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CHAPTER 483 An act in relation to certain school orders in Halifax County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Board of County School Directors of Halifax County be and they are hereby authorized and required to direct the payment of and the Treasurer of said county to pay the following school orders, to-wit: District No. 27 (colored), Weldon Township, $45.00; District No. 13 (colored), Brinkleyville Township, $22.50; District No. 13 (colored), Brinkleyville Township, $45.00; District No. 15 (colored), Weldon Township, $45.00; District No. 15 (white), Weldon Township, $45.00; District No. 2 (white), Butterwood Township, $22.50; District No. 7 (colored), Halifax Township, $112.50; District No. 10 (colored), Roseneath Township, $45.00; District No. 7 (white), Halifax Township, $67.50; District No. 19 (colored), Palmyra Township, $67.50; District No. 10 (white), Roseneath Township, $67.50, which were issued by the School Committee of the said townships in 1897 and were approved by the Board of County Commissioners of said county.
CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That George Howard, N. M. Lawrence, C. J. Austin, J. B. Coffield, T. H. Gatling, E. C. Farrar and R. C. Brown be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children.
CHAPTER 359 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 161. That said board of school commissioners shall have the power and authority to establish and maintain a library in connection with each school building, which shall be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools of said city; and shall have the 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; and the said board of school commissioners shall have the 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 expenses of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of said city of Charlotte.
CHAPTER 203 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. G. HARRISON AND WIFE, DESSER ROBERTS HARRISON, OF WARREN COUNTY. Whereas, W. G. Harrison and wife, Desser Roberts Har- rison, were lawfully married by license issued by the Regis- ter of Deeds of Warren County on February twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and Whereas, it has been ascertained that W. G. Harrison and Desser Roberts, in said license, have been classified as mem- bers of the colored race, when in truth and fact W. G. Har- rison and Desser Roberts are members of the white race, and Whereas, said classification of W. G. Harrison and Desser Roberts as members of the colored race, in the issuance of said marriage license, was an error on the part of the Register of Deeds of Warren County; Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Register of Deeds of Warren County be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to correct the marriage records of Warren County to the effect that W. G. Harrison and Desser Roberts shall appear thereon as members of the white race.
CHAPTER 674 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN CONFEDERATE} SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND WIDOWS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. That the warrants of pensioners shall be sent by the Auditor to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which the pensioner resides, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court to acknowledge to the Auditor the receipt of said warrants by the next mail: after their receipt, and the Clerk of the Superior Court shall forthwith deliver or mail to each pensioner in his county his or her warrant, and post in the court-house a list of the pensioners to whom he has mailed or delivered warrants.
CHAPTER 201 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO CREATE A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUT OF PARTS OF CARVERS CREEK TOWNSHIP, IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND STEWART CREEK TOWNSHIP IN HARNETT COUNTY, TO BE KNOWN AS LINDEN GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RATIFIED THE 8tH DAY OF MARCH, 1911 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section one of an act entitled An act to create a special school district out of parts of Carvers Creek Township, in Cumberland County and Stewart Creek Township in Harnett County, to be known as Linden Graded School District, ratified the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words for the white race occurring in the next to the last line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words for the white and colored races.
CHAPTER 354 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE LUCAMA GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That the moneys that shall be apportioned by the State and county of Wilson from time to time, and the moneys that shall arise from the special tax in said district, and the moneys accruing to said schools from the dispensary in the town of Lucama, shall be paid direct to the treasurer of said board of trustees and shall be applied to the maintenance of graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors.
CHAPTER 87 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE TOWN OF GRAHAM TO ISSUE BONDS, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 97 OF THE PRIVATE ACTS OF 1903, ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GRAHAM, ALAMANCH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That those in favor of: the issuing of said bonds shall vote a ballot of white paper on which shall be written or printed the words For School Bonds, and those opposed to the issuing of said bonds shall vote a ballot of white paper upon which shall be written or printed the words Against School Bonds.
CHAPTER 382 An act to amend chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and gighty-oue, relating to the Goldsboro graded schools. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _
Section 4. That the special taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended in keeping up separate graded schools for the white and colored childen in said township between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the schools for each race herein provided for shall have the  same length of school terms.
CHAPTER 691 An act for the relief of B. B. Bobbitt. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the County Board of School Directors of the county of Anson are hereby directed to examine into the justness of a claim of B. B. Bobbitt for the sum of eighty dollars ($80.00) against the school fund of said county, and if they shall find that the sum of eighty dollars is justly and equitably due the said B. B. Bobbitt they are authorized and empowered to issue an order to the Treasurer of the school fund of said county to pay to the said B. B. Bobbitt the sum of $80.00  out of the public school money due District No. 2, White Store Township, said county, for the white race.
CHAPTER 565 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOU- SAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, AS AMEND- ED, THE SAME BEING THE REVENUE ACT OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, RE- LATING TO THE TAX ON UNFORTIFIED WINES. 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 588 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 247 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1903, AND TO AMEND AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter two hundred and forty-seven of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three, relating to raising revenue, be amended so as hereafter to read as follows: SCHEDULE A.
Section 18. Court may order executor, etc., to file account, etc. If the clerk of the court shall discover that said tax has not been paid according to law the court shall be authorized to cite the executors or administrators of the decedent, whose estate is subject to the tax, to file an account, or to issue a citation to the executors, administrators, legatees or heirs, citing them to appear on a day certain and show cause why the said tax should not be paid, and when personal service cannot be had, notice shall be given for four weeks, once a week, in at least one newspaper published in said county; and if the said tax shall be found to be due and unpaid the said delinquent shall pay said tax, interest and costs. And it shall be the duty of the solicitor of the district in which the said delinquent resides to sue for the recovery and amount of such tax, and for such services he shall be allowed a fee, to be fixed by the judge, not to exceed five per cent. of the amount recovered. The Auditor of State is authorized and empowered, in settlement of accounts of any clerk, to allow him costs of advertising and other reasonable fees and expenses incurred in the collection of said tax.
CHAPTER 214 , AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That the said board of trustees shall have the power to employ and fix the compensation of a superintendent for said graded schools and such teachers as are necessary, and to do all such other acts as may be necessary to carry on said school. It shall have power at any time to remove said superintendent or any teacher and to employ others in his or her stead.
CHAPTER 155 An act to incorporate The Guardian Security, Trust and Deposit Company, of Wilmington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. And be it further enacted, That when any court shall appoint the said corporation a receiver, trustee, administrator, executor, assignee, guardian or committee, or shall order the deposit of money, or other valuables of any kind, with said corporation, the capital stock, as paid in, shall be taken and considered as the security required by law for the faithful performance of its duties: Provided, the said court shall not deem it necessary to require further security, and shall be absolutely liable in case of any default whatever ; the court, if it deem necessary, may, from time to time, appoint suitable persons to investigate the affairs and management of said corporation, who shall report to such court the manner in which such investments are made, and the security afforded to those by or for whom its engagements are held, and the expenses of such investigations shall be defrayed by said corporation; or the court may, if it deem necessary, examine the officers of said corporation under oath or affirmation, as to the security aforesaid.
CHAPTER 570 AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARIES OF OFFICIALS AND EM- PLOYEES OF CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 636 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 4283 OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES OF 1919, RELATING TO THE PUNISHMENT FOR GIVING WORTHLESS CHECKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Insert after the word court and before the period, in line eight of section four thousand two hundred and eightythree of Consolidated Statutes of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, the following: if the amount of such check is not over twenty-five dollars, the punishment shall mot exceed a fine of fifty dollars or imprisonment for thirty days.
CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -
Section 4. That 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 in said district for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said district for colored persons of hoth sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
CHAPTER 197 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WARSAW, NORTH CAROLINA. 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 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 25. All dues to the asylum from any and all sources shall be paid into the public treasury, and the said Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be supported by appropriations from the public treasury. All moneys applied for the use and support of the institution and the insane therein,shall be paid out of the public treasury, on warrants drawn by the majority of the board of directors, or by the superintendent, and countersigned by at least two of the board of directors,and approved by the. governor, and all disbursements shall be made upon the warrant of the superintendent.
CHAPTER 850 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SEPARATE ACCOMMODA- TION OF WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS UPON STREHT CARS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSBES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That any white person entering a street car for the purpose of becoming a passenger thereon shall, if necessary to earry out the purposes of this act, occupy the first vacant seat or unoccupied space in the aisle nearest the front of said car, and any colored person entering said car for.a like purpose shall occupy the first vacant seat or unoccupied space in the aisle nearest the rear end of said car: Provided, however, no contiguous seats on the same bench shall be occupied by white and colored passengers. at the same time (unless or until all of the other seats in said car shall be occupied).
CHAPTER 320 AN ACT AUTHORIZING CONVEYANCE OF ABANDONED BUILD- ING AT ASHLAND SCHOOL IN BERTIE COUNTY TO ASHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH. WHEREAS, approximately twenty-five years ago an auxiliary frame building was erected on the Ashland School lot in Bertie County as a W. P. A. Project; and that building has not been used for school purposes for approximately twelve years; and WHEREAS, the building is located approximately two hundred yards from the Ashland Colored Baptist Church; and it has been repaired, main- tained and used by the members of the Church and would now be worth- less but for their efforts; and WHEREAS, this building has no value to Bertie County or its board of education except to raze it and clear the lot and dispose of the ma- terials for about the cost of taking down the building; and WHEREAS, the members of the Ashland Colored Baptist Church desire to move the building onto the Church lot and use it for Sunday School rooms: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Board of Education of Bertie County is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey to the Ashland Colored Baptist Church the frame building constructed by W. P. A. for the use of the Ashland School for the nominal price and consideration of one dollar ($1.00) ; to authorize the Ashland Colored Baptist Church to move the building from the school lot onto the Church lot, either to move the strueture or to raze the building and to move and reassemble the materials; and to execute and deliver to the trustees of the Ashland Colored Baptist Church a good and sufficient deed for the building without any land and without any interest in the Ashland School lot.
CHAPTER 813 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE OXFORD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enac::
Section 5. That if a majority of the qualified voters within said territory shall favor the extension of said graded school district and the levy of such tax, the act entitled An act to establish graded schools in Oxford, being chapter three hundred and thirty-three of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three, shall become operative over the whole of said territory, except wherein the same is inconsistent with the provisions of this act; and the board of graded school trustees shall divide said territory into two subdistricts as in their judgment may be for the best interest of the schools.
CHAPTER 672 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE TOWN OF MURFREESBORO TO CONVEY CERTAIN LAND AT PRIVATE SALE TO THE HERTFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 158 An act to incorporate the city of Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: *
Section 12. All electors who have been bona fide residents of North Carolina for twelve months and of the city of Fayetteville for ninety days next preceding the election shall be entitled to register hereunder. A residence of said city shall be construed to be permanent citizenship thereof and not a temporary residence. The polls shall be open on the day of election from sunrise in the morning until sunset 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 his ballot shall not be received. Ballots shall be on white paper and without device. The aldermen shall be voted for on one ballot, and likewise the board of audit and finance.
CHAPTER 456 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR RAISING AND MANAGING OF A PENSION FUND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That on or before the Ist day of July, 1948, and annually thereafter, the said board of trustees shall make a verified report to the governing body of the City of Fayetteville, containing a detailed statement of all receipts and disbursements on account of said fund, together with the name of each beneficiary and the amount paid to such beneficiary for or on account of such fund, and the governing body of the City of Fayetteville shall have the right and is empowered at any time to make or cause to be made an examination by a competent auditor of conditions of said fund.
CHAPTER 224 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 34 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1929 OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE STERILIZATION OF PERSONS MENTALLY DEFECTIVE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. Proceedings under this act shall be instituted by petition of the said prosecutor to the said Eugenics Board. Such petition shall be in writing, signed by the petitioner and duly verified by his affidavit to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. It shall contain the history of the inmate or patient as shown in the records of the institution, or if he is not in an institution, then the complete medical history of the case of the individual resident so far as it bears upon the recommendations for asexualization or sterilization, and setting forth the particular reasons why asexualization or sterilization is recommended. This history shall be verified by the affidavit of at least one competent physician who has had actual knowledge of the case and who in the cases of inmates or patients of the institutions described in Section 1 of this act may be a member of the medical staff of said institution. The petition shall further contain an adequate social case history of the circumstances surrounding the inmates, patients, or individual residents life in so far as such circumstances may bear upon the question as to whether said inmate, patient, or individual resident is likely to procreate a child or children. The prayer of said petition shall be that an order be entered by said board requiring the petitioner to perform, or to have performed by some competent physician or surgeon to be designated by him in said petition, or by said board in its order, upon said inmate or patient or individual resident named in said petition in its discretion that one of the operations specified in Section 1 of this act which shall be best suited to the interests of the said inmate, patient or individual resident or to the public good.
CHAPTER 40 An act to establish a benevolent association in the town of Tar- boro, North Carolina, under the name and style of * Daugh- ters of the Grand Aid. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of North Carolina did, on the third day of March, 1893, enact and ratify a bill to incor- porate a benevolent association under the name and style of True Friends; and, whereas, it is desired to form an annex to said association under the name and style above given, now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -
Section 2. The object of this corporation shall be to unite, fraternally, all colored women of sound bodily health and good moral character, who are socially acceptable; to give all moral and material aid in its power to its members and those dependent upon them; to educate its members socially, morally and intellectually, to establish a fund for sick and distressed members, for which such sums as the constitution and by-laws of the corporation permit may be drawn for their aid.
CHAPTER 201 AN ACT APPOINTING AN AUDITOR FOR MADISON COUNTY, AND DEFINING THE DUTIES OF THE POSI- TION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That upon completion of said audit the auditor shall prepare and file with the county commissioners of said county a detailed report of the result thereof, which report shall be recorded in, and made of permanent record in the minutes of the board.
CHAPTER 186 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE FRANKLINVILLE GRADED SCHOOL, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 16. That upon petition of a majority of the qualified voters residing in said Franklinville Graded School District, the board of trustees provided for in section three of this act shall have the authority and be required to compel all children between the ages of eight and twelve years, and of sufficient mental and physical strength, to attend continuously the sessions of said graded schools: Provided, that attendance on any good private or public school may excuse such children as attend them, if the board of trustees shall have good and sufficient reason to believe that such attendance is in good faith, and not for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this section.
CHAPTER 964 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SANATORIUM FOR THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. The said board of directors shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the North Carolina Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, and upon them as such are hereby conferred all the duties, powers, privileges and obligations incident to bodies corporate.
CHAPTER 782 An act to revise and consolidate the public school law. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 23. Within fifteen days from the date of their election the township school trustees shall elect for each school-in their respective townships three school committeemen, who shall hold office for two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and no one shall be elected a committeeman for more than one school of each race, and said trustees shall determine the boundaries of the district in which each school is situated.
COE AVE ats CL X.Y AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ALBEMARLE SWAMP LAND COM- PANY TO CONSTRUCT A RAILROAD FROM PANTEGO TO INDIAN RIVER, IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the Albemarle Swamp Land Company, incorporated by act of assembly, ratified the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, shall have authority to lay out, construct and maintain a railroad from Pantego, in the county of Beaufort, to some point at or near Indian river, in said county.
CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. In case a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of such assessment, the board of commissioners shall direct their clerk to make out from the tax list of the township in which such district is situate a list of all the taxable property and poll of the white or colored tax payers, as the case may be, in such district, and it shall be the duty of the school committee of such district to aid the clerk in making out said list, and said flerk shall deliver said list to the sheriff of the county with an order signed by him commanding the sheriff to collect said assessment in like manner as provided for the eollection of state and county taxes, and said sheriff shall collect and pay over the same to the county treasurer. And said sheriff's official bond shall be liable therefor, as provided in case of county school tax.
CHAPTER 1233 AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 55-72 RELATING TO CORPORATIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. G. S. 55-72 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph designated (d) to read as follows: (d) A voting trust created under the provisions of this Section may be extended or otherwise amended at any time during its term by an agreement of amendment signed by the Trustee and by all the Trust Certificate Holders, except that the period covered by the voting trust agreement may not be extended by the agreement of amendment to a date which is more than ten -10 years after the effective date of the amendment. An executed copy of the agreement of amendment shall be deposited by the Trustee with the corporation at its registered office and the agreement of amendment shall become effective at the time an executed copy thereof is so deposited. 1717
CHAPTER 757 ! AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE RECREATION COMMIS- SION. WHEREAS, the contribution of recreation to the health, edu- cation, economy and general welfare of the people has become universally recognized and accepted; and WHEREAS, the lack of recreational opportunities for persons in the armed services, as well as civilians, became apparent shortly after the United States entered the war; and WHEREAS, under authority of Public Laws one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, Chapter seven hundred and six, con- ferring upon the Governor certain emergency war powers, a recreation committee was established in June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, to meet this pressing need in North Carolina; and WHEREAS, experience gained by this emergency committee has shown the immediate need for a State Recreation Commis- sion: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. Membership of Recreation Commission; term. -1 The Recreation Commission shall consist of seven members, appointed by the Governor, and the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of Public Welfare and Director of the Department of Conservation and Development as members ex officio. -2 In making appointments to the commission, the Governor shall choose persons, in so far as possible, who understand the recreational interests of rural areas, municipalities, private membership groups and commercial enterprises. The commission shall elect, with the approval of the Governor, one member to act as chairman. At least one member of the commission shall be a woman, and at least one member shall be a Negro. A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum, but only when at least four of the appointed members are present. -3 For the initial term of the appointed members of the commission, one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of five years, and two for a term of six years; and thereafter, the successor of each member shall be appointed for a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. -4 Any appointed member of the commission may be removed by the Governor. -5 Vacancies in the commission shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term. -6 The commission shall meet quarterly in January, April, July, and October, on a date to be fixed by the chairman. The commission may be convoked at such other times as the Governor or chairman may deem necessary. -7 Members of the commission shall receive reasonable travel and maintenance expenses while attending meetings, but they shall not be reimbursed for travel and maintenance expenses for longer than four days for any one meeting.
CHAPTER 77 AN ACT TO REVISE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERN- MENT FOR THE COUNTY OF BUNCOMBE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That it shall be the duty of the auditor of Buncombe County, acting for the board of commissioners, and under the direct supervision of the chairman and commissioner of public accounts and finances, to audit the accounts of every officer or employee #NAME? does or may receive, deposit or disburse moneys, and publish or cause to be published quarterly a statement showing the financial condition of the county. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to have all of the books and accounts of every officer, employee or institution of the county annually audited by a public accountant, licensed and certified by the Board of State Accountancy of the State of North Carolina, which certified public accountant shall be selected by the said board of commissioners.
CHAPTER 120 AN ACT PLACING ALL STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ON THE SAME BASIS AND TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF THE STATE AND TO REQUIRE THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO PAY TO BEAR THE EXPENSE OF THEIR CARE, MAIN- TENANCE AND TREATMENT, AND TO ENFORCE THE SAME POLICY IN ALL SUCH INSTITUTIONS, AND TO PROVIDE MACHINERY RELATING TO THE SAME. Whereas, there have been different policies in practice in differ- ent institutions in this State, according to the several created and regulatory statutes affecting the several institutions, and re- sulting therefrom different policies have been pursued at the State charitable, custodial, curative and correctional institu- tions, until the State, as result thereof, now bears a heavy ex- pense at these institutions for such pupils, inmates and patients as are financially able to pay the same, or are legally dependent upon others who are solvent and able to pay the same thereby not only burdening the State unnecessarily but preventing the State from caring for many indigent patients that it should and otherwise would care for if a single policy were in force at all such institutions, under which those who are able to pay, would pay, and those who could not pay would be given adequate treat- ment at the cost of the State: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina doenact:
Section 3. Such cost, when so fixed and determined by the respective boards of trustees or directors of each institution, shall be paid by the patient, pupil or inmate thereof, or by his parent, guardian, trustee or other person legally responsible therefor, and the payment thereof shall constitute a valid expenditure of the funds of any such pupil, patient or inmate by any fiduciary who may be in the control of such fund, and a receipt for the payment of such cost in the hands of such fiduciary shall be a valid voucher to the extent thereof in the settlement of his accounts of his trust. Immediately upon the determination of the cost, as herein provided for, the superintendent of the institution shall notify the patient, pupil, inmate, parent, guardian, trustee, or such other person who shall be legally responsible for the payment thereof, of the monthly amount thereof, and such statement shall be rendered from month to month. The respective boards of trustees or directors of the various institutions are vested with full and complete authority to arrange with the patient, pupil, inmate, parent, guardian, trustee, or other person legally responsible for the cost, for the payment of any portion of such cost monthly or otherwise, in the event such patient, pupil, inmate, parent, guardian, trustee or other person legally responsible therefor shall not be able to pay the total cost. The head of the various institutions shall annually file with the Auditor of the State a list of all unpaid accounts.
CHAPTER 563, An act to authorize the commissioners of Mecklenburg county to issue bonds to macadamize and improve the public roads thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _
Section 4. That all laws and clauses of laws in connie: with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 268 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A KENNEL TAX IN WAYNE. COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That every owner of a kennel of six dogs or more in Wayne County shall pay an annual tax of ten dollars on each kennel, the said kennels to be listed and the tax paid in the same manner and at the same time as now required by the statewide law for the listing and taxing of dogs and shall be in lieu of said listing and tax, except that where there are more than ten dogs the credit for vaccination for rabies shall not apply.
CHAPTER 167 AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEAVING OF TREES, TRASH, SAWDUST, OR FISH HEDGES IN ROCKFISH CREEK, AND OBSTRUCTING SAID CREEK IN ANY WAY AND BY ANY MEANS IN DUPLIN AND PENDER COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Any person, firm, or corporation found guilty of a= violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50), : or imprisoned not less than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That section six of said chapter six hundred and fortynine of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the word school and the word Provided, in line twenty, the following: or any such child may be sent to the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School at Concord, North Carolina, by the police court of the city of Asheville or the Superior Court of Buncombe County, upon the recommendation of the schoo] committee of the city of Asheville, who shall give three days notice, to the parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of said child, of the intention of the said committee to make application to said courts to have said child sent to said school.
CHAPTER 11 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SANFORD SPECIAL SCHOOL DIS- TRICT FOR THE COLORED RACE, LEE COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD AND EQUIP SCHOOLHOUSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The board of trustees, committeemen or other governing body of the Sanford Special School District for the colored race are hereby authorized to issue bonds of said school district for the purpose of erecting, enlarging, altering and equipping school buildings and acquiring land for buildings of the said school district, or for any one or more of said purposes, and the board of county commissioners of Lee County is hereby authorized and directed to levy annually a special tax ad valorem on all taxable property in said school district for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of all bonds issued under this act as such principal and interest become due, which special tax shall be in an amount sufficient for said purpose and shall be in addition to all other taxes authorized to be levied in said school district. No bonds shall be issued under this act, however, nor said special tax levied unless and until the question of such issue and levy shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of said Sanford Special School District for the colored race at a special election to be held for the purpose and a majority of said qualified electors shall have voted in favor of issuing said bonds and levying said tax, as required by section seven of article seven of the Constitution of North Carolina.
CTA PT El Bs kaies Sok Mp AN ACT To MAKE VALID ALL JUDGMENTS IN ATTACHMENT CASHS SINCE THE ADOPTION OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carelina do enact, That no irregularity in the issuance of the summons, leading process or otherwise, shall render invalid any proceedings by attachment since the adoption of the Code of Civil Procedure, and prior to the adoption of this act ; and all judgments rendered in any of the Courts of this State, in eases of attachment since the ratification of the Code of Civil Procedure, are hereby declared valid to all intents and purposes, any irregularity in the issuance of the summons, or other proceedings, te the contrary notwithstanding,
CHAPTER 254 An act incorporating the First Colored Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the incorporate limits of said church shall be forty yards in every direction from said church so as to form a complete circle as a radius from the church.
CHAPTER 52 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM- MISSIONERS OF BLADEN COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS AND LEVY A TAX THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of Bladen County is hereby authorized to issue ninety-five thousand dollars of bonds of said county for the purpose of funding notes issued for money borrowed to erect school buildings essential to the maintenance of the six months school term. Said bonds may bear such rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum and be payable at such times not exceeding thirty years from their date as the said board of commissioners may determine and may be made payable in gold coin of the United States. The said board of commissioners shall levy a special tax sufficient to meet the principal and interest of said bonds and such tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other taxes.
CHAPTER 346 An act toincorporate the Salem-Winston and Dan River Railroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each and every share which such stockholder shall own for at least ten days immediately preceding any meeting of stockholders. The stockholders shall have power to make and alter such rules, regulations aud by-laws as they may deem necessary and proper for the government and interest of the company not inconsistent with this charter, the laws of this state and of the United States. The stockholders shall not be individually liable for the debts, engagements or defaults of said company except to an amount equal to the amount unpaid on the stock held by them respectively.
CHAPTER 553 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A LEGALIZED PRIMARY ELECTION FOR CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That no candidate shall be declared the nominee of any party, organization or association for any office unless he shall receive a majority of the votes cast in said primary for said office; and in the event that no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for any office in the first primary, then a second primary shall be held within two weeks from the first one, under the same rules and regulations as the first primary, unless one of the opposing candidates should voluntarily withdraw from the race in the meantime: Provided, that only the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the respective offices in the first primary shall be eligible as candidates in the second primary.
CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: ,
Section 22. That the council of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians shall direct the management and control of all property, either real or personal, belonging to the band as a corporation ; but-no person shall be entitled to the enjoyment of any lands belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation or as a tribe, or any profits accruing therefrom, or any moneys which may belong to said band as a corporation or as a tribe, unless such person be of at least one-sixteenth (1-16) of eastern Cherokee blood, and in case that any money derived from any source whatever, belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, shall be distributed among the members thereof, the same shall be divided per capita among the members entitled thereto.
CHAPTER 288 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That section sixty-five of chapter one hundred of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and one be and the same is hereby amended as follows: Insert in line fifteen of said section, between the word affected and the word by, the words in anywise, and immediately after the word thereby and before the word shall, in line eighteen thereof, the words which shall include, as far as may be, all persons owning lands supposed to be within the area of special benefit or damage resulting from said proposed improvement, whether said lands abut on said street or right-of-way or not; and in line twenty-five thereof, between the word affected and the word by, the words as aforesaid ; and immediately after the word jury and before the word such, in line twenty-six of said section, the following: Provided, that all amendments hereinabove made to this section are hereby construed to express the meaning of said section prior to the adoption of said amendments: Provided, this section shall not permit such assessments upon property abutting upon streets which have heretofore been paved.
