biglam/on_the_books huggingface dataset:
CHAPTER 559 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT IN GUIL- FORD COUNTY OF A GAME COMMISSION AND THE OFFICE OF GAME WARDEN: TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER ENFORCEMENT OF THE GAME LAWS AND FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF GAME IN GUILFORD COUNTY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES HEREIN SET FORTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 26. Dogs running at large. Section two thousand one hundred and thirty-two of chapter thirty-eight of the Consolidated Statutes of nineteen hundred and nineteen is hereby amended and supplemented in its application to Guilford County to read as follows: to wit: It shall be unlawful for the owner or any person having the care of any dog of any breed or pedigree to permit the same to run at large during the breeding season of quail; namely, from May the first to September the first of any year. The fact that any dog shall be ranging in the fields or woods, whether such field or woods be owned by the owner or keeper of the dog or not, shall be prima facie evidence that the owner or keeper of such dog has violated the provisions of this section and the wardens or deputy wardens and owners of land on which such dogs shall be ranging are hereby authorized to impound or kill such dogs; and the owner or keeper of such dog upon conviction of violating this section shall suffer the penalty of this act provided.
CHAPTER 625 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AND REGULATE THE HOLDING OF PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTY OF MARTIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the registrars herein provided for shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of five cents per name for each new elector whom they may register, and the managers shall receive for their services one dollar per day each for holding said elections, and the pay of said registrars and managers shall be paid out of the deposits herein provided.
CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO DRAIN WHITE OAK SWAMP, IN BLADEN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the objects for which said corporation is formed are to secure the drainage of White Oak Swamp, in Bladen County. North Carolina, to dig such canals, enlarge existing canals, erect and maintain dams to keep out of the said swamp the high water of Cape Fear River, and in all other ways and manners to render the lands of White Oak Swamp and the lands adjacent thereto suitable for tillage for agricultural and other purposes.
CHAPTER 10 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF T. D. SANFORD, FORMER DISABLED POLICE OFFICER OF THE CITY OF WILMING- TON. That Whereas, T. D. Sanford served as a police officer in the City of Wilmington for a period of approximately sixteen years and was a most efficient and capable officer; and Whereas, during the year of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight he became incapacitated through physical disability to perform his duties as an officer and was granted a furlough for a period of one year, which furlough was later extended until December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, from said department; and Whereas, Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine was passed by the General Assembly with the view of relieving such disabled officer, and has been held by the City Attorney of Wilmington not to apply to T. D. Sanford for the reason that at the time of passage of said Act the said T. D. Sanford was on a furlough from the Wilmington Police Department and was not reinstated before his name was removed from active duty: Now, therefore, 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 84 An act to consolidate and amend the several acts heretofore passed for the better regulation and government of the city of Burlington in Alamance county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 33. That the constable shall have the same powers and be bound by the same rules in this respect as_constables of the county of Alamance to apprehend all offenders against the state within the limits of the city and to carry them before the mayor or some justice of the peace, and for such duty he shall have the same fees as constables of said county, to be paid by the party offending if found guilty, otherwise by the city; unless the mayor should be satisfied that there is no probable cause for the prosecution, and in such cases he may ascertain the instigator of the prosecutor and tax him with the costs.
CHAPTER 187 AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC ROADS IN GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, MOORE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 23. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to send to the Register of Deeds of Moore County, immediately after the ratification of this act, a certified copy thereof.
CHAPTER 354 AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 2 OF CHAP- TER 106 OF VOLUME 3A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, RELAT- ING TO THE NORTH CAROLINA FERTILIZER LAW. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. The last sentence of subsection (c) of G. S. 106-50.8 of Volume 3A is hereby rewritten so that said last sentence shall read as follows: Such sums as shall be found to be payable to consumers on lots of fertilizer against which said penalties were assessed shall not be subject to claim by the consumer after twelve months from the date of assessment. -
CHAPTER 244 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That all moneys coming to the said district above described for school purposes from the State and from the county, as well as that coming from the special tax above referred to, shall be by the proper officers paid to the Board of Trustees above created and apointed and their duly constituted successors, and shall be by them used for the benefit of the graded school above referred to.
