NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 718

HOUSE BILL 771

 

 

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF TRENT WOODS IN CRAVEN COUNTY, NORTH. CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That certain area of Craven County, North Carolina, described in Section 2 below is hereby incorporated under the name "Trent Woods" and the same is hereby created a body politic and corporate; and shall hereafter possess all of the corporate powers and be subject to all of the provisions contained in Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, except that it shall have no power to levy or collect taxes of any kind whatever.

Sec. 2. The boundaries and corporate limits of said Town of "Trent Woods" shall be as follows:

"Said tract or parcel is lying situate and being in No. 8 Township, Craven County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:

"BEGINNING at the southwestern corner on Trent River of the Fred Miles property on the North side of Trent River; running thence northwardly along the western line of the Fred Miles property, this line also being the eastern line of the subdivision known as 'Miles Away' to the center line of the Country Club Road; thence westwardly along the center line of the Country Club Road to a point opposite the southeastern corner of the subdivision known as 'Greenwood'; thence to and with the eastern line of 'Greenwood' and the western line of the property formerly owned by Dr. Earl S. Sloan to the northwestern corner of the said Sloan property, said corner also being the southwestern corner of Lot Number 9 in Block C according to the plan of that certain subdivision known as 'Highland Park', which said plan is recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Craven County; thence northwardly and westwardly with the western lines of Lots Numbers 9, 10, 11, and 12, and the southern line of Lot Number 13 in Block C of said 'Highland Park' to the eastern line of Forest Drive as indicated on said plan of 'Highland Park'; thence northwardly with the eastern line of Forest Drive to the southern line of U. S. Highway Number 17, thence westwardly with the southern line of U. S. Highway #17 to the northeastern corner of the Harris property (this point being in the center of a ditch) thence southwardly with the center line of said ditch to the center line of a branch, this point being in the northern line of the New Bern Memorial Cemetery; thence along and with said branch to the northeastern corner of the New Bern Memorial Cemetery; thence southwardly and westwardly with the property line of the New Bern Memorial Cemetery to the center line of the Pembroke Road (said road also being known as the Country Club Road), thence southwardly with the center line of said road to a point opposite the northeastern corner of the Herman E. Mattocks lot or parcel of land; thence westwardly to and with the northern line of the Mattocks lot to the J. Thomas lot; thence southwardly with the western line of the Herman E. Mattocks lot to the L. Mathews lot; thence westwardly with the northern line of the L. Mathews lot to the channel of Wilson's Creek; thence southwardly with the channel of Wilson's Creek to the center line of the bridge at Wilson Creek Drive; thence westwardly along the center line of Wilson Creek Drive (also known as the Haywood Road) to a point opposite the northwestern corner of Lot Number 20 according to a 'Subdivision of the Blackledge Farm' duly recorded in Map Book 2 at page 57, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Craven County; thence southwardly with the western line of the aforesaid Lot Number 20 to the water line of Trent River; thence at right angles to the water line of Trent River to the channel of Trent River; thence eastwardly with the channel of Trent River to a point that would be intersected by a line drawn at right angles with the shoreline of Trent River at the point of beginning; thence with the said line to the southwestern corner of said Fred Miles property, the point of BEGINNING.

"Saving, excepting, and explicitly excluding from the above described tract of land and from the corporate town limits of said Town of Trent Woods all property included within the above description as is presently owned by The New Bern Golf and Country Club, Inc."

Sec. 3. The officers of said municipality shall consist of a mayor and three commissioners, who shall serve without compensation.

Sec. 4. Until their successors shall be elected and qualified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 160, Article 3, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the following persons shall be and are hereby constituted the officers of said town, to wit: Mayor, George R. Scott; Commissioners, C. Stroud Tilley, George T. Burnette, Jr., and G. C. Honeycutt.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 3rd day of June, 1959.