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pertaining to operation of boats, the problems of zoning, police and fire <br />protection resulting from construction of piers, bulkheads and other faci- <br />lities beyond the present city limits, all require that such areas be within <br />the jurisdiction of the governmental unit which they abut, and that they <br />not continue ko be the responsibility of a governmental unit from which <br />they are cut off by intervening territory. <br /> <br /> Section III. <br /> <br /> The metes and bounds and size of the areas sought to be annexed, all <br />of which lie in Norfolk County, are as follows: <br /> <br /> This area consists of the entire remaining territory of the Western <br />Branch Magisterial District of Norfolk County, comprising approximately 27.20 <br />square miles of high ground and 14.47 square miles of marsh and water areas. <br />Its population according to the 1960 census is 10,570 persons. Briefly, it <br />may he described as follows: <br /> <br /> Beginning at the point on the boundary line between Norfolk County <br />and Nansemond County where the boundary line between Western Branch and Deep <br />Creek Magisterial Districts of Norfolk County intersects said county line <br />(Point I), and from thence run in a northeasterly direction along the boundary <br />line between said magisterial districts to its intersection with the present <br />corporate limits of the City of Portsmouth (Point 2) in a natural drain (known <br />as Harems Creek) at the point where said natural drain p~sses through a three <br /> <br /> <br />