CHAPTER 129 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BEL- MONT GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE ADDI- TIONAL BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING AND EQUIPPING A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AT BELMONT, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of the Belmont Graded School District the question of issuing Said bonds and levying and collecting all taxes hereinbefore provided for, the county board of commissioners of the county of Gaston, upon petition of the board of trustees of the Belmont Graded School District, or upon petition of one-fourth of the freeholders of said district, indorsed and approved by the county board of education, shall within thirty days thereafter order an election to be held in said district at the usual polling place in Belmont, appoint a registrar and two judges of election, and shall give thirty days notice in some newspaper published in Gaston County, and shall order an entire new registration of voters for said election.
CHAPTER 275 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF TREASURER OF CAMDEN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. .
CHAPTER 148 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF COUNTY TREAS- URER IN JACKSON COUNTY, ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, REGULATE COMPENSATION OF THE TAX COLLECTOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The duties of said auditor shall be -1 All of the duties heretofore (and under the same penalties) required of the treasurer, except those of receiving and disbursing the public funds. -2 It shall be his duty, and power is hereby conferred on him, to require a modern, simple and, so far as practicable, uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting in all the departments of the county, including jail, county home, county board of education, county road commissioners, and others receiving and handling public funds. -3 It shall be his duty to compute the taxes and make out tax receipts, revise the tax lists and, under direction of the county commissioners, enter corrections of same as may be necessitated by reason of errors, transfers, releases, reductions, increases, discoveries or other valid reasons. -4 It shall be his duty to diligently inquire into and investigate the listing of all property in the county that should properly be on the tax books, at its TRUE value, and is authorized to visit any and all parts of the county for this purpose, and report to the commissioners, to the end that no property shall escape its proper and lawful taxation. -5 It shall be the duty of the said auditor, with any necessary aid, to be furnished by the county commissioners (expense of such aid to be chargeable in equal amounts to the general county, road, and general school funds), to audit all the books and accounts contemplated in subsection two of this section once each year, and at the request of the county commissioners those of any one or more offices at any other time, and shall make frequent inspections of all books and accounts and keep the various boards informed as to the particular funds administrable by each board.
CHAPTER 480 AN ACT TO RE-ENACT CHAPTERS 77, 266 AND 324, PUBLIC- LOCAL LAWS, 1923, AND RELATING TO FINANCES OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the commissioners of Buncombe County are authorized to levy a special tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest of all notes issued under this act. Said taxes to be levied and collected in like manner as other county taxes.
CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO. INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF WOODVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the boundaries and corporate limits of said town shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at the foot of Candys Hill on the Indian Woods road; thence a northeast course a_ straight line to Jacks Branch at the Woodville and Windsor public road; thence up said Jacks Branch to the Camp Manufacturing Companys railroad as now located; thence with said railroad to the Seaboard Air Line railroad; thence with said Seaboard Air Line railroad north to the county road leading from Lewiston to Kelford; thence along said county road and across the Woodville and Kelford road to Gus Pughs back line fence as now located; thence a southerly course to Camp Manufacturing Companys railroad; thence along said railroad to the Hills Ferry road; thence a straight line to the beginning.
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 7. That nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the county commissioners of said county from making arrangements for the collection of the delinquent taxes which may be the subject of litigation by special contract and requiring the report of the special employee thereon not oftener than every thirty days.
CHAPTER 756 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAY OF THE COMMIS- SIONERS OF BLADEN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the commissioners of Bladen County shall be entitled to four dollars per day and mileage at the rate allowed by law for all services rendered by them in attending the meetings of said board or serving as committeemen of said board in attending to the business of Bladen County: Provided, that no commissioner shall be construed as acting as committeeman unless he was appointed as such at a previous meeting of said board, the Same appearing in the minutes thereof: Provided further, that no commissioner, except the chairman of the board, shall receive pay for more than four days in any one month.