CHAPTER 80 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF MORGANTON TO CALL AN ELECTION FOR BONDS FOR GRACE HOSPITAL, INCORPORATED. Whereas, Grace Hospital, Incorporated, is now and for many years last past has been a charitable and eleemosynary in- stitution in the Town of Morganton for the healing of the sick, and, Whereas, during such time Grace Hospital, Incorporated, has cared for the poor and needy sick of the Town of Morganton and by such charitable conduct has rendered unnecessary the erection of a municipal hospital in said town; and, Whereas, Grace Hospital, Incorporated, is now engaged in the construction of a new hospital building upon its lands in the Town of Morganton and has received for such purpose the total sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) or there- abouts from citizens of said town and other charitably-minded persons and institutions; and, Whereas, Grace Hospital, Incorporated, needs the sum of approximately ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in addition to the aforesaid sum in order to complete said building in accord- ance with the necessary plans thereof; and, Whereas, numerous citizens of the Town of Morganton de- sire that said additional sum should be paid by the Town of Morganton in consideration of the charitable services hereto- fore rendered to the poor and needy citizens of said town by said Grace Hospital and in consideration of like services to be rendered in the future; and, Whereas, the said Grace Hospital, while a private institu- tion, is not conducted for profit but for the charitable purpose of healing the sick; and, Whereas, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or there- abouts should be furnished in order to complete said new build- ings now in process of construction: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That at said election so held all voters in favor of the issuance of bonds for the purposes specified in the preamble to this act in an amount not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and of the levy of an annual tax on all property and on all taxable polls in the said Town of Morganton in such amount as may be necessary to pay the annual interest on said bonds and to create a sinking fund to pay the said bonds as and when the same mature and become due shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words For Hospital Bonds, and all voters opposed to the issuance of said bonds and the levy of said annual tax shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words Against Hospital Bonds. The said registrar and judges appointed to hold and holding the said election shall report the result of said election to the town council of the Town of Morganton, certifying under their signatures the number of qualified electors duly registered, the number of votes cast For Hospital Bonds, the number of votes cast Against Hospital Bonds, and the total number voting at such election, and the result of said election shall by the said town council be declared and canvassed and adjudged as aforesaid, and whether or not a majority of the qualified voters of said Town of Morganton voted in favor of or against the issuance of such bonds and the levy of said tax.