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CHAPTER 100 AN ACT TO ENABLE THE CREATION, GOVERNMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF SANITARY DISTRICTS AND PRESCRIBING THE POWERS OF SUCH DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 17. Upon the creation of a sanitary district and after each assessment for taxes thereafter the boards or boards of county commissioners of the county or counties in which the sanitary district is located shall file with the sanitary district board the valuation of assessable property within the district. The sanitary district board shall then determine the amount of funds to be raised for the ensuing year in excess of the funds available from surplus operating revenues set aside as provided in section twenty of this act to provide payment of interest and the proportionate part of the principal of all outstanding bonds, and to retire all outstanding certificates of indebtedness. The sanitary district board shall determine the number of cents per $100  necessary to raise the said amount and so certify to the board or boards of county commissioners. The board or boards of county commissioners in their next annual levy shall include the number of cents per $100  so certified by the sanitary district board in the levy against all taxable property within. the district, which tax shall be collected as other county taxes are collected and every ninety days the smount of tax so collected shall be remitted to the sanitary district board and deposited by said board in a bank in the State of North Carolina separately from other funds of the district. Said bank, however, before said funds are deposited in it is to execute a proper surety bond as described in section fifteen for the proper care and disbursement of and accounting for said taxes.
CHAPTER 346 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 116 OF CHAPTER 342 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA OF 1907, RELA- TIVE TO THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. 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 That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.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 95 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF STATE TO FIX THE SALARIBS, COMPENSATION AND WAGES OF CERTAIN CLERKS, STENOGRAPHERS AND EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED IN THE SEVERAL DEPART- MENTS OF THE STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The Governor and Council of State are authorized and empowered to employ any additional lerical or stenographical help in any of the departments of the State, upon the written request of the head of said department, and when they shall become satisfied that such additional help is needed, temporarily in such department, to do efficiently the work of said department, and fix the salary of such additional help under section one of this act.
CHAPTER 1010 s AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 246 OF THE LAWS OF 1885, IN RELATION TO. THE STOCK LAW OF ROCKY POINT} STOCK-LAW TERRITORY IN PENDER COUNTY. oe The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section eight of chapter two hundred and y forty-six of the Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eightyfive be amended by adding to the end of said section the following words: Provided, that it shall be unlawful for any person owning lands adjoining said fence territory, but not included therein, to use the said stock fence as a dividing fence between said ownersand the stock-law territory, unless such owners | shall erect and maintain one-third of the section of fence so used by them, or shall pay to the chairman of the Fence Commissioners one-third of the expenses of erecting and maintaining the same. Sec. 2 That this act shall be in force from and after its | ratification. ; In the General: Assembly read three times, and ratified this the 11th day of March, 1907
CHAPTER 720 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER DRAINAGE OF THE LOWLANDS IN DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP, GUILFORD COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. Overseers shall give five days notice to land owners as above prescribed, of the time and place of working and the hand and tool required of each hand. All land owners are required to dam and keep sand out of the streams.
CHAPTER 516 AN ACT TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE OYSTER INDUS- TRY OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 24. Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, for which the penalty has not been specifically mentioned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER 142 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO CHANGE THE SITE OF THE COUNTY HOME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County, be and it is hereby authorized to change the site of the County Home for the Aged and Infirm, and to re-locate the same at such place in said county as in the discretion of the said Board may seem advisable, and to that end, said Board shall have full power and authority to sell and convey the lands upon which the County Home is now located, and to purchase other lands upon which to locate said Home, at such place as to the Board may seem proper.
CHAPTER 663 An act forbidding persons hunting on the lands of another without writ- ten permission of the owner in Roxobe!l Township, Bertie County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt on the lands of another in Roxobel Township, Bertie County, without the written consent of the owner of such land: Provided, this act shall not apply to fox hunting.
