GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 11

HOUSE BILL 145

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN TYRRELL AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES.

 

Whereas, Chapter 36, Laws of 1799, divided Washington County from Tyrrell County; and

Whereas, the boundary between those two counties was set out in Chapters 36 and 37, Laws of 1799, and then changed in Chapter 70, Laws of 1801; and

Whereas, a dispute has arisen between the two counties over the location of the boundary; and

Whereas, with the approval of the Boards of Commissioners of Tyrrell and Washington Counties a survey was run, and the two counties have requested the General Assembly to clarify the boundary; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The boundary line between Tyrrell and Washington Counties from the Floodgate near the Collins House on the Somerset or Transportation Canal to the center line of Hyde Canal is as follows:

BEGINNING at a point which is shown and designated as Station A on a plat of survey to which reference is hereinafter made. Said point of beginning being North Carolina Geodetic Survey Marker (WAS -13 1976) which marker is set in a cement flood gate located near the southern end of the Somerset Canal, which center line is the western boundary of Tyrrell County and the eastern boundary of Washington County and from said point of beginning running thence South 40 degrees 08 minutes 05 seconds West along the center line of Somerset Canal 598.70 feet to a concrete monument which is shown and designated on said plat of survey as Station B and running thence due South 7,632.42 feet to a concrete monument designated as Survey Station C on said plat of survey; thence continuing due South 2114.26 feet to a concrete monument designated as Station D; thence running South 13 degrees 03 minutes 31 seconds West 117.50 feet to Station E, said Station E being N. C. Geodetic Survey Marker (Dillard - 1976) on said plat of survey; thence running due South 2180.76 feet to Station F on said plat of survey, a concrete monument; thence running due South 2587.16 feet to Station H on said plat of survey, a concrete monument; thence continuing due South 2752.09 feet to Station I on said plat of survey, a concrete monument; thence continuing due South 2746.33 feet to Station J on said plat of survey, a concrete monument; thence continuing due South 7267.70 feet to Station K on said plat of survey, a concrete monument, and thence continuing due South 5373.32 feet to a concrete monument, Station L on said plat of survey; thence continuing due South 14.50 feet to the center line of Hyde Canal the terminus of the line herein described and being all of a line which constitutes a portion of the western boundary line of Tyrrell County and the eastern boundary line of Washington County as shown more particularly on a plat of survey entitled "County Division, Tyrrell County - Washington County", dated November 11, 1982, prepared by John C. Kirkman, Registered Land Surveyor, a copy of which is on file in Map Cabinet A, Slide 90, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Tyrrell County and Map Cabinet 1, Slide 127, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Washington County.

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective from and after January 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of February, 1983.