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CHAPTER 388 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SPENCER SAVINGS BANK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. The corporation is especially invested with the power and authority to carry on, conduct and operate a savings-bank business in all its branches, and may receive deposits in very small sums, the limits to be fixed by its board of directors, and may pay interest thereon by the way of dividends out of the net earnings or at fixed rates, according as it may be agreed between its [the] company and its depositors; and the board of directors are thereby to make all needful by-laws and regulations for conducting and carrying into effect the different features of this branch of its corporation, and shall also have a right to conduct a general banking business.
CHAPTER 344 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE VILLAGE OF GLADSTONE, - STANLY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a Mayor, three. Commissioners and a Marshal.
CHAPTER 331 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BANK OF WARSAW, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That H. L. Stevens, Charles F. Carroll, W. R. Newbury, L. P. Best, H. F. Pierce, S. E. Hines, J. Walter Johnson, T. B. Pierce, L. A.. Beasley, their present and future associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Bank of Warsaw, North Carolina, and shall so continue for the term of sixty years, with capacity to take, hold and convey real or personal estate, and with all the powers, rights and privileges granted to any bank or banking institution by this or any preceding Legislature of this State, together with the rights, powers and privileges incident or belonging to corporations as set forth or referred to in the first, second and third sections of chapter sixteen of The Code, entitled Corporations.
CHAPTER 203 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COLUMBIA AND FAIRFIELD TURNPIKE COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The capital stock of the said corporation shall be one thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of the par value of ten dollars each, with the privilege to said corporation of increasing the same to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
CHAPTER 180 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE NEW RIVER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter 89 of the Private Laws of 1901, being an act to incorporate the New River Development Company of North Carolina, be amended as follows: Add after the words and figures $5,000,000 in line 5 of section 4 of gaid act the words: Whenever permission for such increase shall be given by the Secretary of State of North Carolina, which permission to increase shall be given upon the payment to said Secretary of State the fees required by chapter 2 of the Public Laws of 1901 in case of increase of capital stock. Add after section 12 another section, to be known as section 13, to read as follows: | Sec. 13 That this company shall have the power to organize under this act any time prior to March 1, 1906,.and to begin the usage of the powers and privileges herein conferred. Amend section 13 by changing the number of said section to read Section 14.
CHAPTER 172 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE DURHAM LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That said corporation shall have and is hereby given power and authority to issue policies of insurance on titles of real estate and mortgages in guaranteeing titles, and to guarantee the payment of principal or interest of notes, bonds, bills of exchange, acceptances, checks or other securities or evidences of debt, including the obligations of such corporations as may have secured their payment by deed of trust made to this corporation, and to receive such compensation as may be agreed upon by the parties.
CHAPTER 148 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A DISPENSARY FOR LITTLETON TOWNSHIP, IN HALIFAX COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 18. That the said dispensary commissioners shall have the right to place said dispensary either on any street of said town, or back from the same, as they may think proper, and any act or ordinance to the contrary is hereby repealed and annulled.
CHAPTER 329 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1895 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter seven of the Private Laws of North Carolina, session of 1895, be amended by striking out the word seven in line six of section four of said chapter, and inserting in lieu thereof the word twenty.
CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE YADKIN VALLEY INSTITUTE, IN YADKIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said trustees and their successors are and shall be authorized to elect a chairman, a treasurer, a recording secretary, a principal and such other officers, as may, in their judgment, be necessary to serve the purposes and to carry into effect the objects of said Institution.
CHAPTER 37 An act to authorize the city of Fayetteville to receive one-fourth of the taxes listed in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in full settlement, and fixing the tax year for said city. Whereas, the city of Fayettevile is now one year behind in the collection of its taxes, and much will be saved to said city by the collection of the taxes in the year for which they are listed, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the tax Looks of the city of Fayettevlie, containing tle taxes lisiel in June, eighteen dandced and ninetyeight, shall be placed in the hands of the tax collector as soon as possible, and not later than March first, eighteen Inndred end ninety-nine, and said collector is hereby authorized and empowered to accept twenty-five per centum of the poll and property taxes listed in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in full satisfaction and settlement: Provided, said twenty-five per cenium of said taxes shall be paid before September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, on and after which date said eollector shall collect said taxes of eighteen hundred and ninetyeight in full.
