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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 17. The board of commissioners are hereby given, within the city limits, all the power and authority that is now or may hereafter be given by the law to the county superintendent of health or county physician, and such further powers and authority as will best preserve the health of the citizens. The board of commissioners is hereby given power to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State, for the preservation of the health of the inhabitants of the city, as to them may seem right and proper. Said board of commissioners may establish and maintain, or inspect, regulate or prohibit a hospital, or hospitals, or pest houses, slaughter houses, rendering plants, incineries, and crematories in the city of Raleigh, or within three miles thereof; may stop, detain, examine or keep, in a pest house or houses of detention, persons having, or suspected of having any infectious, contagious or other communicable disease; may quarantine the city or any part thereof: may cause all persons in the city limits to be vaccinated; may, without incurring liabilities to the owner, remove, fumigate or destroy furniture, bedding, clothing or other property which may be found to be tainted or infected with any contagious or infectious disease, and may do all other proper and reasonable things to prevent or stamp out any contagious or infectious disease, and to better preserve the health of the citizens; and all expenses incurred by the city in disinfecting or caring for any person or persons, by authority of this section, may be recovered by it from the person, persons or property cared for, and when expense is incurred in caring for property same shall become a lien on said property. That any person who shall attempt by force, or by threat of violence, to prevent his removal, or that of any other person, to the pest house, house of detention or hospital, or who shall in any way interfere with any officer while performing any of the duties allowed by the chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Said board of commissioners may elect a health officer and create such other offices and employments as to them may seem right and proper, and fill the same and fix their compensation.
CHAPTER 780 AN ACT TO DECLARE THE NECESSITY OF CREATING PUBLIC BODIES CORPORATE AND POLITIC TO BE KNOWN AS HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES TO ENGAGE IN HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION AND/OR PROJECTS TO PROVIDE HOS- PITAL ACCOMMODATIONS; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF SUCH HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES; TO DEFINE THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXERCISE OF SUCH POWERS, INCLUDING ACQUIRING PROP- ERTY BY PURCHASE, GIFT OR EMINENT DOMAIN, AND INCLUDING BORROWING MONEY, ISSUING REV- ENUE AND CREDIT BONDS AND OTHER OBLIGA- TIONS, AND GIVING SECURITY THEREFOR; TO CON- FER REMEDIES ON OBLIGEES OF HOSPITAL AU- THORITIES; TO PROVIDE THAT HOSPITAL AUTHOR- ITIES, AND CERTAIN PROPERTY AND SECURITIES THEREOF SHALL BE TAX EXEMPT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 25. Appropriations by city and county. The governing body of any city or county in which the authority is located may appropriate each year, not exceeding five per cent of its general fund for the improvement, maintenance or operation of any public hospital or hospital project constructed, maintained, or operated by or to be constructed, maintained or operated by an authority, and moneys so appropriated and paid to a hospital authority by a city or municipality shall be deemed a necessary expense of such city or municipality.
CHAPTER 551 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF MARTIN TO PLACE CERTAIN OFFICERS ON SALARIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That the sheriff of Martin County shall receive a salary of not less than six thousand dollars ($6,000), nor more than seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per annum, as full compensation for his service and the services of such assistants, deputies and clerks as he may appoint and jailer. The sheriff shall receive no other compensation whatever, except such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law to the sheriffs for the seizure and destruction of illicit stills, and for actual necessary expenses for conveying prisoners to jail in counties other than their own, and to the States Prison, and insane persons to the State Hospital. It is expressly provided by the terms of this act to be the duty of the sheriff to furnish the necessary court attendants in the Superior Court and in the recorders court of Martin County, and convey all prisoners to the place of their imprisonment in Martin County without extra compensation, but where it is necessary to bring prisoners on the train to the county jail, the board of commissioners shall pay the actual railroad fare of the deputy and prisoner. The sheriff shall pay over to the county treasurer all fees, mileage, and other allowances paid to him by the State of North Carolina or by any State institution for performing any duty required of him by law.