CHAPTER 127 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LISTING, SELLING AND FORE- CLOSURE OF UNLISTED TAXES, PAYMENT OF PAVING ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES, TAX SALES AND FORE- CLOSURES FOR THE TOWN OF AULANDER, BERTIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Aulander shall be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to accept the principal amount of all real estate taxes now owing to it for the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and for all years prior thereto, including taxes which may be after-listed as provided in Section three of this Act, exclusive of interest, penalties and cost: Provided such payments shall be made on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
CHAPTER 211 AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY- FIVE, PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE, RELATING TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF FOUR OAKS, JOHN- STON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The Generai Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a black-jack, near the colored church, on a road leading into the town of Four Oaks, and runs south ten west one hundred and fifty-six poles to a trestle on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, a small branch; thence Aa down said branch to the public road; thence south sixty-two east eighty-nine poles to the run of Juniper Branch; thence down the run of said branch to the Smithfield road; thence as said Smithfield road to a road leading to Four Oaks, near Keens; thence with the said road to another road leading to Four Oaks; thence through a field north five west one hundred and twenty-five poles to the head of a small branch; thence north thirty west one hundred and seventeen poles to a forked poplar in the head of the branch; thence south seventyone and one-half west one hundred and forty-two poles to the beginning.
CHAPTER 301 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A CHAIN-GANG AND FACILITATE THE WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, AND TO REPEAL CHAPTER 417 OF THE PUBLIC-  LOCAL LAWS OF 1911 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That all able-bodied male persons of Rutherford County between the ages of eighteen and forty-five shall pay to the road superintendent or the township supervisor or to the county treasurer of Rutherford County the sum of two dollars per annum, to be paid as other taxes, and to be kept in the general road fund of the county, to be expended in the improvement of the road in the township from which it was paid.
CHAPTER 58 AN ACT TO PERMIT THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF EAST BEND OR THE TRUSTEES OF THE EAST BEND BAPTIST CHURCH, YADKIN COUNTY, TO REMOVE BODIES TO THE BENBOW CHAPEL COLORED CEME- TERY. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of commissioners of the town of East Bend, Yadkin County, or the trustees of the East Bend Baptist Church, be and they are hereby authorized to remove, or cause to be removed, the bodies now buried in the old colored cemetery near the white Baptist Church in said town embracing seventeen bodies, more or less, to the Benbow Chapel colored cemetery nearby in said county: Provided, that before the removal of said graves notice of such action shall be published in some newspaper published in Yadkin County for four successive weeks.
CHAPTER 430 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 61 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1931, RELATIVE TO THE ELECTION OF COM- MISSIONERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section five, of chapter sixty-one, of the Public-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, is hereby repealed and a new section re-enacted as follows: Section 5 That there shall be elected in the general election in one thousand nine hundred thirty-four three county commissioners; one from district number one, one from district number two, and one from district number three, as set out in this act; that the commissioners elected in districts numbers four and five of this act shall serve for the entire term of four years for which they were elected in the general election of one thousand nine hundred thirty-two, and after the expiration of their fouryear term of office all of the said commissioners from all of the respective districts shall be elected for a term of two years from their respective districts as now by law provided, it being the purpose and intention of this act to change the election of county commissioners in said county back to a two-year period after the two commissioners, now serving four-year terms, terms of office have expired.
CHAPTER 346 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE SALE OF LANDS FOR TAXES IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The Sheriff shall make an itemized list of all tax receipts in the books on October first, as hereinbefore referred to, for all uncollected taxes in said books, not including the insolvent list return as hereinbefore provided, and shall deliver said tax receipts to the County Accountant and/or Auditor, or any other person that may be appointed by said Board to perform the duties required under the provisions of this Act, who shall give a receipt for same, which receipt shall be used by the Sheriff in the settlement of the taxes for said year, and which receipt shall be recorded for information only in the records of the Board of Commissioners of Caswell County: Provided, however, that before the delivery of the tax receipts to the said County Accountant and/or Auditor, or any other person that may be appointed by said Board to perform the duties required under the provisions of this Act, he shall give such bond or bonds as the Board of Commissioners of said County may require.
