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CHAPTER 46 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMITTEE OF HUNTERS- VILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 1, OF HUNTERSVILLE TOWNSHIP, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TO ISSUE BONDS. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do, enact:
Section 9. That for the purpose of providing for the payment of the semiannual interest on said bonds, and for the purpose of creating a fund to redeem and retire said bonds as the same may mature, the county commissioners of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, shall annually, at the time of levying taxes for State and county purposes, levy a special tax in addition to the special tax now and heretofore levied for said district, not to exceed the sum of fifteen cents on each hundred dollars valuation of property in said district and a sum not to exceed forty-five cents on each poll in said district, which said special tax shall be used in connection with, and in addition to, the special tax now and heretofore levied on the property of said district and on each poll of said district, for the purposes of this act, as heretofore set forth; and said additional special tax shall be collected and paid over in the same manner as the special tax now and heretofore levied on the property of said district; and on each poll of said district, and the special tax now and heretofore levied and the additional special tax provided for in this act shall continue one fund.
CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE, TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 104. That any person or persons violating any ordinance of the town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER 253 AN ACT TO GRANT A NEW CHARTER TO THE TOWN OF RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, REPEALING ALL LAWS OR PARTS OF LAWS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Sidewalks. The town of Rutherfordton may by appropriate penal ordinances compel the construction and laying of sidewalks by property-owners in front of or abutting on their land or property, and may prescribe the character of such sidewalks and the manner in which same shall be laid, and the penalties to be incurred for violation of such ordinances. Should any person or corporation owning lands in the town of Rutherfordton fail to construct sidewalks in front of or abutting on their property in accordance with the ordinances passed by the town of Rutherfordton, in addition to the penalty provided for herein, the town of Rutherfordton shall have the right to have said sidewalks constructed in accordance with such ordinance, at the expense of the abutting property-owner, and may recover a personal judgment in any court having jurisdiction of the amount for the cost and expense in constructing said sidewalks: Provided, the town shall first establish a reasonable grade and place a curbstone at the expense of the town.
CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF LILLINGTON TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEWER- AGE SYSTEM. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ;
Section 7. That the town of Lillington, through its proper officers and agencies, shall have the entire supervision and control of any and all of the plants and works established or purchased under this act, and shall have power to protect all of its rights of way, easements, water rights, plants, and other property by proper ordinances, and shall do all other things necessary to carry into effect the TRUE intent of this act.
CHAPTER 426 AN ACT TO RE-CHARTER, RE-INCORPORATE AND CONTINUE THE TALCUM PUFF COMPANY. Whereas, on the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hun- dred and two, the Taleum Puff Company was duly incorporated under the general law by filing with the Secretary of State of the State of North Carolina the certificate of incorporation or the articles of agreement for the incorporation thereof, duly signed and executed by John F. Roland, G. D. Hull, Henry B. Stevens, Richard H. Roth and Philip R. Moale, the incorporators therein named, under which certificate of incorporation or articles of agreement said Talcum Puff Company was thereafter duly organized; and, Whereas, said certificate of incorporation or articles of agreement have since that date been amended from time to time; and, Whereas, under said certificate or articles of incorporation and the amendments thereo, said Taleum Puff Company has been doing business; and, Whereas, said charter of said Taleum Puff Company, in its present form, has become utterly inadequate to its needs and insufficient for its purposes; and, 1911CuHaprer 426 Whereas, the objects of this corporation can not be attained under the general laws relating to corporations now in foree in North Carolina; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 17. That upon the acceptance of this charter, not less than two years from the ratification of this act, by a majority vote of the stockholders of the Taleum Puff Company, heretofore chartered under the general laws of this state, the old charter of said company shall be and become and void, and said company shall thereafter conduct its business by virtue of the authority and power and according to the provisions herein contained.
CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.