CHAPTER 70 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 70. Every commission merchant or agent, or dealer, buying or selling for another, shall pay a tax of one per centum on his commissions: Provided, that when spirituous liquors, vinous or malt liquors are sold by commission merchants, they shall pay a tax of five per centum on their sales of said liquors. Any merchant, dealer or agent selling sewing machines otherwise than is provided specifically in section twenty of this schedule, shall pay a tax of ten dollars in each county.
CHAPTER 198 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF GOODS AND MER- CHANDISE ON SUNDAY IN THE COUNTY OF CLEVELAND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That outside of the corporate limits of any town or city, no person, firm, or corporation in the county of Cleveland shall expose or offer for sale or sell on Sunday any goods, wares, or merchandise, except as hereinafter permitted; and no store, shop, or other place of business in which goods, wares, or merehandise of any kind are kept for sale shall keep open doors from twelve o'clock midnight, Saturday night, until twelve oclock midnight, Sunday night: Provided, that this act shall not apply to hotels, boarding or lodging houses for actual guests, or to restaurants or cafes furnishing meals to actual guests, where the same are not otherwise prohibited by law from keeping open on Sunday; and Provided further, that this act shall not apply to drug stores, nor shall it apply to newspapers or magazines, nor to stables and garages, nor to the sale of gasoline and oil used in the propelling and operation of automobiles and motor vehicles.
CHAPTER 391 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A BETTER SYSTEM FOR WORKING AND MAINTAINING THE PUBLIC ROADS IN TRANSYL- VANIA COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 13. That for the purpose provided in this act, as to the liability of any person to work on the roads, as aforesaid, his residence shall be deemed to be in the township in which he sleeps five days previous to the time set for working said roads: Provided, that a properly verified receipt from some road official or tax collector from any State, county, city or town or other district shall relieve any holder of same from an equal amount of work or sum of money due under this act as said receipt or certificate shall specify: Provided further, that no bona fide guest of any hotel or boarding house temporarily staying or boarding in Transylvania County shall be liable to road duty.
CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF DUNN, HARNETT COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT THEREOF. That whereas the erection and operation of a hotel in the town of Dunn will greatly benefit the said town, the citizens and tax- payers thereof, and will in every .way work a public benefit: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Subject to a vote of the majority of the qualified voters of the town of Dunn, Harnett County, the board of commissioners of said town are hereby authorized to issue, at one time or from time to time, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, bonds of said town for the purpose of erecting and equipping a hotel within said town, and for the purchase of a site therefor, which said hotel is hereby declared to be a public purpose.
CHAPTER 574 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CARTERET COUNTY TO ORDER AN ELECTION TO DETERMINE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN REFER- ENCE TO ESTABLISHING A COUNTY GENERAL HOS- PITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. This act shall be liberally construed to the end that the board of county commissioners and hospital management hereinbefore referred to may avail themselves of any and all benefits to be derived from participatiom in the hospital fund of the Duke Foundation.
CHAPTER 630 AN ACT TO ENABLE LEE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TO LEVY A TAX AND ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR, APPOINT HOS- PITAL TRUSTEES, MAINTAIN A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, ETC. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. The board of trustees of said hospital may establish and maintain, in connection therewith and as a part of such public hospital, a training school for nurses.
CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUE OF STATE BONDS TO MEET THE EXISTING DEFICIT IN THE STATE TREAS- URY AND TO MAKE CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVE- MENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. The proceeds from the sale of said bonds are to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the general appropriation bill, enacted at this session of the General Assembly, as follows: To cover the deficit in the State treasury, six hundred thousand dollars; for equipping and painting the new administration building, seventy-five thousand dollars; for remodeling and refurnishing the Supreme Court building and furnishing the office of the State Treasurer, forty thousand dollars; for a central heating plant, forty thousand dollars ; for permanent improvements at the sevral state institutions, as follows: State Hospital at Morganton, fifty thousand dollars; State Hospital at Goldsboro, twenty-five thousand dollars; Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh, twenty-five thousand dollars; University of North Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars; the Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro, fifty thousand dollars; the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; the Appalachian Training School at Boone, fifteen thousand dollars; the Cullowhee Training School, fifteen thousand dollars; Bastern Training School at Greenville, forty thousand dollars; the State Hospital for the Treament of Tuberculosis at Montrose, twenty thousand dollars; for the purchase of land for the School for the Blind, near Raleigh, thirty thousand dollars.
