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CHAPTER 157 An act to incorporate the Fayetteville public graded and normal school for whites. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That A. H. Slocumb, A. A. McKethan, Jr., John D. Williams, W. H. Cohen, W. C. Troy, A. Moore, B. C. Ledberry, T, D. Haigh, W. A. Guthrie, C. F. Moore, George M. Rose, Charles Haigh, W. N. Tillinghast, R, W. Hardie, W. T. Taylor, J. C. MacRae, John A. Pemberton, Silas Sheets and J. M. Welsh, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Trustees of the Fayetteville public graded and normal school, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold, enter upon and possess, in their corporate capacity, property, real and personal, such as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining and carrying on a public graded and normal school for whites in Cross Creek township, in the county of Cumberland, with power to make all needful rules and regulations for their government and that of said school, and shall have continual succession in sueh capacity.
Section 3. That upon the written application of said trustees, through their proper officers, to the board of commissioners of Cumberland county, the said board of commissioners shall order an election, by the white voters of said township upon the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein upon the property and polls of the white citizens and owners of property in said township, for the support of the said public graded and normal school, said election to be held under rules and regulations to be fixed by the said commissioners, and conforming, as near as may be, to the rules and _ regulations, for conducting other elections.
CHAPTER 156 An act to incorporate the insane asylums of the state and for other purposes, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The North Carolina Insane Asylum and The Western North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the white insane of the state, and  The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be exelusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the colored insane of the state.
CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. e
CHAPTER 110 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Home of Eastern North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Said corporation shall have power to secure control of such orphans, unprotected and friendless children, in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws of the corporation: and it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to interfere with the said Orphan Home of eastern North Carolina, in its management and control of said children after they are lawfully entered and received by said corporation: Provided, that the said institution shall be for children of the colored race only. __
CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SALISBURY AND IN THE TOWN+ SHIP OF GOLDSBORO, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twentyone years ; and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for colored persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years: Provided, that the Salisbury graded school committee shall have power to receive into the graded school for white persuns any white pupil of either sex, without regard to age: and shall also have the power to admit to the graded school for colored persons any colored pupil of either sex, without regard to age.
Section 8. The board of commissioners for the county of Wayne, if, in their discretion, they may deem it advisable, is hereby authorized, with the assent of a majority of the qualified voters of the township of Goldsboro, to establish a graded school for white children, and a graded school for colored children in said township. The special taxes which may annually be levied for such schools shall not exceed one-fifth of one per cent. on property, and sixty cents on the poll. An election shall be held in said township on the first Monday in May, anno domini eighteen hundred and eighty, to determine whether a majority of the qualified voters of said township will assent to the payment of such annual special taxes for the purposes aforesaid. Each qualified voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and the election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as is prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. The sheriff of the county of Wayne shall collect the taxes authorized by this section and his duties and liabilities shall be the same as is now provided by law for the collection and disbursement of the state and county taxes. The board of commissioners for Wayne county and the board of commissioners for the town of Goldsboro shall make such rules and regulations for the government of said graded schools, as they may in their discretion determine, not incosistent with the laws of North Carolina. The taxes raised from the property and polls of white persons shall be appropriated exclusively to a graded school for white persons, and the taxes raised from the property and poll, of colored persons shall be appropriated exclusively to a graded school for colored persons.
CHAPTER 407 An act for the relief of certain citizens of Sampson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the citizens of the white race entititled by law to the benefit of the public school fund, living and resident within the following prescribed limits in the county of Sampson, to-wit: beginning at a stake in the Johnston county line, near White Oak, and run south six -6 hundred yards to a stake, thence east one thousand yards to a stake, thence north to a stake in the Johnston county line, then with said line to the beginning, be allowed and permitted to use and enjoy that portion of the public school fund apportioned to them by law in the future, for the payment of tuition and other expenses incurred in attendance in school district number twenty-seven, of Johnston county, or any other convenient school district in said Johnston county.
