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CHAPTER 722 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE TOWN OF NORWOOD TO DETERMINE WHETHER ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL STORES SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE SAID TOWN, AND TO PRESCRIBE THE NET PROCEEDS THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. Out of net revenue, five per cent -5% and no more than ten per cent -10% may be expended for law enforcement purposes. Any officers employed by the Board of Alcohol Control shall have jurisdiction throughout Stanly County. Out of net revenue, up to five per cent -5% may be expended for Alcoholic Education as to the effects of the use of Alcoholic Beverages. Out of the net revenue remaining after the payment of all costs and operating expenses and after retaining a sufficient working capital, the Town of Norwood Board of Alcohol Control shall on a quarterly basis pay fifty per cent -50% of said revenue to the general fund of the Town of Norwood, and fifty per cent -50% of the net revenue to the general fund of Stanly County; provided, if Alcohol Control Stores are established in the City of Albemarle then net proceeds shall be divided as follows: The Town of Norwood Board of Alcohol Control shall on a quarterly basis pay over eighty-five per cent -85% of said net revenue to the general fund of the Town of Norwood and fifteen per cent -15% of the net revenue to the general fund of Stanly County.
CHAPTER 166 An act to provide for the sale of certain stock law fences in Stokes county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That whenever it shall appear upon petition and satisfactory proof to the commissioners of the county of Stokes that any stock law fence in said county has become useless, and will be of no further use as such in consequence of an adjoining territory having adopted the stock law, it shall be their duty to provide for the sale of the same, and for that purpose shall appoint some responsible person as commissioner to make such sale.
CHAPTER 57 An act to promote the objects of the Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company. Wuerzas, R. T. Arrington, 8 P. Arrington and Wm. | Mahone of Petersburg, Virginia, and J. D. Cameron of the State of Pennsylvania, became purchasers of the fran-  chises, rights, privileges, works and property of the Roanoke Navigation Company, between the towns of Gaston and Weldon and at Weldon, at a sale made by the same under a decree of the superior court of the county of Halifax in the State of North Carolina, and in pursu- ance of the act of the Legislature of the said State, ratified on the eighteenth day.of March, one thousand eight hun- dred and seventy-five, entitled An act for the dissolution of the Roanoke Navigation Company; and whereas, said sale has been duly confirmed by said court and a convey- ance of said franchises, rights, privileges, works and prop- erty by Thomas N. Hill, receiver of said company, duly appointed by said court, has been executed to the said purchasers under the corporate name of the  Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company, and the deed of conveyance of the said receiver has been duly admitted to probate and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Halifax county; and whereas, by the terms of said act of the General Assembly of this State and the said deed made in pursuance thereof, the said purchasers became a corporation by any name mentioned in said deed ; therefore T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. That this act shall not materially interfere with the legal or vested rights of any persons owning or operating mills in Northampton county, or prevent any person owning land on Roanoke river from operating or erecting any mill or other structure to be operated by water power, aud using the water of said river for operating said mill or other structure: Provided, in so doing be shall not interfere with the legal or vested rights of any other person or corporation in any unreasonable manner.
