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P4INOTES OF THE ORANGE COUTdTY / .; - ~;~;; BOARD OF COMMTSSTONE~RS April L~, 1972 The Board of County Commissioners of Orange County met in regular session on Tuesday, April 1~, 1972, at 10:00 o'clock A.M. in the Commissioners Room of the Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Members Present: Chairman Rarvey D. Bennett, and Commissioners William C. Ray, Henry s. ldalker, Ira A. Ward and C. Norman Walker. Members Absent: None Chairman Sennett dispensed with the reading of the minutes in order to recognize the representatives of the orange County Rural Fire Department. Chandler Cates; Chief of the Hillsborough Volunteer Fire Department, stated that the citizens of the Efland co*m++++~itq would present a petition to be included in the forthcoming Fire Protection Election and that if said election was adopted then there would arise the need for the changing of the boundarq lines between the Efland District and the Hillsborough District. Mr. Cates stated that the Commissioners had the authority to adjust the boundaries of each proposed fire district. A question and answer period ensued as to any boundary change. The following petition was filed: "PETITION FOR RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AS PROVIDID BY (}ENE,'~AL STATDTES 69-25.1 We, the undersigned, being resident freeholders living within the hereinafter area which lies outside the corporate limits of any city or town, which area is designated as "Efland Rural Fire Department District", da herebq petition the Board of Commissioners of Orange Countq to.oall an eleotion in said district for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters therein the question of levying and collecting a special tax on all taxable property in said district, not axaeeding fifteen amts (15¢) of the one hundred i dollars ($100.00) valuation of property, Por the purpose of providing fire protection in said district, the deacrintion of said district is as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the Alamance County line where -- the same is intersected bq state Road 131+0, running thence in a Southeasterly direction along State Road I 13L~.0 to its intersection with state Road 131}7, thence I along State Road 13l}7 to its intersection with State Road 1313; thence with State Road 13L~3 in a Northwesterly direction to its intersection with State Road 1351; thence with State Road 1351 to its intersection with State Road 1001}; thence with state Road 1001 in a Southerly ' direction to its intersection with U. S. Highway 70; i thence with Highway 70 '.deaf to its intersection with State Road 1316; thence along said State Road 1316 in a Southerly direction to its end near Tnteratate I-85; thence crossing ~ I-85 in a Southerly direction to State Road 1377;~thence along State Road 1377 to State Road 171iJ~ (Old No. 1D); thence with State Road 111}1;. in an Esaterlq direction to a point where said road crosses the Eho River; thence down Eno River in a Southerly direction to its interseotion with Seven Mile Creek; thence in a Westerly direction with Seven Mile Creek as it meanders to a point where said Creek is crossed by State Road 1120; thence with State Road 1120 in a Southerly direction to its intersection with State Road 7.12$; thence with State Road 1125 in a Southerly direction to its intersection with State Road 111!}; thence with State Road 117.1r South to its intersection with State Road 1115; thence with State Road 1115 to its intersection with State Road 1118; thence with State Road 1118 in a Northwesterly direction to its intersection with State Road 1117; thence with State Road 1117 in a Northwesterly direotion to its intersection with State Road 1007; thence with State Road 1007 in a Northerly direction to its intersection with the Alamanae Countq line; thence with the Alamance Countq line to the place sad point of beginning. THERE IS EXCEPTID from the area described so much thereof as lies within the corporate limits of the Town of Mebane.