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1923_public laws_216_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 215 | 2 | CHAPTER 215 AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN REGISTRATIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in every case where it shall appear from the records in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State that any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, bearing date prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, executed by any person or persons residing in any of th... |
1921_public laws_39_105 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 38 | 104 | CHAPTER 38 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 92, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1919, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I BoarD OF STate Tax COMMISSIONERS | In every cause of failure by the sheriff or other accounting officer to settle his account within sixty days from the time prescribed by section one hundred and one of this act for such settlement, and to take the oath required in his settlement and pay the amount due to the Treasurer, the State Auditor shall forthwith... |
1921_public laws_35_120 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 34 | 404 | CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Blank forms to be kept on file with Register of Deeds. For convenience of all parties liable for making a return of income, and who may not receive blank forms by mail for this purpose, the State Tax Commission shall keep on deposit with the Register of Deeds in each county a supply of blank forms for distribution. |
1927_public laws_42_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 41 | 1 | CHAPTER 41 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS CAPE FEAR RIVER AT WILMING- TON AND TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE ERECTION OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to build a bridge, or bridges, across the Cape Fear River and the North East River at a location to be selected by the State Highway Commission and connect the same with the street system of the City of Wilmington and the State system of highways... |
1935_public laws_419_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 418 | 6 | CHAPTER 418 AN ACT TO EXEMPT NEW HANOVER COUNTY FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX OF VOLUME THREE OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES, KNOWN AS THE TURLINGTON ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | No member, officer, agent or employee of the Board shall directly or indirectly, individually or as a member of a partnership or of an association, or as a member or stockholder of a corporation, have any interest whatsoever in the manufacture of or in the dealing in alcoholic beverages, or in any enterprise or industr... |
1935_public laws_457_23 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 456 | 22 | CHAPTER 456 AN ACT TO DECLARE THE NECESSITY OF CREATING PUBLIC BODIES CORPORATE AND POLITIC TO BE KNOWN AS HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO ENGAGE IN SLUM CLEARANCE AND/OR PROJECTS TO PROVIDE DWELLING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS OF LOW INCOME; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF SUCH HOUSING AUTHORITIES; TO DEFINE THE POWERS AND DUTIE... | Foreclosure Sale Subject to Agreement With Government. Notwithstanding anything in this Act to the contrary, any purchaser or purchasers at a sale of real or personal property of the authority whether pursuant to any foreclosure of a mortgage, pursuant to judicial process or otherwise, shall obtain title subject to any... |
1935_public laws_462_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 461 | 2 | CHAPTER 461 AN ACT TO AMEND CONSOLIDATED STATUTE NUM- BER 6055, SUB-SECTION (a 26) AND CONSOLIDATED STATUTE NUMBER 6055, SUB-SECTION (a 27) AS AP- PLICABLE TO HOLDING GENERAL ELECTIONS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Consolidated Statute Number 6055, Sub-section (a27) be amended by exempting Cherokee County from the said act, and that none of the said act shall apply to Cherokee County. |
1913_public local laws_221_10 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 220 | 9 | CHAPTER 220 AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE HIGHWAYS OF MANNINGS TOWNSHIP, NASH COUNTY, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS FOR THAT PURPOSE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said road supervisors are hereby authorized to purchase such material, machinery, teams, etc., as may be deemed necessary to carry on said work, and to pay for the same out of the Mannings Township road fund. |
1913_public local laws_205_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 204 | 3 | CHAPTER 204 AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Said highway commissions shall have the same supervision, powers, and rights in respect to all the public roads in their respective townships as has heretofore been vested in either the board of supervisors of public roads or in the board of county commissioners of Cherokee County, except as such laws are modified here... |
1913_public local laws_20_9 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 19 | 8 | CHAPTER 19 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS OF FORSYTH COUNTY TO ISSUE REFUNDING BONDS OR NOTES FOR A PORTION OF THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF WINSTON TOWNSHIP ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROAN- OKE AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Whereas Winston Township, embracing the cities of Winston ... | That the board of county commissioners of Forsyth County shall keep or cause to be kept by the clerk of the board a book showing the number of bonds or notes issued under this act, with the date of issuing and to whom sold, and at what price and when the interest falls due. |
1913_public local laws_137_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 136 | 1 | CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 2802 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, RELATIVE TO THE PAY OF THE COUNTY SURVEYOR OF WILSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section two thousand eight hundred and two of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words, to wit: The fees of the county surveyor of the county of Wilson shall be five dollars per day for all services rendered by him ... |