CHAPTER 169 An act in relation to indigent and other apprentices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 17. Minor children above the age of fourteen and under twenty-one years being males, and eighteen being females, whether indigent or not, may be apprenticed to learn the art or mystery of any trade or craft by their father, or in case of his death, incompetency, or where he shall have wilfully abandoned his family for six months without making suitable provisions for their support, or has become an habitual drunkard, by their mother or by their legal guardian; and if illegitimate, they may be bound by their mother, and if they % have no parent competent to act and no guardian, they may bind themselves with the approbation of the superior court clerk of the county where they reside; but the power of a mother to bind her children, whether legitimate or illegitimate, shall cease upon her subsequent marriage and shall not be exercised by herself or her husband at any time during such marriage. But no white child shall be bound to a colored person, and no colored child shall be bound to any white person if a competent and suitable colored person can be found in the county.
CHAPTER 36 An act concerning public schools of Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the school committee for district number one, colored, in Cross Creek township, Cumberland county, are hereby authorized, at their discretion, to transfer to the trustees of the Fayetteville graded school for whites in the said township, any surplus school funds that may have accumulated, or may hereafter accumulate, to the credit of said district, after defraying all expenses incident to a ten months school in the same annually.
CHAPTER 200 An act to abolish the white normal schools of the State, and to provide for holding county institutes throughout the State. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. At the close or during the sessions of every institute, the conductor thereof, in connection with the county superintendent, shall hold written examinations of all public school teachers, white and colored, who may apply, and shall grant first and second grade certificates, which shall be signed by both and be good for three years in the county in which the institute is held, and in any other county of the State, when endorsed by the county superintendent thereof; but the said certificates shall be subject to revocation by any county superintendent for immoral conduct.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 25. That it shall be unlawful for any person other than white persons to go in said parks now owned by said corporation or by this act turned over to said corporation or hereafter acquired by it: Provided, that colored nurse or nurses with white child or children shall be allowed in said parks; that colored persons employed to work for this corporation shall be allowed in said park or parks; that any person of color who shall be netified to leave said park or parks, or be notified not to come in said park or parks, and shall refuse to do so and shall come into said park or parks, shall be guilty of a trespass for each offense, and on conviction be imprisoned thirty days or fined fifty dollars.
CHAPTER 666 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PROCURING AND DISTRIBU. TION OF DEAD BODIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all officers, agents or servants of the State of North Carolina, or of any county or town in said State having charge o1 control of the dead body of any person who at the time of death was under the sentence of death, imprisonment or hard labor for the violation of the criminal laws of the State, shall, upon the request of said board or its authorized agent, deliver such dead body to any one designated by said board for the purpose aforesaid: Provided, such body be not claimed by any relative within the second degree of consanguinity, or by the husband or wife of such deceased person: Provided further, that the body of a Confederate soldier or of the wife of a Confederate soldier to be excepted from the provisions of this act, and that the body of no white person shall be delivered to any school for colored race: Provided, that this act shall only apply to persons who have been convicted of and are serving a sentence as aforesaid for a felony.
CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 4, LAWS OF 1901, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL LAW, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 4 of the Public Laws of 1901, being an act to re- vise and consolidate the Public School Law, is hereby amended as follows:
Section 22. Section 68, of chapter 4 of the Public Laws of the year 1901, is hereby repealed, and the following words are inserted in lieu thereof: All white children shall be taught in the public schools provided for the white race, and all colored shall be taught in the public schools provided for the colored race; but no child with negro blood in his veins, however remote the strain, shall attend a school for the white race; and no such child shall be considered a white child.
CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 42. That in determining the right of any child to attend the white or colored schools, the rule laid down in section 1810 of The Code, regulating marriages, shall be followed.
