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CHAPTER 1065 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS AND NOTES IN BEHALF OF THE WADESBORO CITY ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AS A SPECIAL BOND TAX UNIT AND THE LEVY OF TAXES WITHIN SUCH UNIT FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF SUCH BONDS AND NOTES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. At the close of the polls the election officers shall count the votes and make returns thereof to the Board of County Commissioners of Anson County, which board shall, as soon as practicable after the election, judicially pass upon the returns and judicially determine and declare the results of such election, which determination shall be spread upon the minutes of said board. The returns shall be made in duplicate, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Board of County Commissioners of Anson County as aforesaid and the other filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Anson County. The Board of County Commissioners of Anson County shall prepare a statement showing the number of votes cast for and against the bonds or notes, and declaring the result of the election, which statement shall be signed by the chairman of the board and attested by the clerk, who shall record it in the minutes of the board and file the original in his office and publish it once in a newspaper published or circulating in such district or unit.
CHAPTER 547 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF KINSTON TO ISSUE GRADED SCHOOL BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said bonds hereby authorized to be issued shall not be sold for less than their face value, and the treasurer of the city shall receive all such moneys paid in the purchase of the bonds in his official capacity as treasurer of said city, and he and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable to account for and pay over the same as is provided in this act or may be provided otherwise by the laws relating to the treasurer of the said #NAME? of Kinston, and it shall be the duty of the said city council of the city of Kinston to see to it that the bonds of the said treasurer shall at all times be sufficient in amount and with satisfactory sureties to provide against any loss of money arising from sale of said bond, and to that end may at any time require said treasurer to renew his official bond in such sum and with satisfactory sureties as they may require, and in default thereof remove him from office as treasurer.
CHAPTER 475 . AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE HOLDING OF AN ELEC- TION IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, YADKIN COUNTY, IN RE- GARD TO THE STATESVILLE AIR LINE RAILROAD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That for the purpose of carrying out the election mentioned in section one of this act, the Board of County Commissioners shall appoint a registrar and judges of election in each precinct in said township. Such registrar shall keep the registration books open for twenty days, and shall attend at the voting precinct, for the registration of voters, at least two Saturdays next preceding said election, and said Commissioners shall give   thirty days notice of the time and place of holding said election in some newspaper published in Yadkin County or by posters at three public places in each precinct.
CHAPTER 87 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TO MAKE PREPARATIONS TO FURNISH LIME TO THE FARM- ERS OF THE STATE FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AT A REASONABLE COST. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The board of agriculture are authorized to make all regulations necessary to execute the provisions of this act and shall report annually to the Governor and furnish him itemized statement of the receipts and expenditures, which shall be published in the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture to tbe Legislature.
CHAPTER 540 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF MALT IN CABARRUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. No druggist shall sell or otherwise dispose of any malt or malt extracts except for bona fide medical purposes and upon the prescription of a practicing physician known to such druggist to be of reputable standing in his profession or recommended by a physician who is so known, which prescription shall be in writing, signed by such physician, and shall specify the name of the person to be supplied, and the quantity of dose. Any druggist who shall violate the provisions of this section, and any physician who shall give any prescription for malt or malt extracts in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court.
CHAPTER 482 AN ACT TO APPOINT AN AUDITOR FOR COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be and they are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 121 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE, TO DEFINE ITS CORPORATE LIMITS, TO PROVIDE FOR ITS GOVERNMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Corporate Organization.
Section 62. Any taxpayer in the city may maintain an action to recover for the city any sum of money paid in violation of the civil service provisions, or to enjein the director of civil service from attaching his certificate to a payroll or account for services rendered in violation of this charter or the rules made thereunder; and the rules made under the foregoing provisions shall for this and all other purposes have the force of law.
CHAPTER 145 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 56 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1915, RELATING TO LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the amendment to this act shall apply only to Union County.
CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT TATTOOING IN NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to tattoo the arm, limb, or any part of the body of any other person under age of twenty-one years of age.