Section 1. That the inhabitants within the territory set out and described in section three of this article shall continue, as they have heretofore been, a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Town of Lincolnton, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with, may acquire and hold such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold, or in any manner conveyed to it, and may invest, sell, or dispose of same; and may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure, and may have and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges necessary for its proper government or usually appertaining to municipal corporations.
CHAPTER 271 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF OLD FORT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the corporate limits of said town be as follows, to wit: Beginning on the southeast corner of the Mauney tract of land, near the county bridge across the Catawba River, and runs northwesterly with said Mauneys line, crossing the Crooked Creek public road to a stake in the line of the Salisbury lands; then northwesterly to the old Salisbury mill dam on Mill Creek; then up said creek as it meanders, passing the mouth of the second branch, to a spruce pine on the north bank of the said creek; then eastwardly to the northwest corner of the cemetery for white people; then eastwardly and southwesterly with the line of the said cemetery and the line of the United States Leather Company to a stake on the Southern Railway; then a straight line to the mouth of Butchers Branch at the Catawba River; then up the river as it meanders to the beginning.
CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION,
Section 15. The board of commissioners shall cause to be audited the books and accounts of all departments, and of all officers and employees who do, or may, receive or disburse money.
CHAPTER 233 AN ACT TO RE-CHARTER THE TOWN OF STANLEY, GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND TO REPEAL THE FOR- MER CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF STANLEY CREEK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 37. That all fines and penalties which are or may be imposed by the ordinances of the town of Stanley or the laws of the State, when recovered before the mayor, shall be paid by the mayor into the town treasury accompanied by an itemized statement showing when and from whom received, and whether imposed or collected by way of fines, cost or otherwise; and it shall be the duty of the town treasurer to enter upon a book kept for the purpose by him a full and detailed statement of all moneys received by him on such accounts.
CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 44 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, EXTRA SESSION OF 1908, RELA- TIVE TO THE POWERS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE FOR A GIRLS DORMITORY IN CONNECTION WITH CUL- LOWHEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, AND TO SUBSTITUTE AN ACT THEREFOR. Whereas chapter forty-four of the Private Laws of North Caro- lina, extra session one thousand nine hundred and eight, pro- vides for a building committee for a girls dormitory in connection with Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School, with power to condemn lands as a suitable site therefor; and whereas, since the passage of said act, the necessity for such condemnation pro- ceedings no longer exists, by reason of a satisfactory agreement with the party owning lands adjacent and contiguous to the present site of said school, such agreement having been made and concluded by purchasing: now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter forty-four of the Private Laws of the extra session of one thousand nine hundred and eight be and the same is hereby repealed and this act is substituted in lieu thereof.
CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE PEE DEE VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. Said company may in its discretion build any portion or all of its branches or branch lines or extensions before completing its main line, and may construct a part of its main line, as specified in section two hereof, without completing said entire main line, and may build said lines by such routes as it deems. most advantageous and expedient; that it may, under such purchase, lease, agreement or running arrangement as it may or can make with any other railroad company, operate any road link between different portions of its own line, or permit any other railroad company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to operate any part of its own line; that it shall have the right to cross navigable streams and canals on its route, and that said company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and use bridges for the transportation of its cars across any river or rivers or canals in the line of its said railroads: Provided, that said bridges shall be so constructed as not to interfere with rafts on said rivers or canals which may be crossed by said railroads, and that said company shall provide drawbridges at such points on said rivers or canals where it shall be necessary for the convenience of boats navigating said rivers or canals.
CHAPTER 377 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE JOHN A. EXUM TO COLLECT AR- REARS OF TAXES ON THE TAX LIST OF THE TOWN OF SNOW HILL, GREENE COUNTY, FOR CERTAIN YEARS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That before entering upon the duties of the said position the said John A. Exum shall execute a bond, with sureties. conditioned for the faithful discharge of said duties, which bond shall be payable to the State of North Carolina for the use and benefit of said town, in such sum as the board of commissioners of said town shall adjudge to be sufficient, but not exceeding four hundred dollars, said bond to be justified before and approved by the mayor of said town.
