That the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a stake in J.P. Smith's field about two hundred yards south of the Slough swamp and runs thence north four and a half degrees east twenty-five chains to the Snow Hill road; thence the same course continued twenty-five chains to a stake in J.T. Edgerton's field; then north eighty-five and a half degrees west twenty-five chains to the center of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, just north of the switch target; then the same course continued twenty chains to a stake in Dickerson's field; then south four and a half degrees west fifty chains to a stkae in W.H. Horns's field; then south eighty-five and a half degrees east forty-five chains to the beginning.