(a) The boundaries of the city shall be those existing at the time of adoption of this charter with such alterations as may be made from time to time in the manner provided by law. As of the effective date of this charter, the said boundaries shall constitute the territory embraced within the following boundaries:
(1) A circle the center of which is the place upon which was located the passenger depot of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company when the Town of Hamlet was originally incorporated in the year 1897, and the radius of which is three-fourths (3/4) of a mile.
(2) Beginning at an iron stake in the northerly margin of Juanita Avenue in the City of Hamlet, North Carolina, said point being north 42 degrees west 100 feet from the northwesterly intersection of Juanita Avenue and Wallace Street, also the southwesterly corner of Lot No. 44, and running thence as a northerly margin of Juanita Avenue north 42 degrees west 93.5 feet to a concrete marker, a corner in the easternmost line of the Freeman property; thence turning and running as the Freeman and Kinsman lines north 14 degrees 40' east 214.4 feet to an iron stake; a corner of the Freeman property and the southeasterly corner of the J. P. Gibbons property in the Kinsman line, also a corner of Lot No. 78-A; thence turning and running parallel with Juanita Avenue south 42 degrees east 211.2 feet to an iron stake, a common corner of Lots Nos. 43, 44, 76, and 77; thence turning and running parallel with Wallace Street south 48 degrees west 175 feet to the point or place of beginning, containing .543 acres. A plat of this property is of record in Plat Book 8 at page 59 in the office of the register of deeds for Richmond County, North Carolina, and this is the same property as that conveyed to Vance Sykes, L. S. Brown, and S. B. McGuirt, trustees of First Presbyterian Church, Hamlet, North Carolina, by Philip Gibbons and wife, Aimee D. Gibbons, by deed dated September 5, 1968, and recorded in Book 506 at page 262 of the Richmond County registry.
(3) Area A.
Beginning at a concrete monument set in the north right-of-way of Rice Street, said monument being the old city limits line, and runs north 82 degrees 20' west 257.6 feet to a stake; thence south 54 degrees 11' west 387.1 feet to a stake; thence north 67 degrees 31' west and crossing Austin Street to a stake in the western edge of Maple Avenue, said distance being 491.5 feet; thence south 56 degrees west and crossing Walnut Avenue 620.5 feet to a stake; thence north 34 degrees 52' west 1161.5 feet to a monument in the northern right-of-way of Hawthorne Street; thence continuing the same course 464.7 feet to a stake on the east side of Pine Hill Avenue; thence along the eastern right-of-way of the above mentioned avenue north 11 degrees 10' west 401 feet to a stake; thence crossing U. S. Highway 177, north 15 degrees 37' west 69 feet to a stake; thence north 18 degrees 22' west 261.3 feet to a stake; thence north 56 degrees 31' east 527.9 feet to a stake in the south side of Battley Road; thence crossing said Battley Road north 69 degrees 45' east 326.4 feet to a concrete monument at the southwest corner of Richmond Street; thence north 77 degrees 13' east 516 feet to a concrete monument in the right-of-way of Park Avenue; thence north 20 degrees 1' east 653.1 feet to a stake west of McDonald Street; thence north 65 degrees 14' west 339.6 feet to a stake; thence north 25 degrees 14' east and crossing McDonald, Fairview, and Branch Avenues 1016.4 feet to a stake in Woodland Road; thence down said Woodland Road north 39 degrees 54' west and crossing Boyette Street 972.5 feet; thence north 48 degrees 11' east 846 feet to a stake; thence north 40 degrees 49' west 802.5 feet to a stake; thence north 49 degrees 4' east and crossing Hylan and Juanita Avenues 799.8 feet to a stake; thence south 40 degrees 28' east and crossing Pineland and Sandhurst Streets 901.7 feet; thence north 49 degrees 27' east and crossing Stacy Avenue 400 feet to a stake; thence south 40 degrees 19' east and crossing Boyette and Terry Streets 669 feet to a stake; thence north 82 degrees 37' east 218.8 feet to a stake below the dam at Kinsman Lake; thence south 74 degrees 38' east 162.3 feet to a stake; thence north 43 degrees 4' east 374.3 feet to a stake; thence south 55 degrees 51' east 545 feet to a stake where the original Hamlet city limits crosses the Seaboard Railroad right-of-way east of Jefferson Street; thence in a westerly and southerly direction with the original line of the Town of Hamlet 6200 feet to the beginning in the edge of Rice Street.
Area B.
Beginning at a stake located in the original Hamlet city limits, said stake being located in the western lot line of the Bankhead residence, said point being located south of Fourth Street and west of U. S. Highway No. 74, and running thence south 47 degrees east 852.7 feet to a stake; thence north 50 degrees 28' east 197.7 feet to a stake; thence south 46 degrees 57' east 305.8 feet to a stake; thence north 35 degrees 39' east and crossing U. S. Highway No. 74 east of Hub Grill 421 feet to a stake; thence north 68 degrees 8' west 300.2 feet to a stake; thence north 61 degrees 40' west 94 feet to a stake; thence north 53 degrees 48' west 80.6 feet to a stake; thence north 45 degrees 45' west 193.4 feet to a stake; thence north 44 degrees 15' east 51 feet to a stake; thence north 46 degrees 17' west and crossing Fifth Street 357.9 feet to a stake; thence 45 degrees 20' east and crossing Winston, Durham, and Fayetteville Streets 1032.2 feet to a stake; thence north 10 degrees 34' west 177.2 feet to a stake; thence north 47 degrees 29' west and crossing Fourth Street 410.4 feet to the original line of the Town of Hamlet in a northwesterly direction 1600 feet to the beginning.
(4) Beginning at a point in the northwestern edge of Rice Street said point being in the present town limits line of the Town of Hamlet and marked by a concrete marker, and runs from said point with Rice Street in a southwesterly direction to the southwestern edge of North Carolina Avenue, Moore’s corner; thence continuing southwesterly with Rice Street 200 feet to a stake; thence in a southeastern direction and parallel to North Carolina Avenue 260 feet to a stake; thence in a northeasterly direction and parallel to Rice Street to the present corporate limits of the Town of Hamlet; thence with the present corporate limits of the Town of Hamlet in a circuitous line to the beginning corner on the northwestern edge of Rice Street.
(b) The current city boundaries, at all times, shall be shown on a map, a written description, or any combination thereof, to be retained permanently in the office of the city clerk and to be designated, as the case may be, “Map (or Description) of Hamlet City Limits.” Alterations in these boundaries shall be indicated by appropriate entry upon or additions to such map or description. Such entries or additions shall be made by or under the direction of the city clerk. Photographic, types or other copies of such map or description, certified by the city clerk, shall be admitted in evidence in all courts and shall have the same force and effect as would the original map or description.
(c) The city council may provide for the redrawing of any such map. A redrawn map shall supersede for all purposes the earlier map or maps which it is designated to replace.
Editor’s note:
The city has adopted numerous ordinances that have annexed additional territory. Such ordinances did not amend the charter. They are on file in the city hall.