CHAPTER 558 An act to provide for the sale of property for taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 34. The owner of any certificate or certificates of tax sale upon any tract or town lot shall be deemed to be the assignee or owner of all the liens for taxes of the State or county for which such tracts or lots was sold, and may, instead of demanding a deed therefor as provided in this act proceed by action at any time before the expiration of two years from the date of such certificate to foreclose the same, and cause the tract or lot to be sold for the satisfaction thereof and of all prior and subsequent taxes paid thereon, in all respects, as far as practicable, in the same manner and with like effect as though the same were a mortgage executed to the owner of such certificate or certificates for the amount named therein, together with subsequent and prior taxes thereon by the person having or owning the title to said land or lot adverse thereto. More than one certificate on the same property may be included in the same action, but each, together with prior or subsequent taxes paid thereon, shall be deemed and stated as a separate cause of action: Provided, that no action to foreclose any such lien _ shall be maintained unless the owner of such certificate shall have served notice on the occupant or owner of the land mentioned therein.
CHAPTER. 137 An ace to repeal chapter two hundred and twenty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter two hundred and twenty-three -223 of the public laws of North Carolina for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five be and the same is hereby repealed and the office of cotton weigher for the town of Dunn in the county of Harnett is hereby abolished.
CHAPTER 203 An act to provide for laying out and constructing a public road from Roaring river, in the county of Wilkes, to me Meadow Fork road, in the county of Alleghany. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That after discharging their duties under this act said road commissioners shall make reports of their work to the boards of county commissioners of the respective counties; and in said report they shall designate what damage any person through whose land said road is laid out has sustained, which damage shall be paid by the county in which the land is situate when the road is constructed over the same,
CHAPTER 134 An act to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. gre General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section three of chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the laws of North Carolina, enacted at the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by striking out the words amounting to five acres in the tenth line thereof; and that said section be further amended by adding to the same the following, towit: or the said landowner may be sued by the said overseer and judgment taken against him before a justice of the peace in Henderson county for the amount due on account of his failure to furnish said hand or hands, and if the said landowner be not a resident of the state, the summons in said action may be served by publication as in proceedings in attachments against non-residents ; but should the said landowner reside within the state, but without the county of Henderson, the summons in this case, duly certified by clerk of the superior court for Henderson county as to signature of the justice of the peace, [nay] be served by any sheriff within the state to whom it may be directed.
CHAPTER 276 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE, AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 114. The board of aldermen may levy a special sewer assessment upon all lots and property abutting on any street in which is located a sewer main, whether the said lot or property be connected with said sewer main or not, such sewer tax or assessment not to exceed three cents per lineal foot of the frontage of such lot or property, said tax to be devoted to the payment of interest on bonds issued for sewer purposes.
CHAPTER 33 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANI- ZATION OF THE COUNTY OF AVERY FROM THE TERRI- TORY OF MITCHELL, WATAUGA, AND CALDWELL COUN- TIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That all civil and criminal cases pending in the Superior Courts of Mitchell, Caldwell, and Watauga counties which would have been properly triable in the county of Avery, if the said county of Avery had existed at the time said cause was instituted or the right of action therein accrued, or where the criminal offense charged was committed in the territory of the said county of Avery, shall, upon motion of any defendant in any criminal case pending or upon motion of any party to civil causes, be transferred to the Superior or other proper court of Avery County. Such motion for removal shall be made at the first term of the court wherein the cause shall be pending, which shall sit or be holden after the first Monday in April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and such transfer shall in no way work any preference or prejudice. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the Superior Courts of Mitchell, Caldwell, and Watauga counties to transmit the original papers in all such cases removed, together with a proper record of all such causes removed, to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Avery County. All actions, causes or proceedings, matters and things pending before the clerk of the Superior Court of the county of Mitchell or the clerk of the Superior Court of Caldwell or the clerk of the Superior Court of the county of Watauga which would have been within the jurisdiction of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Avery County, had the county of Avery existed at the time said cause, proceeding or matter was begun or the right therein accrued, shall upon motion of any party thereto or interested therein be transferred to the county of Avery and to the jurisdiction of the clerk of the Superior Court of said county, to be heard, determined, or proceeded with before him, in all respects as if the said cause, matter, or proceeding had been begun in said county of Avery. Upon such removal, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Superior Court of the county from which the removal is made to transmit to the clerk of the Superior Court of the county of Avery the original papers in such cause, matter, or proceeding, together with a proper record thereof.