CHAPTER 285 AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITIZENS OF BREVARD TO VOTE BONDS TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ELECTRIC- LIGHT SYSTEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The board of aldermen of the town of Brevard shall have the power to establish, maintain and operate an electriclight plant or system for the use of the said town and its inhabitants, and shall have a right for such purpose to own, operate and maintain a steam plant, develop water power or purchase power from persons or corporations, and do any and all things necessary and desirable in carrying out the purpose of this act in establishing, maintaining and operating an electric-lighting system for the use and benefit of the said town of Brevard, its inhabitants and the inhabitants of the communities adjacent to the said town.
CHAPTER 12 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF MARSHALL TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SAID TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said bonds shall be numbered from one consecutively, and the coupons attached thereto shall bear the number of the bond to which they are attached, and the purchaser or purchasers of said bonds, or any of them, shall not be required to see to the application of the purchase money thereof.
CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. All taxes of said town shall be listed, levied, assessed and collected, except as in this chapter otherwise provided, in the same manner, under the same rules and regulations and subject to the same penalties as are provided by law for the listing, levying, assessing and collecting State and county taxes.
CHAPTER 39 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF WESTRAY, IN NASH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the first election for mayor and commissioners shall be held on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, under the same rules and regulations as are provided by the general laws for town elections.
CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION,
Section 64. The board of commissioners of the city of Raleigh shall make rules and regulations for the government and direction of the police of the city. In times of exigency the commissoner of public safety may appoint, temporarily, such additional policemen as shall be necessary, who shall take the same oath and be vested with the powers and subject to the same control as regular policemen. The board of commissioners of said city shall require the entire police force to wear badges, and to be so armed and uniformed as to be readily recognized by the public as peace officers: Provided, that the commissioner of public safety, when he deems it necessary, may authorize such officer to be on duty in plain clothes. The police of the city shall have power to do whatever may be necessary to preserve the good order and peace of the city, and secure the inhabitants from personal violence and their property from loss or injury.
CHAPTER 391 AN ACT TO RE-ESTABLISH A FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CROOKED CREEK TOWNSHIP, McDOWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the free school district established by section one of this act shall be provided for as other school districts under the general school law of the State, and be subject to the provisions thereof.
CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.
Section 1. The governing body of said town shall consist of a mayor and two aldermen, who shall be elected at the time and in the manner hereinafter defined.
Section 1. The powers and duties of the mayor shall be such as are conferred upon him by this charter, together with such others as are conferred by the town council in pursuance of the provisions of this act, and no others.
CHAPTER 169 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the col- lection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. The board of county commissioners shall allow each list-taker and assessor such compensation as said board shall deem just and proper for each day actually engaged in the performance of his duties. Said board of county commissioners shall also allow each member of the board of equalizing such per diem for the number of days actually engaged in the performance of his duties as the said board of commissioners shall deem just and proper, and in addition thereto mileage at the rate of five cents for each mile necessarily traveled in attending the meetings of the board of equalization. The per diem and mileage allowed, as provided in this section, shall be paid by the county.
CHAPTER 142 An act to authorize the commissioners of Brunswick county to levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the commissioners of Brunswick county be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax, at the same time of other levies, upon the taxable property, and polls of said county, for the years one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven -1897 and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight -1898 of 15 cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property, and forty-five cents on the poll, said special taxes to be applied to the payment of the floating debt of said county.
CHAPTER 75 An act to establish a criminal circuit to be composed of the counties of Buncombe, Madison, Haywood and Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 16. That in cases of change of venue from the criminal court of Buncombe county, Madison county, Haywood county or Henderson county applied for on account of the interest, prejudice or relationship of the judge of said court, or on account of any other legal objection to said judge, the cause shall not be transferred to any other county for trial, but the judge may order it to be transferred to the superior court of said county, but any party desiring a change of venue from said criminal court on account of any other cause may, upon application to the judge, obtain a removal of the same to any adjoining county under such rules and for such causes as are prescribed by law for the removal of criminal causes from one county to another county.