CHAPTER 38 An act to repeal the general laws of the State in regard to towns and cities so far as the town of Kinston, in the county of Lenoir, is concerned, inconsistent with this act; to repeal all special laws and charters in relation thereto, and to re-charter the said town. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 19. That the court of the mayor of the said town of Kinston is hereby constituted an inferior court, and as such shall, in all criminal cases committed within the corporate limits of the town of Kinston, have all the powers, jurisdiction and authority of a justice of the peace, and also to hear and determine all causes of action which may arise upon the ordinances and regulations of the town ; to enforce penalties by issuing executions upon any adjudged violations thereof, and to execute the bylaws, ordinances, rules and regulations, made or passed by the board of commissioners of the town. The mayors court shall further be a special court within the corporate limits of the town to arrest and try all persons who may be charged with a misdemeanor for violating any by-law, ordinance, rule or regulation of the town, and if the accused be found guilty, he shall be fined at the discretion of the court or mayor, not exceeding the amount specified jn the by-law, ordinance, rule or regulation, so violated, or at the discretion of the mayor or court trying the same, such offender may be imprisoned not more than thirty days in the town lock-up, or in the common jail of the county of Lenoir. And that in all cases where a defendant may be adjudged to be imprisoned by the said court or mayor, it shall be competent for the said court or mayor to adjudge also that the said defendant work during the period of his confinement on the public streets, or other public works of said town. :
Section 39. That it shall be the duty of the police to see that the laws, rules and regulations of the board of commissioners are enforced, and to report all breaches thereof to the mayor; to preserve the peace of the town by suppressing disturbances and apprehending all offenders, and for that purpose they shall have all the power and authority vested in sheriffs and county constables; they shall execute all precepts lawfully directed to them by the mayor and other judicial officers, and in the execution thereof shail have the same powers which the sheriff and constables of the county have, and they shall have the same fees of all processes and precepts executed or returned by them which may be allowed to the sheriff of the county in like process and precepts, and also such other compensation as the board of commissioners may allow. |
CHAPTER 27 An act to incorporate the town of Keeversville in the county of Catawba. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 5. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners to meet and organize within thirty days after their election or appointment and take the following oath: I, A. B., do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of commissioner of the town of Keeversville to the best of my knowledge and ability for the ensuing year; so help me, God.
CHAPTER 19 An act to incorporate Asheville Division, number fifteen, Sons of Temperance of Asheville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That any and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 408 An act to change the time for holding the superior courts of the fourth judicial district. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : *
Section 2. That the January terms of Cumberland and Robeson, as above provided for, shall be held by the resident judge of the district, unless otherwise directed by the governor, and the judge holding said January courts shall receive as compensation therefor one hundred dollars for each court, to be paid by the counties of Cumberland and Robeson.
CHAPTER 204 An act to empower the board of county commissioners of McDowell county to compromise, commute and settle the debt of McDowell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. The board of county commissioners of McDowell county are hereby authorized to issue coupon bonds of the denomination of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; said bonds may be redeemable at the pleasure of the said board of county commissioners of McDowell county, after any period not less than ten nor more than thirty years, or if deemed expedient, may be made payable at any period of not more than thirty years from the date of said bonds, and bearing such interest as may be agreed upon by the said board of county commissioners of McDowell county, and the holders or owners of claims against said county of McDowell, not exceeding six per centum per annum, to be paid semi-annually. And said bonds shal! be signed by the chairman of said board of county commissioners of McDowell county, and the clerk of said board.
CHAPTER 12 An act to incorporate the town of Germanton, Stokes county, North Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 16. That the board of commissioners.shall have #NAME? to levy a tax upon real estate to an amount not more than one-half of the state tax, and not more than fifty cents on the poll, whenever they, in their judgment, see it necessary to levy said tax for the improvement of the town, said taxes to be levied during the month of June of each year and to be collected during the month of September of each year. The constable shall be the tax collector for the town, he shall give an official bond to the town in the sum of two hundred dollars for [the] faithful performance of his duties, and for the collection of said taxes he shall receive five per cent. of the amount collected.
CHAPTER 2 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JURORS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That the board of commissioners of Cherokee county shall set apart from the taxes collected for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one the sum of six hundred dollars for the payment of jurors for said county for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
CHAPTER 680 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF TARBORO TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A CAPITAL RESERVE FUND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. In addition to all other funds now authorized by law, the Town of Tarboro is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a capital reserve fund in the manner hereinafter provided.
CHAPTER 116 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. Whenever the seal of the state, of the treasury department, of a notary public or other public officer required by law to keep a seal not including clerks of courts and other county officers, shall be fixed to any paper, the tax shall be as follows, to be paid by the party applying for the same: For the seal of the state one dollar, to be collected and paid into the treasury by the private secretary of the governor ; for the seal of the state department fifty cents, to be collected by the secretary of state and paid by him into the treasury; for the seal of the state treasurer, to be collected by him and accounted for as other public moneys, fifty cents; and for the seal of a notary public twenty-five cents, to be collected and paid over by said officers to the sheriff of the county where such seal is kept. Said officers shall keep an account of the number of times their seals may be used, and shall deliver to the proper officer a sworn statement thereof. Whenever a scroll is used, in the absence of a seal, by any of said officers, the said tax shall be on the scroll. Seals affixed for the use of any county or state or other government, or used on commissions of officers in the militia, justices of the peace, or any other public officer not having a salary, or under the pension law, or upon any process of court, shall be exempt from taxation. The officers collecting the said taxes may retain as compensation five per centum, except in the case of sheriffs, whose commissions shall be allowed by the auditor. Any person receiving taxes under this section, and willfully refusing or neglecting to pay the same as required, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and on conviction shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the state prison in the discretion of the court.
