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1923_public laws_95_5

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CHAPTER 94 AN ACT TO CREATE THE STATE SHIP AND WATER TRANS- PORTATION COMMISSION. Whereas, in order to further promote the public welfare, to provide cheaper transportation to the markets within and with- out the State of the products of the farms, the forests, mines, and factories of the State, and to effect cheaper transportation for commodities purchased by the people of the State, both within and without the State, it is deemed advisable to use more fully the navigable rivers, sounds and other bodies of water within the boundaries of the State: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That for the purpose of making the investigation required by section two of this act, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) is hereby appropriated out of the general funds of the State Treasury, to be paid by the State Treasurer upon vouchers approved by the chairman and secretary of said commission and by the Governor of the State.

1931_public local laws_350_4

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CHAPTER 349 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC WELFARE OF THE COUNTY OF FORSYTH AND THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Such Director of Public Welfare of Forsyth County shall have, under the direction of the above named board, authority to supervise, co-ordinate and direct all public welfare activities of Forsyth County and the City of Winston-Salem and shall have such other duties and powers as may be determined by the said Board.

1965_session laws_37_16

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CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF FARMVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Corporate Powers

Duties of the Town Attorney. The town attorney shall be an attorney at law who shall] have qualified to practice in the State of North Carolina. He shall be the chief legal advisor of and attorney for the town and al] departments and officers thereof in matters relating to their official powers and duties. It shall be his duty, either personally 87 or by such assistants as he may designate to perform all services incident to the department of law; to attend all meetings of the board of commissioners; to give advice in writing when so requested, to the board of commissioners or the director of any department; to prosecute or defend, as the case may be, all suits or cases to which the town may be a party; to prepare all contracts, bonds and other instruments in writing in which the town is concerned, and to endorse on each, his approval of the form and correctness thereof, and to perform such other duties of a legal nature as the board of commissioners may require. In addition to the duties imposed upon the town attorney by this Charter or required by ordinance or resolution of the board of commissioners, he shall perform any duties imposed upon the chief legal officers of municipalities by law.

1923_public laws_79_2

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CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO SECRETLY PEEP INTO A ROOM OCCUPIED BY A WOMAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That any person who shall peep secretly into any room occupied by a woman shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

1959_session laws_511_3

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CHAPTER 510 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A PART-TIME ASSISTANT CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT IN BURKE COUNTY AND TO FIX HIS COMPENSATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

1913_public local laws_524_10

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CHAPTER 523 AN ACT TO AMEND AND ENFORCE THE STOCK LAW IN MITCHELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That chapter two hundred and ninety-two of the Public Laws of nineteen hundred and one be and the same is hereby revived, except such part as may conflict with this act.

1895_public laws_99_2

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CHAPTER 98 An act to establish Flatts township in Macon county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That a new township be and the same is hereby created in the county of Macon to be known as Flatts township, to be formed of a part of Smiths Bridge township.

1935_public laws_490_2

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CHAPTER 489 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTERS 385 AND 481 OF THE PUB- LIC LAWS OF 1933, RELATING TO THE NORTH CARO- LINA STATE THRIFT SOCIETY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section five of chapter three hundred and eighty-five of the Public Laws, relating to the incorporation of the North Carolina State Thrift Society, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 5 The officers of the Society shall be elected by the Board, and shall include a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and auditor. The treasurer of the Society shall be responsible for the funds of the Society, and shall furnish good and sufficient surety in such amount as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors.

1917_public local laws_121_19

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CHAPTER 120 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF LAYING OUT, ESTABLISHING, BUILDING, CONSTRUCTING, AND REPAIRING PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES IN SAID COUNTY AND PROVIDING FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That for the purpose of paying the interest upon the bonds provided for in this act and providing a redemption or sinking fund for same, and securing a fund to aid in repairing the public roads of the county, and to pay damages to the owners of land or personal property condemned or purchased for road use or benefits under this act, the board of county commissioners of Alleghany County shall, annually at the time of levying the other taxes of the county, levy a special tax on all property and polls subject to taxation within the limits or jurisdiction of the county, of not more than forty cents and not less than twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars valuation of real, personal and mixed property, and not more than one and twenty one-hundredths dollars and not less than seventy-five cents on each poll, observing the constitutional equation between property and polls. The tax so levied shall be collected by the sheriff or other person authorized by law to collect the other taxes of the county. The funds so collected shall be paid by the sheriff or accounted for by him to the acting treasurer of the county, and the proceeds of such fund shall be held by such treasurer and shall be used by said board of road commissioners and drawn upon by them for the purposes designated in this act.

1889_private laws_110_4

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CHAPTER 109 An act to incorporate ** The Pender and Onslow Land and Improve- ment Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That whenever the sum of ten thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital stock, and five per centum paid in, it shall be the duty of said corporators, or any five of them, to call a general meeting of the stockholders, and at such meeting to elect seven directors, one of whom shall be elected president by said directors, whose term of office shall be one year, and hold their offices until ofhers are chosen.

1895_private laws_6_6

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CHAPTER 5 An act to incorporate the Swain Lumber and Boom Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said company shall have power to take by purchase, lease or other operation of law, any lands, tenements and hereditaments in the state of North Carolina to such an amount as to them shall seem proper, and to hold and convey same in fee simple, as provided in section six hundred and eighty-five of The Code and its amendments. They shall have power to sell, grant and convey, improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, or otherwise deal with, any part or all of the property of said company, in such manner as the said company may see fit.

1913_private laws_497_6

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CHAPTER 494 AN ACT TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TOWNS OF ANDREWS AND MURPHY, IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The boards of aldermen of said towns shall have the authority to furnish material and fixtures for wiring houses and otherwise equipping them for the use of electricity from the municipal generating plants, and may collect for the costs and expenses of installing the same, and the said boards of aldermen shall have the same liens upon each piece of property improved, with the same rights of enforcing the said liens and collecting the amount due with interest, as are provided in section three of this act.

1939_public laws_359_32

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CHAPTER 358 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE FOR THE TERM OF EIGHT MONTHS WITHOUT THE LEVY OF AN AD VALOREM TAX THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Cooperation with Highway and Public Works Commission in Maintenance of Equipment. The State School Commission is hereby authorized to negotiate with the Highway and Public Works Commission in coordinating all facilities for the repair, maintenance, and upkeep of equipment to be used by the State School Commission in the school transportation system. In all cases where this is done, the State Highway and Public Works Commission shall be reimbursed in the amount of the actual cost involved for labor and parts to be determined by an itemized statement filed with the State School Commission.

1915_public local laws_199_4

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CHAPTER 198 [ AN ACT PROVIDING FOR WORKING THE PUBLIC ROADS OF CRAVEN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be the duty of said superintendent of roads to give his entire time to relocating, building, directing, maintaining, supervising, and repairing the public roads of the county, and he shall have (subject to the approval of said board of commissioners) charge of, supervision, maintenance, and direction of the building of all public roads in said county, including the supervising of the convict force, and shall submit a written monthly report concerning the work and progress, and shall submit semiannually a written report on the condition of the public roads and bridges of the said county, and also file plans and specifications for their improvement, which said semiannual reports shall include an inventory of the tools, implements, teams, and other property and equipments on hand belonging to the county for road purposes. The said superintendent of roads shall have direct charge, control, and management of maintaining and keeping in good repair all the roads of said county, and it shall be his duty to maintain, repair, and keep in good condition all the said roads, either with work by convict force or by employing some one under his direction to repair and maintain the same; and the board of commissioners of said county shall furnish to the superintendent of roads aS soon as convenient all necessary machinery to build and keep in good repair the roads, and also road machinery and other necessary machinery to build and maintain good roads for each township in said county; and if the superintendent of roads. with the approval of the board of commissioners of said county, shall Jet by contract any or all of the public roads of the townships, he or they may take into consideration the furnishing of such road machinery as the board of commissioners may have or may hereafter provide for the building and repairing of the public roads, and make their contracts accordingly.

1901_public laws_10_103

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CHAPTER 9 An act to raise revenue. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SCHEDULE A.

Unless prohibited, county may levy same license tax as State. In any case where a specific license tax is levied for the privilege of carrying on any business, trade or profession, the county may levy the same tax and no more: Provided, no provision to the contrary is made in the section levying the specific license tax.

1911_public local laws_275_6

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CHAPTER 274 AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC ROADS OF McDOWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all male persons located or regularly employed in any township, as aforesaid, shall, after they have resided, been lacated, or employed in such township for ten days, be required to work upon the public roads as hereinbefore provided for in this act.

1965_session laws_838_2

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CHAPTER 837 AN ACT TO AMEND G. , 14-196.1 RELATING TO USING PROFANE, VULGAR OR INDECENT LANGUAGE TO A FEMALE OVER THE TELEPHONE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

G. S. 14-196.1 is hereby amended by striking the period in line 3 and substituting in lieu thereof the following: , or to repeatedly telephone any female person for the purpose of annoying, molesting or harassing such female person.

1893_public laws_15_2

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CHAPTER 14 An act to amend section 1865 of The Code, to repeal chapter 367 of the laws of 1889, and amend chapter 580 of the laws of 1891, con- cerning the duties of clerks of superior courts. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section 1865 of The Code be amended by adding thereto except fees due witnesses and jurors, which shall be paid to the school fund.

