1903 public laws – Ch.400 Sec.20
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CHAPTER 400 AN ACT TO CORRECT THE CALLS IN THE FOLLOWING STATE GRANTS FOR LANDS IN WHAT WAS FORMERLY CHEROKEE COUNTY, NOW GRAHAM COUNTY, TO-WIT: GRANTS NUMBERS 2575, 2582, 3750, 2558, 2572, 2539, 2554, 2555, 78, 3751, 2571, 2546, 2544, 2540, 2549, 2542, 7267, 2561, 2568, 7266, and 15200 WHEREAS, The State of North Carolina has heretofore granted certain lands situated in what was formerly Cherokee County, now Graham County, in said State, by various grants hereinafter identified, to sundry persons hereinafter named, the title to which lands as conveyed by said grants has now, by Mesne con- veyances, become vested in Frank T. Rumbarger, of the city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania; and, WHEREAS, in locating and surveying said lands so covered by said grants, numerous mistakes and inaccuracies have been dis- covered in the calls thereof, and it is desirable that such mistakes and inaccuracies shall be corrected, so far as is possible without prejudice to any vested rights of other persons. Now therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the calls in State Grant No. 2568, dated November 28, 1862 (issued upon Entry No. 2110), to M. Fain and G. W. Swepson, for land in what was then Cherokee County, now Graham County, be and the same are hereby corrected, so as to read as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of Entry No. 1315, and the southeast corner of Entry No. 6594, and the southwest corner of Entry No. 6585, and running thence with the line of said Entry No. 6585 north 60 east 260 poles to a spruce pine, the southeast corner of said Entry No. 6585, in the line of Entry No. 6590; thence with the line of said Entry No. 6590 south 20 east 260 poles to the southwest corner of the said last named entry in line of Entry No. 6645; thence with the line of said first named Entry south 65 west 56 poles to a stake at the northwest corner of said last named Entry in the line of Entry. No. 1901; thence with the line of said Entry No. 1901 north 20 west 172 poles to the northeast corner of said last named Entry; thence with another line of said. Entry No. 1901 south 35 west, crossing Snow Bird Creek at 24 poles, whole distance 166 poles, to the southeast corner of Entry No. 1315; thence with the line of said Entry No. 1315 north 30 west 160 poles to the beginning.