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Res`-aoa~_ o s 9 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />A RESOLUTION <br />REQUESTING THAT THE NORTH CAROLINA GEODETIC SURVEY CONDUCT A <br />SURVEY, SET MONUMENTS, AND DELIVER A PLAT OF THE <br />ORANGE/ALAMANCE COUNTY BOUNDARY FOR REVIEW <br />BY THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WHEREAS,, the boundaries of Orange County were established by act of the Colonial General <br />Assembly in 1752, Orange County being "formed" from portions of Bladen, Granville, and <br />Johnston counties; and <br />WHEREAS, the boundary between Orange and Alamance counties was "formed" by survey <br />commissioned by an Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, which Act was adopted <br />during the Session of 1848 and 1849 (hereafter "the Act") at the time Alamance County was <br />formed; and <br />WHEREAS, the boundary established by the Act relies on numerous geographic or landmark <br />references that, while perhaps useful and adequate then, are insufficient now to demarcate where <br />the boundary between Alamance County and Orange County lies; and <br />WHEREAS, over the past 159 years various agreements and arrangements were made by and <br />between the Alamance County and Orange County tax offices which have resulted in <br />inconsistent determinations between Alamance County and Orange County as to the situs of <br />specific parcels of land in both Alamance County and Orange County; said inconsistencies being <br />heightened by the ever increasing residential and commercial development in proximity to the <br />Alamance County -Orange County boundary line; and <br />WHEREAS, both Alamance County and Orange County agreed by resolutions adopted on <br />December 17, 2007 and January 15, 2008, respectively, to observe North Carolina General <br />Statute 153A-18 in requesting that the North Carolina Geodetic Survey (NCGS) perform a <br />preliminary survey and present a proposed map of the county boundary to both Orange and <br />Alamance Counties; and <br />WHEREAS, on March 11, 2008, NCGS staff presented to the staffs of Alamance County and <br />Orange County ten points determined through extensive field and office research of the 1849 <br />survey, as well as the county boundary as depicted on the USGS quadrant maps, which points <br />and boundary NCGS deem to accurately depict the 1849 survey; and <br />WHEREAS, the Alamance County Board of Commissioners agreed, by vote on Apri121, 2008, <br />to approve authorizing NCGS to conduct the preliminary survey and the placing of monuments <br />by the NCGS; and <br />