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CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 52. That the Winston commissioners of graded schools shall be and are hereby authorized to receive and use the money herein provided for, and to apply the same in such way as they may deem best for the benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said city, whether for suitable buildings and furniture for said schools or for repairs of the same, for salaries of teachers or for other incidental expenses.
Section 73. That the board of aldermen shall have power to regulate the manner and terms on which bodies may be interred in the public cemetery and have said cemetery kept in proper repair. They shall also have power to forbid any and all interments of dead bodies within the limits of said city, or any part thereof, whenever they shall deem it expedient, and to pass ordinances for the protection of the cemeteries; may appoint and pay a keeper and compel the keeping and returning of a bill of mortality. The city of Winston is hereby authorized to purchase suitable grounds for cemeteriesone for the white people and one for the colored peopleto be under the supervision of the city, with power to make such regulations as may be proper for regulating the burying of the dead therein, and to have police jurisdiction thereon; that the cemeteries of the city of Winston as now laid off shall not be enlarged, nor shall the dead be buried within the corporate limits of said city other than within the boundaries as now laid off. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
Section 86. The aldermen of the city shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit: First, no interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be created for this purpose; second, the schools shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of all ages between the ages of six and twenty-one, but the white and colored schools shall be distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher classes of males and females; third, the funds raised by ad valorem taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers; fourth, persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the schools from their homes, or as boarders, on the payment of tuition fees, to be fixed by the school commissioners; fifth, the aldermen of the city, at their first regular meeting in September, one thousand nine hundred. and five, and annually thereafter, shall appropriate a sufficient sum of money out of the general fund for the support of the graded schools, to be known as The Graded School Fund, the sum to be appropriated for this purpose to be determined by the graded school commissioners and approved by the board of aldermen.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 29. That the board of aldermen shall annually turn over to the trustees of said parks for white people and colored people not less than the sum of one thousand dollars; that the said sum of one thousand dollars shall be distributed between the trustees or commissioners of said white and colored parks in such proportion as is just and equitable, all things being considered, and shall turn over any additional sum in the discretion of the board to the Charlotte Park and Tree Commission for trees, ete.
CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said board of trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof, published in some newspaper published in Alamance County, and by notices posted at four public places in said district. The said board of trustees shall select three men, qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar and the other two poll holders to hold said election, and these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their acts in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers; and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing, tickets on which shall be written or printed the words For Graded School or Against Graded School, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the election of county officers; the said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory.
CHAPTER 104 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the special taxes levied and collected under this act shall be expended in keeping up separate schools for the white and colored children in said district between the ages of six and twentyone years.
CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF ROXBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That it shall be the duty of said board to establish a graded school for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, and to appropriate the funds derived from said special tax and all other sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races.
Section 11. That if a majority of the qualified voters of said town shall vote For Bonds, then the Board of Commissioners of said town shall issue coupon bonds to the amount voted for in said election and in denominations of not less than five hundred dollars, bearing interest from the date of said bonds at five per centum per annum, and payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July of each year until said bonds are paid. That the said bonds shall be payable after the expiration of thirty years from the date thereof. The bonds and the coupons shall be numbered and the bonds shall be signed by the Mayor of said town and countersigned by the treasurer of the Board of Commissioners, and a record shall be kept of all bonds, observing the number, amount and to whom sold. The coupons shall be received in payment of taxes, polls, and debts due said town; and the said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, but the Board of Commissioners are authorized in their discretion to pay a commission not to exceed five per centum of the amount of the issue of said bonds, should it become necessary in order to effect a sale thereof; that the sales of the said bonds shall be used by the Board of Commissioners of said town for the exclusive purpose of buying a suitable lot and erecting thereon a building for the white graded school of said town and buy a suitable lot for the colored graded school, and if no suitable building on said lot to erect one.
CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP OF SWAN QUARTER, NORTH CARO- LINA, IN THE COUNTY OF HYDE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the following described territory lying within Swan Quarter Township, Hyde County, to-wit, beginning at Oyster Creek Bridge and running with the Credle Road to the savanna; thence with the New Road to the Swan Quarter Road; thence with the Swan Quarter Road to the line of the land belonging to the Home for the Aged and Infirm; thence with the back line of the lands belonging to the said Home for the Aged and Infirm and along the back lines of the lands of the devisees of Thomas E. Harris, deceased, the lands of Mrs. Jennie Fisher, the lands of W. S. Harris, the lands of Homer Jarvis, John Jarvis, Foster Jarvis, Zacheus Jarvis, R. D. Harris, the heirs at law of Mrs. Sally Griffin, deceased, Mrs. Ida P. Berry and Samuel Weston, William Swindell and the lands of the heirs of George W. Swindell, deceased, to the line of the lands of the heirs of D. K. Credle, deceased; thence with the line of said Credle land to the public road at the Plank Bridge; thence with the line of the Benders Selby land to the leading ditch that empties into Swan Quarter Bay; thence with said ditch to the said bay and thence with the winds of Swan Quarter Bay to Oyster Creek, and thence with the said creek to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Swan Quarter Graded School District.
Section 12. That all public school funds derived from the State and Hyde County for the use and benefit of the public schools in said graded school district shall be kept by the Treasurer of Hyde County separate and apart from all other funds in his hands for the use and benefit of the graded public schools in said district, and by said Treasurer disbursed in the manner provided in section 7 of this act. That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools embraced within the bounds of said graded school district, whether heretofore belonging to the white or colored public schools, shall become the property of said public graded schools, and shall be vested in said board of trustees in trust for said schools, and said board may sell the same, or any part thereof, if deemed necessary or advisable, and apply the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of said public graded schools.
CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That the said board of trustees shall provide for the procurement of separate school buildings for the use of the white and colored school] children of said town, either by erecting new buildings or by leasing from the trustees of the Edenton Academy the academy building for the use of the white children, and by using the school buildings now used by the colored public school for the colored children, or leasing such other buildings for the graded school as to said trustees may seem proper; and the said trustees shall have the right to engage, employ, pay and discharge teachers at any time, fix tne [amount] of their compensation and salaries, and have general oversight and control of said school.
Section 9. That the said board of trustees shall apportion the money raised or received for the purpose of carrying on the graded schools in the town of Edenton, as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination between the races, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools of both races.
CHAPTER 243 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF MOUNT OLIVE, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the special taxes levied and collected under this act shall be expended in keeping up separate graded schools for the white and colored children in said district between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
CHAPTER 232 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE YADKIN VALLEY NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY FOR THE COLORED RACE, AT WILKESBORO, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That R. B. Watts, N. A. Barber, R. W. Barber, E. W. Hackett, John Hunt, W. W. James, P. H. Wilson, A. B. Clark, A. J. Howard, D. P. Sherrill, C. Parsons, Irvin Parks, A. Parks and their associates and successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the Yadkin Valley Normal and Industrial Academy for the colored race, and by that name to remain in perpetual suecession for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade at or near Wilkesboro, Wilkes county, and in that name may acquire, hold and convey property, real and personal, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, and in their corporate capacity may exercise such rights and acts as may be deemed needful for the purpose of instructing the colored youths, male and female, in the various common school, academic and collegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same and the best mode of practical industry as applied to agriculture and mechanic arts; may have and use a common seal; may make and alter from time to time such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution: Provided, such by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the State of North Carolina. ,
CHAPTER 167 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SELMA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The said board of trustees shall have full power and authority over the schools for both races in said district, and as soon as practicable they shall establish a graded free school for the white race and a graded free school for the colored race. They shall have charge of the expenditure of all the public moneys available for school purposes in said district, and the following moneys shall be placed at their disposal: First. All moneys which by law they shall be entitled to receive from the commissioners of the dispensary at Selma. Second. All moneys apportioned to the said school district from the county school fund. Third. All moneys raised by a special tax in said district for school purposes. Fourth. All moneys which may be appropriated to said purposes by the town of Selma. Fifth. All moneys donated to said school or received in any way whatsoever. That the moneys shall be so appropriated as to provide the same length of school term for the white and colored schools.
CHAPTER 326 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: POLL-TAX.
Section 33. The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in November after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred doilars value of reai property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. ea
CHAPTER 665 | AN ACT TO PROHIBIT FISHING IN ROCK FISH CREEK AND NORTH EAST RIVER IN DUPLIN AND PENDER COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to fish for Robin Redbreast Perch in the waters of Rockfish Creek and the Northeast River between the fifteenth day of May and the first day of August of each and every year with hook and line, gill nets, gun or rifle, or in any other manner whatsoever: Provided, this act shall not apply to fishing in deep waters with a seine not less than forty-five yards in length and ten feet in depth.
CHAPTER 449 An act to incorporate the  Montane Road and Power Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That said company for the purpose of transferring such power as it may generate from point to point, shall have the right to erect poles, and run wires either in the air or under the ground as it may elect: Provided, they shall pay to the owners of the land over which said lines are run, such damage as said owners may sustain therefrom, said damages, if they can not be agreed upon, to be determined in like manner as is               hereinbefore provided for ascertaining damages caused by the construction of the roads mentioned herein.
CHAPTER 448 An act to drain the bottom lands of Catheys and Hollands Creeks in Rutherford County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact.
Section 9. That said Creek Commissioners shall have power to stop all washes, cut and use timber off the lands of the various owners, open the channels of the creek, widen the channels or remove timber or other obstruction from the banks of the lands of any of the owners, and in short to do any and all things necessary to the proper drainage of said lands.
196 CHAPTER 766 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF HOSPITAL DISTRICTS AND TO AUTHORIZE SUCH DISTRICTS TO ISSUE BONDS AND LEVY TAXES FOR HOSPITAL PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Amend G. S. 131-126.18 by rewriting paragraph (c) of said Section so that said paragraph (c) shall read as follows: (c) Hospital facility means any type of hospital, clinic or public health center, housing or quarters for local public health departments, including relating facilities such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals.
CHAPTER 87 AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. A joint committee on standardization, consisting of three members appointed from the North Carolina State Nurses Association, and three members from the North Carolina State Hospital Association, whose members shall serve for a term of three years, or until their successors are elected, is hereby created. The joint committee on standardization shall advise with the board of nurse examiners herein created in the adoption of regulations covering applicants for license and admission to examinations, and the stardardization, so far as possible, of the schools of nursing in North Carolina, and shall have the power to classify such schools with the assent of the board of nurse examiners, and prescribe rules and regulations for the classification of schools of nursing.
CHAPTER 129 AN ACT TO ENABLE ANY TWO OR MORE COUNTIES TO ESTABLISH A DISTRICT HOSPITAL-HOME IN LIEU OF SEPARATE COUNTY HOMES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That this board of trustees shall, as soon as possible after appointment, assemble and organize by the election of a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer, which last officer shall be bonded. They shall proceed promptly with the purchase of a site for such hospital-home, including, if they deem it desirable, a farm of suitable size, location and fertility, giving due consideration to sanitary surroundings and transportation facilities, and shall then cause to be erected suitable plain, substantial, comfortable and permanent buildings for the accommodation of those for whom this act is intended, giving due regard to the separation of the sexes and races, and such other plans for segregation as their judgment and existing conditions may suggest. Said buildings are to be furnished with plain, substantial furniture, and such other equipment as conditions demand. Necessary hospital facilities may be included, but provisions for such facilities and equipment shall have the approval of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare and the State Board of Health.
CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO REVISE AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, AND TO AL- LOW SAID TOWN TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 30. That in order to raise funds for the expenses incident to the proper government of the town of Albemarle, the board of commissioners of said town are hereby authorized and empowered as in their judgment they may see fit and proper, not inconsistent with the laws of the State, to annually levy and collect taxes from circuses, shows, liquor dealers, theatres, and entertainments, musical or otherwise, artificial curiosities, venders of patent proprietary medicines, exhibits of any character for money or reward, peddlers of all kinds of goods, wares, merchandise, paints, polishes, varnishes, oils, draymen, liverymen, sales-stables, barbers, photographers, restaurants, and all other things and subjects which are now or may hereafter be taxed by the revenue laws of this State, not exempt by said laws from taxation by cities and towns.
