NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 399

HOUSE BILL 734

AN ACT TO RESTATE IN ONE DESCRIPTION THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF CAPE CARTERET.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 651, Session Laws of 1975, is repealed.

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Chapter 929, Session Laws of 1963, is repealed.

Sec. 3. Section 3 of Chapter 727, Session Laws of 1959, is amended to read:

"Sec. 3. Corporate Limits. The corporate limits of the town shall be as follows:

Located in White Oak Township, Carteret County, State of North Carolina, and beginning at the intersection of the northern shore line of Bogue Sound and the eastern right of way of N.C. 58 as established by N.C. Highway Commission Project 6.1610019 as recorded on Pages 19 and 20 in the Carteret County Volume of the Commission's Right of Way Plans Book and running thence from the beginning in a northerly direction along and with the said established right of way approximately 3550 feet to its intersection with the northern right of way of N.C. Highway 24; thence continuing in a northerly direction along and with the said established right of way approximately 2150 feet to its intersection with the city limit line as shown on page 19 of the said Right of Way Plans Book; thence North 42 degrees 04 minutes East with a line shown on a map entitled Area Annexed to Town of Cape Carteret prepared by R.T. Burney & Associates and recorded in Map Book 8, Page 7, said map being hereinafter referred to as Burney's Map, for a distance of approximately 50 feet to a corner of the Sugae Moore O'Brien property; thence with the following lines as shown on Burney's Map: North 83 degrees 03 minutes East along and with the O'Brien line 3292.82 feet to Rocky Run; up Rocky Run in a northwesterly direction approximately 1850 feet to a corner of Lionel Pelletier's property; North 55 degrees 53 minutes East along and with Pelletier's line 703 feet to the westerly edge of S.R. 1259 (Old N.C. Highway 58); along and with said edge in a northerly direction 1,116.45 feet to the extended centerline of S.R. 1259; North 22 degrees 47 minutes West along and with the extended centerline 1368 feet to the extended southern property line of C. Rose; North 88 degrees 11 minutes East and with Rose's southern property line 278.5 feet; North 22 degrees 47 minutes West along and with Rose's eastern property line 238 feet; South 88 degrees 11 minutes West with Rose's northern property line 228.5 feet to the eastern right of way of S.R. 1259; North 22 degrees 47 minutes West along and with said eastern right of way 439.7 feet to Raskett's property; North 86 degrees 17 minutes East along and with Raskett's line 42 feet; North 35 degrees 30 minutes East along and with Raskett's line 570 feet to Machine Branch; down Machine Branch, with its various courses, in a northerly direction approximately 1450 feet to Pettiford Creek; up Pettiford Creek, with its various courses, in an easterly direction approximately 8,000 feet to a concrete monument marking a corner of the E.F. Guthrie Property; South 17 degrees 53 minutes East along and with the Guthrie boundary 1261.83 feet; South 54 degrees 30 minutes East along and with the Guthrie line 1804 feet to the northwestern corner of Quail Wood Acres Subdivision, Section "A", as recorded in Map Book 15, Page 55; thence South 4 degrees 30 minutes West along and with the western Boundary of Quail Wood Acres 1662.74 feet to a corner in Cat Pond Branch, said corner being the northeastern corner of Fox Forest Subdivision, Section "B", as recorded in Map Book 11, Page 19; thence in a northwesterly direction along and with the boundary of said Section "B" North 42 degrees 20 minutes West 733 feet as shown on Burney's Map, to a corner in Cat Pond Branch; thence in a southwesterly direction along and with the boundary of said Section "B", South 55 degrees 40 minutes West 1040 feet, as shown on Burney's Map, to the northeastern corner of Fox Forest Subdivision, Section "A", as recorded in Map Book 9, Page 53; thence in a southwesterly direction along and with the western boundary of said Section "A", South 25 degrees 20 minutes West 705 feet as shown on Burney's Map, to a concrete monument marking Carl Weeks' northwestern corner; thence along and with the Weeks' line as shown on Burney's Map South 7 degrees 05 minutes East 859.7 feet to a concrete monument; thence along and with the Weeks' line as shown on Burney's Map North 83 degrees 41 minutes East 322.25 feet to a concrete monument marking the common corner of Weeks and Eula Dennis; thence along and with Eula Dennis' line as shown on Burney's Map South 11 degrees 28 minutes West 381.95 feet; thence along and with Dennis' line as shown on Burney's Map South 17 degrees 17 minutes West 63 feet to the northern right of way of N.C. Highway 24; thence along and with the said northern right of way in an easterly direction approximately 1,185 feet to the northern end of a line running normal to the said northern right of way and passing through Eula Dennis' corner lying in the southern right of way of N.C. Highway 24; thence in a southern direction along and with said line running normal to said northern right of way 100 feet to Eula Dennis' corner lying in said southern right of way; thence along and with the Eula Dennis Boundary as shown on Burney's Map the following courses and distances: South 3 degrees 41 minutes West 397 feet; South 72 degrees 46 minutes West 250 feet; South 1 degree 26 minutes West 1389 feet; South 88 degrees 34 minutes East 436 feet; South 8 degrees 10 minutes West 230.55 feet to the northwestern corner of the Hunting Bay, Inc. Subdivision, Section One, as recorded in Map Book 14, Page 88, thence with the boundary of the said Section One as recorded the following courses and distances; South 8 degrees 46 minutes West 459.35 feet; South 19 degrees 37 minutes 30 seconds West 1213.72 feet; South 39 degrees 28 minutes 20 seconds West 409.1 feet to the northern shore line of Bogue Sound; thence along Bogue Sound in a westerly direction, with names of all topographic features being as shown on Edition 15, dated January 28, 1978 of the Intracoastal Waterway Nautical Chart 11541 as published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the following lines: in a westerly direction along and with the northern shore line of Bogue Sound approximately 1,300 feet to its intersection with the eastern shore line of Deer Creek at the mouth of Deer Creek; a straight line in a westerly direction across the mouth of Deer Creek and Hunting Island approximately 2,000 feet to the northern shore line of Bogue Sound at Ennett Point; in a westerly direction along and with the northern shore line of Bogue Sound approximately 3,700 feet to the beginning excepting however, from within the corporate limits all or any part of Hunting Island.

Carteret County Register of Deeds Office is the repository for all records herein referenced."

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1979.