CHAPTER 285 An act to incorporate Caldwell Institute, Orange county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That R. N. Hall, Jr., D. S. Miller, Dr. A. C. Jordan, tev. J. H. McCracken, W. D. Villiner, W. J. Miller, J. D. Nichols, T. H. Wilson, T. J. Hall, J. T. Wilson, Weldon Hall, C. E. Wilson, J. T. Wilkerson, J. C. Rountree, T. J. Riley, R. N. Hall, Sr., Je R. Wilson, W. D. Woods, D. S. Allison, W. R. MeKee and Thomas T. Candler, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politie and corporate, to be known and distinguished by the name of the board of trustees of Caldwell Institute, and by that name they shall have perpetual succession and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded.
CHAPTER 247 An act to incorporate The Asheville Savings Bank. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact
Section 5. That this corporation shall have power to receive and pay out the lawful currency of the country; deal in exchange, gold and silver coin, stocks, bonds, notes and other securities; to loan money to or receive deposits of money or other property or evidences of debt from corporations, minors, apprentices, femes coverts or other persons, on such terms and time and manner of collection as may be agreed upon between the parties; and for the use and loan of money may charge legal interest, and may take and receive such interest at the time of making such loan, free from all other eontrol, contract or liability whatever; to invest in the stocks, bonds or other securities of this or any other state of the United States, or of any corporation created under the laws thereof or any municipality of this or any other state, and to take such real and personal property, conditioned in such form for the payment of the principal and interest of money loaned, advanced or expended, as may be deemed most safe, expedient and beneficial.
CHAPTER 329 An act to authorize the county of Sampson to borrow money, issue bonds and levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That said treasurer shall receipt for said taxes, and be liable upon his official bond for said taxes as for other taxes, and shall use the same for the payment of said bonds and interest when due and payable, and the funds arising from said taxes over and above the costs and charges incident thereto shall be applied to no other use than the payment aforesaid.
CHAPTER 360 An act to regulate the impounding of live stock in the coun- ties of Buncombe, Madison, Wilkes, Tyrrell, Surry, Hay- wood, Vance, Davie, Cumberland and Halifax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the provisions of this act shallapply only to the counties of Buncombe, Madison, Wilkes, Surry, Haywood, Vanee, Davie, Cumberland, Halifax and Tyrrell.
CHAPTER 1 An act to revise, consolidate and amend the insanity laws of this state. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _
Section 11. Each board of directors at their annual meeting shall, on nomination of the superintendent, appoint a steward, and if they shall think proper to do so, a matron also, who shall hold their places for one year, unless sooner suspended or removed by the superintendent or board of directors for good cause, in which case their successors shall be nominated and appointed for the unexpired terms of those removed. The method of procedure for the suspension and removal of assistant physician, contained in the preceding section of this act, shall be followed in the suspension and removal of any stewardormatron. Thesteward, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall execute to the hospital a bond in the sum of two thousand and five hundred dollars, with sureties to be approved by the board of directors, conditioned for the faithful administration of his duties, and the proper accounting and disbursement of all money and property coming into his hands. The state treasurer shall be treasurer of said corporations. The state treasurer shall keep all accounts of the institutions, and shall pay out all moneys upon the warrant of the respective superintendents, countersigned by two members of the board of directors, under such rules and regulations as the respective boards may establish.
CHAPTER 166 he An act to provide a permanent system of government for Craven county. 4 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : oe
Section 2. That that part of The Code and the acts amending the same passed prior to eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which were repealed by said chapter one hundred and thirty-five, public laws eighteen hundred and ninety-five; are hereby re-enacted.
CHAPTER 383 AN ACT TO AMEND THE PREAMBLE AND THE SEV- ERAL SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the election upon this amendment shall be conducted in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as provided by the laws governing general elections; and, if a majority of the votes cast be in favor  of the amendment, it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State to certify the amendment under the seal of the State to the Secretary of State, who shall enroll said amendment so certified among the permanent records in his office, and the same shall be in force, and every part thereof, from and after the date of such certification.
CHAPTER 323 AN ACT TO AMEND HOUSE BILL NUMBER 1338 RATI- FIED APRIL 21ST, 1933, ENTITLED AN ACT TO ALLOW THE COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES, AND OTHER GOVERNING AGENCIES TO REFUND TAX SALE CERTIFICATES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said act be further amended by striking out in line twenty of section one thereof the words in their discretion and inserting in lieu thereof the words and directed.
CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO AMEND HOUSE BILL NUMBER 158, EN- TITLED AN ACT SETTING UP AND ESTABLISHING THE METHODS, PROCESSES AND PROCEEDINGS BY WHICH A LIEN MAY BE ACQUIRED UPON REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND THE SAME SOLD AND THE TITLE THEREON CONVEYED FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES, RATIFIED THE 18TH DAY OF MARCH, 1933, SO AS TO PERMIT CLEVE- LAND COUNTY TO BE EXEMPTED FROM SAID ACT, TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR BRINGING TAX FORE- CLOSURE SUITS, AND TO SIMPLIFY THE METHOD OF FORECLOSING SAID CERTIFICATES IN CLEVE- LAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That in the foreclosure of all tax certificates by Cleveland County, or any city or town in said county, it shall be lawful to proceed under the provisions of Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty-one of the Public Laws of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-seven, and all laws amendatory thereto, which were in force and effect prior to the ratification of House Bill One Hundred and Fifty-eight, enacted by the General Assembly of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-three: Provided, however, that in all said tax foreclosure suits it shall not be necessary to name any person as a party defendant in the summons or complaint, except the one in whose name said property was listed for taxation, and in the event said person should be dead, then the proper and only necessary party to name as defendant shall be the administrator or executor of the person in whose name said property was listed.
CHAPTER 281 AN ACT TO AMEND SENATE BILL NUMBER 313 EN- TITLED AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEES FOR REGISTERING FEDERAL CROP LIENS AND FED- ERAL CHATTEL MORTGAGES, RATIFIED THE 20TH DAY OF MARCH, 1933, BY EXEMPTING THE COUN- TIES OF HAYWOOD, JACKSON AND MACON FROM THE PROVISIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That Senate bill number three hundred and thirteen, entitled An act relating to the fees for registering Federal crop liens and Federal chattel mortgages, ratified on the twentieth day of March, be and the-same is hereby amended by inserting in line seven, section one, following the word Richmond and before the word counties the words, Haywood, Jackson, and Macon.
CHAPTER 264 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1443 OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES FIXING THE TERMS OF COURT IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, THIS ACT RELATING ONLY TO THE TERMS OF COURT IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the Governor shall assign an emergency or any other judge to hold any of the terms of the Superior Court of Rockingham County when the judge holding courts in the eleventh district is unable to hold said terms.
CHAPTER 427 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I SCHEDULE A INHERITANCE TAX
Section 21. Foreign Executor or Administrator Transferring Stocks Shall Pay the Tax on Such Transfer. Whenever any foreign executor or administrator or trustee shall assign or transfer any bonds or stocks in this State standing in the name of the decedent, or in trust for a decedent, which shall be liable for this said tax, such tax shall be paid on the transfer thereof; otherwise the corporation permitting such transfer shall become liable to pay such tax. The Commissioner of Revenue is given authority to make appraisal of such stocks or bonds and settlement of taxes due under this section. Tax shall be computed as provided in this act, and receipt or waiver issued by the Commissioner of Revenue shall be complete protection to any such corporation for the transfer of such bonds and stocks.
CHAPTER 174 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES PERTAINING TO THE STATE BOARD OF EMBALMERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section six thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven of the Consolidated Statutes of one thousand nine hundred nineteen be amended by striking out after the comma at the end of line two, the following: three of whom shall be members of the State Board of Health, the other two shall be and inserting in lieu thereof the following: all of whom shall be licensed and.
CHAPTER 57 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 45, SECTION 2312, CON- SOLIDATED STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1919, RELATING TO JURY LISTS AND REVISIONS THERE- OF, APPLICABLE TO YANCEY COUNTY ONLY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section two thousand three hundred and twelve, Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina, be, and the same is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: The Board of Commissioners of Yancey County shall make the jury list and revision thereof as required by this section on or before the third Monday in February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and every two years thereafter.
CHAPTER 274 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE PAYMENT TO ANY COUNTY SHERIFF, TREASURER OR OTHER COUNTY TAX COL- LECTOR OR FISCAL AGENT OF ANY AMOUNT AS COMMISSIONS OR OTHERWISE OUT OF THE FUNDS RECEIVED BY ANY COUNTY FROM THE STATE EQUALIZING FUND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 115 AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW IN REGARD TO THE RECORDERS COURT IN CRAVEN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That sections fifteen hundred and _ fifty-five (1555), fifteen hundred and seventy-two (1572), fifteen hundred and ninety-two (1592), fifteen hundred and ninety-three (1593), fifteen hundred and ninety-four (1594), and fifteen hundred and ninety-five -1595 of the Consolidated Statutes, shall not apply to the county court heretofore organized in Craven County.