CHAPTER 361 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY TO BUILD AN ANNEX OR ADDITION TO THE PRESENT COURTHOUSE OF SAID COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND TO ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of commissioners of New Hanover County be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue serial bonds of the county of New Hanover, in an amount not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the same to bear such rate of interest, to be in such denominations, to run for not more than twenty-five years, and to be issued upon such terms aS may be agreed upon by the said board of county commissioners and the purchasers of said bonds.
CHAPTER 52 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 2334 OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES, VOLUME 3, RELATING TO GRAND JURIES IN PITT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. .That section two thousand three hundred and thirty-four of the Consolidated Statutes, Volume Three, be, and the same is hereby amended by inserting the word Pitt after the word Moore and before the word Richmond in line three of the first paragraph of said section.
CHAPTER 450 AN ACT TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH AN AUDITORS OFFICE FOR THE COUNTY OF BLADEN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. It shall be the duty of said auditor of Bladen County to act as tax supervisor, to have general supervision of the listing of property for taxes and the assessment of same by the various list-takers and assessors of the county; and the said auditor shall appoint an assistant for each township, and in townships where the needs may require such number as may be necessary, such assistants to be known as list-takers and assessors, and he shall appoint only those who in his judgment are suitable and competent to perform said duties of list-takers and assessors. The board of commissioners shall fix the compensation of said assistants and pay the same from the general fund.
CHAPTER 857 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF GASTON COUNTY TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUC- TION OF LIBRARY BUILDINGS IN STANLEY AND LOWELL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 1126 AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 12 OF CHAPTER 20, THE MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS LICENSING LAW, TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS AND TO PROVIDE FOR DENIAL, SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES FOR WILFUL AND INTENTIONAL FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS CONCERNING REGISTRATION, CERTIF- ICATES OF TITLE, TRANSFERS OF TITLE, USE OF REGISTRA- TION PLATES, AND ANTI-THEFT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 79 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF AYDEN, NORTH CAROLINA, SUBJECT TO AN ELECTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. No provision of law heretofore repealed expressly or by implication, and no provision of law granting authority which has been exhausted, shall be revived by: (a) The repeal herein of any Act repealing such provision of law; or (b) Any provision of this Act that disclaims an intention to repeal or effect enumerated or designated laws.
CHAPTER 514 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 41 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE FOR TRYING TITLE TO LAND CLAIMED BY THE STATE AND BY OTHER PARTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 1301 AN ACT TO FIX THE FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN CRIMINAL ACTIONS IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Fees in criminal actions in courts of Justices of the Peace in Northampton County shall be as hereinafter set out, provided that if no fee for any service is fixed by this Act, the fee fixed by other laws applicable to Northampton County shall be charged for such services: Wa tranites (GAC) mete. occ cel cyeis sis sisiole ogeees parece est mouse tke Le $2.00  Subpoeriaa WCACH) bp vaca cise oidepe cue olaio sca aiageiep ols > oie eis ores ss eia el cie aoe Commitment (CACM )kr.cicmcene cae crepes cio een oi pene oer sei 1 Recognizance (each) .........ccecerccesee se ee ccs senetecee 50 Judgment, contested (each) ........c eee e cece teen eects 3 Judgment, not contested (each) .....--.e eee eee eter teres 2 Affidavit, for removal (each) ........ eee eee eee teeters 50 Capias and order (each) .......cceee cece eerste sc eteees 1 Bond of undertaking (each) ......... cece eee ee ee eee eters 1 Gontinwancem(each))p ec cecueeis-pi orotic elsvus est 5 eno ae 50 Agreement to enter a plea of guilty (each) .........-+.+00-- 1
CHAPTER 1261 AN ACT TO AMEND GQ. S. 51-6 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF MARRIAGE LICENSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 236 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE GRAND JURY OF GRAN- VILLE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That at the first term of court for the trial of criminal cases in Granville County after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law, and the first nine members of said grand jury chosen at said term shall serve for a term of one year, and the second nine members of said grand jury so chosen shall serve for a term of six months, and thereafter at the first term of criminal court, after the first days of January and July of each year there shall be chosen nine members of said grand jury to serve for a term of one year.
fra, TBR CC XX xX. AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE.