CHAPTER 1198 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE $5,000.00  FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 500 ACRE TRACT DONATED BY THE LAKE PHELPS FARMS, INCORPORATED, TO THE USE OF THE STATE PARKS DIVISION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. This appropriation is made subject to and contingent upon the acceptance of the gift of 500 acres by the Governor and the Council of State on June 25, 1963 1666
CHAPTER 127 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF NEW BERN. Whereas the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company was incorporated by the Secretary of State on the thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve; and whereas letters of incorporation were duly issued by him to William Dunn, Clyde Eby, and T. A. Uzzell, their successors or assigns, and by said letters of incorporation they were authorized to do a general banking business, including commercial and savings business and all other banking business permitted by chapter seven of the Re- visal of one thousand nine hundred and five and the laws of North Carolina and amendments thereto, with a total authorized capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, which said letters of incor- poration were issued by the Secretary of State, bearing date the thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve; and under said letters of incorporation and the authority therein said parties named have duly organized and are now conducting the business authorized by the charter; and whereas the board of directors of said corporation have passed a resolution declaring that an extension of the corporate powers and privileges is ad- visable; and, whereas, at a meeting held on the .... day of steele , one thousand nine hundred and twelve, it was unani- mously resolved that the corporate rights and privileges of said Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company be changed and altered, as hereinafter set out: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. Said corporation shall be invested with all the powers and privileges usually incident to banking institutions and to Savings banks, with the right to receive deposits, the limit to be fixed by its board of directors, and to pay interest thereon at fixed rates, or by way of dividends, out of the net earnings, according to the terms to be agreed upon between the corpcration and the depositors; and the board of directors are hereby fully authorized to adopt all proper rules and regulations for conducting and carrying into effect the savings-bank feature of this corporation.
CHAPTER 18 AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143-146 AS TO THE EXECUTION OF DEEDS FOR STATE-OWNED LANDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That G. S. 143-146 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: G. S. 143-146. Execution of Deeds for State-owned lands. The Governor of the State is hereby authorized and empowered to execute a deed in the manner provided by G. S. 143-148 to any land which is not needed for purposes of the State Government, the title to which is vested in the State, or any State institution, department or agency upon the application of the trustees or directors of such institution or the board, commission or State officer having such property in charge. The application shall show that such conveyance is for the best interests of the State or such institution, department or agency and shall be approved by the Counci! of State. All conveyances heretofore made by the Governor, attested by the Secretary of State and authorized by the Council of State, in the manner provided by G. S. 148-148 of any lands, the title to which was vested in the State for the use of any State institution, department or agency or vested in the State for any other purpose, are hereby ratified and validated.
CHAPTER 342 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BANK OF BELHAVEN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That said corporation shall be invested with all the powers and privileges usually incident to savings banks, with the right to receive deposits, the limit to be fixed by its board of directors, and to pay interest thereon at fixed rate or by way of dividends out of the net earnings, according to the terms to be agreed upon betvfeen the corporation and its depositors; and the board of directors are hereby fully authorized to adopt all other rules and regulations for conducting and carrying into effect the savings bank feature of this corporation. Such savings department may be kept separate and distinct from the other business of the bank.
CHAPTER 198 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF INDIAN ANTIQUITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. Whereas, the preservation of Indian relics, artifacts, mounds, and burial grounds in North Carolina for historica!, scientific, and educational purposes is imperative; and Whereas, public agencies, such as the North Carolina His- torical Commission, the North Carolina State Museum, the State Department of Conservation and Development, and the Archaeological Society of North Carolina are cooperating with private collectors of Indian antiquities to this end; and Whereas, the activities of careless or untrained persons have led and are leading to the destruction of many valuable Indian sites and artifacts; Now, Therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all persons having in their possession collections of Indian relics, artifacts, and antiquities which are in danger of being lost, destroyed or scattered are urged to commit them to the custody of the North Carolina State Museum, the North Carolina Historical Commission, or some other public agency or institution within the State which is qualified to preserve and exhibit them for their historic, scientific and educational value to the people of the State.
CHAPTER 449 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WAKE COUNTY TO SELL THE COURTHOUSE AND JAIL AND PROPERTY ON WHICH SAME ARE LOCATED, AND THE COUNTY HOME PROPERTY, AND TO CONSTRUCT AND EQUIP NEW BUILDINGS, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. ;
CHAPTER 205 AN ACT TO PROVIDE GOOD ROADS IN ENFIELD TOWN- SHIP, HALIFAX COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the provisions of all the preceding sections of this act, except section one, shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of said Enfield Township at an election to be held on a day to be designated by the board of county commissioners of Halifax County; said day for holding said election shall be deter- ] mined by the written request of a majority of the trustees appointed for Enfield Township. For the holding of said election ] the said county commissioners shall appoint a registrar and two poll-holders and any other officers necessary to said election, and ! shall order a new registration. At the close of said election said  registrar and poll-holders shall count and canvass the vote cast, J and declare the result thereof, and shall report such canvass to) the board of county commissioners, which said report shall be  recorded in the minutes of said board of commissioners, and no other canvass, report, or recording shall be necessary. At said! election all yoters who shall favor the issue of bonds, the levy of special tax, and the other provisions of this act, shall cast ballots on which shall be printed or written For Good Roads; those opposed to such shall cast ballots on which shall be written or printed Against Good Roads. In all other respects said election shall be held and conducted in the manner prescribed for the election of members of the General Assembly. If a majority of: the qualified voters of said township shall vote For Good Roads, then said bonds shall be issued and said tax levied, and the other powers and duties exercised as provided for in this act: Provided, that if a majority of said qualified voters shall fail to vote For Good Roads, said board of county commissioners shall order another election or elections, to be held in the manner and with the same effect as above provided, at any time within one year of the date of the first election, when requested to do so by said board of trustees.
CHAPTER 293 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH UNITY IN IREDELL COUNTY GOV- ERNMENT; TO PRESERVE THE TAXABLES OF THE COUNTY; TO COLLECT THE REVENUE FAIRLY AND JUSTLY; TO SAFEGUARD THE REVENUE THROUGH PROPER ACCOUNTING AND EXPENDITURES TO BE MADE THROUGH PROPER CONTROL AND A CENTRAL PURCHASING AGENT; TO PROTECT THE PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF THE COUNTY; AND TO ESTABLISH THE BUDGET SYSTEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That there shall be maintained in the office of the business manager a complete double entry set of books for the county schools, in codperatiom with the books kept by the superintendent of schools, showing the sum set apart in the budget _ for each school district and the operating expenses of each district for the school year, which information shall be furnished by the superintendent of schools.
CHAPTER 131 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A DISPENSARY IN THE TOWN OF WILSON, WILSON TOWNSHIP, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That every person who shall, directly or indirectly, keep or maintain, by himself or by associating or combining with others, or shall in any manner aid, assist or abet in keeping or maintaining any club-room or other place in which intoxicating liquors are received or kept for barter or sale or for distribution or division among the members of any club or any association by any means whatever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER 37 An act to incorporate the town of Rocky Mount Millis, in the county of Nash. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That it shall be the duty of the persons appointed to office by this act to meet and take the oath prescribed by law before some justice of the peace of Nash county, and enter upon the discharge of their respective duties. _
CHAPTER 314 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF WISH, WARREN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the following bounds, including the town of Wise, to-wit: Beginning at a point on South Creek where the Virginia line crosses said creek, thence up said creek to the mouth of Terrapin Creek; thence up said Terrapin Creek to the southwest corner of Daniel Hicks land; thence along Daniel Hicks line eastwardly to John Robinsons line or ridge path; thence southwardly along said Robinsons line and ridge path to the southwest corner of said Robinsons land; thence eastwardly along said Robinsons line to Hawtree Township line; thence southwardly along said Hawtree Township line to the south side of N. B. Weldons land; thence along the south side of said Weldons land; thence along the north side of John Cawthorns land; thence along the south side of P. R. Perkinsons land to the public road; thence northwardly along said road to the southwest corner of Richard Stevensons estate; thence along the south side of the Stevenson land to the Falkner land; thence east to Hawtree Creek; thence down Hawtree Creek to the Virginia line; thence along said line weswardly to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Wise Graded School District. ,
CIE Tek con 5x . AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF STATE OEFICERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact as follows:
Section 42. The Secretary of State shall give bond with sufficient security, approved by the Governor and Auditor, for the sum of twenty thousand dollars, payable to the State, and conditioned for the aithful performance of his duties.
CHAPTER 53 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That for the purpose of providing for the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, and of defraying the expenses of   oot in ea PPR RESIST TONS me & a i poe a See as ee bate? ae Bae: public graded schools provided for in this aet, the board of commissioners of the town of Laurinburg shall, annually, and at the time of levying the municipal taxes, commencing with the fiscal year beginning with the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, levy and assess a particular tax on all subjects of taxation within the limits of said graded-school district on which said board of commissioners may now or hereafter be authorized to levy and assess taxes for any purposes whatsoever ; said particular tax to be such percentage on all real and personal property and all other subjects of taxation as may be recommended by the board of trustees; in no case, however, to exceed thirtythree and one-third cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation on real and personal property and not more than one dollar on each taxable poll.
CHAPTER 443 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF RUTHERFORDTON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. The said trustees shall make an accurate census of the school population of said district as required by the general school law of the State which may be in force from time to time. The said school trustees shall elect annually a superintendent and in consultation with him a principal of said graded school, and the said superintendent shall have the power and it shall be his duty to examine all teachers who shall teach in said school and to issue certificates to the same, and the said superintendent shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the said board of trustees.
CHAPTER 785 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 411, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, THE SAME BEING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ST. PAULS, NORTH CAROLINA, SO AS TO REDEFINE THE CORPORATE LIMITS AND TO PROVIDE FOR ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Section 5, Chapter 411, Session Laws of 1957, is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence thereof to read as follows: At 7:30 oclock P. M. on the first Thursday of June, following a regular municipal election, the board of commissioners shall meet at the usual place for holding its meetings and the newly elected members shall assume the duties of their office.
CHAPTER 403 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SPRING HOPE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That said Board shall make to the Board of Town Commissioners annually, at such time as is required under the school law of the State a report containing an accurate census of the school population, showing the work done, and money expended, on account of the graded or other public schools in said district; a copy of which report shall be forwarded to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State, and a copy to the County Examiner for Nash County. The beginning and ending of the school year shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees.
CHAPTER 445 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT IN LILESVILLE TOWNSHIP, ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the school committee provided for by this act shall have exclusive control of the public school interests, funds and property in the graded school district, as hereinbefore provided > shall prescribe rules and regulations for its own government, not inconsistent with law; shall fix the compensation of the officers. and teachers of the public or graded school annually, and they shall be subject to removal by said committee. Said committee shall make as accurate census of the school population of said district as required by the general school law of the State, and all other acts that may be lawful and proper to conduct and manage the general school interests within said district: Provided, all children resident in said district between the ages of six and twenty-one years shall be admitted into the school free of tuition charges. The said school committee shall make such reports as are now or may hereafter be required of it to the county board of education, the county superintendent of schools, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
CHAPTER 239 An act to amend the charter of the town of Murphy, in Cherokee county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 7. All electors who ine resided in the town of Murphy for ninety days next preceding the election shall be entitled to register hereunder. Ali elections held by virtue of this act shall be held under the supervision of the sheriff of Cherokee county, who shall attend the polls and by his deputies preserve order. The polls shall be opened on the day of election from seven oclock in the morning to sunset of the same day. No person whose name has not been duly registered shall be allowed to vote, and any one offering to vote may be challenged at the polls, and if the judges of election shall sustain the challenge, such persons ballot shall not be received. Ballots shall be on white paper and without device.