CHAPTER 6 An act to repeal chapter one hundred and two, laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893), entitled An act to authorize the commissioners and justices of the peace of Madison county to elect a tax collector. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter one hundred and two, laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three -1893 is hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 4 An act for the relief of the sheriff of Currituck county. i The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That said sheriff have until the first Monday in August, one thousand eight hundred and nine-five, and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to settle his county taxes for the years of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five: Provided, he collects and pays to the treasurer of said county [a] sum sufficient to meet current expenses of the county.
CHAPTER 200 An act to authorize the commissioners of Craven county to construct bridges across Neuse and Trent rivers. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said bridges, so constructed as authorized, shall be provided with drawers sufficient to permit the free and easy navigation of said rivers by all kinds of vessels.
CHAPTER 159 An act to revise, amend, and consolidate the election laws of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 33. That any registrar or judge of election, or any register of deeds, clerk or sheriff, failing or neglecting to make the returns and perform the duties required of him, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six nor less than two months, at the discretion of the court; and every such officer, for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the name and to the use of the state, on motion of the attorney-general, in the superior court of Wake county, ten days previous notice, in writing, of such intended motion having been given to such officer by the secretary. The proceedings thereon shall be summary, and if any matter of fact shall be in issue, the same shall be tried at the first term ; and on such trial, or for any other purpose in the prosecution of such motion to judgment, the certificate of the secretary, or of the governor, as the case may be, of the particular default on which the motion is founded, shall be received as competent prima facie evidence to prove the same.
CHAPTER 106 An act defining butter and to regulate the sale thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 5. It shall be the duty of the district, county and city attorneys, upon proper information that any of the provisions of this act have been violated, to prosecute such offender before any court of jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; and for each subsequent offence by a fine not less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment not less than six months or both in the discretion of the court.
CHAPTER 246 An act to amend the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, chapter three hundred and forty. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That any person in the jail of said county awaiting trial on any criminal charge shall be tried in the first court having jurisdiction of the offence that convenes in said county.
CHAPTER 172 An act to authorize the county of Buncombe to fund its bonded indebtedness. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the said board of commissioners are authorized to issue said bonds at any time after the passage of this act, and they may from time to time exchange the same for like amounts of the bonded indebtedness aforesaid of the said county, or they may sell said bonds and use the proceeds of such sales in the purchase or payment of said bonded indebtedness, but said bonds shall under no circumstances be issued for any other purposes than those just stated.
CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.
Section 1. The legislative and general regulative powers of the town of Lincolnton shall be vested in a town council, which shall be composed of the mayor and two aldermen.
CHAPTER 164 - An act to incorporate  The Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company. The General Assembly  North Carolina do enact: 1
Section 9. That the principal place of business of said corporation shall be at Haw River, in the county of Alamance, state of North Carolina, but said corporation shall have the right to hold its annual or other meetings at such other places in North Carolina as may be deemed most convenient by the stockholders of said corporation,
CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BENSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 15. That in case of a failure to elect municipal officers, towit, a mayor and four commissioners, at the election hereinbefore provided for, or either of them, on the first Tuesday in May, the electors residing within the town may, after two weeks notice signed by ten qualified voters and posted at the postoffice door in said town and four other public places therein, and advertised in a newspaper published in said town, if there be one published therein, proceed to hold an election for such mayor, or commissioners, or either of them, in the manner provided in the Revisal of North Carolina, one thousand nine hundred and eight, chapter seventy-three, which mayor and commissioners, or either of them, shall immediately qualify and hold their offices till their successors are elected and have qualified.
CHAPTER 355 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS, SESSION OF 1911, IN REFERENCE TO THE INCORPORA- TION OF THE TOWN OF MARBLE IN CHEROKEB COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section one of chapter seventeen, Public-Local Laws, session of nineteen hundred and eleven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to exclude from the corporate limits of the town of Marble all the land now lying within the limits of said town owned by A. B. Smith.