1924 extra_public local laws_111_2

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CHAPTER 110 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF CASWELL COUNTY TO FILE CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS AS A RECORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the register of deeds of Caswell County be and he is hereby authorized that whenever any instrument of writing conveying personal property or conditional sales shall be presented to him in duplicate, the original may be filed in a book prepared for that purpose by the county, and when so filed with the endorsement of time of filing for registration thereon and signed by the register of deeds shall be a valid record of such instrument and the register of deeds shall certify under his hand and seal that the copy delivered to him with the original is a TRUE copy of the original on file in his office and giving the book and page in which the original is filed, and the said original so filed or the copy thereof duly certified by the register of deeds shall be received in evidence as is now provided by law.

1915_private laws_206_12

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CHAPTER 205 AN ACT TO AMEND CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BELHAVEN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and seven, chapter two hundred and forty-six, be amended as follows:

That the title to any real estate, rights, privileges, or easements which has been condemned under the provisions of this act shall vest in the town of Belhaven upon its paying into court or to the parties entitled to receive the same the amount of compensation or damage recovered against it, together with the costs adjudged to be paid by it in the said proceedings, and upon its further complying in all respects with the judgment of the court.

1957_session laws_1168_5

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CHAPTER 1167 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A COUNCIL OF FIVE MEMBERS AND TO AMEND G. S. 160-340, G. S. 160-341 AND G. S. 160-345 TO PRE- SCRIBE THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND COUN- CILMEN OF THE TOWN OF GRAHAM IN ALAMANCE COUNTY AND OTHERWISE TO MAKE PLAN D FORM OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT APPLY TO SAID TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

G. S. 160-345, as the same appears in Volume 8C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, that in the Town of Graham, the mayor shall be elected by the council from among its own members, and shall hold office as mayor for a term of two years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.

1939_public local laws_289_6

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CHAPTER 288 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR, PRI- VATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE, AND CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE, PRI- VATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF AULANDER, BERTIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the town convention method of nominating candidates for Mayor and Commissioners for the Town of Aulander be and the same is hereby abolished; and that candidates for the said offices shall be nominated by a primary election as herein provided.

1915_private laws_181_45

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CHAPTER 180 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WIN- STON AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SALEM, AND TO ADOPT A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF WINSTON- SALEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The board of aldermen shall have the power to enact ordinances in such form as they may deem advisable, as follows: for the protection of the water-works and water supply of the city of Winston-Salem; to grant to any person, firm, or corporation a franchise and right to own, control, and: operate. for a term of years or otherwise, street railways, telephone, telegraph, lighting, or heating systems, or any other business engaged in public service; to fix tolls of street railways; to contract as to compensation for such franchises, and to control, regulate and tax the same; to prevent vagrancy, and any person not engaged in any lawful occupation and who spends his time in gambling or loafing about the streets, without visible means of support, shall be considered a vagrant; to regulate and conduct all elections, to prevent interference with the officers thereof, and to preserve order thereat; to prescribe rules and regulations for the government and duties of police officers; to prohibit all trades, occupations, or acts which are nuisances; to define and condemn nuisances and provide for the abatement or removal of same; to grant permits for the construction of buildings and other structures, and to prohibit the construction of any building or structure which in the judgment of the board of aldermen may be a nuisance, or of injury to adjacent property, or to the general public; to regulate and control the character of buildings which shall be constructed or permitted to be and remain in any part of the city of Winston-Salem, with the right to declare the same a nuisance or unsafe, and cause their demolition or removal; to provide for the leveling, filling in, and drainage of all ponds, sunken lots, or other places in which water stands and stagnates, and to recover from the owner or occupant the expense of doing the same, which expense shall be a lien upon the lots so improved and enforced as liens for taxes; to prevent dogs, hogs, cattle, and other live stock from roaming at large in the city, and to regulate or prohibit the keeping of hogpens within the city limits; to define and establish the fire limits and prevent the location of wooden or other buildings within said fire limits and in any part of the city where they may increase the danger of fire; to regulate and prescribe what character of buildings shall be constructed within the said limits, and provide for the conditions under which buildings may be erected; to establish and appoint a fire commissioner or fire commission, and prescribe the duties and powers thereof; to prohibit the collection or existence in, on, or about any storehouse, warehouse, residence, or any private premises of inflammable or combustible matter or material; require the owner of such premises to remove or destroy same, and provide rules for the removal or destruction of such inflammable or combustible matter; and for purposes herein set forth to authorize an examination and inspection of all stores, warehouses, residences, or any private premises; to establish, regulate, and control the markets or market buildings; to fix the location of any market building, prescribe the time and manner and place within the city wherein marketable articles, such as meats, perishable vegetables, fish, game, and all other kinds of perishable food or diet shall be bought or sold; to appoint keepers of markets and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation ; to regulate the license of itinerant merchants or peddlers, and of those doing a temporary business; to establish, regulate and control cemeteries; to provide for the manner in which bodies may be interred therein or removed therefrom, and for beautifying, ornamenting, and keeping the same in condition; to provide suitable grounds for the enlargement, extension, or establishment of new cemeteries, providing separate cemeteries for white and black; to control and regulate the time and manner of burying the dead, the burial of any person within the corporate limits of said city not within said cemeteries, and provide for the punishment of persons violating the rules and regulations concerning the cemetery; to provide for the establishment, organization, equipment, and government of fire companies, fire commissioners, and firealarm system, and to adopt rules for the conduct, regulation, and terms of office thereof; to regulate the erection, placing, and maintenance of all telephone, telegraph, and other electric wires and to prohibit the same from being strung overhead in a public street, and to compel the owners and operators of telephone, telegraph, or electric wires to put Same underground; to prohibit or control the use of any gasoline engine, the making or repairing of boilers, the establishment or operation of any plant or business which is or may become a nuisance to any part of the community ; to prohibit or control the firing of firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes, or other explosive materials, and to govern the sale thereof ; to control and regulate the speed of all horses or other animals, automobiles, buggies, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles on the streets; to regulate the speed of railroad engines and trains or street cars within the corporate limits, or the stopping of engines or cars in the streets or crossings of the city; to specify the manner in which all stovepipes and flues and electric wires shall be put in buildings, and to control and regulate the arrangement and operation thereof; to control and regulate the place and manner in which powder and other explosives and inflammable substance may be kept and sold, and the place and manner in which commercial fertilizers are stored; to provide for the sanitary condition and keeping of all lots, cellars, houses, water-closets, privies, lavatories, stables, styes, and other places of like character; to provide for the examination and sanitation thereof; and for that purpose ordinances may be passed authorizing sanitary officers or policemen to enter the premises suspected of being in bad or unsanitary condition and have the same cleaned at the expense of the owner, or abate such places as nuisances and recover of the occupant or owner the expense thereof; to regulate the due observance of Sunday; to prevent the entrance into the city or the spreading of any contagious or infectious disease therein, and for that purpose may stop, detain, and examine every person coming from places believed to be infected with such disease; to establish and maintain quarantine against communities and territories where it is suspected prevails any infectious or contagious disease; to establish and regulate hospitals within the city or within three miles thereof, and may cause any person in the city suspected to be infected with such disease, and whose stay in the city may endanger public health, to be remoyed to the hospital or other place that the mayor may select; to prevent from coming into the city anysecond-hand clothing, bedding, or furniture; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture or other articles which may be suspected to be tainted or infected with contagious or infectious disease or in such condition as may generate and propagate disease; to abate all nuisances which may be injurious to public health; may vaccinate or otherwise subject to medical treatment all persons having smallpox or other contagious or infectious disease; to recover, by proper action against those who may cause the same, all costs and expenses of the moving and treating people having or suspected of having contagious or infectious diseases; shall have power, by force, to remove all persons from the city or to carry them to hospitals or other places selected by the mayor or board of aldermen and detain them therein; to prohibit the carrying on of any disorderly house or house of illfame, or gambling house or house where games of chance are being carried on or where liquors are illegally sold; to provide for the inspection and examination thereof, and for that purpose may enter upon said premises and make arrest of any person or persons violating the ordinances of the city in reference thereto; to prohibit the construction of cellars under sidewalks or the making of entrances into sidewalks, and to make rules and fix specifications for the construction of all cellars under sidewalks or entrances into sidewalks; to regulate and control motion picture shows and all exhibitions or places of public amusement and all exhibitions or performances given therein; provide a board of censors who shall have power to inspect and view all public places of amusement or exhibitions given therein, and prohibit such as, in their judgment, are immoral or against public interest ; and any violation of an order of the board of censors shall be unlawful, and every day an exhibition is permitted after an order of the board of censors prohibiting it shall constitute a separate offense. On behalf of the general welfare of the city of WinstonSalem, and for the good order and government thereof, the board of aldermen may, in addition to the foregoing powers, pass or ordain any resolution or ordinance, and enforce the same by proper punishment or penalty, which it may consider wise or proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State.

1917_public local laws_467_4

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CHAPTER 466 AN ACT TO AMEND THE ROAD LAW OF LEE COUNTY AND MAKE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS EX OFFICIO HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all portions of chapter five hundred and eightysix, Public-Local Laws one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and chapter three hundred and fifty-five, Public-Local Laws one thousand nine hundred and eleven, providing for the election of a board of highway commissioners for Lee County, and all other portions of acts amendatory thereof of similar purport, are hereby repealed.

