1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.209 Sec.1

In order to provide for better fire protection for the citizens of Stanly County, the Board of County Commissioners of Stanly County is 248 hereby authorized to lease to the Stanly County Firemens Association for a nominal sum for a term of four years, with the right of the Board of County Commissioners, in its discretion, to renew said lease for a second or any number of successive four-year terms, that portion of the Old County Home property, which is no longer needed for other county purposes, which is described as follows: Lying and being on the West side of Road No. 1400, known as the Old Salisbury Road, and BEGINNING at an iron stake on the West edge of said road, which point is North 11 degrees 39 minutes West 637 feet from the center of Road No. 1422, which road intersects Road No. 1400, and runs thence a new line South 78 degrees 14 minutes West 700 feet to an iron stake; thence North 24 degrees 35 minutes West 400 feet to an iron stake; thence North 42 degrees 35 minutes East 100 feet to an iron stake; thence North 70 degrees 39 minutes East 400 feet to an iron stake; thence North 11 degrees 15 minutes East 330 feet to an iron stake; thence North 37 degrees 35 minutes East 243 feet to an iron stake on the West edge of Road No. 1400, known as the Old Salisbury Road; thence with the West edge of said road South 11 degrees 39 minutes East, and passing a cedar stump by an old hedge row, 963 feet to the point of BEGINNING, and containing 10.36 acres, more or less, as surveyed by Ellis Huneycutt, County Surveyor, and M. B. Wilson, Registered Surveyor, March 14, 1967 Such lease would be for the purpose of providing the above referred to Association with property to be used for training purposes and, in the event the Association ceased to use any of the property for the purpose for which it was leased, then any permanent improvements erected thereon by said Association shall become the property of Stanly County.