CHAPTER 50 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO, IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 50. That the aldermen may require and compel the abatement and removal of all nuisances within the city, at the expense of the person causing the same, or the owner or tenant of the grounds whereon the same may be, and may regulate the same if allowed to be established, any slaughter house or place, or the exercise within the city of any offensive or unhealthy trade, business or employment.
CHAPTER 158 An act to incorporate the Stone Mountain Railway Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That said company may subscribe to the capital stock of any other corporation now in existence or hereafter projected, in this State or elsewhere, and hold shares in same; it may buy, sell, own, hold and deal in real estate, standing trees, lumber, lumbermens materials and supplies, and in all other goods, wares and merchandise of any and all kinds; it may build, own, equip and operate saw-mills, planing-mills, stonemills, shingle-mills, dry-kilns, hotels, boarding-houses and all other buildings, mills, machinery and apparatus necessary and convenient for the conduct of any part of its business; it may also purchase, own, mine for and operate natural gas, oil, coal, iron and other minerals or ores.
CHAPTER 914 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. The appropriation made out of the General Fund for the Prison Department includes funds to be transferred or paid to the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh and Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro for care, custody, and treatment of the criminally insane prisoners, and to the North Carolina Sanatorium for care, custody, and treatment of prisoners who have tuberculosis; with the amount of funds to be determined as follows: At the beginning of each month the Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh, the Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro, and North Carolina Sanatorium shall render to the Prison Department a bill, on the basis of the per capita cost per day for 1225 the preceding fiscal year, as may be determined by the Director of the Budget, for the care, custody, and treatment, during the preceding month, of criminally insane prisoners and prisoners who have tuberculosis and who have been transferred from the Prison System to said institutions, and the Prison Department shall pay such bills monthly.
CHAPTER 887 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CLARIFY CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAP- TER 122 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE OP- ERATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE STATE HOSPITALS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. Amending Section 122-63.2, of Volume 3B of the General Statutes, by adding another paragraph at the end of said Section, which said paragraph shall read as follows: The Hospitals Board of Control is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states for the purpose of fixing the requirements whereby a patient under commitment to a state hospital in such other state or states may be released and come into this State while still on conditional release or probation from the state hospital of such other state or states. The said board may also enter into reciprocal agreements with another state or states to fix and establish the requirements whereby a patient under commitment to a State Hospital in this State may be released and go into such other state or states while still on conditional release or probation from a State Hospital in this State. Any such patient so released from a state hospital or other mental institution in another state or states for the purpose of coming into this State shall not be considered to gain residence in this State by any period of time he resides in this State, and a person or patient released from a State Hospital in North Carolina will retain his North Carolina residence or legal settlement during his acceptance in the other state under agreements authorized under this Section. No members of the State Hospitals Board of Control or the General Superintendent or any physician, psychiatrist, officer, agent or employee of the State Hospitals Board of Control shall be held personally liable for acts done or damages sustained by reason of any official acts done or committed under the authority of this Section.
CHAPTER 108 AN ACT IN REGARD TO PUBLIC WHARVES AND DEPOTS. _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any railroad: or steamboat company, or owner, or other common carrier of passengers to make any discrimination for or gainst any hotel, or boarding-house-keeper, or baggageman, by excluding them or other agents, servants-or runners from any public wharf or depot, or other public lace belonging to such common carrier, and to which other persons of the same description may be admitted: Provided, that this act shall not be construed so as to prevent any common carrier of passengers from making such rules and regulations as may be proper and necessary for the comfort, safety and protection of its passengers, but such rules shall apply to all persons alike.
