§ 3. Corporate limits.

The corporate limits of the town shall be as follows:

Beginning at a stake in the Atlantic Ocean, said stake being located 309 feet southwardly from where the easternmost corner of the Bland Track No. 6 of the J.T. Bland Division reaches the water's edge at the Atlantic Ocean; running thence along and with the Ward-Humphrey line North 27 degrees 15 minutes West to the waters of Topsail Sound; thence continuing the same courses North 27 degrees 15 minutes West to the center of the run of the Intracoastal Waterway; thence along and with the center of the run of the Intracoastal Waterway in a southwesterly direction to a point in the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the old Topsail Creek in the vicinity of Beacon 98; thence following the courses of old Topsail Creek in a southeasterly direction as it meanders to New Topsail Inlet and thence with the courses of New Topsail Inlet as it meanders to the Atlantic Ocean; then with the Atlantic Ocean in a northeasterly direction to the point of Beginning.

(S.L. 1963, ch. 67, § 3)