Section 35. The register of deeds shall keep a book, in which he shall record the name of the person licensed, the trade or protession to be followed or the franchise to be enjoyed, the date at which it begins to run and the sum paid to the sheriff, and he shall, on the third Monday in January, April, July and October, send a certified copy of such record, for the quarter last preceding, to the auditor of the state, who shall charge the sheriff with the amount so appearing due. If any register shall fail to perform the duty hereby imposed on him he shall forfeit to the state a penalty of two hundred dollars, to be recovered of him and the sureties to his official bond, on motion in the superior court for the county of Wake, and on such motion a certified copy of his official bond and the certificate of the auditor of the state, setting torth his failure to make the required return, shall be prima facie evidence entitling the state to judgment in the absence of any sufficient defence.
CHAPTER 632 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF FORSYTH COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO IMPROVE THE HIGHWAYS OF FORSYTH COUNTY AND TO CREATE A HIGHWAY COMMISSION THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That said taxes, when collected, except a sufficient amount to provide a sinking fund and pay interest on the bonds, shall be paid over by the board of county commissioners to the highway commission hereinafter provided for.
CHAPTER 170 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. That they, from time to time, whenever the health of the city may demand the same, establish and create anywhere in Washington Township such sanitary district or districts as they may deem expedient, and the provisions of this charter, as well as all sanitary laws, ordinances, rules and regulations as may now or hereafter exist under the provisions of this charter, shall apply to the householders or occupants of the lots within said sanitary districts established as aforesaid as if the same were within the corporate limits and said occupants or householders residents of said city: Provided, said sanitary district shall not be farther than one mile from the corporate limits.
CHAPTER 314 AN ACT TO FIX AND SETTLE THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE COUNTIES OF WASHINGTON AND BEAUFORT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of the counties of Washington and Beaufort shall appoint two commissioners, one on the part of the county of Washington, and one on the part of the county of Beaufort, who shall settle, determine, run and mark the dividing line between said counties, from the western to the eastern terminus thereof.
CHAPTER 129 An act to incorporate The Bank of Wadesboro, Anson county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact -
Section 4. The said board of directors niay adopt and use a seal, and break and alter the same at pleasure; may prescribe the manner of paying for stock and transferring the same; may regulate the method of conducting the business of the said bank; may do a general banking business and exercise all the powers, rights and privileges conferred by the public laws of the state on banks and corporations of a like character; may lend money upon such rates of interest as may be agreed upon. not to exceed the legal rate; may discount, buy and sell notes, drafts and all other securities or evidence of debt; may loan money on mortgages of real and personal property; 1uay buy, build or lease a banking house and sell or exchange the same at pleasure, may negotiate loans on mortgages, real or personal estate, or both, and they shal! direct when dividends or profits shall be made and declared: Provided, said bank shall not charge a greater rate of interest than is allowed by law, to wit: six per centum.
CHAPTER 506 An act to incorporate the Asheville and Craggy Mountain Railway Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. The company shall have power in its corporate name to sue and be sued, to own real and personal estate, to condemn land for right of way and depot stations and other like railroad purposes in the same manner as the North Carolina Railroad Company, and to farm out or lease its railroad to any other person or corporation.
CHAPTER 188 An act for the relief of P. T. Massey, late treasurer of Johnston county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of Johnston county are hereby authorized and empowered to settle and finally adjust with P. T. Massey and the sureties of his official bond the amounts now due from him to the school or county funds of said county, and which were lost in the failure of the State National Bank of Raleigh, and the said commissioners are authorized and empowered to relieve the said P. T. Massey and his sureties from all liability on account of said loss, if, in their judgment, they deem it proper,;to do so.
CHAPTER 69 An act to provide for the drainage of the swamp lands on Mud creek in Henderson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 8. When in the drainage of the said lands, either by changing the course of the creek'or any tributary thereto, by ditching, canaling, or otherwise, it becomes necessary to enter upon the lands of any owner or resident on the said creek or tributary thereto, the said board of commissioners shall elect three freeholders of the said county to assess the damages incurred by the owner of the said lands entered upon. The said freeholders shall ' at once personally inspect the lands entered upon, and shall assess such actual damages as may be sustained by the owner of the property affected thereby, taking into consideration, in estimating the said damages, the advantages that may accrue to the owner by reason of the drainage of his lands. In five days the said assessors shall make a report to the board of commissioners, who shall cause a copy of the same to be served upon the owner of the said land, with notices to file exceptions to the same with the clerk of the said board within ten days from the date of service thereof. Upon the filing of a bill of exceptions, the board of commissioners shall fix a day for the hearing thereof; and, if the exceptions are not sustained by the said board, the party aggrieved thereby may appeal to the next term of the superior court for Henderson county, by filing bond and giving such notice to the board of commissioners as is required by law in cases of appeal from justices courts; but in no event shall such appeal stay, delay or impede the progress of such work.