CHAPTER 268 AN ACT TO ALLOW CERTAIN DISCOUNTS IN THE PAY- MENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That amount of payment or payments to be made under the schedule set forth in section one of this act shall be computed and determined by allowing the discount or discounts appropriate to be made from the principal face amount of the tax sales certificate or certificates now outstanding and held by _ the said Town of Beaufort or any other agency on its or their behalf. That is to say, the allowances above provided for shall be deducted from the face value of the certificates without the addition of any penalties or interest since the date of issuance of said certificates: Provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the payment and/or redemption of certificates now outstanding and in the possession of third parties holding for value at the time of the ratification of this act: Provided further, that nothing in this act shall be con strued to authorize or allow the Town of Beaufort, through its collecting agency or agencies, to impose in the payment or settle ment above provided for any court costs or other expenses here tofore incurred on account of foreclosure proceedings institutec for enforcement of payment.
CHAPTER 92 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 231, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I Boarp OF STATE TAX COMMISSIONERS
Section 32. Where to list real estate, mineral, and quarry lands. All real property subject to taxation shall be listed in the township in which said property is situated on the first day of May. When the fee of the soil of any tract, parcel, or lot of land is in any person or persons, natural or artificial, and the right to any minerals, quarry, or timber therein is in another or others, the same shall be valued and listed, agreeable to such ownership, in separate entries, specifying the interest listed, and shall be taxed to the parties owning the different interests, respectively. In listing mineral, quarry, or timber interests the owner thereof shall describe the same in his list, together with the separate value of each separate tract or parcel of land in or on which the same shall be situated or located, and the list-taker shall be particular to enter the same on the tax list according to the returns. An owner of separate timber interests shall list the same, whether the timber shall be attached to or detached from the soil. 99 D>.
CHAPTER 516 An act to establish a dispensary for the town of Mayodan, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 15. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict of [with] the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, that this act shall. not be construed so as to repeal any prohibitory laws already in force, and section three thousand one hundred and eleven of The Code shall not apply to this act.
CHAPTER 290 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 15. On the second Saturday before each election the registration books shall be kept open at the polling place in the precinct for the inspection of the electors of the precinct, and any of such electors shall be allowed to object to the name of any person appearing on said books: Provided, nothing in this section shall prohibit any elector from challenging or objecting on the day of election to any person offering to vote.
CHAPTER 123 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF RAMSEUR TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of Commissioners of the town of Ramseur is hereby authorized and empowered to submit to the qualified voters of said town, at an election as hereinafter provided for, the question of issuing bonds of the town of Ramseur in the amount of five thousand dollars, and of levying and _ collecting a special tax, as hereinafter provided. for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, for the purpose of working, improving and making streets and sidewalks in said town. Said bonds shall be ten in number and five hundred dollars each in amount. They shall bear interest from the date thereof at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, and the interest shall be payable semiannually. Said bonds shall be payable, one in three, one in six, one in eight, one in ten, one in twelve, one in fourteen, one in sixteen, one in eighteen, one in twenty, and one in twenty-two years, respectively. They shall have interest coupons attached. The bonds shall be numbered, and shall be executed on behalf of the town by the mayor, and attested by the clerk, and shall have the corporate seal attached, and shall be in all other respects of such form and tenor and payable at such dates and places as shall be determined by the board of commissioners and designated in the bonds themselves. None of said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par, and a record shall be kept, showing to whom each and all of said bonds shall be issued.
CHAPTER 1259 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE WINSTON-SALEM TRANSIT AUTHORITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. Funds. The establishment and operation of a Transit Authority as herein authorized is a governmental function and a_ public purpose and the City of Winston-Salem is hereby authorized to appropriate funds to support the establishment and operation of the Transit Authority. The City of Winston-Salem may also dedicate, sell, convey, donate or lease any of its interest in any property to the Authority. Further, the Authoritv is hereby authorized to establish such license and regulatory fees and charges as it may deem appropriate, subject to the approval of the Board of Aldermen. If the Board of Aldermen finds that the funds otherwise available are insufficient, it may call a special election without a petition 1899 and submit to the qualified voters of the City the question of whether or not a special tax shall be levied and/or bonds issued, specifying the maximum amount thereof, for the purpose of acquiring lands, buildings, equipment and facilities and for the operations of the Transit Authority.