CHAPTER 421 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN ROPER, WASHINGTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That if at said election a majority of such qualified voters shall vote for schools it shall be the duty of the said Board to establish and maintain in said district free graded schools for each race, and to elect a principal for the white school, who shall also be principal of the colored school, and any and all teachers necessary for said schools, and fix the salaries of the same, and said principal shall as often as said Board may Pub47 require, make to said Board and to the Board of Education of the State full reports of his said schools.
CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 23. That there shall be in the city of Charlotte a public library for colored people, to be known as the Charlotte Public Library for Colored People.
Section 24. That Thad L. Tate, J. W. Smith, P. F. Maloy, P. P. Alston, H. A. Hunt, W. P. Phifer and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Public Library for Colored People, and shall have charge and _control of the library for colored people, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, etc., as are conferred on the trustees beforementioned for the white library. That the Board of Aldermen shall provide a suitable place for said library, and the said trustees shall make all rules, regulations and by-laws for its government and have all the powers conferred on and subject to the limitations imposed on the whites trustees.
Section 25. That the two libraries shall be separate and distinct, and one shall be for the white race and the other for the colored race. That the white library shall be used exclusively for white people and the colored library for the colored people.
Section 27. That the Board of Aldermen shall annually turn over to the trustees of said libraries for the white and colored people the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, which the people voted for that purpose on May 6, 1901; that the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars shall be distributed between the trustees of the two libraries in such proportion as is just and equitable, all things being considered.
CHAPTER 497 ~.. An act to establish graded schools in the town of Greenville, N. C. Wye The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the Board of Trustees above mentioned shall have entire and exclusive control of the graded school interest and property in the town of Greenville; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; shall employ and fix the compensation of officers and teachers of the graded schools hereby established and do all other acts that may be just and lawful to properly conduct and manage the general school interest of said district.
Section 8. That all children within the limits of the district herein described who are entitled to attend the public schvols shall be admitted into the said graded schools free of charge: Frovided always, that the whites shall attend the school provided for them and the negroes shall atte.. the school previded for them: Provided further, that if there shall be so Tew children of either race in the district that the Board of Trustees shall deem it inadvisable to organize a school for that race, then they shall have power to arrange for the children of the race which shall be so represented to receive their pro rata proportion of the funds so raised by the special tax herein provided for in some other manner, or they may give such pro rata proportion to the public schools for that race adjoining the district herein described: Provided further, that the said Board of Trustees of the graded school shail have power to admit children to the graded schools herein constituted who reside outside of the said graded school district upon such terms as they may deem fair and just.
CHAPTER 176 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 138 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1874 AND 1875 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That said chapter 138 of the Private Laws of 1874 and 1875 be and the same is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following additional sections, to be numbered sections 13, 14 and 15, as follows, to-wit: Src. 13 That the School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte shall establish and maintain a library which shall be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools of said city and the public generally; and shall have power to acquire, by donation, purchase or otherwise, books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications and property of every kind suitable for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publications for the white and colored races, and provide separate rooms for the use of each of said races, said rooms to be located in such part or parts of said city as the said School Commissioners may designate. Src. 14 That said School Commissioners shall have power to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of such library as it may deem proper, and to do all acts and things necessary for the successful maintenance and operation of said library. The expense of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of said city of Charlotte, and the Treasurer of said Board of School Commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to pay the sum upon the order or warrant of the chairman of the said The School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte. The Board of Aldermen of the city of Charlotte, on behalf of said city and at its costs, shall provide suitable rooms for the use of said library.