CHAPTER 259 AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PAY OF THE ELECTION OFFICIALS OF ASHE COUNTY AND TO AMEND CHAP- TER FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY- THREE, RELATIVE TO ELECTIONS IN ASHE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the unit of the county organization for the nomination of county officers in the county of Ashe shall be the several townships in said county. In each township there shall be an executive committee composed of at least five active Democrats, who shall be elected by the democratic voters of said township or the county convention in mass, as hereinafter provided, and said committee so elected shall elect one of its members chairman of said committee, and the chairman of the several township executive committees shall constitute the County Democratic Executive Committee. That each township may elect more than five members of the executive committee, but the combined number when elected shall vote only the strength of the township as provided for in this act.
CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LISTING AND VALU- ING OF ALL PROPERTY, REAL, PERSONAL, AND MIXED, AT ITS REAL VALUE IN MONEY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I.
Section 44. Duties of township list-taker and assessor as to assessing and listing property. Each township list-taker and assessor appointed under the authority of this act shall advertise in five or more public places within the township not later than the twentieth day of April, notifying all taxpayers to return to him all real and personal property which each taxpayer shall own on the first day of May, and said return shall be made to the list-taker during the month of May under the pains and penalties imposed by law, and naming the times and places at which he will be present to receive tax lists. The township list-taker and assessor shall obtain from each taxpayer a full, complete and detailed statement of each and every piece and kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, which said taxpayer shall own on the first day of May, together with, as near as possible, the TRUE value in money of all such property owned by him, or them, or which may be under his or their control as agent, guardian, administrator, or otherwise, and which should be listed for taxation; and it shall be the duty of said township list-taker and assessor to ascertain by visitation, investigation, or otherwise the actual cash value in money of each piece or class of property in his township, and to list such property at its actual value for taxation. He is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths in all cases necessary to obtain full and correct information concerning any taxable real and personal property in his township.
CHAPTER 261 AN ACT TO PROVIDE UNIFORM WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 18. Whenever any commodity if sold on a basis of weight, it shall be unlawful to employ any other weight in such sale than the net weight of the commodity and all contracts concerning goods sold on a basis of weight shall be understood and construed accordingly. Whenever the weight of a commodity is mentioned in this act, it shall be understood and construed to mean the net weight of the commodity.
CHAPTER 256 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE EQUALIZING FUND FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES. Whereas, the Constitution directs the General Assembly of North Carolina to provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of public schools for the State; and, s Whereas, there appears to be marked difference in the as- sessed valuations, the tax rates, and the types of schools in the various counties; and, Whereas, the county commissioners in many counties can- not secure the funds necessary for the support of the six months school term from county revenues alone without making the taxes burdensome and the tax rates grossly unequal among the several counties; and, Whereas, State aid is necessary in order more nearly to equalize both the tax rates for schools and the school advantages in the different counties; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. For the purpose of making the apportionment of the equalizing fund for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred twenty-eight, and also for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine, the State Board of Equalization shall cause to be checked by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction the approved November budget of the last preceding year of each and every county in accordance with the salaries, actually paid, not in excess, however, of the State salary schedule; and in accordance with the number of teachers actually employed, not in excess, however, of the number allowed by law; and shall determine therefrom the necessary cost of maintaining the six months school term in each county, including the salaries of teachers, principals and superintendents, and including in addition thereto the actual amount expended for current expense other than salaries, not in excess, however, of fifteen per cent of salaries according to the State salary schedule. The amount due any county from the equalizing fund shall be the amount by which the necessary cost of the six months school term as herein calculated exceeds the amount produced by the levy of forty cents on the valuation of said county as determined by the State Board of Equalization as provided in section four of this act.