CHAPTER 194 AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE COMMISSIONERS OF MACON COUNTY TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the county commissioners of Macon county shall have full power and authority to make all necessary contracts for the building of a new court-house in the town of Franklin in said county.
CHAPTER 266 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1160 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1953 RELATING TO THE FILING OF PAPERS IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT SO AS TO MAKE THE SAME APPLICABLE TO DUPLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Chapter 1160 of the Session Laws of 1953 is hereby amended by inserting the word Duplin, immediately following the word Mecklenburg, in line 1 of Section 1 and immediately following the word Mecklenburg, in lines 1 and 2 of Section 2 of said Act.
CHAPTER 821 AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATE PERSONNEL ACT TO ADD A CLEAR STATEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHT OF THE EM- PLOYEE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE POLITICAL LIFE OF OUR STATE ON HIS OWN TIME, WHILE PROHIBITING ANY IM- PROPER USE OF THE TIME OR INFLUENCE OF ANY EMPLOYEE OR OFFICIAL TO PERSUADE OR COERCE POLITICAL SUPPORT OR ACTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 348 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF ONE THOU- SAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE, RELAT- ING TO THE SALARIES OF THE JUDGE AND PROSE- CUTING ATTORNEY OF THE RECORDERS COURT OF ELKIN, SURRY COUNTY, AND INCREASING THE TER- RITORIAL JURISDICTION OF SAID COURT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That at the end of the term of office of the present Prosecuting Attorney of the Recorders Court of Elkin, Surry County, to-wit, the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, the Recorder of the said Court shall appoint his successor for a term of two years, and said Prosecuting Attorney shall be appointed by the Recorder every two years thereafter; Provided, that said Recorder shall fill any vacancy occurring in the office of the Prosecuting Attorney.
CHAPTER 683 AN ACT TO PROMOTE RAISING QUAIL IN STANLY AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That if the citizens of Stanly and Davidson counties, or any township in said counties, desire that any section or all of said act shall be put in force in said counties, they shall first file with the board of commissioners of said counties a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters in said counties or in any township thereof, as the case may be, setting out fully and concisely what provisions of this act they desire to be put in force; then it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of said counties at said meeting to make an order setting forth what section or sections of this act shall be put in force in said counties or any township therein, and a copy of said order shall be entered upon the records in which the records of their meetings are kept and a copy thereof filed and recorded in the office of register of deeds for the county, and posted at the courthouse door for thirty days and published in some newspaper published at the countyseat for four successive weeks, and from and after the expiration of the time set out in said order any section or sections therein included shall be in force in the counties or township, as the case may be, and all provisions of any other section herein which is necessary to enforce the same shall be in force from and after said date, and any person violating either of said sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor as heretofore provided.
CHAPTER 220 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF ANSON AND TO PRESCRIBE THE JURIS- DICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. The clerk of superior court of Anson County shall be ex-officio the clerk of the recorders court and shall receive a salary for such services of twenty-five dollars per month, to be paid monthly by the treasurer of Anson County.
CHAPTER 240 An act to incorporate the Trans-Appalachian Railway System. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That H. L. Miller and D. W. Beach, of Washington, District of Columbia, and S. D. Dunavant, W. C. Ervin, 8S. T. Pearson, F. P. Tate, J. R. Ervin and W. E. Walton, of the county of Burkeand state of North Carolina, and such persons as may be associated with them, their successors and assigns, be and they are created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Trans-Appalachian Railway Company, which shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, adopt and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and be eapable of taking and holding by purchase, gift or devise, or in any other manner, real and personal property, and of leasing, selling or conveying the same or dealing with the same in any manner. And said corporation shall have and enjoy all privileges, rights and immunities which corporate bodies may lawfully exercise, and make all necessary by-laws necessary for its government or which its directors may deem proper and expedient, not inconsistent with law.