CHAPTER 164 - An act to incorporate  The Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company. The General Assembly  North Carolina do enact: 1
Section 6. The stockholders may, at a regular general meeting or at a meeting called for that purpose, after a notice of at least ten -10 days given each stockholder by circular or advertisement in some newspuper published in Alamance county, state of North Carolina, by resolution authorize money to be borrowed by the corporation for the purpose of aiding the conduct of its business, and shall prescribe how much and how the same shail be borrowed, and how secured.
CHAPTER 338 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT INCLUDING THE TOWN OF BISCOB, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the said trustees shall have the power and authority to employ a surveyor to run and mark the boundaries of said district set out and prescribed herein.
CHAPTER 167                                                                                   AN ACT TO INCORPORATE MECHANICS AND FARMERS BANK, AT DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That whenever two thousand dollars of said capita stock shall have been subscribed for and paid in cash the abovenamed incorporators, or a majority of them, or a majority of | those who have subseribed for the capital stock, shall call a meet | ing of the subscribers for said capital stock, at such time and at such place in the city of Durham [as they shall select], giving three days notice by mail of the time and place of such meeting to each subscriber, when and where such stockholders shall elect |                                                        irectors, not less than three nor more than nine, who shall hold office for one year, or until their successors have qualified; and uch directors shall be empowered to elect a president and viceresident and cashier and other officers, and adopt by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of North Carolina; such officers to old office for one year, or until their successors have qualified. _
CHAPTER 104                                                 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 185 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1905, CHANGING THE NAME OF LEAKSVILLE-SPRAY ACADEMY TO LEAKS- VILLE-SPRAY INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. >
CHAPTER 36 An act to incorporate Bertie County Confederate Memorial Association. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That there shall be a regular annual meeting of said association on the first Thursday in August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897), and at each meeting, and annually thereafter, on each first Thursday in August, a president, secretary and treasurer and board of lady managers shall be elected, and at such annual meeting five persons shall constitute a quorum.
CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: ,
Section 3. That the election for principal chief and assistant (or vice) chief, shall be held on the first Thursday in September next, and every four years thereafter, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the council.
CHAPTER 166 An act to incorporate the Newbern Steam Ferry Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That this corporation, formed under this act, shall exist for the term of sixty years.
CHAPTER 68 An act to provide where offences shall be prosecuted in cases where a mortal wound is inflicted on the high seas or without this state, and death happens in this state. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine of The Code be amended by adding the following:  and if a mortal wound is given or other violence or injury inflicted, or poison is administered on the high seas or land, either within or without the limits of this state, by means whereof death ensues in any county thereof, said offence may be prosecuted and punished in the county where the death happens.
CHAPTER 404 An act to appoint E. T. Simmons a justice of the peace, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. That the appointment of the said E. T. Simmons, and his acceptance and qualification as a justice of the peace in and for said township and county, shail in no wise affect his right to practice as an attorney at law in the various courts of Beaufort county and the courts of the state, except in such cases as have been appealed from the courts of the justice of the peace over which he presided or took part.
CHAPTER 344 Au act relating to roads and highways of Granvilie county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. [That] all roads and highways that have been laid out or appointed by virtue of any act of assembly or any order of court are hereby declared to be public roads and highways, and the justices of th peace in each township shall have the supervision and control of the public roads in their respective townships. They shall with respect to this work constitute and be styled the board of supervisors of public roads of such township, and under that name for the purposes aforesaid they are hereby incorporated the board of supervisors of public roads, and the board of county commissioners, as hereafter in this act set forth, shall have full power and authority to order the laying out of public roads where necessary and to appoint where bridges shall be made, to discontinue such roads as shall be found useless and to alter roads so as to make them more ~ Zo useful : Provided, that it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to have all roads laid out and constructed that have been heretofore or may hereafter be ordered as public roads before the duties of the supervisors as to such roads shall obtain ; and that the county commissioners are hereby vested with all the powers that the supervisors now have for having such road constructed and received.