CHAPTER 782 An act to revise and consolidate the public school law. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 19. The county board of school directors of any county may annually appropriate an amount not exceeding fifty dollars out of the school funds of the county for the purpose of conducting one or more teachers institutes for said county, or the county boards of schoo! directors of two or more adjoining counties may appropriate an amount not exceeding fifty dollars to each county for the purpose of conducting a teachers institute for said counties at some convenient and satisfactory point, andthe public school teachers of the said county or counties are required to attend said institute unless prevented from attending by sickness or other good cause. A county teachers institute under this section shall be conducted by the county superintendent of schools, assisted by some member of the state board of examiners or a member of the faculty-of the normal department of the University of North Carolina or of the State Normal and Industrial College, or of the Agricultural and Mechanica! College at Raleigh, or by some practical teacher appointed by said state board of examiners: Provided, that the local and travelling expenses of the persons thus appointed,shall be paid out of-the general public school fund of the county by order of the county board of school directors: Provided, that the teachers institutes sha!l be held for the white race and the colored race separate and apart from each other.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 27. That the parks shall be separate and distinct between the racesthose established by the white trustees for the white race and the other for the colored race; the white parks shall be used exclusively for the white people and the colored park or parks for the colored people.
CHAPTER 384 An act to promote the comfort of travellers on railroad trains, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That all railroad companies and steamboat companies engaged as common carriers in the transportation of passengers for hire in the state of North Carolina other than street railways shall provide separate but equal accommodations for the white and colored races on all passenger trains and steamboats carrying passengers. Such accommodations may be furnished by railroad companies either by separate passenger cars or by compartments in passenger cars, which shall be provided by the railroads under the supervision and direction of the board of railroad commissioners or the officers succeeding to their powers: Provided, that this shall not apply to relief trains in cases of accident, to Pullman or sleeping cars or through express trains that do not stop at all stations and are not used ordinarily ae travelling from station to station, to negro servants in attendanee on their employers, to officers or guards transporting prisoners, nor to prisoners so transported. He
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 8. The appropriations made or which may hereafter be made by congress for the benefit of colleges of agricultural and mechanical arts shall be divided between the white and colored institutions in this state in the ratio of the white population to the colored.
CHAPTER 208 An act to amend the charter of Siler City, Chatham county, chapter eighty-eight, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. that the cemetery for the burial of white people shall be known by the name of Oak Hill Cemetery. No colored person shall be buried within the above-named cemetery. No colored person or any one else shall be buriea inside the limits of the town corporation outside the cemetery. Any person or persons violating either clauses of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined one hundred dollars.
CHAPTER 361 An act to establish a graded school in Hayesville, Clay county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. Provided, further, that the colored race shall not be allowed to vote as to levying tax, We., for the Hayesville graded school fer white children. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1897
CHAPTER 343 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 8. That the public school committee of the said public schools shall consist of nine members, six of whom shall be of the white race and three of whom shall be of the colored race. They shall be elected by the board of town commissioners of the said town of Washington at the first regular meeting of the said board of commissioners held after the municipal election in May, next, and shall hold office from date of election. The said three members from the colored race shall be nominated by the colored members of the board of town commissioners, and no one not so nominated shall be elected a member of the public school committee from the colored race. The said board of commissioners shall, by ballot, divide the said public school committee into three classes of three each ; the members of the first class shall hold office for a term of two years from date of election; the members of the second class shall hold office for a term of four years from date of election, and the members of the third class shall hold office for a term of six years from date of election. All vacancies oceurring in said public school committee shall be filled by the said board of town commissioners for terms of six years each except in cases of death or resignation in which cases the vacancies shall be filled only for the unexpired terms of the members dying or resigning.
CHAPTER 123 An act to protect the owners of live stock from the depredations of thieves. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the Brunswick Bridge and Ferry Company, its agents, lessees or assigns, are hereby required to take and keep in a book provided for that purpose, the ear mark, color, brand and sex of any and all live stock which May be transported by it or them across the ferry owned by said company at Wilmington, and the date at which the same were delivered to it for transportation, and shall take and record the name and color of the person or persons bringing the same for transportation.
CHAPTER 108 An act to revise and improve the public school system of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. It shall be the duty of the school committee to distribute and apportion the school money of their district so as to give each school in their district, white and colored, the same length of school term, as nearly as may be each year, and in making such apportionment the said committee shall have proper regard for the grade of work to be done and the qualifications of the teachers pouuincd : in each school, white and colored, within their district.