CHAPTER 470 AN ACT TO GIVE RAILWAY CONDUCTORS AUTHORITY TO ARREST CERTAIN PERSONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That all passenger conductors of railroad trains and station or depot agents are hereby declared to be special police of the State of North Carolina, with full power and authority to make arrests for offenses committed in their presence or view, or for felony, or on sworn complaint for misdemeanor, except that the conductors shall only have such power on board of their respective trains or their railroad right-of-way, and the agents at their respective stations; and said conductors and agents may cause any person or persons so arrested by them to be detained and delivered to the proper authority for trial as soon as possible.
CHAPTER 381 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BANK OF NASHVILLE, NASH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. The affairs of the corporation shall be managed by 2 board of directors, who shall be elected annually by the stock: holders. The directors so elected shall choose a president and vice president, who shall hold for one year and until their successor: shall have been duly elected. They shall also elect a cashier and such other clerks and assistants as shall be necessary to a suc. cessful operation of the business, who shall serve until their successors are chosen. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and may fill vacancies occurring in its body till the next annual meeting of the stockholders. It shall be the duty of the board of directors, and they are hereby fully empowered, to make rules, regulations and by-laws for the government of said corporation and for the conduct of its business; also to fix the salaries of all officers and employees, and fix the bonds of all such officers and employees as they may require to give bond.
CHAPTER 228 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER SIX OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA ON BAS- TARDY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. No mother of an illegitimate child shall be excused, on the ground that it may tend to incriminate her or subject her to a penalty or a forfeiture, from attending and testifying, in obedience to a subpoena of any court, in any suit or proceeding based upon or growing out of the provisions of this act, but no such mother shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing as to which, in obedience to a subpoena and under oath, she may so testify, nor shall she be forced or compelled to testify against the accused party against her will.
CHAPTER 979 AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 47-20.2(B) RELATING TO THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION OF MORTGAGES ON PERSONAL PROPERTY AND TO AMEND CERTAIN PARTS CF
Section 12. G. S. 55A-12 (a) -2 is hereby amended by inserting immediately following the word including and immediately preceding the word street in line one thereof the words county and city or town, and so as to make the subdivision read as follows: (2) The address, including county and city or town, and street and number, if any, of its then registered office.
CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE, TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 102. That it shall be lawful for the town authorities, in their discretion, to contract in writing with the board of county commissioners for the employment of such prisoners as may be confined in the county jail by order of the court on the streets.
CHAPTER 29 AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PAY OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF GATES COUNTY AND CAUSE THE CHAIRMAN TO AUDIT CERTAIN AC- COUNTS. , The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the county commissioners of Gates County shall receive for their services as such commissioners the sum of four dollars per day instead of two dollars per day as is now provided by law, and shall receive five cents per mile to and from their homes for each session they may attend of such board.
CHAPTER 120 , AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER FOR ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 38. If any person be challenged as having been convicted of any crime which excluded him from the right of suffrage, he shall be required to answer any question in relation to such alleged conviction, but his answers to such question shall not be used against him in any criminal prosecutions; but if any person so convicted shall vote at the election without having been restored to the rights of citizenship, he shall be guilty of an infamous crime and punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both.
CHAPTER 352 AN ACT GRANTING A CHARTER TO THE CITY OF HENDER- SONVILLE, IN HENDERSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CORPORATE NAME; BOUNDARIES.
Section 36. The tax collector of the city of Hendersonville is hereby clothed with all the powers incident to the office of tax collector for Henderson County to enforce the collection of taxes due the city, and shall have all of the rights, remedies, and actions, distress and powers of sale as to property and persons or subjects of taxation as the county tax collector has for the collection of taxes in his office, and shall proceed to collect the same in like manner; and as to the sale of property and enforcement of the collection of taxes the city shall have the same rights as the county of Henderson has under such proceedings and actions and sales by the county tax collector; and the persons whose property may be sold under such proceedings shall have the same rights of redemption as are applicable to property sold for taxes by the county tax collector.