CHAPTER 190 AN ACT TO PROVIDE LAWS GOVERNING THE SALE OF STOCKS, BONDS AND OTHER SECURITIES IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. Application for authority to sell, filled with commissioner. The commissioner shall receive and act upon applications to have securities admitted to record in such register of qualified securities and the commissioner may from time to time prescribe forms on which such applications shall be submitted. All applications shall be in writing and shall be signed and dated and sworn to and shall thereafter be filed with the commissioner. Such applications may be made to and filed with the commissioner either by the issuer of the securities in question or by any person desiring to sell the same in the State of North Carolina; the application must show in full detail the plan upon which the issuer of the securities in question or the person desiring to sell same proposes to transact business; copy of all applications for and forms of contracts, securities, bonds, or other instruments, which it or he proposes to make with or sell to its or his contributors; a statement which shall show the name, location, and head office of the issuer or person desiring to sell such securities, and an itemized statement of its financial condition, and the amount of its or his property and the liabilities, and such other information and in such form touching its or his affairs as the commissioner may require. If a foreign corporation, it or he shall also file with the commissioner a copy of the laws of such state, territory, or government under which it exists and is incorporated, and also a copy of its charter of its home state and certificate of the proper officer of such state that it has authority to do business therein, articles of incorporation, constitution, and by-laws, and all amendments thereof which have been made, and all other papers pertaining to its organization, and enter into an agreement as a condition precedent to being registered and licensed that stock or other offerings shall be sold only for cash or for notes or bonds payable to the company, and that said notes or bonds will not be sold or discounted with an endorsement without recourse or obligation not to be responsible for the same by the owner in a general sale or canvass, or by any agent on salary or commission. Every note given for stock sold under the provisions of this act must have appearing upon its face the following: The consideration of this note is stock in the.............. cor poration, and this note is not negotiable under the negotiable instruments law. The contract of subscription or of sale shall be in writing and shall contain a provision in the following language: No sum shall be used for commissions, promotion and organization expenses on account of the sale of any securities offered for sale by this company in excess of five per centum of the amount actually paid upon separate subscriptions for such securities.
CHAPTER 155 AN ACT TO AID VETERANS OF THE LATE WORLD WAR IN OBTAINING HOMES AND TO SUBMIT THE PROPOSITION THEREFOR TO A DIRECT VOTE OF THE PEOPLE AT THE GENERAL ELECTION IN 1926 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. The administration of this act shall be under the direction and control of a board of advisers consisting of the Secretary of State, who shall be chairman, ex officio, of said board; the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Attorney-General, the Commissioner of Labor and Printing and the Treasurer of the State of North Carolina, of which board the Treasurer of the State shall be, ex officio, the treasurer. Said board, as soon as possible after the ratification of this act as hereinafter provided, shall appoint a competent person to be known as Commissioner of the Veterans Loan Fund, who shall hold his said office at the will of said board, and who shall receive an annual salary, payable monthly, of thirty-five hundred dollars. Said commissioner shall maintain his office in the city of Raleigh, space for which shall be provided in the same manner as space for other State offices is provided.
CHAPTER 149 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 120, PUBLIC LAWS, EXTRA SESSION, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- FOUR, SO AS TO INCLUDE JOHNSTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all laws or clauses of laws in conflict herewith, and especially all of chapter five hundred eighty-one of PublicLocal Laws of one thousand nine hundred twenty-three in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 4 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SCHEDULE A
Section 98. Construction of Revenue Act. (Repealed.)
CHAPTER 215 AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN REGISTRATIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That in every case where it shall appear from the records in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State that any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, bearing date prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, executed by any person or persons residing in any of the United States, other than this State, or in any of the territories of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, has been proven or acknowledged, or the privy examination of any feme covert taken thereto, before any officer or person authorized by any of the laws of this State in force prior to the said year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five to take such proofs, privy examinations and acknowledgments, and the said instrument has been registered in the proper county without the certificate of the Governor of the state or territory in which such proofs, acknowledgments or privy examinations were taken, or of the Secretary of State of the United States, when such certificate or certificates were required, as to the official character of the person taking such acknowledgment, proof or privy examination, as aforesaid, and without an order of registration made by a court or judge in this State having jurisdiction to make such order, then and in all such cases such proofs, privy examinations, acknowledgments and registrations are hereby in all respects fully validated and confirmed and declared to be sufficient in law, and such instruments so registered may be read in evidence in any of the courts of this State.
