of the state of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the intersection of the northeastern right‑of‑way (75 feet from center) of Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316) with the southeastern right‑of‑way (30 feet from center) of Ledgen Road (Secondary Road No. 2334) ‑ this beginning point is positioned North 38 degrees 39 minutes 03 seconds 77.93 feet from an existing "MAG" masonry nail having N.C. NAD 83 grid coordinates of N ‑ 303,537.850 feet and E ‑ 1,983,651.583 feet; said beginning point is further identified as being located North 67 degrees 50 minutes 24 seconds West 803.10 feet from an existing iron rod at the present corporate limit angle point on the northeastern right‑of‑way line of Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316) ‑ and runs thence along the southeastern right‑of‑way (30 feet from center) of Ledgen Road (Secondary Road No. 2334), North 15 degrees 02 minutes 41 seconds East 405.42 feet to a point in said right‑of‑way line; thence to and along the southwestern edge of the masonry wall of the Robeson County Sheriff's Department building, South 67 degrees 56 minutes 14 seconds East 247.81 feet to a corner of said wall; thence continuing along the outside edge of a wall of said building, North 22 degrees 03 minutes 46 seconds East 45.33 feet to a corner of the wall of said building; thence along the outside edge of a wall of the Robeson County jail building, South 67 degrees 56 minutes 14 seconds East 23.17 feet to a corner of said wall; thence North 22 degrees 03 minutes 46 seconds East 30.03 feet to a corner of said wall; thence continuing along the outside wall of the Robeson County jail building, South 67 degrees 56 minutes 14 seconds East 230.00 feet to a point; thence as a new line parallel to and located 343.88 feet northwest of the present corporate limit line of the City of Lumberton, South 21 degrees 08 minutes 23 seconds West 478.58 feet to a point in the northeastern right‑of‑way (75 feet from center) of Sanchez Drive (Secondary Road No. 2316); thence along said right‑of‑way line, North 67 degrees 50 minutes 24 seconds West 459.16 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 4.87 acres as surveyed by George T. Paris and Associates, P.A., using NAD 83 grid meridian. This parcel is a portion of the lands conveyed to Robeson County, a body politic and corporate of the state of North Carolina, as recorded in Deed Book 687, page 865, Robeson County Registry.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 2003.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives