NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 135

HOUSE BILL 110

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 380 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION 1915, AS AMENDED, CHANGING AND ADDING TO CERTAIN WARD LINES OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, AND VALIDATING BOND ELECTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. There shall be added to First Ward in the City of Sanford as set out in Chapter 158, Session Laws of 1947, and as amended by Chapter 204, Session Laws of 1961, the following territory:

Beginning at an iron stake, control corner at power line pole at the southern corner of the present city limits of the City of Sanford, and running thence North 54 degrees West 300 feet to a point in the center of Buffalo Creek, commonly known as Big Buffalo Creek; running thence northwestwardly as the courses and meanders of said Buffalo Creek, 2240 feet to a stake in the eastern right of way line of U. S. Highway #1, commonly known as the bypass; thence along the eastern line of said Highway known as U. S. Highway #1 bypass, North 19 degrees 20 minutes East 1466 feet to a stake in said right of way line; thence continuing as the eastern right of way line of said U. S. Highway #1 bypass North 15 degrees 45 minutes East 1056 feet to a stake; thence continuing as the eastern right of way line of said U. S. Highway #1 bypass North 11 degrees East, crossing Spring Lane 1160 feet to a corner 200 feet North 11 degrees East from the center line of said Spring Lane; thence South 83 degrees East along a line approximately 200 feet North of the center line of said Spring Lane 1265 feet to a stake in the western city limits of the City of Sanford; thence with said city limits South 18 degrees 28 minutes West 210 feet to an iron axle, cedar pointers in the northeastern line of said Spring Lane; thence continuing with the present city limits of the City of Sanford crossing Spring Lane, Vance Street and, Brinn Drive, South 3 degrees West 1854.5 feet to an iron stake; thence continuing with the present city limits South 67 degrees 30 minutes West 36 feet to Dry Creek; thence continuing as said city limits North 17 degrees 36 minutes West 100 feet and 5 inches to a corner; thence continuing with said city limits South 67 degrees 30 minutes West 77 feet to a Dry Creek, thence in a northern direction as said Dry Creek and with said city limits 125 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits North 66 degrees 36 minutes East 95 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits North 17 degrees 36 minutes West 125 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits South 66 degrees 36 minutes West 285 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits South 22 degrees 44 minutes East 150 feet; thence as the city limits South 67 degrees 16 minutes West 247.5 feet; thence South 16 degrees 45 minutes East as the city limits 199 feet to a stake; thence South 67 degrees 30 minutes West as the city limits 417.5 feet to a stake; thence as the city limits South 16 degrees 45 minutes East 2607 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits South 72 degrees 45 minutes West 130 feet to a stake; thence continuing as said city limits South 18 degrees 23 minutes West 174.6 feet to the point of beginning.

Sec. 2. The registration of electors residing in the territory described in the preceding Section who registered and voted in First Ward at a bond election held in the City of Sanford on the 22nd day of January, 1963, is hereby validated, and said electors shall be deemed properly registered in said ward in future elections without a new registration.

Sec. 3. The bond election held in the City of Sanford on the 22nd day of January, 1963, upon the question of authorizing the sum of four hundred fifty-five thousand dollars ($455,000) of bonds to finance the improvement of the water supply system, having received 881 votes for said bonds and 365 votes against, or a majority in favor of said bonds; and also authorizing the sum of two hundred eighty-five thousand dollars ($285,000) of bonds to finance the improvement of the sanitary sewer system of said city, having received 883 votes for said bonds and 366 votes against, or a majority in favor of said bonds; and also authorizing the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of bonds to finance the acquisition of the airport near the city limits of the City of Sanford, having received 658 votes for said bonds and 561 votes against, or a majority in favor of said bonds, as appears from official returns of the votes cast at said election by the registrars and judges thereof, and as approved by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Sanford upon a canvass of the votes cast in said bond election, be and the same is hereby validated, approved and confirmed.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 2nd day of April, 1963.