NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 81

SENATE BILL 102

 

 

AN ACT TO REVISE THE DIVISION LINE BETWEEN NEWTON AND CONOVER FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

WHEREAS, the City of Newton and the Town of Conover have changed the boundaries of their corporate limits by annexation; and

WHEREAS, the division line between the said two communities for purposes of assignment of students to the Conover Elementary School and the Thornton Elementary School has thereby been changed necessitating a re-definition and revision of the division line to conform therewith; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that a private bill be introduced and passed in the General Assembly of North Carolina to effectuate such revision: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Chapter 200 of the Private Laws of North Carolina Session of 1935, as amended, be further amended by deleting subparagraph "(b)" and that the following be enacted in lieu thereof and constitute the division line between Newton and Conover for purposes of the election of members of the Board of Education:

"(b)      For the purpose of conducting the elections herein provided for, the division and boundary line separating the said Old Conover Special School Tax District and the Old Newton Graded School District is hereby established and re-defined as follows:

BEGINNING at the intersection of the Newton School District-Startown School District line and the St. Pauls Church-Conover paved road North of Queen's Store, now St. Pauls Grocery, as shown on a map designated as 'Map 50N', in the office of the Tax Supervisor of Catawba County, and runs thence southeastward crossing the lands of Arthur Little, Charlie B. Bolick, Ira E. Bolick and Percy C. Little, to a corner of Percy C. Little where his line intersects Hildebran Creek West of U. S. Highway No. 321 By-pass and in the western corporate limit line of the City of Newton; thence up said branch in a northerly direction as it meanders with the western boundary of the corporate limits of the City of Newton to the point of intersection with a branch, a corner of the corporate limits of the City of Newton; thence continuing with the western boundary of the corporate limits of the City of Newton North 17 degrees 41 minutes East 735 feet to a concrete monument, a corner of the corporate limits of the City of Newton; thence continuing with the western boundary of the corporate limits of the City of Newton North 17 degrees 45 minutes East 1750 feet to a concrete monument, the northwestern corner of the corporate limits of the City of Newton; thence following the northern boundary of the corporate limits of the City of Newton crossing U. S. Highway No. 321 and N. C. State Highway No. 16 to the point of intersection of the northern corporate limit line of the City of Newton with the Southern Railroad main line track, a corner of the corporate limits of the Town of Conover thence southward with the Southern Railroad main line track to another common corner of the corporate limits of the City of Newton and the Town of Conover; thence with the common boundary and division line between the Town of Conover and the City of Newton in an easterly direction as it meanders its various courses and distances to the point of intersection with the West branch of McLins Creek; thence down said branch of McLins Creek as it meanders along the corporate limits of the Town of Conover to a corner in McLins Creek corner of the corporate limits of the Town of Conover; thence leaving the creek and following the boundary of the corporate limits of the Town of Conover its various courses and distances eastward to the southeast corner of the Thornburg-Surrate Subdivision as shown on plat recorded in Book of Plats 11, page 70, a Catawba County Registry; thence southeastward a distance 2275 feet to the common corner of Lee Thornburg, Dolan McCombs and H. L. Arndt in the East branch of McLins Creek in a northerly direction as it meanders to the point of intersection of the Newton-Conover School District line with Secondary Road No. 1739 (1st Street, S. E. Extension). All voters residing North of the foregoing line shall vote in the Conover District all voters residing South of the foregoing line shall vote in the Newton District."

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 23rd day of March, 1967.