NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 257
HOUSE BILL 698

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF KENANSVILLE IN DUPLIN COUNTY TO SELL OR LEASE A TRACT OF LAND BY PRIVATE NEGOTIATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Town of Kenansville in Duplin County is hereby authorized to sell or lease for adequate consideration the tract of land described in Section 2 to any purchaser or lessee through private negotiation for the purpose of industrial development.
Sec. 2. The tract of land is described as follows:
"BEGINNING at a stake on the Kenansville and Coopers Mill Road, corner of Lot No. 5 in the division of the Spicer Lands lying North of Grove Swamp, and runs with the line of Lot No. 5, North 76 1/2 degrees East 2220 feet to a stake; thence North 37 1/2 degrees West 840 feet to a stake in the line between Lots No. 3 and 4 in said division of the Spicer Lands; thence with said line between lots No. 3 and 4, South 75 degrees West 2190 feet to a stake in the said Kenansville and Coopers Mill Road; thence with said Road South 39 degrees East 346 feet to the beginning containing 40 acres, more or less, and being a part of Lot No. 4 in the division of the Spicer lands, aforesaid as described in a deed from Vance Cottle and wife, Margie A. Cottle to Ruby Gooding Newton and recorded in Book 406, Page 3, Duplin County Registry, and further being the same land described in a deed, dated October 1, 1948, from Ruby G. Newton and husband, Enoch A. Newton, to Isham Bell and wife, Daisy M. Bell, as recorded in Book 450, Page 169, Duplin County Registry, and also being the same land described in a correction deed, dated December 7, 1959, from Ruby G. Newton and husband, Enoch A. Newton, to Isham Bell and wife, Daisy M. Bell, as recorded in Book 521, Page 291, Duplin County Registry, to which reference is hereby had."
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of April, 1977.