CHAPTER 597 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 90 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF LICENSED MEDICAL PHYSICIANS EVERY TWO YEARS WITH THE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Chapter 90 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto a new Section to be designated as G. S. 90-15.1, and to read as follows: G. S. 90-15.1. Every person heretofore or hereafter licensed to practice medicine by said Board of Medical Examiners shall, during the month of January, 1958, and during the month of January in every even-numbered year thereafter, register with the Secretary-Treasurer of said Board his name and office and residence address and such other information as the Board may deem necessary and shall pay a registration fee fixed by the Board not in excess of five dollars ($5.00). In the event a physician fails to register as herein provided he shall pay an additional amount of ten dollars ($10.00) to the Board. Should a physician fail to register and pay the fees imposed, and should such failure continue for a period of thirty days, the license of such physician may be suspended by the Board, after notice and hearing at the next regular meeting of the Board. Upon payment of all fees and penalties which may be due, the license of any such physician shall be reinstated.
CHAPTER 430 AN ACT DESIGNATING SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES OF THE EDEN- TON ACADEMY CREATED BY CHAPTER 39, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1800, AND AMENDED BY CHAPTER 4, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1844, AND AUTHORIZING SUCH TRUSTEES TO EXECUTE A CON- VEYANCE OF CERTAIN SCHOOL PROPERTY BOUNDED BY QUEEN AND CHURCH STREETS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON TO THE EDENTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The Trustees of Edenton Academy named in Section 1 of this Act are hereby authorized and empowered to convey in fee simple to the Edenton City Board of Education any real estate now owned by the said Board of Trustees of Edenton Academy and particularly that piece or parcel of land in the Town of Edenton conveyed by David Young and wife, Elizabeth Mary Young, Samuel Russell Clarkson and Dorothy Skinner to Samuel Johnston, et al, as Trustees of said Edenton Academy, and their successors forever, said deed being dated May 14, 1800, and being duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Chowan County in Deed Book BNo. 2 on pages 176 et seq; and being the same property leased by the Board of Trustees of Edenton Academy to the Trustees of Edenton Graded Schools by lease dated September 15, 1903, renewed for a period of 50 years after its expiration on September 15, 1923, said renewal lease being duly recorded in the office of said Register of Deeds in Deed Book M at page 575 et seq. The Trustees of Edenton Academy named in Section 1 of this Act are likewise authorized and empowered to quitclaim and release to the Edenton City Board of Education any reversionary interest which they now have or may have at any time in the future in and to the property leased by the Trustees of the Edenton Academy to the Board of Trustees of the Edenton Graded Schools by the lease and renewal thereof referred to in this Section, and they are likewise fully authorized and empowered to withdraw and cancel any and all conditions contained in said lease as to the use of said property for school purposes for the white race or for the purpose of education of the white race, so that the said City Board of Education may sell and convey an indefeasible and unconditional title in fee simple to said property in the event the same is abandoned for use as school property: Provided, however, that in the event of a sale of such property by the Edenton City Board of Education, the proceeds from the sale thereof shall be used for the purpose of purchasing another school site or for such other educational purposes as may be determined by said City Board of Education, and said proceeds shall be used for no other purpose.
CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE FLAT ROCK (HENDERSON COUNTY) SPECIAL-TAX DISTRICT AND TO INCORPORATE THE FLAT ROCK (HENDERSON - COUNTY) SPECIAL-TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT INTO THE GENERAL PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the trustees of the Flat Rock (Henderson County) Graded School iin the Flat Rock (Henderson County) Special-Tax School District be and they are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to transfer, by the excution of proper deeds of conveyance, all public school property, real and personal, of every description, now belonging to the public schools in the territory covered by the Flat Rock (Henderson County) Special!'Tax School District to the board of education of Henderson County.
CHAPTER 314 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE WORKING AND IMPROVING THE PUBLIC ROADS OF ASHE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That justices of the peace shall not beexempt from working on public roads, but shall be exempt one day for each day said justice is engaged in electing road supervisors or other duties appertaining to the public roads of said county.
CHAPTER 296 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 93. That any person, persons or corporation holding or possessing any certificate of purchase of any real estate at public tax sale or any tax deed shall be redeemed entitled to foreclose such lien under the 19 provision of this act within any time not exceeding two years from the date of tax sale (not deed) upon which such lien is based: And provided, that the taking out of a tax deed shall in nowise interfere with the rights granted in this act. PROVISIONS FOR COLLECTING TAX AND BY WHOM TO BE PAID.