CHAPTER 38 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 92, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1919, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I BoarD OF STate Tax COMMISSIONERS
Section 104. In every cause of failure by the sheriff or other accounting officer to settle his account within sixty days from the time prescribed by section one hundred and one of this act for such settlement, and to take the oath required in his settlement and pay the amount due to the Treasurer, the State Auditor shall forthwith report to the Treasurer the account of such sheriff or officer, as shown by the abstract of listed and unlisted taxables furnished by the register of deeds or auditor for such county, deducting therefrom for commissions, but adding thereto one thousand dollars and ten per centum of the amount of taxes with which said sheriff is charged for the amount of taxes supposed not to appear in the list transmitted by the register of deeds or auditor, and furnish him a copy of the official bond of the said officer, and his sureties; and if the whole amount be not paid, the Treasurer, on motion of the solicitor in the Superior Court of Wake County, before the clerk thereof, within thirty days after default shall have occurred, shall recover judgment against him and his sureties; without other notice than is given by the delinquency of the officer ; and to the end that obligations and names may be known, the clerk of the Superior Court shall, on or before the second Monday in each year, transmit to the State Auditor a copy, certified under the seal of the court, of the bond of the sheriff and his sureties, upon pain for his default of forfeiting to the State one thousand dollars, which the State Auditor shall and is hereby specially charged to collect in like manner and at such times as is provided in this section.
CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 404. Blank forms to be kept on file with Register of Deeds. For convenience of all parties liable for making a return of income, and who may not receive blank forms by mail for this purpose, the State Tax Commission shall keep on deposit with the Register of Deeds in each county a supply of blank forms for distribution.
CHAPTER 41 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS CAPE FEAR RIVER AT WILMING- TON AND TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE ERECTION OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to build a bridge, or bridges, across the Cape Fear River and the North East River at a location to be selected by the State Highway Commission and connect the same with the street system of the City of Wilmington and the State system of highways in the most practical manner, which bridge or bridges shall be and become a part of the State Highway System.
CHAPTER 418 AN ACT TO EXEMPT NEW HANOVER COUNTY FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX OF VOLUME THREE OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES, KNOWN AS THE TURLINGTON ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. No member, officer, agent or employee of the Board shall directly or indirectly, individually or as a member of a partnership or of an association, or as a member or stockholder of a corporation, have any interest whatsoever in the manufacture of or in the dealing in alcoholic beverages, or in any enterprise or industry in which alcoholic beverages are required, or receive any commission or profit whatsoever from, or have any interest whatsoever in the purchase or sale of alcoholic beverages by the Board, or by any other person whatsoever, or have any interest in or mortgage on any land or building where alcoholic beverages are manufactured for sale, kept for sale, offered for sale, or sold, or any personal property used therein, or in any contract other than this contract of employment made with the Board.
CHAPTER 456 AN ACT TO DECLARE THE NECESSITY OF CREATING PUBLIC BODIES CORPORATE AND POLITIC TO BE KNOWN AS HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO ENGAGE IN SLUM CLEARANCE AND/OR PROJECTS TO PROVIDE DWELLING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS OF LOW INCOME; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF SUCH HOUSING AUTHORITIES; TO DEFINE THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF HOUSING AUTHORITIES AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXERCISE OF SUCH POWERS, INCLUDING ACQUIRING PROPERTY BY PURCHASE, GIFT OR EMINENT DOMAIN, AND IN- CLUDING BORROWING MONEY, ISSUING REVENUE AND CREDIT BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS, AND GIVING SECURITY THEREFOR; TO CONFER REMEDIES ON OBLIGEES OF HOUSING AUTHORI- TIES; TO PROVIDE THAT THE BONDS OF THE AU- THORITY SHALL BE LEGAL INVESTMENTS; TO PROVIDE THAT HOUSING AUTHORITIES, AND CER- TAIN PROPERTY AND SECURITIES THEREOF, SHALL BE TAX EXEMPT AND TO DECLARE THAT THIS ACT TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE OF ITS RATIFICATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 22. Foreclosure Sale Subject to Agreement With Government. Notwithstanding anything in this Act to the contrary, any purchaser or purchasers at a sale of real or personal property of the authority whether pursuant to any foreclosure of a mortgage, pursuant to judicial process or otherwise, shall obtain title subject to any contract between the authority and a Government relating to the supervision by a Government of the operation and maintenance of such property and the construction of improvements thereon.