1913_public local laws_114_31 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 113 | 30 | CHAPTER 113 AN ACT TO PLACE THE OFFICERS OF SAMPSON COUNTY UPON A SALARY BASIS AND TO CREATE AND ESTAB- LISH AN AUDITORS OFFICE FOR THE SAID COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | It shall be the duty of the said auditor to inquire into and investigate and file a detailed and itemized account of the condition of all county finances, the accounts of all public officers, including the board of education and road commission, or their successors, and to make a TRUE report thereof, and record the sam... |
1911_public local laws_633_16 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 632 | 15 | CHAPTER 632 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF FORSYTH COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO IMPROVE THE HIGHWAYS OF FORSYTH COUNTY AND TO CREATE A HIGHWAY COMMISSION THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Any person who shall obstruct the engineer, road superintendent or other agent, subordinate or employee in making a survey or engaging in any road work under authority of the highway commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court. |
1911_public local laws_452_30 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 451 | 29 | CHAPTER 451 AN ACT FOR BUILDING AND IMPROVING THE PUBLIC ROADS IN THE DIFFERENT TOWNSHIPS IN NASH COUNTY. Whereas, certain townships and certain parts of other townships of Nash County, have already provided for working their public roads by a system of taxation and by the issuance of bonds; and, whereas, the other tow... | That the road commissioners of the several townships hereinbefore named shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations as they may deem expedient and necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act as relates to their respective townships not inconsistent with or superior in authority to... |
1911_public local laws_407_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 406 | 6 | CHAPTER 406 AN ACT TO SECURE COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN THE BISCOE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, MONTGOM- ERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That any parent, guardian or person having control of a child between the ages of seven and fifteen years who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be warned as aforesaid, as soon as possible after the beginning of the school term of said district of each year and also at any time thereafter when such v... |
1911_public local laws_397_14 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 396 | 13 | CHAPTER 306 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND EIGH- TY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE PROVIDING FOR THE LAYING OUT AND WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF GUIL- FORD COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Cerolina do enact: | Said board of county commissioners and said township commissioners, their agents and employees, shall have the power to cut and take any timber, stone or gravel for the purpose of making, improving or repairing any road, bridge, or crossway in the county. They shall, on the demand of the owners of the lands, their agen... |
1911_public local laws_347_14 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 346 | 13 | CHAPTER 346 AN ACT TO CREATE-AND ESTABLISH AN AUDITORS OFFICE FOR THE COUNTY OF ROBESON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The said auditor shall have the right from time to time to prescribe the manner of keeping all the public accounts of the county, and the power to prescribe for each of the public officers of said county the form of books to be kept by them in the receipt and disbursement of all funds which may come into their hands by... |
1911_public local laws_344_14 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 343 | 13 | CHAPTER 343 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL COURT IN THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, AND THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, AND TO PRESCRIBE THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The clerk of the recorders court shall provide a permanent docket for recording all the processes issued by said court which shall conform to the docket kept by the clerk of the superior court. He shall also provide proper files to properly keep records of all cases which shall be disposed of in the said court and what... |
1911_public local laws_316_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 315 | 1 | CHAPTER 315 AN ACT TO PROVIDE GOOD ROADS IN LOUISBURG TOWN- SHIP, FRANKLIN COUNTY. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That F. B. McKinne, J. R. Collie, W. H. Allen, John H. Uzzell, C. B. Cheatham, E. A. Kemp, Herbert H. Harris, W. T. Wilder and A. W. Wilson, Jr., are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the public roads of Louisburg Township, in Franklin County. The first three shall hold the said position of trustees for six ye... |
1911_public local laws_162_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 161 | 2 | CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND TEN OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FIVE; AND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY- SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE, AUTHORIZING THE HIGHWAY COM- MISSION OF VALLEYTOWN TOWNSHIP, IN CHEROKEE COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS. The Gener... | Whenever the highway commission shall deem it expedient, they are authorized to erect and maintain automatic gates, when building new roads through enclosed lands or fields, at the entrance and exit thereof. Any person who shall leave open any gate which may have been constructed across any public road or shall interfe... |
1911_public local laws_155_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public local laws | 154 | 2 | CHAPTER 154 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY TO LEVY AND COLLECT SPECIAL TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the tax herein authorized shall be levied and collected in the same manner as State and county taxes are levied and at the same time and place, and, in making said levy, the board of commissioners of Rutherford County shall observe the constitutional equation between the property tax and the poll tax. |