1913_public local laws_107_7

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CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWNSHIPS IN DUPLIN COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO AID IN THE CONSTRUC- TION OF A RAILROAD IN DUPLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That an election may be held under this act in any township, whether the board of county commissioners shall haye made any contract or not, and any contract made by them for the construction of said road shall be confirmed and made valid and binding, subject to the conditions hereinbefore set forth, upon the qualified voters of any township thereafter determining by election to issue bonds for said railroad construction.

1941_public laws_115_8

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CHAPTER 114 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF SEED SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, OR EXPOSED FOR SALE IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That for the purpose of providing a fund to defray the expenses of the inspection, examination, and analysis prescribed in this Act: a. Each seed dealer selling, offering or exposing for sale in, or export from, this State any agricultural, vegetable, or flower seeds, other than packet or package seeds, for seeding purposes, shall register with the Department of Agriculture the name of such dealer and shall obtain a license annually on January first of each year, and shall pay for such license as follows: -1 Twenty-five dollars ($25.00), if a wholesaler, or a wholesaler and retailer. -2 Ten dollars ($10.00), if a retailer with sales in excess of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the calendar year. Each branch of any wholesaler or retailer shall be required to obtain a retail license. -3 One dollar ($1.00), if a retailer at a permanent location with sales not in excess of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Provided: That if and when the seed sales for the calendar year shall exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00), application must be made for a ten dollars ($10.00) license, credit to be given for the one dollar ($1.00) license previously secured: Provided, further that no owner or operator of any harvester or threshing machine operating on a share basis and selling only the seed obtained in this manner shall come under the provisions of Section seven of this Act. b. A one dollar ($1.00) inspection stamp shall be purchased from the Department of Agriculture for each seventy-two -72 dozen packets or packages of vegetable or flower seeds, or fraction thereof. The said stamp shall be secured by the producer, grower, jobber or other person, firm or corporation shipping such seed into the State before shipment to agent or retailer, and shall be furnished to said agent or retailer for attachment to display case: Provided, also, that any producer, grower, jobber or other person, firm or corporation, residing within this State shall secure said stamp before furnishing any such seed to any agent or retailer within the State for resale. The said stamp or stamps shall be attached to the display case before the seed are offered or exposed for sale, and shall expire at the end of the calendar year for which issued: Provided further that in cases where package seed of one kind or variety are offered or exposed for sale in boxes or display cases not in excess of three dozen packages, a ten cent stamp shall be purchased from the Department of Agriculture and attached to said box or display case.

1913_public local laws_435_24

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CHAPTER 434 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AND REGULATE THE HOLDING OF PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTY OF HAYWOOD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The executive committee of any political party by a two-thirds majority of all the members of the committee shall have the power and authority to make such other rules and regulations as they may deem advisable for the proper holding of any primary election in the said county of Haywood, and may, with a twothirds majority of all the members of the executive committee, refuse and decline to hold any primary election whatever, if they should desire: Provided, this act shall apply only to Haywood County.

1903_private laws_389_10

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CHAPTER 388 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SPENCER SAVINGS BANK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Said corporation shall have power to receive moneys in trust, and shall have power to accept and execute any trust that may be committed to it by any court, corporation, company, person or persons, and it shall have power to accept any grant, assignment, transfer, desire [devise] or bequest, and hold any personal or real estate in trust created in accordance with the laws of this State, and then to execute the same on such terms as [may] be established and agreed upon by its board of directors; and said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to act as trustee or assignee, and to receive on deposit all funds in litigation in the various courts in this State, and pay therefor such interest as may be agreed on, not exceeding the lawful rate. It shall have power and authority to receive for safe keeping on deposit all money, bonds, stock, diamonds and silver plate and other valuables, and charge and collect a reasonable compensation for the same, which charges shall be a lien upon said deposit until the same be paid; and generally to do and carry on the business of a deposit company; and any receiver, executor, administrator, assignee, guardian or committee of a lunatic, and any public officer is hereby authorized, in their discretion, to deposit with said company for safe keeping any money or bonds, stocks, securities or other valuables which have or may come into his possession or under his control by virtue of his office or appointment aforesaid.

1891_public laws_345_16

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CHAPTER 344 Au act relating to roads and highways of Granvilie county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The owner of the timber or land thus used may file his petition, together with the certificate of the overseer of the road, before the board of commissioners of the county wherein injury is done, and for damages sustained thereby the board shall make the petitioner adequate compensation.

1921_public laws_93_2

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CHAPTER 92 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3299 OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, RELATIVE TO PROBATE WHERE CLERK IS A PARPY. The Gencral Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section three thousand two hundred and ninety-nine of the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina be amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, that nothing contained herein shall prevent the clerk of the Superior Court, who is a stockholder or officer of any bank or other corporation, from adjudicating and ordering such instruments for registration, as have been acknowledged or proven before some justice of the peace or notary public.

1929_public laws_51_2

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CHAPTER 50 AN ACT TO CLARIFY SECTION 5 OF CHAPTER 66, PUB- LIC LAWS OF 1927, RELATING TO SUMMONS IN SPE- CIAL PROCEEDINGS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the following clause in section five of chapter sixty-six, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, be stricken out: The summons shall command the officer to summons the defendant to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court on a day named in the summons, to answer the complaint or petition of the plaintiff, and the following substituted in lieu thereof: The summons shall command the officer to summons the defendant or defendants to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiff within thirty days after its service upon the defendant or defendants, and must contain a notice stating in substance that if the defendant or defendants fail to answer the complaint within the time specified, plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint.

1925_public local laws_303_2

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CHAPTER 302 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FOLICE PENSION FUND OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON TO PAY A PENSION TO MRS. RHOADY A. GEORGE. Whereas, under and by virtue of chapter fifty-five of the Pri- vate Laws one thousand nine hundred and fifteen there was created a board of trustees of police pension fund of the city of Wilmington, which said board is vested with the authority and powers provided for in said act; and Whereas, section twelve, subsection two of said act authorizes said board, in its discretion, to provide for the payment of a pension in accordance with the stipulations contained in said act to the dependent parent, widow or child, as the case may be, of any member of the police force of the city of Wilmington killed within the city limits while in the actual performance of his duty; and Whereas, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, Leon George, a police officer of the city of Wilmington, was killed in the performance of duties which he had been instructed to perform in the county of Bruns- wick; and Whereas, said Leon George had been a capable and efficient police officer of the city of Wilmington for more than twenty years immediately preceding his death; and Whereas, the said Leon George left surviving him his widowed mother, Mrs. Rhoady A. George, who lived with him and who was dependent upon him for support and who at the death of said Leon George was left in almost destitute circumstances: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of trustees of the police pension fund of the city of Wilmington be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to provide a pension, not exceeding twenty-five dollars per month, and to pay the same in monthly installments to the said Rhoady A. George during her life time, said pension to be paid from such funds that said board may now have or shall from time to time acquire under the provisions of chapter fifty-five of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and fifteen and acts amendatory thereof.

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CHAPTER 51 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF CERTAIN OF THE DANGEROUS INSANE FROM THE STATE HOSPITALS TO THE VETERANS BUREAU OR OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the directors and superintendents of the State Hospital at Raleigh and the State Hospital at Goldsboro are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to transfer from the wards in said hospitals set apart for the dangerous insane to the general wards any of the inmates or prisoners therein who, in the judgment of said directors and superintendents, have reached such a state of improvement in their mental condition as to justify such transfer.

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CHAPTER 126 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 467 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1919, AND CHAPTER 388 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1921, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC ROADS OF ASHE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That L. S. Vannoy, V. L. Moretz, and J. H. Colvard, be and they are hereby appointed special commissioners to construct the roads provided for in section eleven of chapter thirtyeight of the Public-Local Laws.of session of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, from Bowie to Idlewild, with the additional power also to construct said road from Idlewild to the Watauga line by the way of Hopkins, North Carolina, said commissioners to construct said road in the same manner and upon the same conditions as provided for in section three of this act for the construction of the Laurel Township roads.

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CHAPTER 895 AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION AND PAYMENT OF ACTUAL NECESSARY EXPENSES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS IN GUILFORD COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1 of Chapter 427 of the Public-Local Laws of 1927 as amended by Chapter 1186 of the Session Laws of 1953 and as further amended by Chapter 565 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby rewritten to read as follows: (a) Each of the members of the Board of County Commissioners of Guilford County shall receive a salary of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month, except the chairman of the board, who shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month; in addition thereto each of the members of the Board of County Commissioners of Guilford County, including the chairman, shall receive the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for attendance of any regular or special meeting of the board plus mileage of seven cents (7) per mile to and from such meeting. (b) In addition to the foregoing, Guilford County is authorized and empowered to pay the actual necessary expenses of members of the board of county commissioners together with mileage of seven cents (7) per mile, incurred by said members while engaged in performance of duties 921 on behalf of Guilford County, provided that the payment of such expenses and mileage shall first be approved by the board of county commissioners.

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CHAPTER 826 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The said board is authorized and empowered to make such appropriations from any surplus funds, including funds in the sinking fund not needed for debt service, from surplus on hand in the general fund on June 80 of each year and not needed to finance regular appropriations in the general fund in the ensuing year, and from any source or sources of revenue coming into its hand other than funds derived from ad valorem taxation.