CHAPTER 461 AN ACT TO AMEND CONSOLIDATED STATUTE NUM- BER 6055, SUB-SECTION (a 26) AND CONSOLIDATED STATUTE NUMBER 6055, SUB-SECTION (a 27) AS AP- PLICABLE TO HOLDING GENERAL ELECTIONS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That Consolidated Statute Number 6055, Sub-section (a27) be amended by exempting Cherokee County from the said act, and that none of the said act shall apply to Cherokee County.
CHAPTER 220 AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE HIGHWAYS OF MANNINGS TOWNSHIP, NASH COUNTY, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS FOR THAT PURPOSE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That the said road supervisors are hereby authorized to purchase such material, machinery, teams, etc., as may be deemed necessary to carry on said work, and to pay for the same out of the Mannings Township road fund.
CHAPTER 204 AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. Said highway commissions shall have the same supervision, powers, and rights in respect to all the public roads in their respective townships as has heretofore been vested in either the board of supervisors of public roads or in the board of county commissioners of Cherokee County, except as such laws are modified herein. They shall have full power and authority to order the laying out of public roads where necessary, in its judgment, and to discontinue such as shall be found useless, and to alter roads so as to make them more useful. They shall also have power and authority to lay out cartways, church and mill roads, and to alter or discontinue the same in the way and manner provided in the general law, except as such laws are modified herein.
CHAPTER 19 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS OF FORSYTH COUNTY TO ISSUE REFUNDING BONDS OR NOTES FOR A PORTION OF THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF WINSTON TOWNSHIP ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROAN- OKE AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Whereas Winston Township, embracing the cities of Winston and Salem, North Carolina, was authorized by an act of the Legislature, chapter two hundred and seventeen, Acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, ratified March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, to vote a subscrip- tion of one hundred thousand dollars in bonds to aid in the con- struction of the Roanoke and Southern Railway; and whereas the board of county commissioners of Forsyth County, by virtue of said act of the Legislature ratified March seventh, one thousand. eight hundred and eighty-seven, did submit to the voters of Winston Township the question of subscribing one hundred thou- sand dollars to aid in the construction of the said Roanoke and Southern Railway ; and whereas said subscription was duly sub- mitted, voted on, and ratified by the voters.of Winston Township ; and whereas, by virtue of the acts of the Legislature ratified March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the board of county commissioners did on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, issue one hundred thou- sand dollars in bonds of Winston Township, to fall due July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen; and whereas the sinking fund accumulated under said act for the purpose of paying said bonded indebtedness amounts to be about seventy-five thou- sand dollars ($75,000), but this amount is insufficient to pay off the entire indebtedness of one hundred thousand dollars: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That the board of county commissioners of Forsyth County shall keep or cause to be kept by the clerk of the board a book showing the number of bonds or notes issued under this act, with the date of issuing and to whom sold, and at what price and when the interest falls due.
CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 2802 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, RELATIVE TO THE PAY OF THE COUNTY SURVEYOR OF WILSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section two thousand eight hundred and two of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words, to wit: The fees of the county surveyor of the county of Wilson shall be five dollars per day for all services rendered by him in his official capacity: Provided, that the clerk of the Superior Court shall approve the same.
CHAPTER 113 AN ACT TO PLACE THE OFFICERS OF SAMPSON COUNTY UPON A SALARY BASIS AND TO CREATE AND ESTAB- LISH AN AUDITORS OFFICE FOR THE SAID COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 30. It shall be the duty of the said auditor to inquire into and investigate and file a detailed and itemized account of the condition of all county finances, the accounts of all public officers, including the board of education and road commission, or their successors, and to make a TRUE report thereof, and record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose and to be known and designated as the Record of the Auditor of Sampson County. He shall within ten days after the first Monday in December in each and every year publish a statement of the financial condition of the county of Sampson, showing by itemized statement the permanent and floating debt of the county, when contracted, for what contracted, and when due; and shall also publish a statement of the receipts and disbursements of all the public funds of the county, showing the total amount received and disbursed for each particular purpose, which said report shall be published at the courthouse door and also in some newspaper in general circulation published in the county, once a week for at least two weeks immediately following the filing of said report, and the expense of such publication shall be paid by the board of commissioners of said county out of the general county fund.
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 15. Any person who shall obstruct the engineer, road superintendent or other agent, subordinate or employee in making a survey or engaging in any road work under authority of the highway commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court.
