1911_private laws_272_3
CHAPTER 271 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF OLD FORT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the corporate limits of said town be as follows, to wit: Beginning on the southeast corner of the Mauney tract of land, near the county bridge across the Catawba River, and runs northwesterly with said Mauneys line, crossing the Crooked Creek public road to a stake in the line of the Salisbury lands; then northwesterly to the old Salisbury mill dam on Mill Creek; then up said creek as it meanders, passing the mouth of the second branch, to a spruce pine on the north bank of the said creek; then eastwardly to the northwest corner of the cemetery for white people; then eastwardly and southwesterly with the line of the said cemetery and the line of the United States Leather Company to a stake on the Southern Railway; then a straight line to the mouth of Butchers Branch at the Catawba River; then up the river as it meanders to the beginning.