CHAPTER 352 An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 100. Said schools shall be separated and kept separate in such manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools and other children to the other schools, and said board of aldermen shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section.
CHAPTER 150 An act to provide for public burial-grounds in Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That separate grounds, as provided in this act, shall be established for the white and colored races. _
CHAPTER 316 An act to promote education in the town of Williamston, Martin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That any balance arising from the bonds issued under this act the said commissioners are authorized and empowered to apply in enlarging, improving or building a school-house for the colored children in the school district for colored children in which Williamston is situated, in any manner that may be agreed on between said commissioners and the schoo! committee of said district.
CHAPTER 75 An act to amend the charter of the town of Kinston, Lenoir county, chap- ter thirty-three, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That section fifty-one of said chapter be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor: That they may provide graveyardsat least one for the white race and one for the colored racein or near the corporate limits and regulate the same, and may appoint and pay keepers: a white keeper for that of the white race, and a colored keeper for that of the colored race, and compel the keeping and returning bills of eet and they may prohibit interments within the town.
CHAPTER 673 AN ACT TO REGULATE HUNTING IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY; TO ENCOURAGE THE PROPOGATION OF GAME BIRDS AND ANIMALS; TO REGULATE THE OPEN AND CLOSED SEASON; TO CREATE A COUNTY GAME COMMISSION; TO IMPOSE A LICENSE FEE ON ALL PERSONS HUNTING OFF THEIR OWN PREMISES; TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS VIOLATING PROVISIONS OF THE ACT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. That nothing in this act shall conflict with the StateWide Game Law passed in regular session of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.
CHAPTER 164 AN ACT TO CREATE AN EMERGENCY RESERVE FUND FOR PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS IN THE CITY OF GREENSBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. The funds accumulated under this act shall be known as the Emergency Reserve Fund of the City of Greensboro, and shall be used as a fund for all arresting officers, as defined in section two hereof, and their families, under the following terms and conditions, that is to say: If an officer while in the actual performance of his duties shall become disabled, there shall be paid to him a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and a monthly pension while so disabled not in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month, and the board may pay to such disabled officer an additional sum not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month for each child or dependent under the age of eighteen years while the disability of such officer may exist and while the said officer shall live; and in case of death resulting while in the actual performance of his duties, if the officer shall be married, the board may pay immediately to the widow of such officer a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and may further pay a sum not in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month for said widow during widowhood, and, in addition thereto, the board may pay the said widow for the support of any dependent children she may have a sum not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month for each child until said child shall reach the age of eighteen -18 years; and in case of death resulting while in the actual performance of official duties under this act where the individual or officer as herein defined may be unmarried, the board may pay to the nearest dependent next of kin of deceased a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or in lieu thereof the board may pay the funeral expenses of deceased not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00); and it is further the TRUE intent, meaning and purpose of this act that any payments enumerated in this act are limited to be not in excess of the maximum amount or amounts herein set out; and it is further the TRUE intent, meaning and purpose of this act that the board shall be empowered hereunder, in its discretion, to pay any amount less than the maximum enumerated, and said board may refuse to make a payment of any amount in any case in any or all of the classes herein enumerated.
CHAPTER 85 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTRIC WHITE WAY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO. Whereas, the present electric lighting system along the side- walks of Center Street between the southern line of Chestnut Street and the northern line of Ash Street, along the side- walks of John Street between the northern line of Chestnut Street and the northern line of Ash Street, along the sidewalks of Walnut Street between the western line of William Street and the western line of Carolina Street, along and on the Golds- boro Union Station lands, along the sidewalks of Mulberry Street between the western line of Center Street and the eastern line of John Street, and at the intersections of the sidewalks of Chestnut and Center Streets, Ash and Center Streets, John and Ash Streets, Walnut and James Streets, Mulberry and Center Streets, Carolina and Walnut Streets, and Mulberry and John Streets, in the City of Goldsboro, is obsolete and inadequate; and, Whereas, it is necessary for the general welfare of the City of Goldsboro and its citizens that an adequate electric lighting system, commonly known as an electric white way, be installed on and along said sidewalks and at said intersections of said sidewalks, now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of aldermen of the City of Goldsboro, is hereby fully authorized and empowered to remove the present electric lighting system from the sidewalks and at the intersections of the sidewalks named in the preamble of this act, and to cause to be installed on and along said sidewalks and at said intersections of said sidewalks an electric white way lighting system.