CHAPTER 335 An act to incorporate the Carolina, Greenville and Northern Raiiroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 11. That the said railroad company shall have the right to construct its railroad across other railroads and other roads at convenient points in such way as to do the least damage and occasion the least inconvenience.
CHAPTER 262 An act to incorporate the West Asheville and Sulphur Springs Railway Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to increase the same at any time, or from time to time, to any sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars as a majority of said stockholders may determine, the said capital stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and the said company shall have the right to borrow money, to make, dispose of, and negotiate its promissory notes, drafts or bonds, and to mortgage, its property, franchises and effects to secure their payment upon resolution of the board of directors of the corporation created by this act.
CHAPTER 156 An act to authorize the commissioners of Harnett county to fund and pay the existing debt of said county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That all laws or clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. _
CHAPTER 169 An act to incorporate the town of Jonesville in the county of Yadkin. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the corporate limits of said town be as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Mill creek in J. H. Greenwoods bottom on the Yadkin river and running up said creek to Julius Hamptons spring branch; then eastwardly, crossing the Wilkesboro road at T,. A. Atkins northeast corner to Cable creek; then down said creek to the pond on the Boonville road; then northwardly to the mouth of the ditch in J. E. Johnsons bottom on the Yadkin river; thence up said river to the beginning.
CHAPTER 148 An act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. The mayor of the said town of Gastonia while acting as such is hereby constituted an official court with all the jurisdiction and power in criminal offenses occurring within the limits of said town which now or may hereafter be given by law to justices of the peace, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all misfemeanors consisting of all the violations of the ordinances of the said town. The proceedings in said court shall be the same as now or hereafter shall be prescribed for courts of justice of the peace, and in all eases there shall be the right of appeal, and in all cases where a defendant may be adjudged to be imprisoned by the said mayor it shall be competent for him to adjudge also that such person work during the period of his confinement on the public streets or other public works of said town of Gastonia.
CHAPTER 124 An aet to incorporate the Phonix Hose-reel Company of Wilmington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That the number of members of said corporation shall not exceed fifty active members at any one time.
CHAPTER 169 An act in relation to indigent and other apprentices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. Employers of apprentices shall be required in the indentures made before the clerk, tomake areport annually to him as to whether the stipulations in the indenture have been performed or not, as required in the same, in which shall be set forth the amount to be paid, and actually paid said apprentice and also the progress and general condition of the apprentice, including his moral, mental and physical condition, which report shall be required under the same pains, penalties and regulations as is required of general and testamentary guardians. The said employer shall also, at the end of the apprenticeship, make a final report to the clerk as to the apprenticeship as general and testamentary guardians are required to do.
CHAPTER 12 An act to allow the county of Iredell to fund her outstanding rail- road bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. When the board of commissioners of Iredell county shall notify any holder of any said new bond or bonds to present them at the office of the register of deeds for Iredell county for payment on a day certain, which day shall be after the first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and the holder of said bond or bonds shall fail to so present the same for payment at the time and place specified in said notice, then all interest on said bond or bonds so notified to be produced for payment shall cease until said bond or bonds are produced for payment tothe register of deeds of Iredell county. The notice mentioned in this section may be given by service on the holder of the bond or bonds in person, or by publication in some newspaper published in Iredell county, N. C.
CHAPTER 72 An act to incorporate theSouthern Inter-State Exposition Society. In order to aid in the development of the natural resources of the Southern States and the fostering of a friendly feeling between the Northern and Southern people, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That all vacancies in office shall be filled as the society may deem proper. 4
CHAPTER 61 An act to incorporate  The West End Kings Daughters, of Greensboro, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the corporators aforesaid and all members and officers of the corporation shall not be individually liable for its debts.
