1903 public laws – Ch.400 Sec.21
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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. 7266, dated July 9, 1885 (issued upon Entry No. 2120), to M. Fain and G. W. Swepson, assignees, for land in what was formerly Cherokee County, now Graham County, be and the same ave hereby corrected, so as to read as follows: Beginning on a spruce pine on the bank of Big Snow Bird Creek, 38 pcles below the falls and running thence south 65 west, crossing Big Snow Bird Creek at 8 poles, whole distance 180 poles to a beech on the north side of a mountain; thence south 18 east 410 poles to a chestnut on the side of a mountain; thence north 50 east 180 poles to a chestnut, corner of Entries Nos. 6406, 6407 and 6411; thence with the line of said Entry No. 6411 north 55 west, crossing Snow Bird Creek at 308 poles, whole distance 380 poles, to the beginning.