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CHAPTER 639 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 62 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

G. S. 62-65 (e) -2 is hereby amended by inserting immediately following the word compensation and immediately preceding the semicolon at the end thereof the following: provided, however, that the term public utility shall not include any person or company whose sole operation consists of selling water to less than twenty-five -25 residential customers;.

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CHAPTER 505 AN ACT TO CREATE A PEACE OFFICERS RELIEF FUND FOR THE COUNTY OF CHOWAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Source of Revenue. In all criminal cases in Chowan County, North Carolina, brought in all courts wherein the defendant enters a plea of nolo contendere, a plea of guilty, or shall be adjudged guilty by the court or found guilty by a jury, wherein the costs of the action are paid by the defendant, there shall be taxed in the bill of costs a fee of one dollar ($1.00) to be known as the Peace Officers Emergency Fee, and shall be collected as other costs in criminal cases are collected, by the justice of the peace, clerk, or other officer of the court authorized to receive costs; such funds so received shall be accounted for monthly, a copy of which report shall be sent to the chairman of the executive board, and such funds turned over to the Treasurer of the Chowan County Peace Officers Protective Association to be held by him and securely kept for the purpose of the association. Provided, however, that such officers emergency fee shall not be taxed in the costs in cases where the cost is paid by the county. Donations and contributions to said Chowan County Peace Officers Protective Association may be received from any source approved by the executive board.

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CHAPTER 1246 AN ACT TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM ACT FOR SIMPLIFICATION OF FIDUCIARY SECURITY TRANSFERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Tax Obligations. This Act does not affect any obligation of a corporation or transfer agent with respect to estate, inheritance, succession or other taxes imposed by the laws of this State.

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CHAPTER 1130 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1115 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1953 RELATING TO ADVISORY MEMBERS OF THE NEUSE RIVER WATERSHED AUTHORITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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CHAPTER 1125 AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 77-14 RELATING TO OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREAMS AND FARMLAND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS SO AS TO MAKE THE SAME APPLY TO OTHER LANDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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CHAPTER 970 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ENFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ENFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA INTRODUCTION.

Town Treasurer and Town Tax Collector. That the Board of Town Commissioners shall appoint a Town Treasurer and a Town Tax Collector, but both positions may be held by one person. The person or persons so appointed shall be bonded in an amount to be set by the said Board of Town Commissioners. 1390 SALE OF MUNICIPAL BONDS AND GRANTING OF FRANCHISES

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CHAPTER 818 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE AVERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA- TION TO CONVEY CERTAIN PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE TO THE AVERY COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The Avery County Board of Education is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to sell at private sale to the Avery County Board of County Commissioners for a price of not less than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) certain property in Roaring Creek Township in Avery County, no longer needed for school purposes, and more fully described as follows: Those certain tracts or parcels of land containing nine and one-half acres, more or less, situate and being in Roaring Creek Township, Avery County, N. C., and being the identical land conveyed by Robert L. Cross, Jr. and wife, Nancy Pauline Cross to Harry Phillips and wife, Clara Phillips by deed dated May 1, 1951, which deed is of record in the office of the Register of Deeds, Avery County, in Book No. 47, page 405, to which reference is made for a full and complete description.

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CHAPTER 74 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, THE SAME BEING CHAPTER 37, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1923, AS AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY AS REVISED AND REORGAN- IZED BY CHAPTER 1137, SESSION LAWS OF 1959, AS AMENDED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All proceedings of the City Council of the City of Greensboro and all work performed relative to local improvements, including street paving, sidewalk construction, water and sanitary sewer construction, including water and sanitary sewer mains, lines and laterals, and all work incidental to such local improvements and the assessments levied and assessed therefor, are hereby in all respects approved and validated. 111

1967_session laws_665_2

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CHAPTER 664 AN ACT RELATING TO THE TITLE TO THE LAND TO BE BUILT UP AND CONSTRUCTED AS A RESULT OF CERTAIN EROSION CONTROL WORK, IN THE SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BOUNDED IN PART BY THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. WHEREAS, during the course of many years, in the several munici- palities and counties of North Carolina, bounded in part by the Atlantic Ocean, much of the land abutting and fronting on the Atlantic Ocean in the said municipalities and counties, formerly belonging to various prop- erty owners, has been, and is now being, washed away by successive storms, tides, and winds; and WHEREAS, the said municipalities and counties, separately or jointly, with aid from the State of North Carolina, the United States Government, and the Federal Agencies thereunder, and with their own funds, have made available, or will make available, from time to time, funds with which to control the erosion caused by the said tides and winds, and other causes; and to that end the said counties, and the said municipalities, located therein, separately or jointly, have entered into a contract in the future to place sand by hydraulic pumping, or by other means, from the waters, or from other sources within the nearby or immediate area, onto the sea- ward side of the said municipalities and counties, or certain designated parts thereof; and as a result thereof, there has been, is now, or will be made and constructed new lands on the ocean front of the said munici- pality, municipalities, county or counties, which may or will change the ordinary and usual] watermark or the waters of the Atlantic Ocean along the seaward boundary of the said municipalities and counties, and when the project or projects are terminated, the question will arise as to whom title to the said new land shall belong; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the authorities of the municipalities and the counties of North\Carolina bounded in whole or in part by the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the State of North Carolina, to fix and define the title to such new land, and to fix and determine its use, and to further define the littoral rights of the property owners abutting on the ocean front which will be added or taken by and through the making of such new made lands: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all land filled in, restored, and made, and to be filled in, restored and made, as the result of the recitals in the preamble to this Act, which will exist between the present seaward property line of the land or lot owners bordering on said ocean and the low watermark of the Atlantic Ocean after the work referred to in the preamble hereof is completed, shall be within the corporate limits of the municipalities or counties, or both, of North Carolina bounded in whole or in part by the Atlantic Ocean, and so much of said lands so filled in, restored, and made which will lie inland of the building line or project protection line, determined by Section 2 of this Act, is hereby granted and conveyed in fee simple to the land owner, to the extent that his land abuts thereon, 749 and the balance of said land lying seaward of said building line, to be fixed and determined by Section 2 of this Act, is hereby granted and conveyed in fee simple to the respective municipalities or counties, or both, wherein the land lies; provided, however, that no building or structure shall be built and erected on said made and built up land lying seaward of the building line, to be defined and set out in Section 2 of this Act, and provided further, that all made and constructed land lying seaward of the building line shall be at all times kept open for the use of the public, as the governing authorities of the municipalities or counties, or both, wherein the land lies, by ordinance shall determine; and provided, however, no streets or highways shall be constructed parallel to the ocean on said built up land, and provided further, that if any such property as is hereby granted and conveyed to the said respective municipalities and counties, or both, shall cease to be used for the purposes or in the manner prescribed in this Act, it shall revert and become the property of the State of North Carolina; and provided further, that the owners of the property abutting on said newly made or constructed land, shall, in front of their said property possess and keep their rights, as if littoral owners, in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, bordering on said newly acquired and constructed land.

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CHAPTER 882 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ELECTIONS IN THE TOWNS OF HAZEL- WOOD AND WAYNESVILLE ON THE QUESTION OF CONSOLI- DATION OF SAID TOWNS AND SUBJECT TO SAID ELECTIONS TO PROVIDE A CHARTER FOR THE CONSOLIDATED TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. ELECTION ON CONSOLIDATION

ORDINANCES: EFFECTIVE DURATION. That the ordinances and bylaws in force in the Town of Waynesville shall continue to be the ordinances and bylaws effective under the corporation hereby established until repealed or modified by the board of aldermen to be elected under the provisions of this Act.

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CHAPTER 445 AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEETING PLACE OF THE GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Chapter 153, Section 8, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: The board of commissioners of Guilford County may adopt a resolution designating some public building in Guilford County as its regular meeting place, in lieu of the courthouse. In such case the public building so designated shall become the regular meeting place of said board of commissioners after such fact has been advertised in a newspaper having circulation throughout the county once a week for two successive weeks, and has been posted on the courthouse bulletin board for a period of two successive weeks. The board of commissioners may thereafter hold its regular, special, and adjourned meetings at such designated regular meeting place in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The board of commissioners is further authorized to hold an occasional regular, special, or adjourned meeting or meetings in any public building in the county upon posting notice thereof on the courthouse bulletin board at least two days prior to the day of such meeting.

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CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FISCAL AFFAIRS OF COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

It shall be the duty of the board of county commis sioners, not later than the fourth Monday in July in each year to adopt and record on its minutes an appropriation resolu tion, the form of which shall be prescribed by the county) accountant, which resolution shall make appropriations fo the several purposes of the county and subdivisions thereof upon the basis of the estimates and statements submitted by the county accountant, such sums as the board may deem suf ficient and proper, whether greater or less than the recom. mendations of the budget estimates: Provided, however, thai (a) no appropriation recommended by the county accountant for debt service shall be reduced, and (b) the powers giver by the general law to the county board of education and county commissioners jointly, in respect to the determination of the amount to be raised or expended for the maintenance of the six months school term, shall be observed by the county ac. countant and by the board of county commissioners, and (c) the board shall appropriate the full amount of all lawful deficits reported in the budget estimate not funded as provided by law, and (d) no appropriation shall be made in excess of the amount which may be raised under any constitutional or statutory limits of taxation.