CHAPTER 74 AN ACT TO CHARTER THE BANK OF KINSTON, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 10. That to aid planters, miners, manufacturers, merchants and other classes of persons, the said bank shall and may have power to advance or loan to a planter, farmer, miner, manufacturer, or merchant or other classes of persons, any sum or sums of money, and to secure the payment of the same, taking in writing a lien or liens on the crop or crops to be raised, even before planting the same; or upon the present or prospective products of any mining operations, upon any article or articles then existing or thereafter to be made, purchased, manufactured or otherwise acquired ; and any lien so taken shall be good and effectual in law, providing the same is duly recorded under the existing laws of registration, anterior to all other liens and mortgages, for securing such loans or advances; and the said bank shall have power to make loans upon mortgages of real and personal property, with power of sale inserted upon default of payment, and also to receive in storage or warehouse any cotton, wheat, corn or other produce, or any manufactured article whatsoever, as a pledge or pledges for the repayment of money or moneys loaned upon the faith of the same, the said lien, pledges or mortgages, being duly recorded or registered, as in the case of mortgages or deeds of trust, and any sales made thereunder, according to the trust therein recited, shall be good and valid in law.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. At the close of the election the votes shall be counted by the inspectors; and of such persons voted for as mayor the one having the largest number of votes shall be declared duly elected mayor, and of such persons voted for as commissioners the fiye receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared duly elected; and the officers thus elected shall be notified of their election within two days after the same by the inspectors.
CHAPTER 101 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN, LAWS OF BIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR AND FIVE, ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF SHELBY, CLEVELAND COUN- TY, RATIFIED THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, AN- NO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- FIVE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That section seventeen of said chapter be amended by adding after the word town, in the eleventh line, the following: that in all cases where a defendant shall be convicted before the mayor of any misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to pay a fine and cost, and such defendant shal! refuse or shall be unable to pay the same, it may and shall be lawful for the mayor to order and require such defendant to work on the streets or other public works until, at a fair rate of wages, such person will have worked out the full amount of the fine and the costs of the prosecution.
CHAPTER 75 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHAMPION COMPRESS AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 7. It shall be lawful for the said corporation to borrow money for any purpose connected with its business as herein defined, to make, have discounted, negotiate and dispose of its promissory notes, drafts or bonds given for the money so borrowed or given in liquidation of any debt due or owing from said corporation, or made for the purpose of raising money, and to secure the payment of any such obligations by a mortgage or pledge of any property belonging to said corporation, including its franchise.
CHAPTER 702 AN ACT APPOINTING MEMBERS OF THE WILSON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THE MEM- BERS OF SAID BOARD IN THE FUTURE, FIXING THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE AND COMPENSATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The members of said board of education appointed by this Act and their successors shall qualify by taking the cath of office on or before the second Monday in June next succeeding their election. 667
CHAPTER 987 AN ACT TO AMEND THE SMALL WATERSHED LAWS WITH RE- GARD TO BORROWING BY COUNTIES FOR WATERSHED IM- PROVEMENT PROGRAMS; BORROWING BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES FOR WATER SUPPLY ASPECTS OF SUCH PROGRAMS; EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS; EXTRATERRITORIAL POWERS; LAND ACQUISITION AUTHORITY; RECREATIONAL EXPENDITURES, AND FISH AND WILDLIFE HABITAT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. G. S. 153-77 is amended by adding thereto at the end thereof a new paragraph, to be given an appropriate number, and to read as follows: ( ) Construction, reconstruction, installation, extension, alteration and improvement of watershed improvement works or projects installed or operated, or to be installed or operated, by a county under Article 3 of General Statutes Chapter 139 or any local act granting similar powers, including without limitation the acquisition of rea] and personal property, easements, options, or other interests in real property therefor.