CHAPTER 87 AN ACT TO RELIEVE CHURCH PROPERTY IN THE TOWN OF ZEBULON, WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA, FROM ALL STREET PAVING ASSESSMENTS BE- COMING DUE JANUARY FIRST, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY, AND SUBSEQUENT THERETO IF APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That at the next regular municipal election to be held in the Town of Zebulon on Tueday after the first Monday in May, -1931 one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town the question of relieving the said churches from the payment of said street paving assessments as set forth in Section one of this Act. At said election the voters favoring the relief of said churches shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words For Relief of Church Property, those opposed shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words Against Relief of Church Property. If a majority of the votes cast on this question shall be for relief of church property then this Act shall be in full force and effect, otherwise to be and void.
CHAPTER 149 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A SCHOOL BOARD FOR THE ASHEVILLE LOCAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT AND DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. Said School Board shall each year prepare and transmit to the Board of Financial Control if established by law, or otherwise to the Board of County Commissioners, a budget requirement for the next fiscal year for the operation and maintenance of the schools of said district, showing the allocation of the different funds as now required by the school laws of North Carolina. The Superintendent of Schools elected by said board shall be ex-officio secretary thereof and shall keep the minutes, records, financial and otherwise, and correspondence of said Board and as such prepare a tentative budget as above required subject to the approval and adoption by the Board.
CHAPTER 395 AN ACT AUTHORIZING WARREN COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The said board of commissioners is hereby further authorized to levy annually a special tax ad valorem on all taxable property in said county for the special purpose of paying the principal and interest of all bonds issued under this act as such principal and interest becomes due, which tax shall be in addition to all other taxes authorized by law to be levied in said county.
CHAPTER 105 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FIVE OF CHAPTER 314 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1909, RE- LATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF TARBORO, EDGECOMBE COUNTY. 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 60 AN ACT CREATING THREE DISTRICTS IN CAMDEN COUNTY FOR THE NOMINATION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast in his district shall be declared to be the nominee of his said district for membership upon the county board of education of said Camden County.
CHAPTER 137 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A PRIMARY ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 24. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 9 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON TO APPROPRIATE MONEY TO THE WILMINGTON TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION, INCOR- PORATED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 291 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PASQUOTANK HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO ISSUE BONDS FOR ROAD CONSTRUC- TION IN PASQUOTANK COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the purchaser or purchasers of any part of said bonds shall not be required to see to the application of the proceeds of the sale thereof, and said bonds shall be valid and binding obligations of said county, for which the full faith and credit and taxing power of said county is committed and pledged notwithstanding any misapplication of said proceeds.
CHAPTER 148 AN ACT APFOINTING MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY AND REGULAT- ING THE TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SAID COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of education of Franklin County shall consist of five -5 members, nominated and elected as provided in part eleven, chapter one hundred and thirty-six, Public Laws of North Carolina, session one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, except as herein after provided.
CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO FIX THE TITLE TO CERTAIN SCHOOL PROP- ERTY IN THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, AND MAKE PRO- VISION FOR THE SALE OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said city of Greensboro is hereby authorized and empowered, through its mayor and city council, to sell privately and convey in fee, for the sum of seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars ($71,500), to the trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, and their successors, for the use and benefit of the said church, its successor or successors and assigns, the land hereinbefore described, together with one other parcel described and bounded as follows: Beginning on the northeast corner of the Presbyterian Church burying ground; thence north eighty-six and one-half -86144 degrees east about two hundred and forty-eight -248 feet to Forbis Street; thence with the west line of Forbis Street two and one-half (24%4) degrees west about seventy-two -72 feet to a stake; thence south eighty-six and one-half -8644 degrees west about two hundred and forty-eight -248 feet to a stake; thence north two and one-half -2% degrees east about seventy -70 feet to the beginning, being known as the Catholic Church property.
