NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 796

SENATE BILL 480

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY TO CONVEY PROPERTY TO THE CITY OF WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF WILMINGTON TO CONVEY CERTAIN PROPERTY IN CONSIDERATION THEREOF.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of New Hanover County is hereby empowered and authorized to convey to the City of Wilmington, upon such terms and conditions as the Board may determine, the following described tract of land to be used as a sewage disposal site:

A certain tract of land in Cape Fear Township, New Hanover County, North Carolina, lying just West of Smith Creek and North of Twenty-third Street and being more particularly described as follows:

"Beginning at a point in the western line of Twenty-third Street Extension (100.0 feet in width) that is opposite the northern abutment of the Smith Creek Bridge; running thence North 5 degrees 19 minutes East with said line of said road 920.95 feet to the beginning of a curve to the West; thence northwardly with said line of said road as it curves to the West to a point that is North 2 degrees 40½ minutes East 255.86 feet from the preceding point; thence northwardly with said line of said road as it curves to a point that is North 0 degrees 52 minutes West 197.33 feet from the preceding point; thence northwardly with said line of said road as it curves to a point that is North 4 degrees 32½ minutes West 295.59 feet from the preceding point; thence northwardly with said line of said road as it curves to a point that is North 9 degrees 09½ minutes West 296.44 feet from the preceding point; thence northwardly with said line of said road as it curves to a point that is North 13 degrees 24½ minutes West 275.78 feet from the preceding point; thence North 87 degrees 45 minutes West 550.0 feet; thence south 34 degrees 15 minutes West 400.0 feet; thence about South 1 degree 15 minutes West about 1760 feet to a point where the eastern edge of a branch intersects the northern edge of Smith Creek; thence eastwardly with the northern edge of Smith Creek about 950 feet to a point in the western line of said road; thence North 5 degrees 19 minutes East with said line of said road about 85 feet to the point of beginning; the same containing 44.5 acres, more or less.

"Together with all riparian rights to the waters of Smith Creek."

Sec. 2. The City of Wilmington is hereby empowered and authorized, in consideration of the tract of land hereinabove described, to quitclaim, sell and convey to New Hanover County, all of its rights, title, interest and estate which the City of Wilmington has in real, personal or mixed properties presently belonging to the James Walker Memorial Hospital or its Board of Managers; also, to assume control of and continue to operate refuse disposal operations presently conducted by the County of New Hanover.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 11th day of June, 1963.