CHAPTER 425 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF PINE LEVEL, IN JOHNSTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 36. That in addition to the subjects of taxation enumerated in section thirty-four, the commissioners may levy a,tax on the following subjects, the amount of which tax when fixed shall be collected by the tax collector instantly, and if the same be not paid on demand, the same may be recovered by suit on the articles upon which the tax is imposed, or any other property of the owner may be forthwith distrained and sold to satisfy the same, namely: 1 Upon every bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, bagatelle table, shooting gallery, skating rink or any other game allowed by law, and on every victualing house or restaurant, established, used or kept in the town, a tax not exceeding fifty dollars a year. II. Upon every permission by the board of commissioners to retail spirituous liquors, a tax not exceeding one hundred dollars. III. Upon every company of circus riders who shall exhibit within the town, a tax not exceeding thirty dollars for each separate exhibition, the tax to be paid before the exhibition, and if not, to be doubled. IV. Upon every company of stage or theatrical performers, every sleight-of-hand performer, rope or wire dancer or performer, every exhibitor of natural or artificial curiosities, every single person or company of singers, dancers, Ethiopian minstrels or performers on musical instruments who shall sing, dance, perform or play on musical instruments, for reward, five dollars for each exhibition. VY. Upon each show or exhibition of any other kind, and upon each concert or lecture for reward, a fine of five dollars for each exhibition. VI. Upon each vendor of cold drinks or vendor of coca-cola, or any drinks or substance containing bromidia, caffeine or any coal tar preparation.
CHAPTER 169 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMITMENT OF A CERTAIN CLASS OF INSANE PERSONS TO THE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE DANGEROUS INSANE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the duly constituted authorities of the State Hospital for the Dangerous Insane to receive all such insane persons as shall be committed to said institution in accordance with the provisions of section one of this act, and to properly treat and care for the same until discharged in accordance with the provisions of law governing the discharged patients from the other State hospitals for the insane.
CHAPTER 1274 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 122 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF PATIENTS FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC TRAINING AND RESEARCH CENTER AT CHAPEL HILL TO A STATE HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS BOARD OF CONTROL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Article 3 of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes is amended by adding new Sections immediately following G. S. 122-46.2, to be numbered as indicated, and to read as follows: G. S, 122-46.3. Authorization of Hospital for Commitment. By this amendment the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill shall be authorized to receive allegedly mentally disordered persons committed for observation, for commitment, release or discharge in the same manner as a State hospital. The clerk of the court shall not make commitment to this Center without the approval of the Director of the Inpatient Service. G. S. 122-46.4. Clerk to Commit for Observation to the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital for Commitment, Release or Discharge. When the 1317 clerk of court has approval as provided in Section 122-46.3 he may make commitment of an allegedly mentally disordered person as provided in Section 122-46. Any two duly licensed physicians not directly connected with the Inpatient Service of this Center may serve as the certifying physicians. G. S. 122-46.5. Clerk May Make Final Commitment to Center. When the allegedly mentally disordered person has been observed for a period of thirty days the Director of the Inpatient Service shall report concerning the persons condition to the clerk in the same manner as the superintendent of the State hospital as provided in Section 122-46.1, the clerk shall then act on this report as provided in Section 122-46.1. G. S. 122-46.6. Commitment upon Patients Application. Any person believing himself to be of unsound mind or threatened with mental disorder may voluntarily commit himself to the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill as to a State hospital upon approval of his application by the Director of the Inpatient Service; the application for commitment shall be in the form designated in the General Statutes, Section 122-62. The patients application shall be accompanied by the recommendation of a licensed physician. Final commitment of voluntarily committed patients must proceed through the same channels as in the case of the involuntary commitment of an allegedly mentally disordered person.