CHAPTER 163 AN ACT FIXING THE SALARIES AND FEES OF THE OFFI- CERS OF ALEXANDER COUNTY, ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF TAX COLLECTOR AND THE RECORDER'S COURT OF SAID COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the Sheriff of Alexander County or his deputies shall be allowed the amount of their actual expenses for conveying prisoners to or from other counties, or to or from the State Prison, for taking insane persons to or from the State Hospital; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to render to the Board of County Commissioners a monthly statement of the expenses herein provided for, showing the amount of expenses and date and purpose for which spent; and if satisfied that the amount is correct, said commissioners shall pay the same to the sheriff by order upon the treasurer, bank or banks holding the county funds, and the cost of conveying prisoners, where it may be recovered, shall be taxed in the bill of cost by the court when requested by the commissioners.
CHAPTER 51 N ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS; TO CREATE A STATE GAME COMMISSION AND THE OFFICE OF STATE GAME WARDEN; TO AUTHORIZE GAME REFUGES AND SANCTUARIES; TO LEVY LICENSE FEES; TO PROVIDE OPEN AND CLOSED SEASONS FOR GAME BIRDS, GAME ANIMALS AND FUR-BEARING ANIMALS; TO ABOLISH THE AUDU- BON SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TO TRANS- FER ITS PROPERTY TO THE STATE GAME COMMIS- SION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.  he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 36. Manner of taking game. No person shall at any time of the year take in any manner, number, or quantity, any wild bird or wild animal, or take the nest or eggs of any wild bird, or possess, buy, sell, offer or expose for sale, or transport at any time or in any manner any such bird, animals, or part thereof, or any birds nest or egg, except as permitted by this act; the possession of any game animals, except squirrels and rabbits; or game birds or part of such animals or game birds in any hotel, restaurant, cafe, market or store, or by any produce dealer in this State shall be prima facie evidence of the possession thereof for the purpose of sale in violation of the provisions of this act; but this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the person lawfully obtaining game from having it prepared in a public eating place and served to himself and guests: Provided, however, that for the purpose of this act any person hiring another to kill aforesaid game animals or game birds and receiving same, shall be deemed buying same, and subject to the penalties of this act. Game birds and game animals shall be taken only in the day time, between half an hour before sunrise and sunset, with a shotgun not larger than number ten -10 gauge, or a rifle, unless otherwise specifically permitted by this act. No person shall take any game animals or game birds or migratory game birds from any automobile, or by aid of or with the use of any jack-light, or other artificial light, net, trap, salt-lick, or poison; nor shall any such jack-light, net, trap, snare, saltlick or poison be used or set to take any animals or birds; nor shall birds or animals be taken from an airplane, power-boat, sailboat, or any boat under sail, or any floating device towed by a power-boat or sailboat; nor shall any person take any dove, wild turkey or upland game bird on any field or in any cover in which corn, wheat, or other grain has been deposited for the purpose of drawing such birds thereto. A person may take game birds and wild animals during the open season therefor, with the aid of dogs, unless specifically prohibited by this act. It shall be lawful for organized field trial clubs, or associations for the protection of game, to run trials for dogs at any time: Provided, that no game birds or game animals shall be taken during the closed season by reason thereof.
CHAPTER 630 AN ACT TO ENABLE LEE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TO LEVY A TAX AND ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR, APPOINT HOS- PITAL TRUSTEES, MAINTAIN A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, ETC. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of county commissioners of Lee County, North Carolina, may, by a majority of said board, or upon petition of two hundred voters of said county, shall, after thirty days notice at the courthouse door and publication in one or more newspapers in said county for thirty days, order an election to be held at such time as they may fix, to determine the will of the people of the county whether there shall be issued and sold bonds to an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), to bear interest at not exceeding six per cent per annum, and to be payable, both principal and interest, when and where they may decide, and to levy a tax of not exceeding ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and thirty cents on the poll. The proceeds of said bonds to be used in securing lands and erecting or altering buildings and equipping same, to be used as a public hospital, and said tax to be levied to pay the interest on said bonds, and to Provide a sinking fund to pay said bonds at maturity, and for the maintenance of said hospital. If the majority of the qualified voters at said election shall vote in favor of the issuing of said bonds and the levying of said tax, then said bonds, or such part thereof as the said board of commissioners may determine, shall be issued and sold by said board, said tax, or such part thereof as shall be required, shall be levied. The hospital so erected from the sale of said bonds shall be known as Lee County memorial hospital in honor of the soldiers from Lee County in the world war and shall contain a tablet bearing the name of all who lost their lives in the service, as well as a suitable record of all the soldiers from Lee County who were enlisted in the service during the war.