1957_session laws_880_3

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CHAPTER 879 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF BURLINGTON TO CONVEY CERTAIN LANDS AT PRIVATE SALE TO ANN MAY JENNINGS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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CHAPTER 59 AN ACT TO ISSUE BONDS TO FUND THE DEBT FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS OF MAGNOLIA SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT IN DUPLIN COUNTY. Whereas, the board of education of Duplin County has in- curred an indebtedness of five thousand dollars which has been used in the erection of school buildings in Magnolia special. tax district of Duplin County, and the note of said board of educa- tion is outstanding for the same, with the promise that said debt shall be repaid by said district; and whereas, it is desirable that bonds of said district shall be issued to fund said debt: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The boundaries of said Magnolia special tax district are hereby defined as follows: Beginning on the Sampson line, at the run of Stewarts Creek; thence with the Sampson line southward to the lower corner of B. N. Williamss land, thence eastward with the line of said Williamss and J. M. Huffam land to the southeastern corner of said Huffam land to the run of Beaver Dam Creek, thence down the said creek to the mouth of Murphys Creek, thence up Murphys Creek to the mouth of Bens Creek, thence up Bens Creek to L. C. Drews lower line, thence to and with the Rose Hill and Magnolia township line to the run of Maxwell Swamp, then down Maxwell Swamp to the State highway number forty, thence up said highway to Elder Swamp, thence up Elder Swamp to Alston Chestnutts southern line, thence with his southern line, and western line to the Kenansville and Magnolia public road, near the colored school house, thence northward to Clara Middletons land, thence along her line eastward to the old road leading to Warsaw, thence along the Warsaw road and the southern lines of L. H. Howard, J. A. Powell, and C. J. Hamilton, to the run of Maxwell Swamp, thence up said swamp to K. E. Hollingsworths northern line, thence his northern and western line to the public road, thence with the public road crossing the Atlantic Coast railroad near the fiftieth mile post to T. K. Torrenss southwestern corner, near old Carltons Chapel, thence northward with his line to the run of Kenan Branch, thence down the run of said branch to Stewarts Creek, thence down Stewarts Creek to the beginning.

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CHAPTER 130 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MILTON IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the mayor and commissioners elected on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, under this act, shall within ten days thereafter qualify by taking and subscribing an oath before some justice of the peace or some other person authorized by law to administer oaths, and all officers thereafter elected shall qualify in like manner.

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CHAPTER 247 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF STATE TO FIX THE SALARIES OF THE CLERKS AND STENOGRAPHERS IN THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The salaries in the Department of the Secretary of State shall not exceed the following sums: Corporation Clerk________--_---_-_------ $2,500 per year Grant Clerk2= 22 2e seen ee eee $2,250 per year Special Clerk and stenographer_______---$1,200 per year The Secretary of State shall also be allowed a contingent sum for other clerical expenses not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

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CHAPTER 555 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STANDARD-WEIGHT PACKAGES OF MEAL AND FLOUR AND TO PREVENT THE SALE OF SAME IN SHORT-WEIGHT PACKAGES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The provisions of this act shall not apply to meal or flour on hand at the time of the passage of this act.

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CHAPTER 260 AN ACT RELATING TO CERTAIN BONDS OF JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said board of commissioners of Jackson County is hereby authorized and empowered to sell said bonds at public sale at such time or times as said board may determine at a price not less than the face value of said bonds plus accrued interest from the date of the bonds to the date of delivery to the purchaser or purchasers.

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CHAPTER 218 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : POLL-TAX.

The owner or occupant of any land sold for taxes, or any person having a lien or interest thereon, may redeem the same at any time within one year after the day of such sale by paying the sheriff, for the use of such purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, the sum mentioned in his certificate, with interest thereon at the rate of twenty per centum per annum from the date of purchase, together with all other taxes subsequently paid, whether for any year or years previous or subsequent to said sale, and interest thereon at the same rate from the date of such payment; and the sheriff shall enter a memorandum of the redemption in the list of sales, and give a receipt therefor to the person redeeming the same, for which he may charge a fee of twenty-five cents, and shall hold the redemption money paid subject to the order of the purchaser, his agent or attorney: Provided, that infants, idiots and insane persons may redeem any land belonging to them from such sale within one year (after the expiration of such disability, on like terms as if redemption had been made within one year) from the date of said sale and from the date of each subsequent payment of taxes thereon, at the rate of twenty per centum per annum on the several amounts so paid by the purchaser until redemption. Any redemption made shall insure to the benefit of the person having the legal or equitable title to the property redeemed, subject to the right of the person making the same to be reimbursed by the person benefited.

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CHAPTER 267 AN ACT TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENT AN ACT TO PRO- VIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE FOR THE TERM OF EIGHT MONTHS WITHOUT THE LEVY OF AN AD VALOREM TAX THEREFOR, THE SAME BEING CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY- EIGHT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Section fifteen be and the same is hereby amended by inserting the word monthly and a comma between the words units and and in line two, paragraph five; by striking out the words distributed monthly by in lines two and three paragraph five, and inserting in lieu thereof the words it shall be the duty of; and by striking out the word each in line three, paragraph five, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: remit such funds monthly as collected to each administrative.

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CHAPTER 407 AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE REGISTRATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, TRAILERS AND SEMI-TRAILERS, AND TO REQUIRE THE PAYMENT OF FEES THEREON; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF TITLE THEREFOR, AND TO PREVENT THE TAKING, TRANSFER OF OR INJURY TO ANY MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE OWNER; TO PROVIDE FOR THE OFFICE OF VEHICLE COMMISSIONER AND MOTOR VEHICLE BUREAU, AND DEFINE THE POWERS AND DUTIES THEREOF; TO REGULATE THE OPERA- TION OF VEHICLES ON HIGHWAYS; TO PROVIDE PEN- ALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ACT, AND TO MAKE UNIFORM THE SUBJECT MATTER THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I

Sale of Motor Vehicles to be Dismantled. Any owner who sells a motor vehicle as scrap or to be dismantled or destroyed shall assign the certificate of title thereto to the purchaser, and shall deliver such certificate so assigned to the department with an application for a permit to dismantle such vehicle. The department shall thereupon issue to the purchaser a permit to dismantle the same, which shall authorize such person to possess or transport such vehicle or to transfer ownership thereto by endorsement upon such permit. <A certificate of title shall not again be issued for such motor vehicle in the event it is scrapped, dismantled. or destroyed. In any case. where the owner for any reason fails to send in title for a junked or dismantled vehicle, the department shall have authority to take possession of such title for cancellation.

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CHAPTER 72 An act to incorporate the town of Dudley, in Wayne county, North Carolina. e The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the incorporate limits of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at the two poplar trees at the Vicy Grant Branch, near her house, and runs thence N. 832 W. 54 chains to amaple tree at the south eage of Kings Branch, thence 8 64.W. 55 chains to a small water oak at the Henry ford, thence S. 832 E. 54 chains to a stake in GilesKornegays field, thence N. 6} E. 55 chains to the beginning. _

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CHAPTER 879 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE CATCHING OF CLAMS IN BRUNSWICK, NEW HANOVER AND PENDER COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to purchase clams in the counties of Brunswick, New Hanover or Pender for the purpose of shipping from the said counties, or for any person, firm or corporation to ship from the said counties of Brunswick, New Hanover or Pender any clams at any time from the twenty-fifth day of March to the fifteenth day of December of every year.

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CHAPTER 342 An act to incorporate The Carolina Power Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The capital stock of said company shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with the right to increase the same from time to time to an additional amount, not exceeding two million dollars, by the issue and sale of shares of preferred or common stock, or both, upon such terms and conditions and under such regulations as the board of directors, with the approval of the majority in interest of the stockholders of said company shall prescribe. Shares. of stock may be paid for in cash, real or personal property, services, work, labor and materials, and _ bonds, stocks and property of other corporate bodies, required, employed and furnished for and in the prosecution of the objects of the company, upon such terms and at such price and rate as the board of directors may determine and agree upon.

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CHAPTER 553 , AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 640 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1913, RELATIVE TO CONCORD SCHOOL DIS- TRIOT, SAMPSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section one of chapter six hundred and forty of the Public-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirteen be amended by adding after said section the following: Provided, that this act shall not apply to that portion of Concord Special School District lying between White Oak Swamp and the road crossing said swamp and running by the M. B. Fowler old home to the L. C. Fowler old home and thence the road by the homes of G. H. Fowler, A. C. Crumpler, and Rastus Butler.

1957_session laws_1372_4

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CHAPTER 1371 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH CAROLINA STONEWALL JACKSON MEMORIAL FUND; TO SET FORTH THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH SUCH FUND IS TO BE ESTABLISHED; TO SET UP A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ADMINISTER THE FUND; TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION OF TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO SAID FUND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

There is hereby appropriated from the general fund to the Board of Trustees herein created the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) to be expended by said Board only for the purposes herein set forth. 1553

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CHAPTER 315 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1885, INCORPORATING THE LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section ten of chapter one of the Private Laws of the State of North Carolina, Session of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, be amended by striking out all after the word declare, in line four of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof, as a part of said section ten, the following: That the provisions of this and the preceding sections of this chapter concerning stock in said corporation shall refer only to what is known as common stock, and all the stock of said corporation heretofore issued and now in force, to-wit, twenty-three shares, shalt be deemed and is hereby declared to be common stock, as well as any additional stock not exceeding, with what has already been issued, twenty thousand dollars; and that one share of common stock in the corporation shall entitle the holder to all the privileges of the library as defined and prescribed by the by-laws.