CHAPTER 1 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMIS- SIONERS OF THE CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE TO ISSUE BONDS FOR HOTEL AND OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Hendersonville at an election to be held in the manner hereinafter set forth, the board of commissioners of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to issue negotiable coupon bonds of the City of Hendersonville in the aggregate principal sum of five hundred thousand dollars; the said bonds to be issued and used for the purpose of authorizing the City of Hendersonville to lend its financial aid towards the completion of the Fleetwood Hotel, and also to authorize the city to acquire, own, operate and control lands to be used as a public park or public golf course. The said bonds shall bear interest at not exceeding five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be in such form and in such denominations, and the principal and interest shall be payable at such time and place as the board of commissioners may determine. The said bonds shall mature in annual installments, payable at such time or times as the board of commissioners may determine; Provided, the first installment of said bonds shall mature in not less than ten years after the date of issue, and the last installment of said bonds shall mature not more than forty years after the date of said issue. The said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk of said city and shall bear the corporate seal, and the coupons attached to said bonds shall bear the printed, lithographed or engraved facsimile signature of said clerk. The said bonds shall be designated and known as Park and Hotel Bonds.
CHAPTER 40 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the town of Salem. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 68. That if any person shall attempt by force or by threat of violence to prevent the removal to the hospital or place selected by the mayor as aforesaid of any person ordered to be conveyed thither, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the town one hundred dollars, and moreover be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
197 CHAPTER 767 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNING BODIES OF COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS TO PLEDGE, EN- CUMBER OR APPROPRIATE SURPLUS FUNDS, UN- APPROPRIATED FUNDS AND PROFITS FROM ALCO- HOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL STORES TO SECURE THE OPERATING DEFICITS OF PUBLICLY OWNED OR NON-PROFIT HOSPITALS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The board of county commissioners of any county or the governing authority of any city or town is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to pledge, encumber or appropriate funds from any surplus funds, unappropriated funds, or funds derived from profits of Alcoholic Beverage Control stores for the purpose of guaranteeing the operating deficit of any publicly owned or nonprofit hospital. The special approval of the General Assembly is hereby given to the above enumerated appropriations and authorizations for such special purposes.
CHAPTER 601 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SPECIAL ANNUAL TAX LEVY FOR GASTON COUNTY FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. In case a majority of the qualified voters of Gaston County approves the levying of the special annual tax for the support of public libraries of Gaston County, then said public libraries shall be under the control and management of a board of eight trustees, of which four shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Gastonia, and the other four trustees shall consist of the Mayor of the City of Gastonia, the Superintendent of the Public School System of the City of Gastonia, the Superintendent of the Public School System of Gaston County, and the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners for Gaston County. The trustees selected by the Mayor of the City of Gastonia shall each serve for a term of four years, except that the mayor shall select after the first meeting of the council subsequent to the municipal election in the year one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine, or as soon thereafter as practicable, two trustees to serve upon said board until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred forty-one, or until their successors are appointed and qualified, and in addition two trustees who shall serve until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred forty-three, or until their successors are appointed and qualified, and such trustees shall serve without compensation. Provided, that the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners and the Superintendent of the County Public Schools shall not be entitled to membership on said board unless the county contributes to the support of public libraries in the City of Gastonia and the County of Gaston with funds derived from taxation or otherwise.
CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF CHAPTER THIRTY- SEVEN, PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO AND ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF OXFORD COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, OF GRANVILLE COUNTY.
Section 2. That said board of trustees shall, on the first Thursday in May, one thousand eight hundred and seyenty-seven, and annually thereafter, hold a meeting of          id association for the purpose of transacting such busiess as may be necessary for the furtherance of the objects of said association, and for the protection of theix school property.
CHAPTER 254 AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the said board of education of New Hanover County  is authorized and empowered to employ a superintendent of the schools located within the city of Wilmington, and also a superintendent of the rural schools, and to pay each of them such salary as the board may deem wise; or the said board of education may employ one superintendent, who shall supervise the entire school system of the county. The salary and expenses of such superintendent, or superintendents, shall be paid out of the contingent fund, and not charged against any of the schools, and the board of education is authorized to set aside a contingent fund sufficiently large to cover this expense and other expenses of the board of education.
CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES AND TO CODIFY THE LAWS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Whereas the acts of the General Assembly relating to public education are for the purpose of aiding all the people, and espe- cially school officials, in maintaining and conducting a system of public schools and in providing revenue for the same; and Whereas a great need is apparent for collecting all the laws relating to public education and codifying them in such a way as to set forth as clearly as possible the legal duties, powers, and responsibilities of the several school officials, in order to give them and all other friends of public education a clearer concep- tion of their duties in maintaining and conducting public schools in accordance with the needs of the people and the provisions of the Constitution: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: PART I ARTICLE I. INTERPRETATIONS
Section 238. Special school taxing districts. If a majority of the qualified electors in the special school taxing district shall vote in favor of the special school tax, then it shall operate to repeal all school taxes theretofore voted in any local tax or special charter district located within said special school taxing district, except such taxes as may have been voted in said local tax or special charter district to pay the interest on bonds and to retire bonds outstanding. But the county board of education shall have the authority to assume all indebtedness, bonded and otherwise, of said local tax or special charter district and pay all or a part of the interest and installments out of the revenue derived from the rate voted in the special school taxing district: Provided, the revenue is sufficient to equalize educational advantages and pay all or a part of the interest and installment on said bonds.
CHAPTER 170 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STANDARD-WEIGHT PACKAGES OF GRITS, MEAL, AND FLOUR, AND TO PREVENT THE SALE OF SAME IN SHORT-WEIGHT PACKAGES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. The Board of Agriculture shall cause to be made from time to time such inspections as may be necessary to determine whether the provisions of this act have been violated. If it shall appear from such inspection that any provisions of this act have been violated, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall certify the facts to the solicitor in the district in which the violation was committed, and furnish that officer with the facts in the case.
CHAPTER 107 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the said corporation shall have and is hereby given the power to maintain and operate at or near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg, a school for the instruction of white youth of both sexes in the common school and academic branches, the best mode of practical industry and its appliance to agricultural, domestic and technical arts; and to teach and give instruction in all branches and departments of useful and industrial knowledge; and for these purposes shall be and is hereby authorized to do all such acts and make all such contracts as may be proper and necessary.
CHAPTER 486 AN ACT TO PERMIT THE BUILDING OF A NEW COURTHOUSE IN WATAUGA COUNTY ON A NEW SITE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 278 AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN TO APPOINT AN ASSISTANT TAX COLLECTOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The assistant tax collector shall post a bond in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) conditioned on the faithful performance of his duty and accounting for all funds coming into his hands by virtue of his office. The premium on said bond shall be paid by the board of aldermen out of the general fund of said town.
CHAPTER 410 An act for the relief of Mary Kate Thornton, a teacher in the public schools of Robeson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the treasurer of the board of education of Robeson county to be authorized, and he is hereby instructed, to pay to Mary Kate Thornton, a public school teacher, the sum of sixty-one dollars and twenty-five cents ($61.25), due her as services in the public schools of said county of Robeson, upon presentation by said Mary Kate Thornton of order for said amount duly signed by at least two of the school committeemen of said county.
CHAPTER 6 A AN ACT TO LIMIT THE POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR OFFICES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That any constable or justice of the peace who wigs lates the provisions of this act shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars to any aggrieved party who sues for the same.
CHAPTER 341 An act to authorize the commissioners of the town of Leaks- ville, North Carolina, to issue bonds for the purpose of pro- viding a system of public improvements in said town. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said bonds shall not be sold for less than par value, and the proceeds arising from the sale thereof shall be used by the mayor and commissioners of said town for the purpose of procuring a system of internal improvements, and for the further purpose of making such improvements on the streets of said town,and such other public improvements, as the mayor and commissioners may deem expedient for the general welfare of the citizens of said town: Provided, however, that this act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town for their ratification or rejection at an election to be held in said town, at such time as the mayor and commissioners thereof may appoint, within twelve months after their ratification of this act. The said election shall be advertised by the mayor and commissioners of said town for thirty days prior to the day of election in at least one newspaper published in said town, and also at some public place in said town; and the said mayor and commissioners shall cause a registration of the qualified voters to be made, as now required by law, and shall appoint three electors of said town as inspectors or supervisors of said elections. Those in favor of issuing said bonds shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words for bonds thereon; those opposed to issuing said bonds shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words against bonds thereon. The result of said election shall be ascertained by the aforesaid inspectors or supervisors, and returned by them, over their signatures, to the mayor and commissioners of said town, who shall verify the same and certify the result of said election, and cause the same to be recorded in the minutes of said board of commissioners of said town. If the majority of the votes cast be for bonds, then the mayor and commissioners of said town shall proceed to issue and sell said bonds, and shall apply the proceeds of such sale as directed in this act; but if a majority of the votes cast be against bonds, then this act shall be of no force and effect. The inspectors shall be appointed and the election held as all other elections are held in said town.