1941_public laws_52_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 51 | 6 | CHAPTER 51 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SPECIAL JUDGES IN NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the special judges so appointed shall receive the same salary and traveling expenses as now are, or may hereafter be, paid or allowed to judges of the Superior Court for holding their regularly assigned courts, and they shall hold all such regular and special terms of court as they may be directed and assigned by ... |
1941_public laws_237_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 236 | 2 | CHAPTER 236 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN OF VOLUME TWO OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN RELATING TO CREDIT UNIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. |
1939_public laws_391_10 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 390 | 9 | CHAPTER 390 AN ACT TO PERMIT COUNTIES, CITIES, AND TOWNS TO PROVIDE OLD AGE SECURITY FOR OLD AND INCA- PACITATED LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF A RETIREMENT FUND THROUGH THE JOINT CONTRIBUTIONS OF EM- PLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES, AND TO PROVIDE MA- CHINERY FOR THE PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT... | The board of trustees shal] be the trustee of the several funds created by this Act as provided in Section ten, and shall have full power to invest and reinvest such funds, subject to all the terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions imposed by the laws of North Carolina upon domestic life insurance companies in ... |
1939_public laws_359_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 358 | 1 | 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: | (a) Purpose of the Act. The purpose of this Act is 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, and it is the purpose of this General Assembly to change the policy heretofore followed by pr... |
1939_public laws_306_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 305 | 3 | CHAPTER 305 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE GRANTING OF TITLE TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS HOME PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH BY THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA TO THE CITY OF RALEIGH FOR A CON- FEDERATE MEMORIAL PARK. WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina, by Chapter sixty of the Private Laws of one thousand eight hundred ninety-o... | The proceeds of the sale of the whole or any part thereof shall be paid into the Treasury of the State, and shall become a part of the general fund. |
1938 extra_public laws_4_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 3 | 1 | CHAPTER 3 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE OF CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, VOLUME THREE, AS AMENDED, THE SAME BEING A PART OF THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section two thousand nine hundred and forty-three -2943 of the Consolidated Statutes, Volume Three, being a part of the Municipal Finance Act, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and two of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred twenty-seven (the same being also sub-section two of section two th... |
1937_public laws_408_8 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 407 | 7 | 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 ... | Authority to Administer Oaths and Certify Copies of Records. (a) Officers and employees of the department designated by the commissioner are, for the purpose of administering the motor vehicle laws, authorized to administer oaths and acknowledge signatures, and shall do so without fee. (b) The commissioner and such off... |
1937_public laws_236_5 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 235 | 4 | CHAPTER 235 AN ACT TO PROTECT THE INMATES OF THE CASWELL TRAINING SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. |
1935_public laws_85_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 84 | 2 | CHAPTER 84 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUS- AND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE, RELAT- ING TO PAYMENT OF CRIMINAL COSTS BEFORE A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND OTHER INFERIOR COURTS IN SWAIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the provisions of this act shall apply only to Swain County and the Town of Bryson City. |
1915_public laws_166_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 165 | 2 | CHAPTER 165 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 95 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, RELATING TO PHARMACISTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the provisions of this act shall not affect any one now licensed as a pharmacist or who may become licensed before January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. |
1887_public laws_367_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 366 | 6 | CHAPTER 366 An act to extend the provisions of the Mecklenburg road law to Randleman township, Randolph county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That all !aws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. |
1915_public laws_159_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 158 | 2 | CHAPTER 158 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 194, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1913, RELATIVE TO SALARY OF CHIEF CLERK OF THE NORTH CAROLINA INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
1911_public laws_212_5 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 211 | 4 | CHAPTER 211 AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, AND TO REGULATE THE PUBLIC PRINTING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section four thousand four hundred and thirtythree be amended as follows: Add at the end of said section the words: Provided, however, that not more than five thousand dollars shall be used for this purpose in any biennial period. |