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CHAPTER 1020 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 634 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1951, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE ANNUAL SALARY OF THE SHERIFF OF AVERY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

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CHAPTER 344 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 222 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1911, ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 89, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1907 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section two of chapter two hundred and twentytwo of the Private Laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled An act to amend chapter eighty-nine of the Private Laws of nineteen hundred and seven, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out in line three of said Schl the word two and Ra in lieu thereof the word four.

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CHAPTER 536 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR WORKING THE PUBLIC ROADS OF KIRBY TOWNSHIP IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be the duty of said board of road commissioners to take control and management of the public roads in said township, and said commissioners are hereby vested with all the rights and powers for such control and management as are now vested in and exercised by the board of road or county commissioners of Northampton County as pertaining to said township.

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CHAPTER 174 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME TO ALLOW THE CAMDEN FERRY COMPANY TO ERECT A DRAWBRIDGE ON PAS- QUOTANK RIVER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Camden Ferry Company be and are hereby allowed two years extension of time in which to erect a drawbridge on Pasquotank Riverthat is to say, a period of seven years instead of five years, as set out in chapter two hundred and sevyenty, section two, Private Laws of the year one thousand nine hundred and five.

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CHAPTER 4 AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. Whereas, owing to the growth of education in Transylvania County, and also by reason of the physical and geographic condi- tions of said county, so that adequate representation can be had from all sections of the county on said county board of education, it is deemed advisable to increase the number of said board from three members to five members; and Whereas W. H. Duckworth has duly resigned from said county board of education: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the county board of education of Transylvania County shall hereafter consist of five members of said board.

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CHAPTER 287 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED, PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWEN- TY-SEVEN, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER EIGHT, PUB- LIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE RELATING TO SANITARY DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Amend Section seventeen, Chapter one hundred, Public Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-Seven, by adding at the end of the second paragraph thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: The Sanitary District Board of any sanitary district, in lieu of collecting the taxes in the manner as hereinbefore provided, may cause to be listed by all the taxpayers residing within the district with the person designated by the District Board, all the taxable property located within the district, and after determining the amount of funds to be raised for the ensuing year in excess of the funds available from surplus operating revenues set aside as provided in Section twenty, Chapter one hundred, Public Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred TwentySeven, as amended by Chapter eight, Public Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-Three, to provide payment of interest and the proportionate part of the principal of all outstanding bonds, certificates of indebtedness, Revenue Anticipation Notes issued against the district and to pay all obligations incurred by the district in the performance of all of its lawful undertakings, to determine the number of cents per one hundred ($100.00) dollars necessary to raise said amount. The said Sanitary District Board in its next annual levy shall levy against all taxable property in the district the number of cents per one hundred ($100.00) dollars necessary to raise the amount with which to pay the obligations of the district, including principal and interest on bonds, certificates of indebtedness, Revenue Anticipation Notes and other lawful obligations of the district, which tax shall be collected in the same manner as taxes of other political sub-divisions of the State of North Carolina are collected by a tax collector, to be selected by the Sanitary District Board of the sanitary district electing to assess, levy and collect its taxes in the manner herein provided. The tax collector selected by said Sanitary District Board and the depository, in which said taxes so collected are deposited, shall qualify in the same manner and give the necessary surety bonds as are required of tax collectors and depositories of county funds in the county or counties in which said sanitary districts are located.

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CHAPTER 1039 AN ACT TO REAPPROPRIATE REVOLVING FUND SUMS AND AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS OF THE STATE TO PROVIDE FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR STATE INSTITU- TIONS AND AGENCIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The funds appropriated to provide for Capital Improvements, by Section 5 of this Act, shall be disbursed for the purposes provided in this Act upon warrants drawn by the State Disbursing Officer, which warrants shall not be drawn for_any State institution, department or agency until a requisition has been approved by the Director of the Budget and which requisition shall be approved only after full compliance with the Executive Budget Act, Article 1 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes. Any officer of the State or executive head of any institution, or any director, trustee or commissioner of any State institution, department or agency to which an appropriation is made under the provisions of this Act who votes for or aids in spending more money for any improvement for his institution, department or agency than is appropriated therefor, may be removed from office by the Governor. Any additional moneys which may be received by means of a grant or grants from the United States of 1096 America or any agency or department thereof or from any other source to aid in financing the cost of any of the improvements herein referred to, may be placed by the State Treasurer in the same fund or in a separate fund and, to the extent permitted by the terms of such grant or grants, shall be disbursed in the same manner and for the purposes mentioned in this Act.

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CHAPTER 150 AN ACT TO CODIFY AND AMEND THE ROAD LAWS OF MACON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That each member of the township board of trustees shall receive for his services the sum of twelve dollars ($12) per year and shall not be liable for road work or required to pay the four dollars ($4) in lieu thereof.

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CHAPTER 502 AN ACT TAXING DOGS IN CASWELL COUNTY AND MAKING THEM SUBJECTS OF LARCENY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said tax shall be collected by the sheriff of Caswell County in the same manner and under the same penalties as other taxes are collected, and be turned over to the treasurer of said county for the use of the road fund, and that each township shall receive the tax accruing from this source in said township.

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CHAPTER 1266 AN ACT ADOPTING 1965 REPLACEMENT VOLUMES 1C AND 1D AND 1966 REPLACEMENT VOLUMES 2A AND 3A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

G. S. 164-11 is hereby amended by adding a new Section therein, to be designated G. S. 164-11.8, and to read as follows: 8 164-11.8. Adoption of Replacement Volumes 1C, 1D, 2A and 3A of the General Statutes. (a) The Chapters, subchapters, Articles and Sections now comprising Volume 1C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and Cumulative Supplements thereto, consisting of 15-1 to 27-59, now in force, as amended, are hereby re-enacted and designated as 1965 Replacement Volumes 1C and 1D of the Genera] Statutes of North Carolina. (b) The Chapters, subchapters, Articles and Sections now comprising 1950 Recompiled Volume 2A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and Cumulative Supplements thereto, consisting of 28-1 to 52A-20, now in force, as amended, is hereby re-enacted and designated as 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes of North Carolina. 1904 (e) The Chapters, subchapters, Articles and Sections now comprising 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and Cumulative Supplements thereto, consisting of 106-1 to 116-211, now in force, as amended, is hereby re-enacted and designated as 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes of North Carolina. (d) This enactment of 1965 Replacement Volumes 1C and 1D and 1966 Replacement Volumes 2A and 8A shall not be construed to invalidate or repeal any Acts which have been passed during the 1967 Session of the General Assembly, prior to the date of ratification, nor shall this enactment include any appended annotations, editorial notes, comments and cross references, legislative or historical references, or other material connected or supplemental to said Chapters, subchapters, Articles and Sections, but not contained in the body hereof.

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CHAPTER 348 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DRAINAGE OF CERTAIN PORTIONS OF MUDDY CREEK AND SOUTH MUDDY CREEK IN BURKE AND McDOWELL COUNTIES. Whereas there are many acres of land on Muddy Creek and South Muddy Creek and their tributaries, in McDowell and Burke counties, that have been, are now, and are liable to be greatly damaged and diminished by reason of the shallow and narrow channel of said creek and the filling of same by reason of the limited and sluggish flow of said creek and improper drainage; and whereas, by reason of same, the bottom-lands overflow and become wet and soggy, and nonproductive; and whereas a con- servative assessment upon the acreage to be benefited would make a fund sufficient, if wisely and judiciously expended, to lower the channel and bed of said stream, by excavation, the widening and changing.the bed of the creek, and removing the obstructions, Ret et ce ee ee nae giving said creeks a better fall and outlet for the water, would thereby greatly remedy and improve the condition of the land, dry and reclaim the wet and overflowed lands, making same pro- ductive to cultivation, increasing its value, and more especially improve the sanitary condition and health of the public and com- munity in general; and whereas it is impracticable to do this much needed work without legislative aid, whereby there can be con- centrated effort equally and mutually beneficial to all the owners: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

If it shall be necessary to acquire a right of way or an outlet over and through lands not affected by the drainage, or shall be necessary to acquire land in changing the channel of said creeks for the betterment of the flow of the water and improvement of the objects and purposes of this act, and in either event the same cannot be acquired by purchase, then and in that event the power of eminent domain is hereby conferred, and the same may be condemned. Such owner or owners of the land proposed to be condemned may be made parties defendants in the manner of an ancillary proceeding, and the procedureshall be substantially as provided for the condemnation of rights of way for railroads in chapter sixty-one of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five, so far as the same may be applicable, and such damages as may be awarded as compensation shall be paid by the commission out of the funds which shall be available from the proceeds of sale of bonds or from the collection of the assessments upon benefits; and every privilege, power, and right to carry out the provisions of this act are granted said commission to aid in the further promotion of said work herein contemplated by this act.

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CHAPTER 290 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 297 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, SO AS TO PERMIT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WAKE COUNTY TO FIX THE AMOUNT OF THE TREAS- URERS BOND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding the following: Provided, the board of commissioners may fix the bond of the Treasurer of Wake County at such sum as they may deem best, not less than thirty thousand dollars, and may increase it at any time.