CHAPTER 303 AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 453 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1913, WHICH IS THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY ROAD LAW. 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 in so far as they apply to this act.
CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO MAKE ALL SCHOOLS ORGANIZED TO TEACH ADULT ILLITERATES A PART OF THE STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The State Board of Education is authorized to provide rules and regulations for conducting schools to teach adult illiterates, and said schools when provided for shall become a part of the public school system of the State and shall be supported as other schools of the State are supported as provided in An act to provide a six months school term in every public school district of the State in compliance with section three of article nine of the Constitution of North Carolina.
CHAPTER 243 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA TO APPOINT AN ADMINISTRA- TIVE ASSISTANT, AND TO PRESCRIBE HIS DUTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
CHAPTER 222 AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 8, CHAPTER 18, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, SO AS TO PERMIT THE TRANSPORTATION, POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR PERSONAL USE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. There is hereby established a new Section, immediately following Section 51 of Chapter 18 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, to read as follows: G. S. 18-51.1. Exceptions. Notwithstanding the provisions of G. S. 18-51, the following provisions shall be applicable: -1 Exemption From Fees. No fee shall be charged by the State Board of Alcoholic Control for any permit issued under subsection -7 of G. 8S. 18-51 to any county or municipality, for any premises operated by said county or municipality. -2 Local Laws. Nothing in this Article shall operate to repeal any of the local Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina prohibiting the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages within any county, municipality, or portion thereof, and all such local Acts shall continue in full force and effect and in concurrence herewith, until repealed or modified. -3 Exemption of Counties. Until at least one county or municipal alcoholic beverage control store has been lawfully established within any county, no permit shall be issued by the State Board of Alcoholic Control for the purposes defined in subsection -5 of G. S. 18-51 to any person, association or corporation for premises located in said county.
CHAPTER 407 AN ACT TO AMEND SENATE BILL ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY RELATING TO TERMS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, RATIFIED THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY- ONE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That Section eight of Senate Bill one hundred and fifty, relating to terms of the Superior Court of Rockingham County, ratified the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words one thousand nine hundred forty-two and inserting in lieu thereof, the words one thousand nine hundred forty-one.
CHAPTER 113 An act to incorporate The Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. That the capital of the said Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company shall not exceed two million dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, Each share subscribed shall be entitled to one vote in all meetings of the stockholders of said company, and fifteen thousand dollars shall be the minimum subscription on which said company may be organized.
CHAPTER 276 AN ACT TO CREATE THE OFFICES OF TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY, AND COLLEC- TOR OF REVENUE FOR THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE, PRE- SCRIBING THEIR DUTIES AND SETTING FORTH THE MANNER OF TAKING JUDGMENT AGAINST DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 21. That when any real estate is included in any tax return upon default by any taxpayer to timely pay any taxes or assessments within one year after the due date thereof, the Treasurer-Tax Collector, or in case of delinquent city taxes or assessments, the Collector of Revenue for the City of Charlotte, after thirty days notice to said taxpayer, given by mail to his last named address, shall execute and deliver to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County a certificate of such nonpayment running in the name of Mecklenburg County or the City of Charlotte, if for city taxes or assessments, as plaintiff and the person, firm or corporation in whose name the property was returned, taxed or assessed as defendant, with a description of one or more lots or parcels of land included in the tax return made by said defendant, or in case of a special assessment for local improvements on the land, upon which said assessment is a specific lien, together with all persons, firms, corporations or associations presently owning any of the said lots or parcels of land so included in said certificate and with all trustees, cestui que trust, and mortgages named in deeds of trust, mortgages or other recorded instruments constituting liens on any of said lots or parcels of land so included in said certificate, as additional defendants, with a reference to the book and page in which said instruments constituting liens on said property are recorded, also reciting the year for which said taxes or assessments were levied, the date of such levy, principal amount thereof, the date from which such principal amount bears interest, the rate of interest to be paid thereon, the date from which such lien was established, and such other information as may be pertinent thereto.