CHAPTER 879 AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-9 BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SUBSECTION TO AUTHORIZE BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE SPECIAL PUR- POSE OF ACQUIRING, CONSTRUCTING, RENOVATING AND FURNISHING COURTHOUSES AND JAILS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 54 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1040 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1945 RELATING TO COUNTY PLANNING BOARDS SO AS TO MAKE G. S. 153-9(40) APPLICABLE TO STANLY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 1137 AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE 49D OF CHAPTER 106 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO COMPULSORY POULTRY INSPECTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 1059 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE TO CONSTRUCT AN ADDITION AND IM- PROVEMENTS TO FICKLEN STADIUM AT EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PERMANENT SEATING FACILITIES; WITH APPURTENANCES AND INCIDENTALS, AND TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS THEREFOR WITHOUT A PLEDGE OF TAXES OR THE FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. Trust Funds. All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this Act, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this Act. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, such moneys shall be deposited shall act as trustee of such moneys and shall hold and apply the same for the purposes hereof, subject to such requirements as are provided in this Act and the resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust agreement securing such bonds.
CHAPTER 116 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. On museums, wax works or curiosities of any kind, natural or artificial, on each days and nights exhibition, three dollars.
CHAPTER 365 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF THE STATE FOR ERECTING A NEW STATE OFFICE BUILDING OR FOR MAKING ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO ENISTING STATE OFFICE BUILD- INGS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. Said bonds shall bear such date or dates and such rate or rates of interest not exceeding five per cent -5% per annum, payable semi-annually, as may be fixed by the Governor and Council of State, and shall mature in such amounts and in annual series, beginning not more than three -3 years, and running not longer than thirty -80 years from their date or respective dates of issue, as may be fixed by the Governor and Council of State.
CHAPTER 127 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I SCHEDULE A INHERITANCE TAX
Section 801. Charter Canceled for Failure to Report. If a corporation required by the provisions of this Act to file any report or return or to pay any tax or fee, either as a public utility (not as an agency of interstate commerce) or as a corporation incorporated under the laws of this State, or as a foreign corporation domesticated in or doing business in this State. or owning and using a part or all of its capital or plant in this State, fails or neglects to make any such report or return or to pay any such tax or fee for ninety days after the time prescribed in this Act for making such report or return, or for paying such tax or fee, the Commissioner of Revenue shall certify such fact to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall thereupon suspend the articles of incorporation of any such corporation which is incorporated under the laws of this State by appropriate entry upon the records of his office, or suspend the certificate of authority of any such foreign corporation to do business in this State by proper entry. Thereupon all the powers, privileges, and franchises conferred upon such corporation by such articles of incorporation or by such certificate of authority shall cease and determine. The Secretary of State shall immediately notify by registered mail such domestic or foreign corporation of the action taken by him, and also shall immediately certify such suspension to the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the principal office or place of business of such corporation is located in this State. The Clerk of Superior Court shall thereupon make appropriate entry upon the records of his office indicating suspension of the corporate powers of the corporation in question.
CHAPTER 401 AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN BONDS HERETO- FORE ISSUED AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS PURSUANT TO CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS HERETOFORE TAKEN BY MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING OR AIDING IN THE FINANCING OF ANY WORK, UNDERTAKING OR PROJECT TO FINANCE OR TO AID IN THE FINANC- ING OF WHICH ANY LOAN OR GRANT HAS HERE- TOFORE BEEN OR MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THROUGH THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATOR OF PUB- LIC WORKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That in all cases where proceedings have heretofore been taken or begun authorizing bonds by any municipality for any improvements, the financing of which shall be aided by a loan or grant or both by the United States of America through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, all such proceedings are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, notwithstanding any irregularity or defect in such proceedings, and notwithstanding any want of power of such municipality to take such proceedings or to authorize such bonds, and the issuance of bonds pursuant to such proceedings is hereby approved and authorized, and such bonds declared to be valid and enforceable obligations of such municipality.
