1908 public laws – Ch.5 Sec.1

That sections one and two of chapter three hundred and forty-eight, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred / and one, be repealed, and in lieu thereof the following be substituted: | Sec. 1 That the following described territory on the south side | of Tar River and on the north side of the main road leading from Washington to Greenville be and the same is hereby declared to | be stock-law territory, to-wit: Beginning at the mouth of Bear P Creek on Tar River, and running up Bear Creek to Bear Creek _ Branch; and thence with Bear Creek Branch to the main road leading from Washington to Greenville; and thence up Washington and Greenville Road to the land of Levi Holliday; thence with. Leyi Hollidays and N. W. Campbells fences southwest- _wardly to Ballard Bridge Road, near old tobacco barn; thence ‘southwestwardly with Proctors and Sam. Davis fences to Black Jack and Boyds Ferry Road; thence with Proctors back fence |} on west side of said road north near the Masonic Lodge or near A. M. Paramores house, the point to be determined by the fence commissioners; and thence with the Greenville and Washington ‘Road to the fence-law territory around Greenville. That this f territory as above described on the one side, and Tar River on YS the other, shall constitute a stock-law territory for the purposes of this act, and that the fence commissioners hereinafter provided for may enlarge this stock-law territory to embrace the lands of all persons who may in writing petition to be included in the stock-law territory, if the fence commissioners deem it proper to so extend this territory; but the fence commissioners shall have no power to include in this extended stock-law territory any freeholder without his written consent. Sec. 2 That each of the freeholders in the territory described in section one shall keep up and maintain along the outside boundary of his lands, which are included in this fence-law district, a strong and stock-proof fence so far as his lands shall | extend, and until the land of his adjoining freeholder is reached, | and that Bear Creek from its mouth to the public landing be and is hereby declared a lawful fence. That the Town Commissioners of the Town of Grimesland shall keep up and maintain gates on each public road leading into the town that enters this fence-law district at, inside of or within half a mile of the corporate limits of the town, said gates to cost not more than twenty dollars each, to be paid for out of any money now in the treasury, or out of the first moneys received from the collections, fines or taxes levied in said town, and if the town commissioners fail to erect these gates promptly, or to maintain the same, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding fifty dollars each.