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u <br />-5301 Cabe Ford Road <br />Durham, North Carolina 27705 <br />14 March 1991 <br />Orange County Commissioners <br />Orange County Courthouse <br />P. 0. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, N. C. 27278. <br />Dear Sirs and Madams: <br />My husband and I should like to urge you to enact the <br />recently proposed regulations affecting spotlighting and <br />hunting. <br />After twenty -six years in Orange County, we are tired <br />of fighting an annual battle against hunters who either <br />trespass on our land or spotlight - -a euphemism for hunting <br />after dark- --from our road. <br />Year after year hunters tear down the signs we post, <br />and when we take our lives in our hands to accost them in <br />person, they claim they have permission from -our neighbors <br />and don't know where the boundary lines are or that power <br />lines and telephone cables are public property, both of <br />which either cross or adjoin our property. <br />Incidentally, the fact that right -of -ways are private <br />property needs to be advertised by notices in the newspapers <br />and on the right -of -ways themselves. Drivers of jeeps, trail <br />bikes, and other all- terrain vehicles are equally guilty of <br />trespassing. <br />In Eno Township where we live, development in recent <br />years has almost effaced its rural character and we are <br />truly suburbs of Durham. If we cannot persuade you to ban <br />hunting here altogether, we must look to more stringent <br />regulations to protect us from this menace. <br />Very sincerely, <br />