CHAPTER 191 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SALUDA IN THE COUNTY OF POLK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 29. That any policeman or other duly appointed arresting officer of said city shall have and is hereby given the right and power to arrest, in any part of either the county of Henderson or the county of Polk, upon a warrant issued by the mayor, any person or persons who may be charged with violating the laws or ordinances of said city, and such persons so arrested shall be brought immediately before the mayor of said city and dealt with as the laws and ordinances of said city may prescribe.
CHAPTER 9 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON TO PAY ITS EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The principal of all said bonds shall be due and payable on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fortyone.
CHAPTER 109 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF STOKESDALE, IN THE COUNTY OF GUILFORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 322 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF INDIAN TRAIL, IN UNION COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows: All that territory lying and being within a circle, the radius being one-half mile from a point at the center of the road crossing the track of the Carolina Central Railroad at said place.
CHAPTER 70 AN ACT TO CHARTER AARON SEMINARY AT MONTEZUMA, MITCHELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The said trustees shall have the exclusive right to elect a president of said seminary and such professors and officers as they may deem proper.
CHAPTER 165 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER Ol] THE TOWN OF MARSHALL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 33. That for the purpose of providing a system of waterworks, a system of sewerage, electric lights and improving the streets and sidewalks of the town, the board of aldermen of said town are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds for that town from time to time, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars, of such denominations and form, executed and transferable, payable at such time or times, not exceeding thirty years from the date thereof, and at such place or places as they may determine, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, with semi-annual interest coupons attached, payable on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year.
CHAPTER 294 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WESTERN CAROLINA POWER COMPANY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said company is authorized and empowered to supply to the public, including both individuals and corporations, within the State of North Carolina, and elsewhere, power in the forms of electric current and hydraulic, pneumatic and steam pressure, or any of the said forms, and in any and all other forms, for use in driving machinery, and for light, heat, and all other uses to which the power so applied can be made applicable, and to fix charges, collect and receive payment therefor; and for the purpose of enabling the company to supply power as afore said, the company is authorized and empowered to buy or otherwise acquire, generate, develop, store, use, transmit, and distribute power of all kinds, and to locate, acquire, construct, equip, Maintain and operate from any place in the State where the said company may establish plants to any distributing points in the State where they may elect, and from the same to any other points by the most practicable routes, to be determined by the Board of Directors of the company, lines for the transmission of power by wire on poles or under ground, and by cables, pipes, tubes, conduits and all other convenient appliances for power transmission, with such connecting lines between the lines above mentioned, and also with such branch lines as the company may locate or authorize to be located, for receiving, transmitting and distributing power; and as appurtenances to the said lines of power transmission and their branches the company may acquire, own, hold, sell ore otherwise dispose of water-powers and water privileges in the State of North Carolina and elsewhere, and may locate, acquire, construct. equip, maintain and operate all necessary plants for generating and developing by water, steam or any other means, and for storing, using, transmitting, distributing, selling and delivering power, including dams, gates, bridges, tunnels, stations and other buildings, boilers, engines, machinery, switches, lamps, motors, and all other works, structures and appliances in the State of North Carolina; also, may build, own, control and operate electric railway lines, and may own, rent, lease or sell power for any other uses to which electricity, steam or water-power can be applied: Provided, that the amount of land which the company may at any time hold within Priv48 the State of North Carolina for any one water-power and other works, except the land flowed or submerged with water accumulating at any one dam, shall not exceed ten thousand acres exclusive of right of way: And provided further, that lines and appurtenances hereinbefore authorized for distributing power and light are to be constructed when on public streets or highways of any county. city or town under such reasonable regulations as the authorities respectively thereof shall upon application from the company prescribe.
CHAPTER 149 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MARION, The General Assemblu of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That section 2 of said chapter be amended by striking out lines two, three, four and the word track in line five>and inserting in lieu thereof the words Beginning at the southeast corner of Billie Jones lot, on the old Bakersville road, and runs with said road to the northeast corner of Henry Leonards lot; then with the north and west lines of said lot to the northwest corner of W. W. Collins lot; then with the lines of said lot to the northwest corner of Rufe Dobsons lot; then with his north line to the road; then with the road to the southeast corner of the colored Baptist church lot; then with the south line of said lot, and further, to the Brown lot, now owned by D. E. Hudgins: then with his line to the northwest corner of said lot; then a direct course to the southeast corner of the Alex. Carson Hall lot; then a direct course to the top of Phenix Knob; then south with the outside lines of Wm. McD. Burgin, George J. Tate and Samuel Dobbins to a stake in J. L. Morgans line of the old Solomon lands.
