NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1202

SENATE BILL 953

 

 

AN ACT TO CONFIRM CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS AND TO RATIFY ACTIONS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF MORRISVILLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The actions of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Morrisville taken to annex the following described areas are hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed, and the corporate limits of the Town of Morrisville are hereby declared to include such areas:

(a)   First Tract

All that certain tract of land lying in Wake County on the western side of N.C. Highway No. 54 and on the eastern side of the Southern Railway property and belonging, now or formerly, to W. A. Green according to a survey by C. R. Edgerton in April 1964, and being more particularly described according to that survey, as follows:

Beginning at an iron stake in the western margin of N.C. Hwy. 54, said point being the southeastern corner of the tract owned by L. Edward Gallup and also located S 68° 15' W 68.18 feet from the northwest corner of lot no. 1 in the Green Woods Subdivision as shown on the map recorded in Map Book 1975, Vol. II, Page 234 of the Wake County Registry, and runs thence S 68° 15' W 518.7 feet to an iron stake in the eastern margin of the Southern Railway Company property; then with said eastern margin of the railway property, parallel to and 100.0 feet from the centerline of the track, S 13° 59' E 224.8 feet to a point; thence S 17° 39' E 125.45 feet to a point; thence S 19° 32' E 97.73 feet to an iron stake, a corner of the E. G. Herndon estate; thence leaving the railway company property and running with the said Herndon line, N 84° 00' E 418.0 feet to an iron stake in the western margin of N.C. Hwy. 54; thence with said margin of the highway, N 02° 06' W 261.6 feet to a point; thence N 85° 57' W 106.65 feet to a point; thence N 09° 47' W 105.32 feet to a point; thence N 13° 37' W 111.1 feet to the point of beginning, containing 5.76 acres.

(b)   Second Tract

All that tract of land lying in Wake County on the eastern side of N.C. Hwy. 54 and comprised of two parcels, one parcel being Green Woods Subdivision as shown in Book of Maps 1975, Vol. II, Page 234, and the other parcel being that shown on a map by Boney & Newcomb dated April 1971, containing 31.9 acres and entitled "Addition to Corporate Limits", Town of Morrisville. The Second Tract is more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at an iron stake in the eastern margin of N.C. Highway No. 54, said point being the northwest corner of Green Woods Subdivision, and running thence with the line between said subdivision and the property of Stella C. Green, N 80° 03' 38" E 202.71 feet; thence S 88° 00' 00" E 394.07 feet; thence S 89° 03' 45" E 345.65 feet; thence N 30° 39' 19" W 52.59 feet; thence N 46° 51' 51" W 86.32 feet; thence N 09° 36' 51" W 103.81 feet; thence N 24° 58' 11" E ' 87.69 feet; thence N 49° 33' 11" W 155.74 feet; thence N 08° 34' 06" W 64.81 feet; thence N 35° 49' 36" W 140.96 feet; thence N 17° 50' 36" W 41.76 feet to a point in the line of Mobile City; thence with the line of the Mobile City property, S 81° 06' 54" E 1094.78 feet to a concrete monument; thence S 37° 30' 09" E 1797.81 feet to a concrete monument in the northern margin of the Airport Road (SR No. 1002); thence with said road margin S 46° 00' 25" W 342.74 to the corner of Henry M. Hooks' property; thence with his line, N 28° 48' 09" W 300.25 feet to an iron stake; thence S 46° 00' 31" W 149.90 feet to an iron stake in the line of Willie H. Bishop; thence with said line, N 29° 48' 28" W 442.79 feet to an iron stake; thence N 29° 41' 43" W 207.29 feet to Bishop's northeast corner; thence S 45° 49' 21" W 133.88 feet to an iron stake, the corner between said Bishop and Richard N. Wells; thence with Wells' line S 44° 49' 25" W 73.85 feet to an iron stake, the corner of the 31.9 acre parcel mentioned above; thence with the line of said parcel and Richard N. Wells, S 39° 59' W 209.33 feet to an old angle iron; thence S 34° 59' E 376.51 feet to an iron pipe, Wilba Brown's corner; thence with Brown's line S 76° 32' W 396.70 feet to an iron pipe; thence S 19° 51' E 33.30 feet to an iron pipe, Emmett Hollway's corner; thence as Hollway's line S 15° 23' W 361.04 feet to an iron pipe, Luther G. Burton's corner with Hollway and Julia W. Cotten; thence with the Cotten line, S 73° 31' W 230.72 feet to a marked tree; thence S 70° 34' W 431.57 feet to an iron pipe; thence S 70° 38' W 185.27 feet to an iron pipe, the corner between Julia W. Cotten and Peggy C. Ridout in the line of the present Town limits; thence with said Town limits, N 15° 03' W 1198.22 feet to a railroad cross tie; thence S 68° 51' W 292.15 feet to an iron pipe in the eastern margin of N.C. Hwy. 54; thence with the eastern margin of the highway, N 01° 34' W 203.5 feet to an iron pipe, the Southwest corner of Green Woods Subdivision; thence continuing with Hwy. 54, N 02° 55' 15" W 100.46 feet; thence N 07° 43' 54" W 177.95 feet; thence N 09° 56' 22" W 114.59 feet to the point of beginning containing 70.84 acres.

Sec. 2. (a)  Any and all official acts, actions, expenditures and levies of taxes or assessments by the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the Town of Morrisville since March 7, 1975, with respect to or affecting the territory and properties described in Section 1(a) of this act and since August 4, 1970, with respect to or affecting the territory and properties described in Section 1(b) of this act, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.

(b)       Any and all official votes, acts, and actions of any member of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Morrisville who has resided or who resides in any of the territory described in Section 1 of this act are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.

(c)       The November 1973 election of H. C. Sears, III; the November 1975 election of Harry D. Dewey and Emma G. Walton; and the November 1977 election of Emma G. Walton to the Town Board by the qualified voters of the Town of Morrisville are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.