CHAPTER 59 An act to amend the charter of the town of Salisbury. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That said coupons shall be receivable in payment of taxes due the town of Salisbury, and the same shall be expressed on the face of each coupon.
CHAPTER 79 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 105-345 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES WITH RESPECT TO PREPAYMENT DISCOUNTS ON TAXES COL- LECTED BY ROBESON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Section 105-345 of the General Statutes, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows: In Robeson County the only discounts allowed for the prepayment of taxes due Robeson County provided for in this Act shall be as follows: (a) If paid during the month of September, a deduction of one per cent 64 (1%); (b) if paid during the month of October, a deduction of one-half of one per cent (% of 1%).
CHAPTER 664 AN ACT TO CONTINUE THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF GARNER AND TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF GARNER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. Authentication and publication of ordinances and resolutions. Upon its final passage each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the mayor and the town clerk and shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Immediately after final passage, all ordinances shall be posted at the Town Hall and two other public places in said town for five -5 days.
CHAPTER 80 N ACT TO CHANGE AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CAROLINA SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. That the principal office of said corporation shall be in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, but the directors may establish branch offices at such other places as may be deemed advisable.
CHAPTER 1003 AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE II, SECTION 13, OF THE CONSTI- TUTION OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA SO AS TO PRO- VIDE A MORE EXPEDIENT METHOD OF FILLING VACANCIES OCCURRING IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The electors favoring the adoption of this amendment shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed: For amendment to fill a vacancy occurring in the General Assembly by death, resignation or otherwise by immediate appointment of the Governor, upon the recommendation of the executive committee of the county in which the deceased or resigned member was resident, being the executive committee of the political party with which the deceased or resigned member was affiliated at the time of his election., and those opposed shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed: Against amendment to fill a vacancy occurring in the General Assembly by death, resignation or otherwise by immediate appointment of the Governor, upon the recommendation of the executive committee of the county in which the deceased or resigned member was resident, being the executive committee of the political party with which the deceased or resigned member was affiliated at the time of his election.
CHAPTER 23 AN ACT TO CREATE A CEMETERY COMMISSION FOR THE TOWN OF GARLAND AND DESIGNATE OTHER PURPOSES OF ITS EXISTENCE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. The said Garland Cemetery Commission shall have the right to accept any grant, lease, loan or device of real estate, or any gift or bequest of money, or any donation given for cemetery purposes to the Town of Garland or any gift or bequest of money or any donation to be applied, principal or income, for the use, maintenance and perpetual care of the cemeteries owned or controlled by the Town of Garland. If gifts are made, the principal of which is to be invested and income only used for the maintenance of the cemeteries owned or controlled by the Town of Garland, the board of town commissioners shall invest said principal only in such securities as are approved by law for investment of guardianship funds.
CHAPTER 519 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE AND THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 10. All ordinances passed by the board of health shall be published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in Fayetteville, and shall be recorded in a book of ordinances to be kept by said board, and either the book of ordinances or the printed copies of ordinances shall be legal evidence of their passage and effect.
CHAPTER 76 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. The corporators above named or any three of them may open books of subscription, and whenever one hundred shares shall be subscribed, a majority of the above-named corporators may call a meeting of the subscribers to said stock at any time and place, and on such notice as they may deem sufficient, and may organize by the election of a board of five directors or more, who shall hold office for one year or until their successors are elected, and said directors shall elect the necessary officers. The company shall have authority to transact business whenever one hundred shares have been subscribed and twenty per centum paid thereon, the balance to be paid in as called for by the directors. The capital stock may be increased from time to time either by additional subscriptions of stock or by application of the surplus earnings of the corporation. And if such increase shall be from the earnings of the corporation, the directors shall have the power to declare stock dividends to the shareholders pro rata. At all stockholders meetings each share shall be entitled to one vote either in person or by proxy.