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CHAPTER 233 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CARVERS CREEK TOWNSHIP IN BLADEN COUNTY TO MAINTAIN THE PUBLIC ROADS, HIGHWAYS, AND STREETS THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

From time to time the highway commission shall select such roads or section of road which they intend next to improve, change, or establish, and shall thereupon publish their purpose with reference thereto by posters or such other method as they shall deem sufficient, setting forth what road or roads or what section of road they propose next to work on, and stating whether the same is to be done by contract or otherwise, and also the plans and specifications therefor and the manner and improvement thereof, to the end that the residents and taxpayers of said township may at all times know the plans and proposals of said commission with reference to said roads, and may know the manner : in which it is proposed to expend the funds herein provided before the same are actually expended. If any serious difference of opinion shall arise among those interested as to the location, establishment, or improvement of any particular section of road, and as many as fifteen resident taxpayers shall so request in writing, the commission shall set a time and appoint a place for hearing any discussion by any of the interested parties on the question so in dispute, at which time and place all those interested in the work herein provided for may appear and be heard with reference to such disputed question; and if the commission shall see fit, it may employ road experts to furnish special plans and specifications, estimation of cost, and recommendations with reference to such disputed questions, to the end that the funds herein provided may be wisely and judiciously spent, so as to produce the greatest possible public benefit to all the people of said township; and the expenditure of any portion of said funds whatsoever for the peculiar benefit of any particular person or persons is hereby strictly forbidden.

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CHAPTER 270 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF LINCOLNTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section twenty-seven of said chapter and Private Laws be amended in line three after the word money and before the word with by inserting the following words: for general purposes.

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CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO REVISE AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HIDDENITE IN THE COUNTY OF ALEXANDER, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the tax collector shall enforce the collection of taxes due said town by levying upon personal property, if any can be found, then upon the real property of the delinquent taxpayers within said town; and after he shall have advertised the personal property for ten days and the real property for thirty days by posting notices at the office of the mayor and four other public places in said town or in some newspaper published in Alexander County, he may sell said property or so much thereot as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes for which same is being sold and all costs incident to such sale; said sales to be made by public auction at the front door of the mayors office in said town; and for all real property so sold the tax collector shall pass to the purchaser a receipt for the purchase money and file with the secretary of the board of commissioners a TRUE return of his proceedings: Provided, that if the delinquent taxpayer whose real estate is sold, or his agent, shall desire to redeem the said real estate, he shall be permitted to do so only upon his paying to the secretary of said board within twelve months of sale the amount for which said real estate was sold, including costs, plus twentyfive per centum on such amount. Upon the payment of such sums such taxpayer shall be restored to his original rights with respect to the property so sold; but upon failure of any delinquent taxpayer to so redeem his real estate so sold, the tax collector shall make deed to such purchaser, and such deed shall be sufficient to pass all rights, title, and interest the delinquent taxpayer has in and to the real estate so sold. The said tax collector shall, by survey or otherwise, definitely designate what part of the real estate of any and all delinquents he so sold, when less than the whole lot or tract of such delinquent or delinquents was sold.

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CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 232 OF PRIVATE LAWS OF SESSION 1913, ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 165 OF PRIVATE LAWS OF 1905, AND CHAPTER 485 OF PRIVATE LAWS 1907, AND CHAPTER 100 OF PRIVATE LAWS OF 1909, RELATING TO THE BOARD OF ALDER- MEN AND BOARD OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE TOWN OF MARSHALL, AND CHAPTER 91 OF PRI- VATE LAWS OF 1909, AND CHAPTER 485 OF PRIVATE LAWS OF 1907, RELATING TO THE BUILDING COM TEE OF THE TOWN OF MARSHALL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The board of aldermen of the town of Marshall is hereby authorized and empowered and directed, and it shall be its duty, within sixty days from the ratification of this act to lay out and open up a street in the town of Marshall beginning at the alley at the county jail and run parallel with rock wall as near as may be practicable, dividing the territory that lies between the main street and the rock wall and the alley at the jail and Bridge Street to the best interest of the town, and intersect said street with Bridge Street, and said street shall be of such width as the said board may deem best, but not less than twenty feet nor more than thirty feet wide, exclusive of sidewalks of not less than five feet in width.

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CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 26, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1905, EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN, AMENDING ITS CHARTER, AND PROVID- ING FOR THE ISSUING OF BONDS FOR NECESSARY PUB- LIC IMPROVEMENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section five, chapter twenty-six of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of said section five the following: Provided further, that the above proviso shall not apply to the chief of police, marshal, policeman, or other employees or officers elected, chosen, or employed by said board of aldermen of said town, but such chief of police, marshal, or policeman of said town, or other officers or employees so chosen, employed, or elected by said board of aldermen, need not have resided in said town for said ninety days, or previous to such election or employment by said board, and need not be a legal voter or resident of the State of North Carolina.

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CHAPTER 132 AN ACT TO ENLARGE SMITHFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT AND INCREASE THE TAX RATE FOR THE MAIN- TENANCE OF THE SCHOOLS THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That chapter one hundred and seventy-nine, Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five, it being an act to create Smithfield Graded School District, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of section three thereof after the word exceed in line nine, and inserting in lieu of the same the following: thirty cents on the one hundred dollars yaluation of property and ninety cents on the poll.

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CHAPTER 46 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMITTEE OF HUNTERS- VILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 1, OF HUNTERSVILLE TOWNSHIP, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TO ISSUE BONDS. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do, enact:

That for the purpose of providing for the payment of the semiannual interest on said bonds, and for the purpose of creating a fund to redeem and retire said bonds as the same may mature, the county commissioners of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, shall annually, at the time of levying taxes for State and county purposes, levy a special tax in addition to the special tax now and heretofore levied for said district, not to exceed the sum of fifteen cents on each hundred dollars valuation of property in said district and a sum not to exceed forty-five cents on each poll in said district, which said special tax shall be used in connection with, and in addition to, the special tax now and heretofore levied on the property of said district and on each poll of said district, for the purposes of this act, as heretofore set forth; and said additional special tax shall be collected and paid over in the same manner as the special tax now and heretofore levied on the property of said district; and on each poll of said district, and the special tax now and heretofore levied and the additional special tax provided for in this act shall continue one fund.

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CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE, TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That any person or persons violating any ordinance of the town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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CHAPTER 253 AN ACT TO GRANT A NEW CHARTER TO THE TOWN OF RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, REPEALING ALL LAWS OR PARTS OF LAWS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Sidewalks. The town of Rutherfordton may by appropriate penal ordinances compel the construction and laying of sidewalks by property-owners in front of or abutting on their land or property, and may prescribe the character of such sidewalks and the manner in which same shall be laid, and the penalties to be incurred for violation of such ordinances. Should any person or corporation owning lands in the town of Rutherfordton fail to construct sidewalks in front of or abutting on their property in accordance with the ordinances passed by the town of Rutherfordton, in addition to the penalty provided for herein, the town of Rutherfordton shall have the right to have said sidewalks constructed in accordance with such ordinance, at the expense of the abutting property-owner, and may recover a personal judgment in any court having jurisdiction of the amount for the cost and expense in constructing said sidewalks: Provided, the town shall first establish a reasonable grade and place a curbstone at the expense of the town.

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CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF LILLINGTON TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEWER- AGE SYSTEM. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ;

That the town of Lillington, through its proper officers and agencies, shall have the entire supervision and control of any and all of the plants and works established or purchased under this act, and shall have power to protect all of its rights of way, easements, water rights, plants, and other property by proper ordinances, and shall do all other things necessary to carry into effect the TRUE intent of this act.

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CHAPTER 426 AN ACT TO RE-CHARTER, RE-INCORPORATE AND CONTINUE THE TALCUM PUFF COMPANY. Whereas, on the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hun- dred and two, the Taleum Puff Company was duly incorporated under the general law by filing with the Secretary of State of the State of North Carolina the certificate of incorporation or the articles of agreement for the incorporation thereof, duly signed and executed by John F. Roland, G. D. Hull, Henry B. Stevens, Richard H. Roth and Philip R. Moale, the incorporators therein named, under which certificate of incorporation or articles of agreement said Talcum Puff Company was thereafter duly organized; and, Whereas, said certificate of incorporation or articles of agreement have since that date been amended from time to time; and, Whereas, under said certificate or articles of incorporation and the amendments thereo, said Taleum Puff Company has been doing business; and, Whereas, said charter of said Taleum Puff Company, in its present form, has become utterly inadequate to its needs and insufficient for its purposes; and, 1911CuHaprer 426 Whereas, the objects of this corporation can not be attained under the general laws relating to corporations now in foree in North Carolina; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That upon the acceptance of this charter, not less than two years from the ratification of this act, by a majority vote of the stockholders of the Taleum Puff Company, heretofore chartered under the general laws of this state, the old charter of said company shall be and become and void, and said company shall thereafter conduct its business by virtue of the authority and power and according to the provisions herein contained.

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CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.

That the inhabitants within the territory set out and described in section three of this article shall continue, as they have heretofore been, a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Town of Lincolnton, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with, may acquire and hold such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold, or in any manner conveyed to it, and may invest, sell, or dispose of same; and may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure, and may have and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges necessary for its proper government or usually appertaining to municipal corporations.

