NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 54

SENATE BILL 29

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE MUNICIPAL LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LUMBERTON, IN ROBESON COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The municipal limits of Lumberton, in Robeson County, are hereby extended by incorporating within the said municipal limits the following described property.

"Beginning at a point in Gum Branch Canal in the corporate limit line of the City of Lumberton, N. C. and runs thence (leaving Gum Branch Canal) South 57 degrees and 19 minutes West (crossing N. C. Highway No. 41) 1189.1 feet to a stake on the South side of the old Marion Stage Road, thence along the South side of the old Marion Stage Road the following courses and distances: South 62 degrees and 24 minutes West 126.5 feet; South 68 degrees and 45 minutes West 510.5 feet; South 71 degrees and 10 minutes West 567.2 feet; South 66 degrees and 28 minutes West 623.0 feet and South 63 degrees and 06 minutes West 594.4 feet to a stake on the South side of the old Marion Stage Road opposite the southwest corner of the new high school site, thence crossing the old Marion Stage Road North 23 degrees and 15 minutes West 44.1 feet to an old iron stake, the southwest corner of the new high school site, thence with the West line of the new high school site North 23 degrees and 15 minutes West 1352.7 feet to an old iron stake the northwest corner of the high school site, thence with the North line of the new high school site North 66 degrees and 45 minutes East 1320.0 feet to an iron stake, the northeast corner of the high school site, thence with the East line of the high school site South 23 degrees and 15 minutes East 1207.2 feet to an iron stake in the East line of said school site, thence leaving the high school site and running North 67 degrees and 31 minutes East 1262.6 feet to an iron stake on the West bank of a ditch, thence North 58 degrees and 58 minutes East 156.5 feet to an iron stake, thence North 57 degrees and 37 minutes East 429.2 feet to an iron stake in the West edge of a ditch, thence with the West edge of the ditch North 42 degrees and 05 minutes West 110.0 feet to a stake in the West edge of the ditch, thence still with the West edge of the ditch North 10 degrees and 40 minutes East 102.3 feet to a point in Gum Branch Canal in the present corporate limit line of the City of Lumberton, N. C., thence with Gum Branch Canal and the present corporate limit line of the City of Lumberton, N. C. South 80 degrees and 08 minutes East 488.0 feet to the beginning. Bearings are magnetic as of Oct. 1963."

Sec. 2. From and after the effective date of this Act, the annexed territory, its citizens and property, shall be subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations in force in such municipality and shall be entitled to the same privileges and benefits as other parts of such municipality. The newly annexed territory shall be subject to municipal taxes levied for the fiscal year following the date of annexation.

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 9th day of March, 1965.