CHAPTER 4 An act to incorporate the regents of the Orphans Home of the Presby- terian church of the state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. That the regents of the said home shall not exceed ten in number, all of whom shall be elected by the synod of the Presbyterian church of North Carolina, and the regents shall at all times be amenable to the said synod, and may be removed by such synod at any time for cause; that the regents shall be elected by the said synod under such rules and regulations as the synod may prescribe, and the term of office of each of the regents shall be fixed by the synod.
CHAPTER 65 An act to incorporate the West Asheville Toll Bridge Company. The Generul Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 7. That if said company and the owner of any lands which may be necessary for the location of a bridge or for the building of a keepers house, shall be unable to agree upon the price of the same, or for any cause the same cannot be purchased from the owner, the same may be taken by the company at a valuation to be ascertained as -follows, to-wit: according to the mode prescribed in chapter ninety-nine of Battles Revisal for the condemnation of lands needed for railroad companies incorporated under said chapter.
CHAPTER 204 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF RICHFIELD, STANLY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. That the mayor of the town of Richfield shall haye the same jurisdiction as is now or may hereafter be conferred upon the justices of the peace in the trial of criminal matters, and that he shall hear and try all cases of violation of the town ordinances and the violation of the State laws within the corporate limits of said town, and for said purposes he is hereby constituted a justice of the peace.
CHAPTER 58 An act to permit the town of Elizabeth City to issue bonds and levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That in order to meet the payment of said bonds and the accruing interest thereon, the said board of commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect .each year a special tax not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of all property, both real, personal, choses in action and solvent credits, within the corporate limits of said town.
CHAPTER 97 An act to incorporate the Fayetteville Real Estate Agency. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Said corporation may buy, hold, lease and sell real and personal Bue at pleasure: Provided, it shall not own at any one time more than one hundred thousand dollars in value of real estate.
CHAPTER 174 An act to amend the public school law, chapter fifteen of The Code. The General Assembly uf North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. Section twenty-five hundred and fifty-three of The Code is amended by striking out from lines three and four the words  Tuesday after the first Monday in October, and inserting in lieu thereof the words  first Monday in September, and by striking from line six the word  December and inserting in lieu thereof the word  October.
CHAPTER 27 An act to incorporate the town of Keeversville in the county of Catawba. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. The officers of said incorporation shall consist of a mayor, three commissioners and a constable, and the following named persons shall hold said offices until the first Monday of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, or until their successors are elected and qualified, to-wit: For mayor, M. A. Poston; for commissioners, R. M. Hoyle, James Keever and Dr. A. P. Keever; for constable, John Hamlet.
CHAPTER 419 An act to make appropriations for the several insane asylums of the state. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per annum be and is hereby appropriated for the support and maintenance of the patients in the Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum at Goldsboro, and for the furniture and other necessaries for the same.
CHAPTER 27 An act to incorporate the Charlotte Cotton Mills. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with liberty to increase the same to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, as the stockholders may from time to time determine; said stock may be paid for in money, real estate, machinery, or materials as required by the company.
CHAPTER 194 AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE COMMISSIONERS OF MACON COUNTY TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That the commissioners of Macon county are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the county in sums of one hundred dollars or less, which bonds shall bear interest not to exceed the rate of six per centum per annum from date of their issue, and shall run and be due six years from the date of their issue, and said bonds shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided, The county authorities shall have the right at any time to retire part or all of said bonds before maturity.
CHAPTER 47 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF BALLS CREEK METHODIST CHURCH AND CAMP GROUND, IN THE COUNTY OF CATAWBA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enaet :
Section 9. That the trustees of Balls Creek Camp Ground and their successors shall have full and ample power to appoint special police and to prescribe rules and regulalations for their government and remuneration, and may also elect an intendent of police, who shall hold his office for one year or until his successor is appointed.