CHAPTER 186 An act to incorporate the United Brothers and Sisters Associ- ation. WHEREAS, certain citizens of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have associated themselves together, under the name and style of the  United Brothers and Sisters Association, with the intention and purpose of pro- moting charity, benevolence, morality, industry and intelli- gence; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 5. That the private property of the members of the corporation shall be exempt from the debts of the corporation.
CHAPTER 73 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1915, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 1079 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, RELATING TO CREDIT-UNIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 15. That in line two -2 of section fifty-two twenty-four (5224), article nine (9), subchapter three -3 of the Consolidated Statutes, the words four-fifths of the entire membership of a corporation shall be stricken out and the following substituted in lieu thereof: three-fourths of the members present and represented.
CHAPTER 662 AN ACT TO REGULATE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN BEAU- FORT COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE INCORPORATED CITIES OR TOWNS THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. Challenges shall be made, heard, and determined, respectively, in the same manner as in the laws governing elections in North Carolina or the cities and towns in the county of Beaufort, as the case may be. The registration books in all primaries under this act shall be open for a period of ten days, and shall close on the second Saturday preceding the day for holding any primary, and challenge shall be made, heard, and determined during the week preceding the day for holding the primary: Provided, the foregoing provisions shall not be construed to prevent any elector from challenging any one who offers to vote on the primary day: Provided further, in the event there is no registration, that the board of elections or the governing body of any city or town, as the case may be, shall appoint two poll-holders for each political party entering said primary. Any person offering to vote may be challenged by any elector, and if the party affiliation of the voter is in doubt, he shall be required to make oath of such affiliation. Any person otherwise qualified who has not voted in the last two general elections shall have the right to elect his party affiliation: Provided, he does not yote against any candidates of the party in whose primary he enters at the ensuing general election. The test in all cases shall be the party affiliation of the person subject to the foregoing provisions in the last general election, and any person who voted in said general election for candidates of one political party mentioned in this act and who desires to enter the primary of another political party shall make oath, upon being challenged, either to support the candidates of the political party that he enters in the ensuing general election or that he will not vote in opposition to any candidate of that party. No person shall be allowed in said primaries to vote for candidates of but one political party.
CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO CREATE A HIGHWAY COMMISSION FOR WAR- RENTON TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY OF WARREN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 18. The stock and road implements and machinery belonging to the township and turned over to the highway commission may be used both upon the permanent and repair work of the road of the township, and the highway commission is empowered to purchase additional road machinery, stock, and other machinery, and tools used in road building from time to time as the same may be needed for keeping the roads of the township in good condition, and also for doing permanent work, and may dispose of such machinery and stock as they may deem necessary for the best interest of the public roads.
CHAPTER 145 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. That the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000 ) is hereby appropriated for the years one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty for the support and maintenance of the East Carolina Teachers Training School.
CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 22. Taxpayer to show his income on list. ~~ The taxpayer shall list his income for the year ending January first, 1921, from any and all sources from salaries, fees, trades, and professions in excess of one thousand dollars for unmarried persons and fifteen hundred dollars for married persons and widows and widowers having minor child or children.
CHAPTER 824 AN ACT CREATING THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. WHEREAS, the great County of Pitt will in the year 1960 celebrate its 200th Anniversary, and in order that its citizens may properly and ade- quately prepare for said celebration: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 86 An act to amend the charter of the town of Taylorsville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 38. That if the real estate sold as aforesaid shall not be redeemed within the time required by law, the corporation shall convey the same in fee to the purchaser or his assigns; and the recital in such conveyance, or in any other conveyance of Jand sold for taxes due the town, that the taxes were due, or of any other matter required to be TRUE or done before the sale might be made, shall be prima facie evidence that the same was TRUE and done.
CHAPTER 43 An act to incorporate the Bank of Commerce at Fayetteville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. The corporation may loan money on a pledge or mortgage of real or personal estate: Provided, it shall not loan on mortgage of real estate exceeding twenty per cent. of the capital stock paid in.
CHAPTER 373 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That section fifty-five of the charter of Winston be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the words Elks auditorium, in said section, the words or the Young Mens Christian Association. That said section fifty-five is further amended by striking out the word less, in line ten, and inserting in lieu thereof the words not exceeding.