CHAPTER 249 An act to be entitled an act to create and establish a free school district at Sharpsburg in the counties of Wilson, Edgecombe and Nash. . The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. G. W. Robbins, J. D. Dawes and D. L. Lancaster are hereby appointed and constituted a school committee for the whiterace. Peter Harris and Irwin Battle are hereby appointed and constituted a school committee for the colored race. The said committees shall held their office until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, the county board of education of each of the counties of Wilson, Edgecombe and Nash shall elect one committeeman out of the residents of the school district that live in their respective counties.
CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum is hereby constituted a corporation, and shall be and remain a corporation under that name, and the said Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum is hereby invested with all the property and rights held by the colored insane asylum near Goldsboro, and by that name to-wit, The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum, it may acquire and hold for the purpose of the accommodation, maintenance, support and care of the colored insane of this state all such property and estate as may be devised, bequeathed or in any way given or conveyed to it.
CHAPTER 298 AN ACT TO PERMIT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF McDOWELL COUNTY TO CALL AN ELECTION TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD A HOSPITAL. Whereas there is no hospital of any description whatsoever located in the county of McDowell; and Whereas there is no provision in said county for the taking care of the sick and those needing surgical attention in said county ; and Whereas the need for a hospital is great indeed, large numbers of our citizens having to be taken to Rutherfordton, Statesville and Asheville; and Whereas it is the desire of the public generally of McDowell County that a hospital be erected in said county for the care of the sick and those needing surgical attention in said county: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of McDowell County, on the application of the board of health of McDowell County, shall order an election to be held in the county of McDowell, said election to be held under the law governing general elections held in said county, said election to be held to permit the people to vote on the question of a hospital, to vote a ballot on which shall be written the word Hospital or a ballot on which shall be written the words No Hospital, and if a majority of the qualified voters of McDowell County shall cast their ballots in favor of a hospital, then it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of McDowell County, North Carolina, to issue bonds in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.to build and equip a hospital in the county of McDowell on some suitable lot to be selected by the board of commissioners of McDowell County, North Carolina.
CHAPTER 347 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE ROCKDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. That in the election or appointment of trustees as provided for in this act it shall be the duty of those exercising such power to so elect or appoint as to always have one trustee residing east of Joes Creek and one residing west of Joes Creek; that the board of trustees herein provided for shall locate and erect the new school building for the white race at Rockdale Springs.
CHAPTER 939 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 108 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN WHO ARE EIGHTEEN OR MORE YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. G. S. 108-50 -1 is hereby amended by changing the period appearing after the word available at the end thereof to a semicolon and adding the following words and punctuation: provided further, that no child who is eighteen or more years of age shall be eligible for assistance unless he is a student regularly attending a high school and successfully pursuing a course of study leading to a high school diploma or its equivalent, or regularly attending and successfully pursuing a course of vocational or technical training designed to fit him for gainful employment.
CHAPTER 54 An act to amend the charter of the ** Western Carolina Educational Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : .
Section 1. That the charter of the  Western Carolina Educational Company, filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Henderson county on the ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall be so amended as to read as follows: C. M. Pace, J. 8 Barnett, S. V. Pickens, J. Williams, W. A. Smith, W. A. J. Barnett, D. B. Nelson, W. G. B. Morris, M. C. Toms, E. B. Clayton, d. B. Boone, G. C. Briggs, Richmond Pearson, J. L. Carroll, G. S. Jones and others, stockholders, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, as a joint stock company, to be known and distinguished by the name and style of the  Western Carolina Educational Company, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in the town of Hendersonville, in the county of Henderson, under the auspices of the Baptist denomination, a collegiate institution of learning for the education of youths, known as Judson College. And the said company shall be invested with all the rights and privileges contained in chapter sixteen, volume qne, of The Code ef North Carolina, so far as they are applicable to such corporation, and are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; and by said name and style the said company shall have succession for and during the term of fifty years from and after the date of said charter filed as aforesaid; and may have a corporate seal, and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be He pleaded in all the courts, and shail have power to keep open books of stock subscription, to take, receive and possess all moneys, goods and chattels which may be given to them, and shall apply the same ace cording to the wish of the donors to the purpose herein declared, andshall have power to purchase or otherwise to take, hold and possess lands and tenements, and such real and personal estate as may be deemed by them necessary to accomplish the objects for which they have been incorporated: Provided, that th amount of real and personal property hok 1 by said company shall not at any time exceed the suim of two hundred thousand dollars. Sic ON ik at 1, 5
CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. The School Committee is required to furnish the County Superintendent of Schools a census report of all the pupils of school age in their township or district by name, age, sex and race, also name of parent or guardian, and the blanks upon which said reports are to be made shall be furnished to the various school committees by the County Superintendent of Schools on the first Monday in August in each year, which report shall be duly verified under oath by the committee and returned to the County Superintendent of Schools on or before the first Monday in September of each year, and any committee failing to comply with the provisions of this section without just cause shall be subject to removal. The School Committee shall be allowed a sum not exceeding two cents per name for all names reported between the ages of six and twenty-one. The School Committee shall also report to the County Superintendent of Schools who shall in turn report to the County Board of Education, the number of public school-houses and the value of all public school property for each race separately and furnish to the teacher at the opening of the school a register containing the name and age of each pupil of school age in that district. They shall also report by race and sex the number of all persons between the ages of twelve and twenty-one who can not read and write. School Committee shall meet at convenient times and places for the employment of teachers for the public schools, and no teacher shall be employed by any committee except at a regularly called meeting of such committee, due notice of said meeting having been given at three public places with the committee.
CHAPTER 364 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF NARCISSA V. MASON, A COL- ORED SCHOOL-TEACHER OF THE COUNTY OF PERSON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Treasurer of the county school fund of Person County be and he is hereby authorized to pay to Narcissa V. Mason, a colored school-teacher of School District No. 5, for [the] colored race, in Cunningham Township, Person County, the sum of eighty dollars for services as teacher of a public school in said district from October 30, 1899, to March 13, 1900
CHAPTER 218 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools of said town shall become the property of the said graded schools, and shall be vested in said board of trustees, and their successors, in trust, for said graded schools: Provided, that in the event of the discontinuance of said graded schools, all of the property thereto belonging shall revert to and become the property of the said public schools of said town: Provided, further, that the said property belonging to, or used for the graded schools for white children, shall revert to the publie schools of said town for white children, and said property belonging to, or used for the graded school for the colored children, shall revert to the public school for colored children  of said town.
CHAPTER 254 An act incorporating the First Colored Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That Lawrence Sharrel, C. E. Spicer, W. H. Harris, Simon Hicks, John Joyner, H. M. Parker, Lee Thorpe, of the First Colored Baptist Church in Rocky Mount township, Nash county, North Carolipa, and their successors in office, be and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the  First Colored Baptist Church of Rcky Mount, North Carolina, and by their [this] name may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with, and do all acts necessary to advance its material interest conformable with the general laws giving corporations.
CHAPTER 14 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 37. That it shall be the duty of the school commissioners to establish and maintain in the town graded schools, at least one for white children and one for colored children, and to appropriate the funds derived from the town taxes, levied and collected for education, and from all other sources for the maintenance of said schools, so as to equalize the school facilities between the races.
CHAPTER 318 AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALEXANDER COUNTY TO FILE AND PRESERVE ALL PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS BE- FORE HIM OR BELONGING TO THE COURT, AND TO KEEP A PROPER INDEX THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Clerk of the Superior Court of Alexander County be, and he is hereby required to file and preserve all proceedings before him or belonging to the court. and shall keep the papers in each action in a separate roll or bundle, and at its termination, attach them together properly labeled and file them in the order of the date of the final judgment.
CHAPTER 274 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF PINEBLUFF IN MOORE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That on Tuesday after the first Monday of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and biennially thereafter, an election shall be held in said town, under the general laws of the State governing municipal elections, to choose a mayor and three commissioners, three school trustees, three water commissioners, town clerk, treasurer, and auditor, who shall be voted for on one ballot, which may be either written or printed or partly printed, and which shall be of plain white paper, without device, four inches by eight inches in size: Provided, any ballot on which the name of the same person appears more than once shall be deemed invalid, and such ballot shall not be counted in making up the returns of the election.