1342 CHAPTER 1295 AN ACT TO AMEND COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 33, RATIFIED AT THE 1949 SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Section 22% of Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 33, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end of said Section the following: Tf the bonds authorized by House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 203, as amended, for the construction, repair and improvement of school plant facilities are not issued, the twentyfive million dollars ($25,000,000) appropriated by this Section shall be allocated to the various counties of the State on the basis of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) each. If the bonds provided for in House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 203, as amended, are issued, the twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) provided for in this Section and the proceeds of the bonds issued pursuant to said House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 203, as amended, shall be combined and the amount to be allocated in Section 2 of said House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 203, as amended, is hereby increased to fifty million dollars ($50,000,000). This fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) shall be allocated as provided in Section 2 of House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 203, as amended, on the basis of a two hundred fifty thousand dollar ($250,000) allocation to each county and a per capita allocation of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) as therein provided.
CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES AND TO CODIFY THE LAWS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Whereas the acts of the General Assembly relating to public education are for the purpose of aiding all the people, and espe- cially school officials, in maintaining and conducting a system of public schools and in providing revenue for the same; and Whereas a great need is apparent for collecting all the laws relating to public education and codifying them in such a way as to set forth as clearly as possible the legal duties, powers, and responsibilities of the several school officials, in order to give them and all other friends of public education a clearer concep- tion of their duties in maintaining and conducting public schools in accordance with the needs of the people and the provisions of the Constitution: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: PART I ARTICLE I. INTERPRETATIONS
Section 334. State committee on high school texrt-books; duties; reports to State Superintendent. The Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint a State committee on high school text-books, consisting of five members, who shall serve without pay except reimbursement out of the State Treasury upon the requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for actual expenses incurred by attendance upon meetings of the committee that may be called by or under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall be the duty of the State committee on high school text-books to make an examination of each book submitted by any publisher, under the provisions of this article, with a view to determining whether or not the contents, quality, and price of said book are such as to make it suitable and desirable for use in public high schools of this State; and the said State committee on high school text-books shall, every five years, except as herein otherwise provided, submit to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the first day of January of each year within which county adoptions are to be made, a report of its findings, with recommendations as to the books that shall be placed on the State approved list, which list shall constitute the State adopted list for a period of five years, except as herein otherwise provided. (C. S. 5726, revised.)
CHAPTER 922 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARY AS CONTAINED IN CHAPTER 80 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1870-71, AS AMENDED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE 1 The Charter of the Town of Cary as contained in Chap- ter 80 of the Private Laws of 1870-71, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows:
Section 9. Registration and Registration Books. In all municipal elections in the Town of Cary, the Wake County Board of Elections shall use the registration books of Wake County, North Carolina for election precincts within the corporate limits of the Town of Cary, and all persons now or hereafter duly registered in such registration books who live within the corporate limits of the Town of Cary shall be entitled to vote in all general and special elections in the Town of Cary. All Town of Cary registration books previously used shall cease to be used in any Town of Cary election and shall be impounded by the Clerk of the Town of Cary. The registrars of the Wake County Board of Elections in the election precincts lying within the corporate limits of the Town of Cary shall register, in the Wake County registration books according to law all qualified electors in the Town of Cary whose names are not registered upon such registration books and who present themselves to such registrars for registration as by law provided. All electors who are now registered or who in the future may be registered by the registrars of the Wake County Board of Elections in registration precincts lying within the corporate limits of the Town of Cary shall be deemed duly registered for each and every Town, County, State and National primary and election. Such electors shall from time to time be transferred by said registrars from the registration books of one precinct to registration books of other precincts as is now or hereafter may be provided by law. The registration books of the Wake County Board of Elections for the precincts lying within the corporate limits of the Town of Cary shall remain in the custody of the Wake County Board of Elections, but such registration books shall be used by the Wake County Board of Elections in each and every election held in the Town of Cary.
CHAPTER 726 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTION WITHIN THE NORTH ASHEBORO-CENTRAL FALLS SANITARY DISTRICT AND THE TOWN OF ASHEBORO ON THE PROPOSITION OF MERGER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. If merger is approved, the governing body of the Town of Asheboro shall determine the proportion of the district indebtedness which was incurred for construction of the water system, and the proportion which was incurred for the construction of the sewage disposal system. Upon making such determination the governing body shall send a certified copy to the Local Government Commission in order that the said commission and the governing body of the merged municipality can determine the net debt of the merged municipality as required by G. S. 160-383.