CHAPTER 157 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CHERRYVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO PROVIDE AN ELECTION IN SAID DISTRICT AND TO EMPOWER THE AUTHORITIES TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That said board of trustees, annually, beginning with the first Monday of the month after the election hereinafter provided shall be held, provided this act is approved at said election by a majority of the qualified voters of the aforesaid Cherryville Graded School District, shall elect one of their number as treasurer and custodian of all public school funds and the public school money derived from the State for the benefit of said school district, and the same, together with the money arising from any special tax, gifts, grants, apportionments or otherwise, shall be paid to and received by the treasurer of said board of trustees, and the said treasurer shall report monthly to the said board of trustees his receipts and disbursements and vouchers for the same. The money so received shall be held by said treasurer as a fund to be disbursed only upon the order of said board and signed by its chairman and countersigned by its secretary. The said treasurer shall furnish annually to the said board of trustees a statement, in writing, of his receipts and disbursements of the school money, properly indorsed and approved by the chairman and secretary of said school board. The bond required of said treasurer shall be fixed by the board of trustees in an amount sufficient to secure all school money which may at any time come into his hands, and the compensation for such services as treasurer shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars annually.
CHAPTER 267 An act in relation to the public school in the town of Mount Airy, and providing for the levying of a tax to support the same. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. For the purposes and benefits of this act the town of Mount Airy shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored.
CHAPTER 142 AN ACT TO PERMIT GUILFORD COUNTY TO VOTE ON THE QUESTION OF AN EIGHT MONTHS SCHOOL TERM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. The special charter districts and the local tax districts of the county shall be permitted to retain such part of the special tax heretofore authorized as may in the discretion of the local school board be necessary for the said local tax districts and the special charter districts to extend the school term beyond the eight months and to provide for school activities not embraced in the budget of the county board of education for operating the schools for a term of eight months.
CHAPTER 861 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 792, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1907, RELATING TO THE DUNN ROAD DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the provisions of the general road law, except as modified by said chapter seven hundred and ninety-two, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and seven, or as modified by this act, Shall be applicable in all respects in working the public roads of Dunn Road District: Provided, that the duties therein prescribed to be performed by the township road supervisors shall be performed by the commissioners of said district, and the duties therein directed to be performed by any overseer shall be performed by the superintendent of said district, an overseer or agent appointed by the commissioners of said district.
CHAPTER 381 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ENLARGEMENT OF LIBRARIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE RURAL DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Whenever the patrons and friends of any free public school in which a library has already been established under the provisions of ghapter six hundred and sixty-two, Laws of one thousand nine hundred and one, and chapter two hundred and twenty-six, Laws of one thousand nine hundred and tlree, or in which a library has been established for one year under the preceding sections of this act, shall raise by private subscription and tender the treasurer of the county school fund the sum of five dollars ($5) for the enlargement of the library, the county board of education shall appropriate from the money belonging to that school district the sum of five dollars ($5), and the State Board of Education shall remit to the treasurer of the county school fund the sum of five dollars ($5). The money thus collected and appropriated shall be used for the enlargement of libraries already established under the same rules and: restrictions as govern the establishment of new libraries.
CHAPTER 377 An act to establish the state banking system of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I.GENERAL Provisions,
Section 73. Injunction upon Receivership. Whenever a bank or individual banker against whom proceedings have been instituted on account of any alleged refusal to redeem its circulating notes aforesaid denies having failed so to do, it or he may, within any time within ten days after it or he has been notified of the appointment of a receiver, as provided in section seventy-one, apply to the judge of the judicial district in which said bank or banker is established to enjoin future proceedings in the premises; and such judge, after citing the comptroller to show cause why further proceedings should not be enjoined, and after the decision of the court finding that such bank or banker has not refused to redeem the circulating notes, when legally presented, in the lawful money of the United States, shall make an order enjoining the comptroller, and any receiver acting under his directions, from all further proceedings on account of such alleged refueal.
