1893 public laws – Ch.303 Sec.1

That a good and sufficient fence at least four and onehalf feet high when made of rails and four feet high when made of boards, plank, slats or wire shall begin on the south bank of the Cape Fear river just below Elizabethtown, Bladen county, the terminus of a line running north eighteen east from the lower corner of George Mussel White’s field and running thence with said line to the public road leading from Elizabethtown to Wilmington; then with said public road on the east side thereof in the direction of Wilmington to Mrs. M. M. Wootens lower fence corner ; then with her said fence to the river. 20