CHAPTER 324 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO REVISE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF THE COUNTY OF BUNCOMBE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit township deputy tax collectors from settling with the county tax collectors on the dates as appears in said act.
CHAPTER 581 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ERECTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS SMITHS CREEK, PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The board of county commissioners of Pamlico County is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion and upon petition of local residents and property owners, to erect or cause to be erected a bridge across Smiths Creek opposite or near the town of Oriental, Pamlico County, and to pay the cost of said bridge out of the public road funds of Pamlico County: Provided, that the erection of said bridge shall not be begun and the contract for its erection shall not be let until the residents and the property owners of the community requesting such erection shall have given to the board of county commissioners a written guarantee that they will, upon the completion of the bridge, reimburse the public road funds-of the county in such an amount as shall be stated in said guarantee, and shall be satisfactory to the board of county commissioners, and until said residents and property owners shall have, at their own expense and without expense to the county, constructed satisfactory roads connecting the nearest existing public roads on either side of Smiths Creek with the site of said proposed bridge.
CHAPTER 75 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 101 OF PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1915 RELATING TO FINANCIAL AGENT FOR PERSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section two of chapter one hundred and one, Public-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out lines six, seven, eight and nine thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof That as to Person County, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to arrange with one or more banks in the county to act as financial agent or agents for said county in lieu of the county treasurer, and in making such agreement said board of county commissioners shall employ such bank or banks with which the most satisfactory agreement can be made.
CHAPTER 302 AN ACT REQUIRING INSTRUCTION TO BE GIVEN BEYOND THE SEVENTH GRADE IN EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT, IF THERE BE NO HIGH SCHOOL IN SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND MAKING IT THE DUTY OF THE SCHOOL BOARDS TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL GRADES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 110 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A POLL TAX FOR THE MAINTE- NANCE OF PUBLIC ROADS IN LIEU OF PERSONAL SER- VICE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That upon presentation of a petition in writing signed by not less than one-fourth of the qualified voters of any township in Pitt County, to the board of county commissioners of said county, requesting them to submit to the qualified voters of the township where such petitioners reside, a proposition asking that they be allowed to vote on the question of levying a poll tax in said township in lieu of personal. road service or duties, as required by Revisal, section two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five, setting forth the maximum and minimum poll tax desired to be voted upon: Provided, the poll tax so voted shall not be less than three dollars nor more than six dollars on said poll, the board of commissioners shall within thirty days order an election to be held in such township and submit to the qualified voters therein the question of increasing poll tax to the amount specified, at which election all those qualified to vote who are in favor of the proposition, shall vote a ballot upon which shall be written or printed the words For Poll Tax for Road Maintenance, and those opposed to the proposition shall vote a ballot upon which shall be written or printed Against Poll Tax for Road Maintenance, and the election for this purpose shall be conducted in the same manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as are or may be provided for the election of township officers by the general election laws of this State, unless in any manner otherwise provided for in this act. That it shall be optional with the board of county commissioners of Pitt County whether a new registration shall be ordered for said election or not: Provided, that should a new registration be ordered, the board of county commissioners shall at the time of ordering said election appoint one registrar and two judges of election in said township to hold said election. The books shall be kept open for the registration of voters for twenty days preeeding the day of election. And for the purpose of registration, the books used in the general election shall be delivered to and revised by the registrar; and in case of a new registration, thirty days notice therecf shall be given: Provided, that elections may be ordered and held upon petitions under the provisions of this act not oftener than every twelve months in any township until the poll tax limit specified in this act shall have been reached: Provided further, that all funds derived from said poll tax levy shall be applied solely to the maintenance and improvement of the roads within the township voting for said poll tax.