CHAPTER 370 An act to provide for the government of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. The board of trustees shall meet inthe city of Raleigh on the second Monday in March, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, and elect of their number a president and an executive committee of three, one of whom shall be the president of the board of trustees, and it shall be the duty of the executive committee to meet at the call of the president and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the board of trustees. The board of trustees shall thereafter meet annually at such time as they may agree upon. The members of the board shall receive their mileage and hotel fare while attending upon the meetings of the board, but no members of the board of trustees except the executive committee shall be allowed their expenses for more than five meetings in any one year. Ratified the 3d day of March, A. D. 1899
CHAPTER 806 AN ACT CONCERNING SALES BY DRUGGISTS OF INTOXI- CATING LIQUORS ON PRESCRIPTION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That the board of aldermen, or other governing body of the city of Charlotte, are hereby authorized and empowered to make such other rules, regulations and ordinances, and prescribe such other conditions and licenses for the further regulation of sales of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors or intoxicating bitters for sickness upon the written prescription of a physician as said board may deem proper; and also to prescribe reasonable police rules, regulations and ordinances governing hotels, cafes, restaurants, clubs er other places of public entertainment or amusement: Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to allow the board of aldermen, or governing body of the city of Charlotte, to grant license to any person, firm or corporation contrary to existing laws for the purpose of making sales of such spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors or bitters for any other purpose except for sickness, upon the written prescription of a practicing physician as prescribed in this act and in chapter two hundred and thirty-three of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three, known as the Watts Act.
CHAPTER 262 AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC HOSPITAL OF NUM- BER SIX TOWNSHIP, CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the board of commissioners of Cleveland County be and they are hereby authorized and directed to appropriate, out of the general funds of the county under their control, an amount sufficient to take care of the charity patients of Cleveland County in said public hospital of Number Six Township, known as Shelby Hospital.
CHAPTER 107 An act to establish a turnpike road in Madison county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That said board shall employ a superintendent and guard, whose compensation shall be fixed by the penitentiary board of directors and paid out of the funds appropriated for the same.
CHAPTER 342 An act to authorize the superintendent of education in Robe- son county to approve voucher for payment of school teacher in district number thirty-six (36). The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the superintendent of education in Robeson county be, and the same is hereby, authorized to approve a voucher for the payment of sixteen dollars and fifty-two cents ($16.52) for services of school teacher in district number thirtysix (36), white race, for the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree.
CHAPTER 373 An aet to repeal chapter twelve 12 of the public laws of 1895 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter twelve '12 of the public laws of 1895, entitled an act to levy a special tax to build a bridge across Tuckasiege river in Jackson county, be and the same is hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 485 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Waynesville, and to provide for the issuance of bonds for electric lights. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Waynesville, Haywood county, shall be and is hereby constituted the Waynesville graded school dis. trict for white and colored children.
CHAPTER 145 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO, PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- ONE, AND ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF AND ADDITIONAL THERETO, RELATING TO THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND PUBLIC ROADS. OF THE STATE, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 37. In the event any section or any provision of this act shall be by any court of competent jurisdiction held to be unconstitutional, such construction shall be deemed to apply to such section or provision only, and shall not affect the validity of other sections and provisions of this act.
CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Review. All orders, judgments and decrees under this act may be reviewed as other orders, judgments and decrees.
CHAPTER 80 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE The General Assembly of. North Carolina do enact: : ARTICLE I SCHEDULE A 4 INHERITANCE TAX
Section 300. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the income tax act of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.
CHAPTER 250 AN ACT TO EMPOWER CITIES AND TOWNS TO ADOPT ZONING REGULATIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. Conflict with other laws. Wherever the regulations made under authority of this act require a greater width or size of yards or courts, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this act shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any other statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width or size of yards or courts, or require a lower height of building or a less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied. or impose other high standards than are required by the regulations made under authority of this act, the provisions of such statute or local ordinance or regulation shall govern.