CHAPTER 324 AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC ROADS OF SHEFFIELDS AND RITTERS TOWNSHIPS IN MOORE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That for the purpose of building or constructing, repairing or maintaining the public roads of said township, or for constructing ditches or drains for the construction of said public roads under the direction of the board of road commissioners, the said supervisor shall have full power and authority to enter in and upon any lands in said township or any adjoining lands near any public road in said township and dig and maintain any ditches and cut down and carry away any trees or timber or remove any sand, Clay, gravel, stone, or other substance which may be necessary to repair, construct, or improve said roads, and may also construct or open upon or over said lands all necessary ditches or drains for the construction, improvement, or maintenance of said roads. If the owner of the land over which any road is constructed or over which any material is removed or on which any drains or ditches may be caused to empty shall demand compensation therefor, and present his claim to the board of road commissioners, it shall be the duty of said board of road commissioners to pass upon and consider the same and to pass an order for the payment of said account if the said board shall deem it just: Provided, that in the event any person over whose lands any new road has been located or from which any material may be removed or on which drains shall be made, shall claim damages therefor, which the said board shall refuse to pay, such person claiming damages shall within thirty days after the location of said road or removal of material or making said drains, petition said board of road commissioners for a jury to assess said damages. It shall then be the duty of said board within sixty days after the completion of said road or work thereon, to order a jury of three disinterested freeholders of said township to be summoned by the Sheriff of Moore County, to be named and designated by said sheriff, qualified to serve as jurors, and the jury so selected shall give three days notice to the landowner and to the board where and when said jury shall meet to assess said damages, and in the consideration thereof it shall be the duty of said jury to take into consideration any decrease in said damages by any benefit to the owner of the land by reason of the construction or improvement of said road, and if the benefits derived are equal to or greater than the damages sustained, the jury shall so declare, and it shall report its finding in writing to the board of road commissioners for confirmation or revision: Provided further, that a landowner may appeal to the Superior Court of Moore County from the decision of the jury and said board of road commissioners, and upon said appeal the same shall be heard de novo in said court.
CHAPTER 83 An act to authorize the county of Martin to borrow money, issue bonds and levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That said taxes shall be collected by the sheriff of said county, whose bond shall be liable therefor as for other county taxes, and he shall pay over the same to the county treasurer of said county on or before the first Monday of December of each year.
CHAPTER 8. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF RICHLANDS IN ONS- LOW COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the town of Richlands, in Onslow county, be and the same is hereby incorporated by the name and style of the Town of Richlands, and shall be subject to all the provisions contained in chapter one hundred and eleven (111) Battles Revisal, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state and the United States.
CHAPTER 622 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF STANLY COUNTY TO SUBMIT TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID COUNTY THE QUESTION OF ISSUING BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING AND IMPROVING, ETC., THE PUB- LIC ROADS OF SAID COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 21. That th compensation of said highway commissioners shall be the same in all respects as the compensation of the county commissioners of Stanly County.
CHAPTER 310 An act entitled an act to incorporate the Peoples Savings Bank at Asheville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. The said corporation may receive and pay out the lawful currency of the country, deal in exchange, gold and silver coin, uncurrent paper, and public and other securities; may loan money to and receive deposits of money or other property or evidences of debt from corporations, minors, feme coverts or other persons, on such terms and time and manner of collection and payment as may be agreed upon, and for the use and loan of money may charge so higha rate of interest asis or may be allowed by the laws of the state of North Caiolina and may take and receive said interest at the time of making said loan; may invest in the stock, bonds or other securities of the United States, of this or any other state in the Unien [or] of any corporation under the laws thereof, and take such real.or personal property as seeurity for all loans and upon such terms as may be agreed upon.
CHAPTER 79 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SOUTHPORT, N. C., TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO PAY SAID BONDS AND INTEREST. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That said bonds shall not be issued until authorized by a majority of the qualified voters of said city at a public election to be held at such a time and place as said board shall appoint, of which notice shall be given for twenty days in some newspaper published in said city, and if no newspaper, then by written notices posted in three public places in said city; and at said election those favoring the issue of said bonds shall vote a printed or written ticket with the words For Street Bonds thereon; those who are opposed shall vote a printed or written ticket with the words Against Street Bonds thereon; the result of said election shall be ascertained by the judges of election of the different wards and certified and returned by them to the aldermen of the city of Southport within two days from the day of election, who shall verify and also certify such results and cause the same to be recorded in their minutes, and shall also make return of said result under the signature of the mayor and clerk of said city to the Register of Deeds of Brunswick County, who shall duly record the same.