CHAPTER 774 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH IN THE COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK A SPECIAL COURT TO BE CALLED THE RECORDER'S COURT, AND PRESCRIBE THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. Said court shall also have jurisdiction to try all actions for the recovery of any penalty imposed by law or this act or by any ordinances of the city of Southport for any act done within said city of Southport, and said penalty shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the city of Southport, and if incurred by a minor, shall be recovered from and in an action against the parent or guardian. From any judgment for such penalty imposed or allowed to be imposed by this act, or for the violation of any ordinance of the city of Southport, either party may appeal to the next term of the Superior Court of Brunswick County, in like manner and under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed for appeals from justices of the peace; and in case the recorder shall be disabled by reason of relationship or is otherwise incompetent to hear and determine such action, the same may be instituted and prosecuted in any court within the county of Brunswick which would but for this act have jurisdiction thereof, under the same rules and regulations as if instituted and tried in said recorders court where applicable. In all cases where judgment may be entered up against any person for fines or penalties according to law and the ordinances of said city of Southport, and the person or persons against whom same is adjudged refuse, fail, or are unable to pay such judgment, it shall be lawful for the recorder of said court to order and require said person or persons ,to be worked on the public roads of said county of Brunswick until, at a fair rate of wages, such person or persons shall have worked out the full amount of such judgment and costs.
CHAPTER 334 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR GOOD ROADS IN SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. That the board of commissioners of Surry County, when a petition of one-fifth of the voters in Shoals Township is filed, is hereby empowered and instructed to submit to the voters BeBe cio tet Township, Surry County, on a day to be designated by the board of commissioners of Surry County, the question whether the said township (Shoals) shall issue bonds in a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, with interest coupons: attached, the proceeds of which to be used for the improvement of the public roads of Shoals*Township as hereinbefore provided in this act. The said board of county commissioners shall for at least thirty days before the election give public notice of said election, together with the publication thereof in one or more newspapers published in Shoals Township: Provided, that if a majority of the voters of said township shall not yote to issue the bonds at the election so held, said board of commissioners is hereby directed to submit the said question to the said voters at the expiration of four months from time of first election under the regulations hereinafter set out; and Provided further, that if a majority of the yoters of said township shall not vote to issue bonds at the election so held, the said board of commissioners of Surry County are directed to submit the said question to the voters at any other time or times when as many as one-fourth of the voters of said township shall by petition request it.
CHAPTER 302 AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND EMPOWERING THE COMMIS- SIONERS OF GASTON COUNTY, IN THEIR DISCRETION, TO DEFER FOR THREE YEARS THE FORECLOSURE UNDER DEEDS OF TRUST AND MORTGAGES HELD IN THE SINKING FUND OF SAID COUNTY AND TO AUTHOR- IZE AND EMPOWER SAID COMMISSIONERS TO SELL REAL ESTATE NOW OR HEREAFTER HELD BY THEM FOR THE SINKING FUND OF SAID COUNTY UPON SUCH TERMS AS, IN THEIR DISCRETION, THEY THINK PROPER, BUT IN NO CASE FOR A PERIOD LONGER THAN FIVE YEARS. Whereas, the Board of Commissioners of Gaston County hold deeds of trust and mortgages against the property of citizens of said County, which said collateral constitutes a part of the sinking fund of said County; and Whereas, foreclosure proceedings to collect under said deeds of trust and mortgages when due might work a hardship on many honest citizens during these depressed financial times; and Whereas, the Commissioners of Gaston County now hold, and may hereafter acquire, certain real estate which it now or may hereafter hold as part of the sinking fund of said County; and Whereas, it may be desirable to sell said real estate upon terms, in the discretion of said Commissioners, rather than for eash; Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the Board of Commissioners of Gaston County be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to execute deeds for and take mortgages or deeds of trust for any and all property sold by them under Section two above.