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CHAPTER 271 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF OLD FORT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the corporate limits of said town be as follows, to wit: Beginning on the southeast corner of the Mauney tract of land, near the county bridge across the Catawba River, and runs northwesterly with said Mauneys line, crossing the Crooked Creek public road to a stake in the line of the Salisbury lands; then northwesterly to the old Salisbury mill dam on Mill Creek; then up said creek as it meanders, passing the mouth of the second branch, to a spruce pine on the north bank of the said creek; then eastwardly to the northwest corner of the cemetery for white people; then eastwardly and southwesterly with the line of the said cemetery and the line of the United States Leather Company to a stake on the Southern Railway; then a straight line to the mouth of Butchers Branch at the Catawba River; then up the river as it meanders to the beginning.

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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,

The board of commissioners shall cause to be audited the books and accounts of all departments, and of all officers and employees who do, or may, receive or disburse money.

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CHAPTER 233 AN ACT TO RE-CHARTER THE TOWN OF STANLEY, GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND TO REPEAL THE FOR- MER CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF STANLEY CREEK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all fines and penalties which are or may be imposed by the ordinances of the town of Stanley or the laws of the State, when recovered before the mayor, shall be paid by the mayor into the town treasury accompanied by an itemized statement showing when and from whom received, and whether imposed or collected by way of fines, cost or otherwise; and it shall be the duty of the town treasurer to enter upon a book kept for the purpose by him a full and detailed statement of all moneys received by him on such accounts.

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CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 44 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, EXTRA SESSION OF 1908, RELA- TIVE TO THE POWERS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE FOR A GIRLS DORMITORY IN CONNECTION WITH CUL- LOWHEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, AND TO SUBSTITUTE AN ACT THEREFOR. Whereas chapter forty-four of the Private Laws of North Caro- lina, extra session one thousand nine hundred and eight, pro- vides for a building committee for a girls dormitory in connection with Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School, with power to condemn lands as a suitable site therefor; and whereas, since the passage of said act, the necessity for such condemnation pro- ceedings no longer exists, by reason of a satisfactory agreement with the party owning lands adjacent and contiguous to the present site of said school, such agreement having been made and concluded by purchasing: now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That chapter forty-four of the Private Laws of the extra session of one thousand nine hundred and eight be and the same is hereby repealed and this act is substituted in lieu thereof.

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CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE PEE DEE VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Said company may in its discretion build any portion or all of its branches or branch lines or extensions before completing its main line, and may construct a part of its main line, as specified in section two hereof, without completing said entire main line, and may build said lines by such routes as it deems. most advantageous and expedient; that it may, under such purchase, lease, agreement or running arrangement as it may or can make with any other railroad company, operate any road link between different portions of its own line, or permit any other railroad company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to operate any part of its own line; that it shall have the right to cross navigable streams and canals on its route, and that said company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and use bridges for the transportation of its cars across any river or rivers or canals in the line of its said railroads: Provided, that said bridges shall be so constructed as not to interfere with rafts on said rivers or canals which may be crossed by said railroads, and that said company shall provide drawbridges at such points on said rivers or canals where it shall be necessary for the convenience of boats navigating said rivers or canals.

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CHAPTER 377 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE JOHN A. EXUM TO COLLECT AR- REARS OF TAXES ON THE TAX LIST OF THE TOWN OF SNOW HILL, GREENE COUNTY, FOR CERTAIN YEARS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That before entering upon the duties of the said position the said John A. Exum shall execute a bond, with sureties. conditioned for the faithful discharge of said duties, which bond shall be payable to the State of North Carolina for the use and benefit of said town, in such sum as the board of commissioners of said town shall adjudge to be sufficient, but not exceeding four hundred dollars, said bond to be justified before and approved by the mayor of said town.

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CHAPTER 285 AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITIZENS OF BREVARD TO VOTE BONDS TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ELECTRIC- LIGHT SYSTEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The board of aldermen of the town of Brevard shall have the power to establish, maintain and operate an electriclight plant or system for the use of the said town and its inhabitants, and shall have a right for such purpose to own, operate and maintain a steam plant, develop water power or purchase power from persons or corporations, and do any and all things necessary and desirable in carrying out the purpose of this act in establishing, maintaining and operating an electric-lighting system for the use and benefit of the said town of Brevard, its inhabitants and the inhabitants of the communities adjacent to the said town.

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CHAPTER 237 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 236, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1905, SO AS TO CHANGE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF TARBORO AND TO REDISTRICT THE SAME, AND TO REPEAL THE CHARTERS OF FARRAR, RUNNY- MEDE AND WEST TARBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact;

That section two of said chapter two hundred and thirtysix of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof, viz.: The said town shall be divided into eight wards, bounded as follows: First Ward.Begin at the river on the west side of Main Street; thence with Main Street to Church Street; then down the south side of Church Street to Hendricks Creek; then down said creek to Tar River; then with town limits to beginning. Second Ward.Begin at river, on east side of Main Street; then with Main Street to Church Street; then down south side of Church Street in easterly direction to town limits; thence with town limits to beginning. Third Ward.Begin on the north side of Church Street, at Hendricks Creek ; thence with Church Street to Main Street; thence up the west side of Main Street to Baker Street; thence down the south side of Baker Street to Hendricks Creek ; thence down said creek to beginning. Fourth Ward.Begin at the town eastern limits, on north side of Church Street; thence along Church Street to Main Street; thence up the east side of Main Street to Baker Street; thence down the south side of Baker Street and Baker Street, extended, to the eastern town limits; thence along the town limits to the beginning. Fifth Ward.Begin at the intersection of Baker Street, extended, and Hendricks Creek; thence with Baker Street to Main Street; thence up Main Street and west side of Main Street, extended, to northern town limits; thence westerly along the town limits to the intersection of said town limits and Poplar Street (see map of West Tarboro Land and Improvement Company), extended ; thence southerly along Poplar Street, extended, and Poplar Street to hedgerow between West Tarboro Land and Improvement Company and Arlington; thence westerly along said hedgerow to Hendricks Creek; thence down said creek to beginning. Sixth Ward.Begin at the eastern limit of the town, on north side of. Baker Street, extended; thence with Baker Street to Main Street; thence with Main Street and west side of Main Street, extended, to the northern town limits; thence with the town limits to the beginning. Seventh Ward.Begin at the mouth of Hendricks Creek, in Tar River; thence up said creek to southern line of right of way of East Carolina Railway; thence westerly along the said right of way to Old Sparta public road, leading by J. M. Bakers farm; thence northerly along east side of said public road to a point opposite southeast corner of D. K. Biggs lot; thence a straight line westerly across said road and along line of D. K. Biggs lot, Mrs. Jennie B. Williams lots and across land of W. T. Deans to Old Sparta public road; thence northerly along east side of said road to fork of same with Wilson-Tarboro public road ; thence easterly along south side of said road to line of yard and field of Hilma, home of J. L. Bridgers; thence northerly along the line of said yard and field two hundred yards to a point just in rear of house of said Bridgers; then easterly in line parallel to WilsonTarboro public road to said creek; thence down said creek to beginning. Eighth Ward.Begin at the intersection of northern town limits and Poplar Street, as aforesaid, extended; then down said Poplar Street, extended, and Poplar Street to hedgerow between West Tarboro Land and Improvement Company and Arlington; thence down said hedgerow to Hendricks Creek; thence along the town limits to the beginning. That one commissioner from each ward shall be elected, and that commissioners be elected for the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Highth wards in odd years, and for the First, Second, Fourth and Seventh wards in even years; and to that end, R. H. Parker, commissioner in First Ward; J. C. Horne, commissioner in Second Ward; Hugh Cobb, commissioner in Third Ward; E. L. Roberson, commissioner in Fourth Ward; D. F. Bridgers, commissioner in Fifth Ward, and W. R. Ricks, commissioner in Sixth Ward, shall continue to hold their offices until the next regular election for commissioners in their respective wards ; that until the next regular election provided for, for commissioners for the Seventh and Eighth wards, the commissioners for said two wards shall be as follows: Commissioner for Seventh Ward, J. L. Bridgers; commissioner for Highth Ward, Thomas Gaskins. who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified according to law.

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CHAPTER 12 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF MARSHALL TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SAID TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said bonds shall be numbered from one consecutively, and the coupons attached thereto shall bear the number of the bond to which they are attached, and the purchaser or purchasers of said bonds, or any of them, shall not be required to see to the application of the purchase money thereof.

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CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All taxes of said town shall be listed, levied, assessed and collected, except as in this chapter otherwise provided, in the same manner, under the same rules and regulations and subject to the same penalties as are provided by law for the listing, levying, assessing and collecting State and county taxes.

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CHAPTER 39 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF WESTRAY, IN NASH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the first election for mayor and commissioners shall be held on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, under the same rules and regulations as are provided by the general laws for town elections.

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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,

The board of commissioners of the city of Raleigh shall make rules and regulations for the government and direction of the police of the city. In times of exigency the commissoner of public safety may appoint, temporarily, such additional policemen as shall be necessary, who shall take the same oath and be vested with the powers and subject to the same control as regular policemen. The board of commissioners of said city shall require the entire police force to wear badges, and to be so armed and uniformed as to be readily recognized by the public as peace officers: Provided, that the commissioner of public safety, when he deems it necessary, may authorize such officer to be on duty in plain clothes. The police of the city shall have power to do whatever may be necessary to preserve the good order and peace of the city, and secure the inhabitants from personal violence and their property from loss or injury.

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CHAPTER 391 AN ACT TO RE-ESTABLISH A FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CROOKED CREEK TOWNSHIP, McDOWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the free school district established by section one of this act shall be provided for as other school districts under the general school law of the State, and be subject to the provisions thereof.