CHAPTER 281 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND KEEP- ING IN REPAIR THE PUBLIC ROADS OF FORSYTH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. That all male prisoners confined in the county jail of Forsyth County under final sentence of the court for crime or imprisonment for nonpayment for cost or fines, or under the vagrant acts, all male insolvents who shall be imprisoned by any court in said county for nonpayment of costs, and all male persons sentenced in said county to the States Prison for a term of less than ten years shall be worked on the public roads of the county. Judges of the superior court or the judges of the criminal court, the justices of the peace, and the recorder, police justice or judge of any municipal court, may assign such persons convicted in his court to work on the public roads of said county. All such convicts to be fed, clothed and otherwise cared for at the expense of the county: Provided, that in case of serious physical disability certified to by any county physician or other satisfactory reasan appearing to the presiding judge, said person so convicted may be sentenced to the penitentiary or to the county jail.
CHAPTER 371 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I SCHEDULE A INHERITANCE TAX
Section 454. Officers, agents, and employees; misdemeanor failing to comply with tax law. If any officer, agent, and/or employee of any person, firm, or corporation subject to the provisions of this act shall wilfully fail, refuse, or neglect to make out, file, and/or deliver any reports or blanks, as required by such law, or to answer any question therein propounded, or to knowingly and wilfully give a FALSE answer to any such question wherein the fact inquired of is within his knowledge, or upon proper demand to exhibit to such Commissioner of Revenue or any person duly authorized by such Commissioner any book, paper, account, record, memorandum of such person, firm, or corporation in his possession and/or under his control, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each offense.
CHAPTER 326 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AND TO CREATE A BOARD OF BOILER RULES WHICH SHALL FORMULATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE CONSTRUCTION, USE AND OPERATION OF STEAM BOILERS; TO PROVIDE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES AND REGU- LATIONS OF THE BOARD OF BOILER RULES; TO PRO- VIDE FOR THE INSPECTION OF STEAM BOILERS AND THE FEES TO BE CHARGED FOR SAME; AND TO PRO- VIDE A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE PRO- VISIONS OF THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. The chief inspector shall furnish a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), and each of the deputy inspectors shall furnish a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties and upon a TRUE account of moneys handled by them respectively, and the payment thereof to the proper recipient. The cost of said bonds shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the special fund provided for in section thirteen: Provided, this act shall not apply to Cleveland, Montgomery, McDowell, Rockingham, Moore, Swain, Bertie, Wayne, Halifax, Yancey, Franklin, Granville, Person, Martin, Robeson, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Iredell Counties, Provided further, that this act shall not apply to ground sawmills.
CHAPTER 253 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED FORTY- SIX OF PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED THIRTY-THREE RELATIVE TO FEES OF CER- TAIN OFFICERS OF MOORE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter two hundred and forty-six of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three be amended by striking out the words Moore and in line five of section one and section two, it being the intent and purpose of this act to eliminate Moore County from provisos in said section.
CHAPTER 186 AN ACT TO PROVIDE THE MANNER IN WHICH THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS OR NOTES OF A UNIT AND THE INDEBTEDNESS OF A UNIT MAY BE VALI- DATED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. In the event no appeal is taken, within the time prescribed by law for other appeals, from a decree validating said bonds and means of payment, or, if taken, and if such decree be affirmed by the Supreme Court, the decree of the Superior Court shall be forever conclusive as to the validity of such bonds and the validity of the means of payment provided therefor as against the unit and as against all taxpayers and citizens thereof, to the extent of matters and things pleaded or which might have been pleaded, and to such extent the validity of said bonds and means of payment thereof shall never be called in question in any court in this State.
CHAPTER 77 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6054, CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, PLACING McDOWELL COUNTY UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PRIMARY LAW. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter ninety-seven, article seventeen, section six thousand and fifty-four of Consolidated Statutes be amended by striking out the word McDowell in line seven of said section.