NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 353
HOUSE BILL 796

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF HAMLET TO CONVEY TO AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 49, INC., A CERTAIN LOT OF LAND LYING ON FIRST STREET OR BOYD'S LAKE ROAD ADJOINING THE PROPERTY THEY PURCHASED FROM THE CITY OF HAMLET IN 1963, FOR THE PURPOSES OF LITTLE BOYS' LEAGUE PLAYGROUND AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, WITH REVERTER CONDITION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The City of Hamlet is hereby authorized and empowered to convey to American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, a certain lot of land located on First Street, or Boyd's Lake Road, and adjacent to the lot purchased by the American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, in 1963, said property being located near Hamlet in Marks Creek Township, Richmond County, North Carolina, which lot is described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron stake, the eastern corner of the property conveyed by the City of Hamlet to American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, as a little boys' league playground and running thence South 42-20 West 350 feet to an iron stake, the southernmost corner of the tract of land conveyed to American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, in 1963; thence South 47-40 East 200 feet to an iron stake; thence North 42-20 East 350 feet to an iron stake; thence North 47-40 West 200 feet to the point of beginning, for the purposes of enabling said American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, to conduct a little boys' baseball league and other recreational activities.
Sec. 2. Upon approval by the City Council of the City of Hamlet, the Mayor and the City Clerk of the City of Hamlet are authorized and empowered to execute a deed to said American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, but such deed shall carry a provision that if said American Legion Post No. 49, Incorporated, shall fail to use the property for the purposes named herein, or for similar recreational purposes, then the title to this property shall revert to the City of Hamlet and any deed executed under this act shall carry provisions to this effect.
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 7th day of May, 1973.