CHAPTER 113 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3923 OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES INCREASING THE FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section three thousand nine hundred and twenty-three be and the same is hereby amended by strikfihg out the first fifteen lines thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Justices of the peace. That justices of the peace shall receive the following fees, and none other: For attachment with one defendant, thirty-five cents, and if more than one defendant, fifteen cents for each additional defendant; transcript of judgment, fifteen cents; summons, thirty cents; if more than one defendant in the same case, for each additional defendant, fifteen cents; subpena for each witness, fifteen cents; trial when issues are joined, one dollar; and if no issues are joined, then a fee of fifty cents for trial and judgment; taking an affidavit, bond, or undertaking, or for an order of publication, or an order to seize property, thirty-five cents; for jury trial and entering verdict, one dollar; execution, thirty-five cents; renewal of execution, fifteen cents; return to an appeal, forty cents; order of arrest in civil actions, thirty cents; warrant of arrest in criminal and bastardy eases, including affidavit or complaint, seventy-five cents; warrant of commitment, fifty cents; taking depositions on order of commission, per one hundred words, fifteen cents; garnishment for taxes and making necessary return and certificate of same, thirtyfive cents.
CHAPTER 183 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE TERMS OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That there shall be held in the said county the following terms of the superior court for the trial of civil actions only, viz: On the sixth Monday after the first Monday in March, said term to continue for one week; also on the third Monday after the first Monday in September, said term to continue for two weeks.
CHAPTER 881, AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 101 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, AND TO PROTECT THE STATEHS INTEREST BY AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF INTERNAL IMPROVE- MENTS TO REQUIRE AND TAKE SUFFICIENT BONDS OF CONTRACTORS ON PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said board may appoint a clerk of the board whenever in its opinion the public service shall require it.
CHAPTER 850 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE HOLDING OF PRIMARIES AND PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN UNION COUNTY.  The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the custodian of any registration book in the county of Union shall, on demand, allow any person to make a copy of such registration books; and such custodian shall, upon demand and upon the payment of fifteen cents for each one hundred names, furnish to any chairman or manager of any political party a certified copy of the registration book of any precinct or of the registration book of any city or town in said county.
CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTING AND KEEPING IN REPAIR THE PUBLIC ROADS OF MONT- GOMERY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 22. That the board of road trustees of the several townships in said county be and they are hereby authorized to furnish plows, scrapers and other tools as they may deem proper for use upon the public roads of their townships, to be paid for out of any money of the township for road purposes not otherwise appropriated. The board of road trustees shall take a receipt from each supervisor for such implements as they may deliver to him, showing the number, kind and condition thereof, and such supervisor shall be liable for any injury or damage that may result to such implements or to any of them by improper use thereof, or by unnecessary exposure to the weather during the time the same may be in his possession, and he shall, on the first Monday in May, annually, return the same to the board of road trustees. The amount of which such supervisor may be liable for such improper use or neglect may be recovered by an action in the name of the board of road trustees.
CHAPTER 677 AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 237, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1905 OF NORTH CAROLINA, RELATIVE TO WORKING PUBLIC ROADS IN PAMLICO COUNTY, AND ADOPT THE PRO- VISIONS OF THE REVISAL OF 1905 IN LIEU THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do. enact:
Section 1. That chapter two hundred and thirty-seven -237 of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby repealed, and the provisions of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina be and the same are hereby adeptd and made applicable for all intents and purposes as relates to public roads and bridges in Pamlico County.
CHAPTER 573 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH IN THE CITY OF WINSTON A SPE- CIAL COURT TO BE CALLED THE RECORDERS COURT, AND PRESCRIBE THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 19. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of said Court to keep | an accurate account and TRUE record of all costs, fines, penalties, forfeitures and punishments by said Court imposed under the ; provisions of this act, and said record shall show the name and | residence of such offender, the nature of the offense, the date of |! hearing or trial and punishment imposed, which said record shall at all times be open to and subject to inspection by the Board of Aldermen. or other persons having business relating to said Court. He shall provide a permanent docket for recording all the processes issued by said Court which shall conform to the dockets kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court. He shall also provide proper files to properly keep the record of all cases which shall be disposed of in the said Court and what disposition has been made of them.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO APPOINT JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR WELCHES CREEK TOWNSHIP, COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That J. M. Smith, James M. Brown and J. L. McKoy be and they are hereby appointed justices of the peace for Welches Creek Township, Columbus County, for the period of six years.