1956/57 session laws – Ch.94 Sec.1
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CHAPTER 94 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PAMLICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDU- CATION TO CONVEY TO THE FLORENCE CAMP OF THE WOOD- MEN OF THE WORLD CERTAIN LANDS KNOWN AS THE FLOR- ENCE WHITE SCHOOL LOT SO LONG AS THE SAME SHALL BE USED FOR COMMUNITY PURPOSES. WHEREAS, the Board of Education of Pamlico County is the owner of a certain lot of land at Florence in Number Two Township, Pamlico County, North Carolina, containing one acre, more or less, it having been conveyed to the board by deed dated September 1, 1911, and of record in Book 56 Page 348, Pamlico County Registry, it being known as the Flor- ence White School Lot; and WHEREAS, the old frame school building situate on said land was originally constructed largely with materials and labor furnished by citizens of the community; and WHEREAS, said building was abandoned and ceased to be used as a school building more than thirty years ago; and WHEREAS, more than twenty years ago possession of said property was delivered to the Florence Camp of the Woodmen of the World, and since that time has been used by said Lodge as a meeting place and by the whole Florence Community as a community building where various organizations meet to transact business of a civic nature and for the good of the community; and WHEREAS, said Lodge organization has spent considerable money and labor in maintaining said building, equipping it with lights, etc., so that, considering normal depreciation thereon, said building would be of no value today except for the efforts of the members of said Lodge or- ganization; and 124 WHEREAS, said Florence Camp of the Woodmen of the World is the only organized group in said community legally capable of holding title to land; and WHEREAS, said organization has expressed a desire to renovate, re- model and improve said building so that it can better serve as a community building, and has requested that title be conveyed to it to said property in fee simple in trust to be maintained by it as a community building, title to revert to the Board of Education if the same should cease to be used for said purpose; and WHEREAS, it is the considered opinion of the board, considering all the facts, that title should be conveyed upon such conditions for a nominal consideration: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That, notwithstanding the provisions of G. S. 115-126, the Board of Education of Pamlico County, for the consideration aforesaid, be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to convey by good and sufficient deed to the Florence Camp of the Woodmen of the World that certain piece, parcel or lot of land previously conveyed to the Board of Education of Pamlico County by deed dated September 1, 1911, and of record in Book 56 Page 343, Pamlico County Registry, and situate at Florence in Number Two Township, Pamlico County, and known as the Florence White School property, in fee simple in trust to be maintained by it as a community building, title to revert to the Pamlico County Board of Education if the same should at any time in the future cease to be used for said purpose. ;