CHAPTER 151 An act to authorize the mayor and board of aldermen of the town ; of Kings Mountaiu to levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and their successors in office, are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax, at the time other taxes are levied, upon the taxable property and polls of said town, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the purpose of paying off the debt contracted by said town authorities in completing what is known as the  Kings Mountain High School building; said tax shall not exceed in any one year twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property, and may be less according to the discretion of the board of town council; said tax to be levied from year to year until the above debt is paid, and to be levied and collected as other taxes, observing the equation prescribed by the constitution.
CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND INSTITUTE CONDUCTORS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. In codperation with the Supervisor of Teacher-Training and Superintendent of the State Normal Schools for the Colored Race and for the Cherokee Indians, said board shall plan, direct, and supervise the work of said schools, and shall have general direction and supervision of the work of all teachers associations and reading circles and of such other work as may be deemed necessary for professional training and home study for teachers.
CHAPTER 382 AN ACT TO ENABLE EMPLOYEES OF COUNTY AND CITY ADMIN- ISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNITS OF ROBESON COUNTY TO PARTICI- PATE VOLUNTARILY IN A PLAN WHEREBY MONTHLY DE- DUCTIONS ARE MADE FROM SALARIES PAID TO BE USED FOR THE PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS FOR HOSPITALIZATION INSURANCE AND LIFE INSURANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SAID EMPLOYEES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. Such agreement may be cancelled by the employee executing the same by giving written notice to the county or city superintendent of schools, who is ex-officio Secretary to the county or city board of education, not later than the 15th day of the month in which he desires such agreement to be terminated, and the county or city board of education may cancel any agreement herein provided for upon giving ten days written notice to the affected employee. Within ten days after the termination of the agreement, any surplus funds derived from such employee shall be refunded to said employee.
CHAPTER 231 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 346 OF THE PUBLIC- LOCAL LAWS OF 1929 ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTAB- LISH KINSTON ELECTRIC SERVICE DISTRICT. WHEREAS, the City of Kinston is now enlarging its munici- pal power and water plants and expects to have available an abundance of surplus electric current and water for domestic and commercial use, the sale of which will materially enhance the profits from its said plants, which will be for the benefit of the citizens and taxpayers of the said City of Kinston; and WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable to use a portion of the revenue from said plants to develop a larger market for its surplus electric current and water: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That Chapter 346 of the Public-Local Laws of 1929 entitled An Act to Establish Kinston Electric Service District, shall be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting between Section 3 and Section 4 thereof a new Section, to be numbered Section 314, as follows: Sec. 3%. The City Council of the City of Kinston shall be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate annually, from revenue received from its municipal power and water plants, an amount not to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($38,000.00), to be used for advertising the facilities of the City of Kinston and in such manner as in the judgment and discretion of the City Council of the City of Kinston will promote and enhance the profits. from its electric light and water plants and be for the benefit of the citizens and taxpayers of the said city, which undertaking is hereby declared to be for a public purpose. The money so appropriated may be expended either directly by the City Council of the City of Kinston or through the facilities of such agency as the said city council may select, and shall be used in such manner as will in the opinion of the said city council best serve the purposes herein set forth.
CHAPTER 55 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOXAWAY COMPANY TO FUR- | NISH WINES AND LIQUORS TO THE BONA FIDE GUESTS OF ITS HOTELS IN JACKSON AND TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That for every sale of any such vinous, spirituous an malt liquors contrary to the provisions of this or for any othe violation of this act by the said company, its agents or employees it shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars for each and ever: such offense to the benefit of the school fund of the county in whicl such hotel is located, to be recovered upon the suit of the Board o Education of such county, or any other person suing therefor o1 behalf of such board; that a violation of this act by said company its agents or employees, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upo1 conviction fined in the discretion of the court: Provided, that thi act may be annulled by a vote of the people of Transylvania County if they so desire.