1903_public laws_527_18 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 526 | 17 | CHAPTER 526 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS AND HIGHWAYS OF YANCEY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That any person or persons who shall obstruct any public road of the county or interfere with any officer working the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed $50 or imprisoned not to exceed 30 days. |
1903_public laws_438_14 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 437 | 13 | CHAPTER 437 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER WORKING OF PUB- LIC ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in case the land owner or his local representative shall be dissatisfied with the finding of the juries provided for in sections eleven and twelve of this act and with the decision of the County Commissioners, such dissatisfied party may appeal from the decision of the County Commissioners to the Superior Court of... |
1903_public laws_227_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 226 | 2 | CHAPTER 226 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND EN- LARGEMENT OF LIBRARIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE RURAL DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | As soon as the County Board of Education of any county shall have made an appropriation for a library in the manner prescribed, the County Superintendent of Schools shall inform the secretary of the State Board of Education of the fact, whereupon the said State Board of Education shall remit to the treasurer of the cou... |
1901_public laws_729_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 728 | 1 | CHAPTER 728 An act to allow Mecklenburg County to appropriate money to pay for a bridge at Mount Holly. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate such a sum of money,not exceeding one thousand ($1,000) dollars, as it may deem proper toward paying off and discharging any outstanding indebtedness contracted in the construction of the public bridge across the Cat... |
1901_public laws_641_5 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 640 | 4 | CHAPTER 640 An act regulating settlements of partnersbips by surviving partners. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact. | All debts and demands against a copartnership, where one partner has died, shall be paid pro rata, except debts which have a specific lien on property belonging to the partnership. |
1901_public laws_493_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 492 | 1 | CHAPTER 492 An act supplemental to an act ratified the fifth day of February, 1901, entitled an act to allow the Board of Commissioners for Jackson County to levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section one of said act be and the same is hereby amended by adding after word bridges in said section and before the word in, the words and roads. |
1901_public laws_473_5 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 472 | 4 | CHAPTER 472 An act to incorporate the States Prison of North Carolina and to pro- vide for the government thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The said Board of Directors shall have charge of an through its agents and employees aforesaid, hold and manage all the property and effects of the said corporation, and conduct the operation of all its affairs. The said Board of Directors may adopt and enforce such rules and regulations for the government of the said ... |
1901_public laws_383_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 382 | 1 | CHAPTER 382 An act to create the office of County Treasurer in the county of Beaufort. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the offices of Sheriff and County Treasurer in the county of Beaufort be separated and that the office of County Treasurer for the county of Beaufort be and is hereby created. That the said office of County Treasurer for the county of.Beaufort be filled at the next regular election for said county. That the said o... |
1901_public laws_30_26 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 29 | 25 | CHAPTER 29 An act supplemental to and amendatory of an act ratified on March 11,1901, entitled An act to provide for the division of the State into Judicial Districts and for holding the courts therein. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the cases now pending in or returnable to the criminal courts of any county are hereby transferred to the Superior Courts of the counties in which the respective cases are pending or to which they are returnable; and all recognizances, subpcenas, capiases or process issued and now in the hands of the Sheriff or of... |
1901_public laws_259_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 258 | 3 | CHAPTER 258 An act to allow the Board of County Commi:sioners of Hyde County to levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said tax shall be collected and accounted for by the Sheriff or Tax Collectors in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations and under the same penalties as are prescribed for the collection of State and county taxes. |
1903_public laws_805_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 804 | 2 | CHAPTER 804 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF ELEC- TION OFFICERS FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN IREDELL COUNTY: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said Board of Elections shall meet in Statesville on | the first Monday in April in each and every year preceding any | municipal election in said county and appoint one registrar and | two judges of election for each voting precinct of all cities and owns in said co... |
1901_public laws_258_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 257 | 3 | CHAPTER 257 An act to appoint a cottoa-weigher for the town of Wingate, Union County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said cotton weigher shall be elected by the Board of County Commissioners of said county, at their regular meeting in June, nineteen. hundred and one (1901), and annually thereafter. |
1901_public laws_207_2 | project experts | 1jim_crow | public laws | 206 | 1 | CHAPTER 206 An act for the relief of Addie Elmore, public school teacher. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Treasurer of the school fund of Chatham County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Addie Elmore, out of any unappropriated funds the sum of thirteen 75-100 dollars ($13.75) balance due for teaching school in White District No. 2, in Hadleys Township, and charge the same to said district. |
