1901_public laws_670_2
CHAPTER 669 An act to establish stock law in certain portions of McDowell County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That from and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, no person shall allow his or her live stock to run at large in that portion of McDowell County embraced in the following territory or boundary, viz.: Beginning at a stake in the stock law line on the south side of Catawba River, McDowell County, at or near the corner of line between Silas Proctor, Austin Conley and Mrs. M. A. Corpenings and, crossing the said river running with the line fence of Mrs. M. A. Corpening and Austin Conley to the end of the said Mrs. M. A. Corpenings fence, thence with the said M. A. Corpenings outside fence to Maj. J. W. Wilsons outside fence, thence with said Wilsons outside fence to the outside fence of T. B. Young, thence with or near his outside fence to the Pyatt Hollow, thence through the said hollow to the Pyatt old house, thence with the cross fence between H. A. Gibbs and M. F. Tates to Buck Creek, thence up said creek to the cross fence between Mrs. D. E. Butts and H. A. Gibbs on the west side of said creek, thence with said fence to Mrs. D. HE. Butts outside fence, thence west across the ridge to W. H. Pattents outside fence and with said Pattents fence crossing Clear Creek to a point near the White Oak Springs, thence the nearest course to the Hoover field, thence across the ridge to the Brooks place,  thence to J. B. Biddexes outside fence and with said fence striking the upper fence to the old parsonage place, thence to the most direct route or course to the stock law boundary fence of Old Fort Township, near John Godfreys residence,