NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1109

HOUSE BILL 1118

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMANENTLY EXEMPT GASTON COLLEGE AND CERTAIN PROPERTY OWNED BY GASTON COUNTY AND THE PRISON UNIT ADJACENT THERETO FROM ANNEXATION BY ANY MUNICIPALITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any municipality to annex the following described territory which is located in Gaston County a short distance West of the present corporate limits of the Town of Dallas: Lying and being in Dallas Township on the westerly side of U. S. Highway 321 and being more fully described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point on the westerly margin of U. S. Highway 321 at the intersection of the paved portion of said highway with the southeasterly corner of the property owned by the Board of Trustees of Gaston College that fronts on U. S. Highway 321, and runs thence North 44 degrees 43 minutes West approximately 210 feet to a stake in the northerly line of the C. L. Hoffman property (now or formerly, see deed recorded in Book 168 at Page 338 of the Gaston County Registry); thence with the northerly margin of the C. L. Hoffman property North 77 degrees 00 minutes West 185.61 feet to an old iron, formerly a corner of the Dora Rhodes Carpenter and A. D. Paysour property; thence North 77 degrees 00 minutes West 389.78 feet to a stake; thence South 14 degrees 29 minutes West 1132.48 feet to a stone; thence South 67 degrees 38 minutes East 412.33 feet to a iron in the southerly margin of the C. L. Hoffman property; thence with the western margin of property owned by Our Saviour Lutheran Church South 14 degrees 17 minutes West 867.36 feet to a concrete monument, southwestern corner of the Lutheran Church property; thence South 14 degrees 24 minutes West 211.4 feet to a concrete monument, corner of Duke Power Company property; thence North 68 degrees 47 minutes West 422.36 feet to a concrete monument; thence with the western margin of property owned by Duke Power Company and Superior Stone Company South 14 degrees 55 minutes West 1059.74 feet to a stone marker marked "H"; thence North 2 degrees 07 minutes West 297.06 feet to an iron stake in the northerly margin of the Superior Stone Company property; thence with the northerly margin of the Superior Stone Company property South 84 degrees 20 minutes West 379.5 feet to an iron; thence South 39 degrees 02 minutes West 414.7 feet to an iron in the northern margin of the Superior Stone Company property; thence North 88 degrees 34 minutes West 481.5 feet to a stone in the eastern margin of property now or formerly owned by H. R. Paysour; thence North 21 degrees 00 minutes West 495.3 feet with the easterly margin of H. R. Paysour property to a stone, the southeasterly corner of Rhyne property; thence North 9 degrees 31 minutes West 1886.43 feet to a stake in the southerly margin of property owned by Gaston County; thence South 62 degrees 00 minutes West with the southerly margin of Gaston County property approximately 230 feet to a stake in the northern margin to property now or formerly known as Mary Rhyne; thence North 76 degrees 00 minutes West 297 feet to another stake in the northerly margin of Mary Rhyne property; thence North 74 degrees West 1390 feet to a stake, southwestern corner of property owned by Gaston County; thence North 22 degrees 30 minutes East 1237.5 feet to a stake, corner of Gaston County property; thence South 76 degrees 30 minutes East approximately 250 feet to a stake in the western margin of Gaston County property (reference is made to that deed recorded in Deed Book 9 at Page 443 in the office of the Register of Deeds in Gaston County); thence North 29 degrees East 1353 feet to the southerly edge of the pavement of N. C. Highway No. 277; thence in an easterly direction with the southern margin of the pavement of N. C. Highway No. 277 to the northeastern corner of property owned by the State of North Carolina, on which the North Carolina Prison Farm is located, a plat of said State property being recorded in Plat Book 4 at Page 8 in the office of the Register of Deeds in Gaston County; reference to which is hereby made; thence South 10 degrees West 1954 feet with the westerly margin of Lewis Carpenter and P. A. Rhyne property to a stake in the northerly margin of property now owned by the Board of Trustees of Gaston College; thence with the northerly margin of said college property North 62 degrees 51 minutes East approximately 300 feet to a stake, southeastern corner of P. A. Rhyne property; thence with the eastern margin of the P. A. Rhyne property North 13 degrees 01 minute East 1196 feet to a stake southwestern corner of property now or formerly owned by D. J. Wallace (reference is made to that deed recorded in Book 422 at Page 602 in the Gaston County Registry); thence North 83 degrees 07 minutes East 730.24 feet to a stake in the southern margin of D. J. Wallace property; thence South 17 degrees 34 minutes East 150 feet to a stake; thence North 83 degrees 07 minutes East 270 feet to an old iron; thence North 83 degrees 07 minutes East 210.0 feet to a stake, formerly a common corner of D. J. Wallace and Dora Rhodes Carpenter property; thence North 1 degree 17 minutes East 238.07 feet to a stake in the eastern margin of Moore property (now or formerly); thence South 88 degrees 16 minutes East approximately 38 feet to the western margin of the paved portion of U. S. Highway 321; thence with the western margin of the paved portion of U. S. Highway 321 in a southerly direction 1695 feet, more or less, to the beginning, and containing properties owned by the Board of Trustees of Gaston College, Gaston County, and the State of North Carolina. The foregoing description was taken from a plat prepared by Findlay, Withers, and McConnaughey, Inc., Registered Surveyors, entitled "Property of Carpenter and Wallace" dated January 1964, and another plat prepared by Findlay, Withers, and McConnaughey, Inc., Registered Surveyors, Inc., entitled "Property of A. Donald Paysour and wife, Evelyn C. Paysour", dated December 1962, and a tax may be on file in the office of the Gaston County Tax Collector.

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 16th day of June, 1965.