1899_public laws_87_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 86 | 1 | CHAPTER 86 An act to prevent the sale of adulterated and unbranded food, and: to _amend and make more effective the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-two, laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That for the purpose of protecting the people of the state from imposition by the adulteration and misbranding of articles of food. the board of agriculture shall cause to be procured from time to time, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by them, in accordance with section nine of this act, samples of foo... |
1899_public laws_80_17 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 79 | 16 | CHAPTER 79 An act to repeal chapter sixty-six, volume two of The Code. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That if the parties shall disagree touching the amount of reward or salvage to be paid to the persons employed, the commander, owner or commissioner who are representing the same shall choose one disinterested person, and also the salvors shali nominate one other who shall adjust and ascertain the same; and if the pers... |
1899_public laws_666_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 665 | 1 | CHAPTER 665 An act regulating the use of and for the protection of meridian monu- ments and standards of measure at the several county seats in North Carolina. WHEREAS, meridian requirements for determining the varia- tion of the magnetic needle of the compass from the TRUE north, and a standard length for measuring su... | That every surveyor operating in any of the counties of this state with magnetic instruments, whether in a public or private capacity, shall between the first day of January and thirty-first day of December in each and every year carefully test his needle upon the official meridiary monuments in the eounty in which he ... |
1899_public laws_508_29 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 507 | 28 | CHAPTER 507 An act to regulate elections. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That the county board of elections, or upon their failure, the registrar and judges of election, shall provide for each election precinct in their respective counties ballot boxes for each class of officers to be voted for in which to deposit the ballots for such officers respctively. Each of said boxes shall have an o... |
1899_public laws_450_9 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 449 | 8 | CHAPTER 449, An act to provide for the building and keeping in repair the public roads in Polk county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | All persons subject to taxation under this act may if they so desire work out the amount of their tax on the public roads in their sections under the supervision of the overseer at the rate of fifty -50 cents per day or by furnishing a substitute to be acceptable to and approved by said overseer. |
1899_public laws_352_9 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 351 | 9 | CHAPTER 351 An act to empower the commissioners of Swain county to issue bonds for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness of said county, con- tracted and incurred by said county for the necessary expenses thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That the taxes collected by virtue of this act shall be used for no other purpose than that herein specified, and any failure to levy, collect or apply the same as herein provided shall be a misdemeanor and punished according to law. |
1899_public laws_257_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 256 | 6 | CHAPTER 256 An act to improve the roads in New Hanover county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | When any of said bonds are sold the proceeds of sale shall be turned over to the county treasurer of New Hanover county, who shall keep said funds and all other funds provided for in this act which may come into his hands separate from all other funds; and he shall keep separate accounts of the same and said county tre... |
1899_public laws_251_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 250 | 6 | CHAPTER 250 An act to regulate the public printing. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Of the public laws there shall be printed nine thousand copies, fifteen hundred of which shall be bound in law sheep, and seven thousand and five hundred copies in half binding; of the private laws there shall be printed two thousand copies, of which there shall be one thousand copies in law sheep, and one thousand cop... |
1899_public laws_167_6 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 166 | 5 | CHAPTER 166 he An act to provide a permanent system of government for Craven county. 4 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : oe | This act shall apply to Craven county only. |
1901_public laws_242_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 241 | 1 | CHAPTER 241 An act to amend Ch:pter 471 of the Public Laws of {899 in reference to the appointment of the Judges of the Criminal Courts. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That chapter 471 of the Public Laws of 1899, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out in section seven -7 thereof the words and elected by the General Assembly of North Carolina in lines three and four, and inserting in lieu thereof the words by the Governor. |
1905_public laws_163_10 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 162 | 9 | CHAPTER 162 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF CAS- WELL COUNTY TO SUBMIT TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID COUNTY THE QUESTION OF ISSUING BONDS - FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING AND IMPROVING, ETC., THE PUBLIC ROADS OF SAID COUNTY. WHEREAS, the special tax authorized by chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, Public Laws ... | When any of said bonds are sold the proceeds of such sale shall be paid by the purchaser or purchasers of said bonds to the: Treasurer of Caswell County, who shall keep said funds and all other funds which may come into his hands under the provisions of this act separate and apart from all other funds which may be in h... |