CHAPTER 507 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF COUNTY TREAS- URER IN HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said bank or trust company appointed and acting as the financial agent of Harnett County shall be appointed for a term of two years, and shall be required at its or their own expense to execute the same bonds for the safe keeping and proper accounting of such funds as may come into its or their possession and belonging to said county, and for the faithful discharge of its or their duties as are now required by law of the county treasurer.
CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, RATIFIED THE SEVEN- TEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED AND ELEVEN. Whereas, the act passed by the General Assembly of North Caro- lina at its session of one thousand nine hundred and eleven, ratified on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, with reference to the city of Greensboro, was to become effective if ratified by a majority of votes passed at an election pro- vided for in said act; and, Whereas, at such election a majority of the voters voted a ticket For commission form of government, and a minority of the voters voted a ticket Against commission form of government; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That section fifty-two of the said act, which was ratified on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, be amended by inserting in line one of said section, after the word office and before the word may, the words except judge of the municipal court.
CHAPTER 450 An act to prevent live stock from running at large in certain parts of Wayne County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That whenever said committee shall report to the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County that said territory or so much thereof as does not adjoin other territory in which the stock law prevails is enclosed by a sufficient fence, with gates across all highways leading into the same, it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board immediately to give notice by advertisement in the Goldsboro Argus and on January 1, 1902, and after the publication of said notices, all the provisions of this act shall be in full force, and to defray the expenses of building said fence, the County Commissioners shall levy an assessment upon all the farming lands within said territory, including wood or timbered lands and all improvements thereon and cause the same to be collected by the Sheriff and paid over to the County Treasurer to be by him disbursed upon their order. The official bonds of the Sheriff and Treasurer shall be responsible for the faithful accounting for said funds as for public moneys.
CHAPTER 341 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 121. The owner of any land sold under the provisions of this charter and amendments, or any person acting for such owner, may redeem the same within one year after the sale by paying to the purchaser the sum paid by him and twenty-five per cent additional to the amount of taxes and expenses, and the purchaser shall thereupon convey to him all his interest in said land.
CHAPTER 147 An act to amend the charter of The Town of Columbia. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 40. That if the lot, real estate, or interest in real estate, sold as aforesaid, shall not be redeemed within the time specifled, the collector or his successor, under the direction of the mayor of the town, shall convey the same to the purchaser, or to his assigns in fee. In the event the town is the purchaser, the collector, or his successor, shall convey to the corporation of Columbia, and the recitals in such conveyance or in any other conveyance, made by any tax collector of said town, shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the same and can not be attacked, except on the ground that the taxes were not due and unpaid at the date of sale.
CHAPTER 458 AN ACT TO PERMIT RAILROAD COMPANIES TO ACQUIRE LANDS FOR DOUBLE-TRACKING. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That no yard, garden or dwelling-house shall be condemned under the provisions of this act, unless the Corporation Commission, upon petition filed by the railroad seeking to condemn, shall, after due inquiry, find that the railroad company cannot make the desired improvement without condemning the yard, garden or dwelling-house, except at an excessive cost.
CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE: MAINTENANCE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in cofiflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. :
CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 160, OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1925, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the town of Mount Airy, through its mayor and board of commissioners, shall have and is granted authority to condemm lands for streets, alleys, or public buildings, or other lawful municipal purposes in the same manner as is provided hereinbefore for the condemnation of property for the water supply or water works of the town of Mount Airy.
CHAPTER 1455 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PLANNING, ZONING, BUILDING REGU- LATIONS, AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS POWERS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND FOR A DESCRIBED TERRITORY BEYOND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FAY- ETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. If any Section, subdivision, clause, or provision of this Act shall be adjudged invalid, such adjudication shall apply only to such Section, subdivision, clause, or provision so adjudged, and the remainder of the Act shall be deemed valid and effective.
CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO CREATE A CHARTER FOR ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 31. The chief of the fire department shall use his best endeavors to have the engine at each fire, and for that purpose he may use such means and aid as he deems best. And the board of aldermen are hereby authorized and permitted to make appropriations from the amount collected from the special tax mentioned in section twenty-nine, to be disbursed and used as they direct. COMPENSATION OF FIRE CHIEF.