CHAPTER 235 An act to incorporate Sulphur Springs Baptist Church, Alexander county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That A. W. Lockey, J. R. Gwaltney, Wm. M. Lockey, W. P. Ingram, and their successors in office, be and the same are hereby incorporated under the name and style of Trustees of Sulphur Springs Baptist Church, in Sharps township, of Alexander county, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have all the powers of like institutions,
CHAPTER 202 An act to incorporate the town of Argo, in the county of Nash. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the town of Argo, in Nash county, be and the same is hereby incorporated by the name and style of Argo, and shall have and be entitled to all the rights and privileges,.and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities as now provided by law for incorporated towns in this State.
CHAPTER 194 An act to amend the laws of Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That section twenty-four of said chapter one hundred and twelve be amended so as to allow the commissioners to suspend said section on the fourth -4 of July and Christmas day in certain portions of Fayetteville to be prescribed by them; and that said section be fur-. ther amended so as to include and make it unlawful for any person to use sling juvembers or other contrivance by which to throw or project rocks, pebbles, shot or other missiles of any kind that are destructive, dangerous or injurious to persons or property.
CHAPTER 148 An act to amend an act: entitled an act to incorporate the Ox- ford and Clarksville Railroad Company, being chapter one hundred and sixteen of the laws of one thousand ight hun- dred and eighty-five. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. In section eleven, lines eight and nine, strike out the words one thirtieth of the amount of the principal thereof and insert instead thereof the words after ten years from the issue thereof shall annually levy a tax sufficient to pay one-twentieth of the principal thereof.
CHAPTER 58 = An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the town of Reidsville, and the amendments thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. That the mayor, immediately after the election, and before entering upon the duties of his office, shall, before a justice of the peace, take the following oath: I, A B, dosolemnly swear (or affirm) that I will diligently endeavor to perform faithfully and truly, aecording to my best skill and ability, all the duties of the office of mayor of the town of Reidsville, while I continue therein, and I will cause to be executed, as far as in my power, all the laws, ordinances and regulations made for the government of the town, and in the discharge of my duties I will do equal justice in all cases whatsoever.
CHAPTER 4 An act to amend chapter forty-seven of the privaie acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter forty-seven -47 of the private acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one -1881 be amended by striking out the word  one between  exceeding and  hundred in the eighth -8 line of section five -5 of said act and inserting in lieu thereof the word  five. so that the paragraph shall read:  1st. On all licensed retailers of spirituous, alcoholic or malt liquors, a tax not exceeding five hundred dollars.
CHAPTER 264 An act to authorize the commissioners of Columbus county to levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the county commissioners of the county of Columbus are hereby authorized and empowered, by and with the consent and approval of a majority of the justices of the peace of said county, to levy a special tax for the years one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine and one thousand, eight hundred and ninety, at the same time other taxes are levied, upon the taxable property and polis of the county, not to exceed fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars worth of property and forty-five cents on each taxable poll for each of the years named, for general county purposes; said tax to be cgllected and accounted for by the sheriff or tax-collector at the same time and under the same rules and regulations as other county taxes.
CHAPTER 153 An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the City of Ral- eigh, in the county of Wake, and state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 54. That the clerk shall be particular to examine each person on oath as to whether he has other property than that stated in his return which he may claim is not liable to taxation. Such property, except bonds of the United States and of this state, shall be entered and noted on the tax list.
CHAPTER 243 An act to revise, amend and consolidate the act of incorporation of the town of Louisburg, North Carolina, and the acts amendatory thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 45. They may also appoint a town engineer, a town attorney or attorneys, employ detectives, and to offer rewards for the capture and conviction of criminals, and to exercise like powers in the premises in order to bring offenders against the laws of the state and town ordinances, when the offense is committed in the town limits, to justice, and to use any funds belonging to the city not otherwise appropriated to carry out this purpose.
CHAPTER 67 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE DOVER SOUTHBOUND RAILROAD COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. That the private railroad now used by the Goldsboro Lumber Company, from Dover, North Carolina, to Richlands, North Carolina, may be used and utilized in the construction of the road designated in this charter, if said stockholders shall adopt and purchase the same, and condemn the land upon which it crosses or passes.