1905_public laws_198_22 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 197 | 21 | CHAPTER 197 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER WORKING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS OF CHATHAM COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter five hundred and eighty-one of the Public Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine as amended by chapter three hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Laws o... | When in any township in any county coming under the provisions of this act a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners, signed by a majority of the land-owners of said township, asking that in that township an additional special tax be levied for road purposes, or when in any such township an election ... |
1905_public laws_258_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 257 | 1 | CHAPTER 257 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF CURRI- TUCK COUNTY TO USE SURPLUS OF SPECIAL TAXES FOR GENERAL COUNTY PURPOSES AND TO WITHDRAW AUTHORITY TO LEVY FURTHER SPECIAL TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | WHEREAS, the Commissioners of Currituck County, by virtue of chapter three hundred and seven (307), Public Laws of nineteen hundred and one (1901), were authorized and empowered to levy special taxes to settle certain indebtedness against Currituck County; AND WHEREAS, all the indebtedness, including bonds held against... |
1909_public laws_682_13 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 681 | 12 | CHAPTER 681 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP TO ISSUE BONDS. The General .Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That for the purpose of paying the interest accruing on said bonds issued under this act the board of trustees are authorized and directed to take and appropriate of the money collected for public-road purposes, as is provided for by existing laws applicable to Lexington Township in chapter three hundred and seventyfiv... |
1909_public laws_602_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 601 | 2 | CHAPTER 601 AN ACT TO PROTECT THE SANITARY CONDITION OF CER- TAIN FREE-SCHOOL ROOMS IN PITT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars. |
1909_public laws_554_7 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 553 | 6 | CHAPTER 553 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A LEGALIZED PRIMARY ELECTION FOR CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Any officer who shall be guilty of willfully violating any of the duties devolved upon such position hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months; and any officer who shall be guilty of frau... |
1909_public laws_471_11 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 470 | 10 | CHAPTER 470 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A BOARD OF AUDIT AND FINANCE FOR THE #NAME? OF ROBESON AND TO FIX THE DUTIES OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The board of audit and finance shall have the right from time to time to prescribe the manner of keeping all the public accounts of the county, and have the power to prescribe for each of the public officers of the county the form of books to be kept by them in the receipt and disbursement of all funds which may come i... |
1909_public laws_413_6 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 412 | 5 | CHAPTER 412 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSIONERS OF GREENE COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO PAY ITS PRESENT FLOAT- ING INDEBTEDNESS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in order to pay the interest on said bonds as it may accrue and the principal thereof as it may mature, the board of commissioners of said county may annually levy a special tax sufficient to meet these demands. The said tax shall be levied and collected as other county taxes are levied and collected, and shall be... |
1909_public laws_357_6 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 356 | 5 | CHAPTER 356 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A METHOD OF PROVIDING JURIES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That this act shall apply only to Cleveland County. |
1909_public laws_233_17 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 232 | 16 | CHAPTER 232 AN ACT TO REGULATE FEES OF OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY OF MADISON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in the event the sums received by said officers do Fe not amount to the salary herein designated, then the said officers . shall be entitled to the amount of such fees as have been collected by them, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered. |
1909_public laws_118_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 117 | 1 | CHAPTER 117 AN ACT TO APPOINT JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR OCRACOKE TOWNSHIP, HYDE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Thomas W. Howard, Benjamin G. ONeal and C. M. Scarborough be and they are hereby appointed justices of the peace for Ocracoke Township, in Hyde County, for a term of two years. |
1908 extra_public laws_135_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 133 | 3 | CHAPTER 133 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE [LLEGAL SALE OF LIQUOR IN ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That if any person shall have in his possession any internal revenue license from the United States government for the sale of liquors, wine or beer, procured after the passage of this act, it shall be prima facie evidence of his keeping liquor for sale as prohibited by this act. |
1907_public laws_100_10 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 99 | 9 | CHAPTER 99 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE CAPI- TAL STOCK OF THE WILMINGTON, BRUNSWICK AND SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. The General Assembly of North-Carolina do enact: | Every registrar and judge of election and other official who shall,fail or neglect to perform his duties as prescribed by this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the Court; and all laws and clauses of laws of North Carolina relative to fra... |