CHAPTER 367 An act to amend chapter two hundred and forty-seven, acts of one thousand elght hundred and eighty-one, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That Dr. R. H. Speight, J. Q. Bryan and M. H. Wetherbee be and they are hereby appointed fence commissioners in and for that part of said territory lying and being in the county of Edgecombe, with power to contract for the erection of a substantial fence upon the boundary above described, so as to connect with the Nash county territory, with gates at every crossing of a publie road; that they hold their office during good behavior, and upon a vacancy occurring by death or resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled by the board of county commissioners of Edgecombe county.
CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOU- SAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN OF NORTH CAROLINA, RELATIVE TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY, AND DEFINING CERTAIN RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. The chairman of the County Board of Elections of Rowan County, within five days after the results of such primary election have been declared, shall certify under his hand and seal to the city clerk of Salisbury the names of the successful five nominees of the respective political parties for councilmen of said city. And only those who have been so certified as the nominees of their political party shall have their names printed on the official ballot for that respective political party to be voted for at the next general municipal election for said city. The nominees of each political party shall be printed on a separate ballot for each political party for the general municipal election, said ballots to be of different colors of paper. The Democratic ballots shall be printed on white paper, and the Republican ballot on blue paper. Upon the face of the Democratic ballot near the top shall be printed in heavy black type the word: DEMOCRATIC. The emblem of an eagle shall be printed under the word, democratic; and under the eagle shall be printed a circle, with the instructions: For a straight ticket mark within this circle. Upon the face of the Republican ballot shall be printed in heavy black type the word: REPUBLICAN. The emblem of an elephant shall be printed under the word, republican; and under the elephant shall be printed a circle, with the instructions: For a straight ticket mark within this circle. Upon each ballot for city councilmen shall be printed the words: For city councilmen. Vote for five. And each ballot shall contain the following instructions: INSTRUCTIONS 1. To vote a straight ticket make a cross (x) mark in the circle of the party you desire to vote for. 2. To vote for some but not all the candidates of one party, make a cross (x) mark in the square at the left of the name of every candidate printed on the ballot for whom you wish to vote. If you mark any one candidate, you must mark all for whom you wish to vote. A mark in the circle will not be counted if any one candidate is marked. A square shall be printed to the left of the name of each candidate in which the voter may make a cross (x) mark indicating his choice for each candidate. The city clerk shall cause ballots for the general municipal election of said city to be printed as herein provided, authenticated with a facsimile of his signature. The ballots for the general municipal election shall contain only the names of all candidates who have been put in nomination by the primary election hereinabove provided, and shall be delivered by the city clerk to the several registrars of the city. Upon the back of each ballot shall be printed the following endorsement, the blanks being properly filled: Official City Ballot for General Municipal Election. Salisbury, North Carolina. (Date of city election.) (Facsimile of signature of city clerk of Salisbury.)
CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That Henry A. Bond, James A. Woodward, W. D. Pruden, Geo. H. Coke, W. G. Warren, Moses Hobbs, W. H. Coffield, W. R. Skinner, P. F. White, W. E. Bond, A. T. Bush, H. DeB. Hooper, C. W. Cason, R. B. Perkins, A. M. Moore, J. H. Garrett, J. R. B. Hathaway and G. W. White be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the Edenton graded school for the white race until July first, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, and until their successors are elected as hereinafter stated.
CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. That L. H. Fisher, Owen Parrott, Wiley Lowry, Spencer Smith, Peter Brem, Henry Green, Richard Whitfield, Squire M. Jones and Peter Williams, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children. That said board shal] have power to fill a)l vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.
CHAPTER 299 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF WILLIAMSTON, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School Trustees of Williamston; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gift, purchase or devise, real and personal property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same, and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations. And said corporation shall have a corporate seal which it may break and change at pleasure.
CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said Board of Trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district; the said Trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof published in some newspaper published in Alamance County and by notices posted at four public places in said district. The said Board of Trustees shall select three men qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar and the other two poll-holders, to hold said election, and these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their acts in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing tickets on which shall be written or printed the words, For Graded School, or Against Graded School, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the elections of county officers. The said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory.