CHAPTER 413 AN ACT TO BUILD A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF ASHBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That said taxes shall be collected by the Tax Collector of the Town of Ashboro at the time and in the manner that the municipal taxes are collected, and said tax collector shall pay the same to the treasurer of said town, and shall keep such money separate and apart from the municipal funds. And the treasurer shall pay out said taxes and other funds which may come into his hands for the use of said graded schools only upon the warrant of the chairman and secretary of said board of graded school trustees: Provided, that said tax collector and said treasurer shall enter into bond in such amounts as said board of trustees may direct for the faithful performance of the demands of their respective offices.
CHAPTER 404 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF ROCKY POINT IN PENDER COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That there shall be an election for the officers named in this act on the first Monday in July, one thousand nine hundred and five (1905), and each succeeding year thereafter, to be held under the same rules and restrictions that county elections for county officers are held, and all citizens who have resided within said corporate limits twelve -12 months and are entitled to vote for county officers shall be entitled to vote at said election.
CHAPTER 380 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THH GUARANTY, TRUST AND SECURITY COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 14. Said corporation shall have, and is hereby given, power to act as agents or brokers in the business of marine, fire, life, accident, fidelity, casualty, employers liability and every other form of insurance in all of its branches.
CHAPTER 38 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE JACKSON COUNTY BANK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the capital stock of the corporation shall be not less than ten thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, nor more than fifty thousand dollars. The corporation may commence business when a majority of the above-named incorporators accept this charter and when ten thousand dollars of the capital stock mentioned above is subscribed and paid in.
CHAPTER 371 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That section twenty-eight of said act be amended by adding at the end thereof the following: And all ordinances of the city of Greensboro now in force or hereafter enacted shall, unless otherwise provided by the board of aldermen, apply with equal force to the territory outside of the city limits for one mile in all directions from the city, and in Lindley Park, and upon the water and sewer lines of the city, and upon the right-of-way of the Greensboro Electric Company or its successor, and upon all property of the city outside of said incorporate limits.
CHAPTER 286 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE. WOMBLE HOOK AND LAD- DER COMPANY OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the said corporation shall have one or more branches or teams in the [discretion] of the members of the said corporation.
CHAPTER 273 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DALLAS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That section forty-one of the said chapter be amended by adding after the word mayor and before the word within in line one thereof the words or list-taker, and by striking out in lines five and six of said section the words on the first Monday of June in each year.
CHAPTER 135 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF ANDREWS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 42. Taxes for town purposes shall be levied on all real and personal property, trades, licenses and other subjects of taxation as provided in section three, article five of the State Constitution. All moneys arising from taxes, donations or other sources shall be paid to the treasurer, and no appropriation thereof shall be made but by a board constituted of a majority of all the aldermen.
CHAPTER 114 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF KINGS MOUNTAIN TO ISSUE BONDS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. For the purpose of properly carrying out the duty imposed by the preceding section the said mayor and board of commissioners are hereby authorized and fully empowered and directed to issue bonds of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, aggregating the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, the said bonds to be denominated street and sidewalk improvement bonds, to be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the secretary, bearing the corporate seal of said town, be written in the usual form, and bear interest from date until paid at five per centum per annum, which interest shall be payable semi-annually from the date of said bonds and shall be evidenced by coupons thereto attached, in the usual form; that said bonds shall mature at the end of thirty years from their date, and shall be fully binding upon said town and its property: that the mayor and board of commissioners shall issue said bonds in installments of five thousand dollars each as the work on the streets and sidewalks progresses and the necessity for payment thereof arises, but all of said bonds shall bear the same date, and bear interest as aforesaid, but the coupons for interest on the installments delayed shall be torn off before issuing, to the date of maturity of the coupons next preceding the date of such issue.
CHAPTER 85 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. That the Commissioners of said city or Board of Aldermen shall have the right to increase the salaries of the policemen to a sum not exceeding sixty dollars per month.