CHAPTER 252 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT DAVIDSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That for the purpose of this act there is created a board of graded school trustees of the town of Davidson, which board shall consist of six members divided into three classes. The term of office of the first class shall expire at the end of two years; the term of office of the second class shall expire at the end of four years; the term of office of the third class shall expire at the end of six years; the term of office of each class to date from the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. It is further enacted that Dr. H. L. Smith and H. J. Brown be and are hereby named and appointed in the first class; Dr. J. M. MecConnell and M. H. Goodrum are hereby named and appointed in the second class, and that A. Currie and J. R. Withers are hereby named and appointed in the third class. And it is further enacted that upon the expiration of the term above named and fixed that the board of town commissioners of the town of Davidson shall elect thereafter successors in each class for the term of six years: Provided, that the term of office of no member of said board shall expire until his successor is duly elected: Provided, further, that when any vacancy shall oceur in said board except by expiration of term of office, such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by said board of graded schoo] trustees.
CHAPTER 12 AN ACT TO RELIEVE THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, FROM THE PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS FOR STREET AND SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS BY THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. As evidence and public notice of the existence of such liens, and the postponement of the collection of the amount secured thereby, as herein provided, the said Presbyterian Hospital of Charlotte, North Carolina, shall cause notice thereof to be prepared and duly registered according to law, in Mecklenburg county, in substantially the following form: North Carolina {Notice of lien and postponement of Jcollection of amount secured Mecklenburg County Venereba? Pursuant to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly, as found in Chapter twelve of the Private Laws of 1929, notice is hereby given of the continued existence of a lien against the property of the Presbyterian Hospital of Charlotte, North Carolina, to secure the payment of the amount due the City of Charlotte for street and side-walk assessments, and the interest, costs and penalties, authorized in said act, the collection of which has been directed to be postponed under the conditions set forth in the said act, reference to which is hereby made. This notice, when filed, shall be acknowledged and certified to be correct by the Presbyterian Hospital of Charlotte, North Carolina, and it shall then be probated, registered and indexed as provided by law.
CHAPTER 66 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SANITARY INSPECTION AND CONDUCT OF HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 27. It shall be the duty of the inspector, upon ascertaining, by inspection or otherwise, that any hotel is being carried on contrary to any of the provisions of this act, to notify the manager, or proprietor, in what respect it fails to comply with the law, requiring such persons within a reasonable time to do or to cause to be done the things necessary to make it comply with the law, whereupon such proprietor or manager shall forthwith comply with such requirements.
CHAPTER 91 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE NUMBER SIX TOWNSHIP, CLEVE- LAND COUNTY, TO ERECT AND OWN A PUBLIC HOS- PITAL AND ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the said Shelby Hospital, the grounds of same, and all furniture, equipment, and property thereof, and the physicians, nurses, attendants, persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of said hospital shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board of trustees may prescribe.
CHAPTER 807 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY OF WAYNE AND THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ESTABLISH LO- CAL ALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Wayne County, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Goldsboro are hereby authorized to establish alcoholic rehabilitation programs within their respective jurisdictions for education as to the effects of the use of alcoholic beverages and for the rehabilitation of alcoholics. The respective Boards may establish separate programs or they may establish and operate a joint educational and rehabilitation program for alcoholics upon such terms and conditions as the two Boards may agree. The Board of County Commissioners and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Goldsboro are authorized to participate and co-operate with the Federal Government, the State Board of Alcoholic Control and the North Carolina Hospital Board of Control in the administration of the local community alcoholic rehabilitation programs. -
CHAPTER 201 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTH AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That the said confpany shall have power to acquire and hold such lands as it may deem necessary for its purposes in the said city of Wilmington or Southport, and in any other town or towns, counties or townships along its proposed route, and shall specially have the right and power to acquire or guarantee the stocks and bonds, or either, of any inland, coast or ocean transportation company or companies operating to or from any point or points on its lines, and it may develop or aid in the development of its business by building piers, coal docks, elevat tors, ocean steamers, or by acquiring or guaranteeing the stocks and bonds, or either, of hotel, lighterage, wharf, elevating or other such enterprises convenient in connection therewith or as a part thereof.