CHAPTER 244 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said Board of Trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said Trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof published in some newspaper published in Alamance County, and by notices posted at four public places in said district. The said Board of Trustees shall select three men, qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar and the other two pollholders to hold said election, and these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their acts in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers, and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing, tickets on which shall be written or printed the words For Graded School or Against Graded School, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the election of county officers. The said election shall be held at the school house for the white race in said territory.
CHAPTER 762 An act to aid the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Treasurer of North Carolina be an d he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Orphan Asylum for children of the colored race, at Oxford, North Carolina, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
CHAPTER 727 An act to make appropriations for the State Institutions. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That five thousand dollars be appropriated to the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical College of Greensboro for each of the years 1901 and 1902 in addition to its standing appropriation. This appropriation shall not be paid if the State Board of Education shall transfer to said school an equal amount of the appropriations for the Colored Normal Schools of the State.
CHAPTER: 736 An act to consolidate the Webster and Dillshoro Schooi Districts for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the school districts of Webster and Dillsboro | Townships in Jackson County for the colored race, be and the same are hereby consolidated into one district to be known as the Webster District for the colored race, and that the school-house for said consolidated districts shall be the present school-house of the Webster District for the colored race. ;
CHAPTER 497 ~.. An act to establish graded schools in the town of Greenville, N. C. Wye The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That if the Trustees of the graded school herein appointed shall deem the grounds on which Pitt Academy is now located a suitable place for the location of the graded school building for the white children of the said district then the said graded school may be located there by and with the consent of the Trustees of the said academy; but if they shail deem another location more suitable then the Board of Trustees of the academy as herein constituted may. if they shall deem it advisable to do so, sell said academy and all the lands belonging thereto in such manner and on such terms as they may deem best, make a good title to the purchasers and invest the proceeds of such sale in a location and buildings for a graded school for the whites of said district.
CHAPTER 470 An act for relief of E. W. Hyman. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said sum shall be paid out of any funds apportioned to the colored race for Enfield Township in said county.
CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school laws for the white and for the colored children of said Wesley Chapel School District shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the High Schools provided for in this act under the orders and directions of said Board of Trustees.
Section 14. That the said Board of Trustees are authorized and empowered to sell and convey the old Davis school lot and the buildings situated thereon, lying and being on the Prices Mill Road near the residence of J. D. Davis, which sale may be at public or private sale and the proceeds of said sale shall be applied in-the erection of a school building for the whites in the said Wesley Chapel School District, and they are authorized and empowered to use such fund of the special tax so levied for the purpose of erecting and equipping such school buildings #NAME? either race, as they may deem necessary.
CHAPTER 340 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS {N PLYMOUTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all that territory embraced within the following limits, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Connaby Creek where it empties in the Roanoke River, thence with the various courses of said creek and Peacock swamp to the dividing line of the lands of A. T. Tetterton and the Windley heirs, thence with said line to the line between the Newberry farm and the land of W. F. Lucas, and with said line to the western line of the right-of-way of The Washington and Plymouth Railroad Company, thence with said western line of the said right-of-way to the western line of the right-of-way of the railroad used by the Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company for conveying logs to the mill of said lumber company, thence with said last named western line of said railroad to Welches Creek, thence with said creek to the Roanoke River, thence with the said river to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a graded school district for the white and colored races.
CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That J. N. Price, H. L. Price, E. M. Moore, L. G. Howie and R. H. Howie are hereby constituted a Board of Trustees for the public graded schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a hody corporate under the name of Trustees for the Public Schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the Courts of this State and the United States, have a common seal, make all by-laws and regulations necessary or expedient as deemed by them, for the purposes of their incorporation, purchase, sell and convey, lease, let and control all school property in said district, real and personal, proper and requisite for their corporate purposes, have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss all officers and teachers ot said schools, and regulate their salaries, to elect one of their own number chairman, another secretary, and do and perform all acts proper and necessary for the best advantages of said schools.
CHAPTER 331 An act to establish a supplementary school district in Williams Town- ship, Craven County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -
Section 1. That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of Peacock Road and Beaver Dam Swamp, and runs south with Peacock Road to Thomas Worleys well; from said Worleys well by the old sawmill site on Emanuel Wright's land to Gum Swamp; thence down Gum Swamp to the mouth of Kates Branch; thence up said branch to the Big Branch; thence with Big Branch to Beaver Dam Swamp; thence up Beaver Dam Swamp to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district, and shall be called the Lebanon Supplemental Public School for the White and Colored Races.
CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the Board of Commissioners of the county of Johnston are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Smithfield Graded School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and one, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public free school for the white children, and a graded public free school for the colored children therein, in said district. Each voter shail vote a printed ballot with the words For School or No School thereon, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the General Assembly.
Section 4. That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in maintaining and keeping up a graded public free school in said district for white persons of both sexes, whose names are on the school census list in said district, between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the special tax thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons, shall be expended in maintaining and keeping up a graded public school in said district for colored persons of both sexes, whose names shall be on the school census list in said district, between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
Section 6. That Ashley W. Smith, Hardy Atkinson, George McIntyre, Levy Dublin and E. Russell Whitley, be and they are hereby appointed and constituted a Board of Trustees for the graded school for colored persons; that said board shall have the power to fill all vacancies, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as may be necessary to keep up the school for colored persons.
Section 10. That Board of Trustees of the graded school for whites in said district are authorized and empowered to purchase and hold for the purpose of said school, a building and suitable grounds within the limits of said district.
CHAPTER 324 An act to establish supplemental school district No. 3 in Chadbourn Township in Columbus County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersections of Bacon Branch and the north margin of the W. C. and A. Railroad and runs west with said railroad to Greens Branch, thence about southwest so as to strike the north line of the Sanka Frink place, thence following the north line to the corner and parallel with said line across Porter Swamp so as to include F. D. Pages home farm, thence with James Tylers line so as to include said Tylers premises, thence with said northeast line across the mill pond to Suggs west line, thence southwest Sugegs and Tylers line to C. M. Nobles northwest line, thence following the same to the Colony line, thence with said line to the east margin of the W. C. and A. Railroad, thence north along the east margin of said railroad to Bacon Branch, thence with said branch to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district and shall be called Chadbourn supplemental school district number three for the white and colored races.
CHAPTER 221 s An act to establish a supplementary school district in White House Town- ship, Robeson County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the limits hereinafter described, in White House Township, Robeson County, shali be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as The Olivet School District, beginning at the mile post standing in the main run of Ashpole Swamp on the old stage road, running from Lumberton to Marion, and run with said road to the South Carolina line at old MHolmesville, thence with said State line about south 45 degrees east to the main run of Ashpole Swamp, thence up the main run of the said Ashpole Swamp to the beginning.
CHAPTER 353 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount, and all that portion of Nash County not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, | towit: Beginning at that point where the southern boundary line of said town intersects the western boundary line of Hilliard street; thence southward along an extension of the boundary line of said street to that point where said line would intersect the new river road; thence eastward along said road to that point where the said line intersects the boundary line between the land of Jno. D. Bulluck and the land of the Davis heirs; thence southeastward along said line to that point where said line intersects the main line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad; thence northward along the line of said railroad to the southern boundary line of said town; thence westward along said line to the beginning, shall be, and are hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Rocky Mount Graded School Distrct. -
Section 11. That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors, shall be, and are hereby constituted, a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School ' Trustees of Rocky Mount; and by that name may sue and be , sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, ' acquire by gift, purchase or dvise, real and personal property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same, and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations. And said corporation shall have a corporate seal, which it may break and change at pleasure.
CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 70. The State Board of Education shall elect biennially a State Board of Examiners, which shall consist of three professional teachers and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be ex officio the chairman of said board. The said Board of Examiners shall have the entire management and control of the Colored Normal Schools of the State, shall prepare a course of study for the same, elect teachers therein, fix all salaries and provide for Summer School of not less than two weeks duration, which all teachers in said Normal School shall be required to attend. One member of said Board of Examiners shall visit each of said Colored Normal Schools annually, inspect the work and report in writing to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall have the reports printed and submitted to the General Assembly on or before January twentieth, 1903 Meetings of the State Boards of Examiners shall be held at the call of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the members shall receive no compensation other than travelling expenses and board while attending upon their official duties, an itemized statement of which shall be kept in the books of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.