CHAPTER 451 AN ACT FOR BUILDING AND IMPROVING THE PUBLIC ROADS IN THE DIFFERENT TOWNSHIPS IN NASH COUNTY. Whereas, certain townships and certain parts of other townships of Nash County, have already provided for working their public roads by a system of taxation and by the issuance of bonds; and, whereas, the other townships in Nash County, together with the excluded parts of those townships already partially embraced in the road law, desire to provide for the working of their public roads in like manner, without, however, disturbing or in any wise interfering with the districts already created, or with the grant of legislative powers to them, except as may be hereinafter expressly provided for; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 29. That the road commissioners of the several townships hereinbefore named shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient and necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act as relates to their respective townships not inconsistent with or superior in authority to the provisions of this act. They shall have authority to employ counsel in all matters wherein they deem it necessary, and pay such counsel out of any funds that may come into their hands.
CHAPTER 406 AN ACT TO SECURE COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN THE BISCOE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, MONTGOM- ERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That any parent, guardian or person having control of a child between the ages of seven and fifteen years who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be warned as aforesaid, as soon as possible after the beginning of the school term of said district of each year and also at any time thereafter when such violation shall be discovered by the attendance officer herein provided for, to place and keep such child in regular attendance at some day school within three days of the service of such written or printed notice of warning, and upon failure to comply with this act after a lapse of three days from the date of service of said notice of warning, said parent, guardian or person having charge or control of said child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than two days and not more than thirty days: Provided, that said sentence of fine or imprisonment may be suspended and finally remitted by the court, with or without the payment of costs, at the discretion of the court, if the said child be immediately placed and kept in regular attendance in some day school as aforesaid, and such fact of regular attendance shall be subsequently proven to the satisfaction of said court by a properly attested certificate of attendance from the superintendent or teacher of said day school: Provided, further, that every day any parent, guardian or other person shall willfully and unlawfully keep such child from school after the expiration of three days from the service of such notice on such parent, guardian or other person having control of said child shall constitute a new and separate offense and shall subject such parent, guardian. or other person having control of such child to the penalties herein prescribed.
CHAPTER 306 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND EIGH- TY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE PROVIDING FOR THE LAYING OUT AND WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF GUIL- FORD COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Cerolina do enact:
Section 13. Said board of county commissioners and said township commissioners, their agents and employees, shall have the power to cut and take any timber, stone or gravel for the purpose of making, improving or repairing any road, bridge, or crossway in the county. They shall, on the demand of the owners of the lands, their agent or agents or the guardian of any ward or the executor or administrator having lands in charge from which timber, stone or gravel were taken as aforesaid, give a certificate showing the quantity of such timber, stone or gravel with the value thereof respectively, and the time and purpose for which the same were taken.
CHAPTER 346 AN ACT TO CREATE-AND ESTABLISH AN AUDITORS OFFICE FOR THE COUNTY OF ROBESON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. The said auditor shall have the right from time to time to prescribe the manner of keeping all the public accounts of the county, and the power to prescribe for each of the public officers of said county the form of books to be kept by them in the receipt and disbursement of all funds which may come into their hands by virtue of their office. It shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of said county to furnish to each of the various public officers of said county the necessary books prescribed for such office by said auditor.
CHAPTER 343 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL COURT IN THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, AND THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, AND TO PRESCRIBE THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. The clerk of the recorders court shall provide a permanent docket for recording all the processes issued by said court which shall conform to the docket kept by the clerk of the superior court. He shall also provide proper files to properly keep records of all cases which shall be disposed of in the said court and what disposition has been made of them.
CHAPTER 315 AN ACT TO PROVIDE GOOD ROADS IN LOUISBURG TOWN- SHIP, FRANKLIN COUNTY. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That F. B. McKinne, J. R. Collie, W. H. Allen, John H. Uzzell, C. B. Cheatham, E. A. Kemp, Herbert H. Harris, W. T. Wilder and A. W. Wilson, Jr., are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the public roads of Louisburg Township, in Franklin County. The first three shall hold the said position of trustees for six years, the next three for four years, and the last three for two years. At the expiration of the terms of any, their successors shall be elected for six years by the board of county commissioners of Franklin County. All vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal from the said township shall be filled for the unexpired term by the remaining members of said board: Provided, that the position of trustee shall not constitute an office within the meaning of article seven, section fourteen of the Constitution of North Carolina.