1907_public laws_854_5 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 853 | 4 | CHAPTER 853 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM FOR THE KEEPING UP, BUILDING AND REPAIRING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES IN PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Those hands subject to road duty when warned shall meet as directed by the overseer, .with the tool named, and shall work a day of ten hours, or pay to said overseer prior to said day the sum of one dollar in lieu of said days work, for the purpose of employing.a substitute or used for road work. |
1907_public laws_789_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 788 | 1 | CHAPTER 788 AN ACT TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX IN CLEVELAND TOWNSHIP, JOHNSTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That there shall be a special tax levied in Cleveland Township, Johnston County, in and for the year one thousand nine hundred and seven, in an amount not exceeding one-eighth of per centum on property and ten cents on each poll, for the purpose of building a township public building. |
1907_public laws_772_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 771 | 1 | CHAPTER 771 AN ACT TO CONFER POLICE POWERS ON DEPUTY SHER- IFFS AND CONSTABLES AT HOLT GRANITE MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, HAW RIVER, ALAMANCE COUNTY, AND TO PROHIBIT PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS THERE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That it shall be the duty of the Deputy Sheriff or Deputy Sheriffs, Alamance County, living and residing at Haw River in said county, or those appointed by the Sheriff: of Alamance County for that section of said county in which Holt Granite Manufacturing Company is situated, and the constable of Haw River Township, in... |
1907_public laws_759_9 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 758 | 8 | CHAPTER 758 AN ACT TO CONSTRUCT PERMANENT HIGHWAYS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That none of the bonds authorized by this act shall be disposed of by said Highway Commission by sale, exchange or otherwise for less than their face value and accrued interest, nor shall said bonds or proceeds be used for any other purpose or purposes than those declared by this act: Provided, however, that the purcha... |
1907_public laws_699_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 698 | 2 | CHAPTER 698 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR HUNTING DEER IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
1907_public laws_511_38 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 510 | 37 | CHAPTER 510 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH, CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC ROADS FOR MADISON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in laying out new roads and in making amendments on existing roads, the Board of Commissioners or Superintendent of Roads may employ a competent engineer or surveyor to assist in laying out and grading said roads, said engineer or surveyor to be paid out of the general road fund of said county. |
1907_public laws_259_18 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 258 | 17 | CHAPTER 258 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSESS- MENT OF PROPERTY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter five hundred and ninety of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be amended so as hereafter to read as follows: ARTICLE I. BoarRD OF STATE... | Oath of taz-listers aha ASSESSOrs. The Board of List-takers and Assessors shall make a complete return of their assessments, embracing an abstract of the taxable property of their respective townships, to the Board of County Commissioners on or before the second Monday in July, and annex the following affidavit, subscr... |
1907_public laws_242_4 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 241 | 3 | CHAPTER 241 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF DUNN IN HAR- NETT COUNTY, UPON A MAJORITY VOTE OF ITS CITI- ZENS, TO ESTABLISH A DISPENSARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said Board of Dispensary Commissioners shall establish one dispensary in the town of Dunn, to be located on one of the principal streets of said town, for the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, as soon as possible after their term of office begins. The said Board of Dispensary Commissioners shall elect a... |
1907_public laws_105_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 104 | 2 | CHAPTER 104 AN ACT TO REGULATE THE KILLING OF QUAIL AND OTHER GAME BIRDS IN MADISON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ~ | That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for sale, or have or keep in his or her possession for sale any of said game birds killed within said Madison County, except between the fifteenth day of November and the first day of February of each and every year. |
1905_public laws_813_3 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 812 | 2 | CHAPTER 812 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 406, PUBLIC LAWS 1903, RELATING TO A DISPENSARY IN THE TOWN OF OX- FORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section six of said chapter be amended by striking out all after the word our in line eleven and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Fifty per centum of the profits of said dispensary to the Treasurer of Granville County, one-half to be applied to the public school fund of said county and onehalf to the publi... |
1905_public laws_602_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 601 | 1 | CHAPTER 601 AN ACT TO PREVENT RIDING OR DRIVING OF ANY BEAST OR VEHICLE ON ANY PUBLIC ROAD IN GUILFORD COUNTY WHERE ANY WORK IS BEING DONE UNTIL SUCH ROAD HAS BEEN OPENED UP FOR PUBLIC USE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ride or drive any beast, bicycle, tricycle, automobile, buggy, carriage, cart, wagon or any other vehicle of any kind whatsoever on any public road or highway in Guilford County where any work is being done for the preparation of macadamizing the same, or if said r... |
1905_public laws_591_50 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 590 | 48 | CHAPTER 590 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ASSESS- MENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three be amended so as hereafter to read as follows: ARTICLE I. Boarp oF... | Manner of assessment. Said Corporation Commission shall first ascertain the TRUE cash value of the entire property owned by the said association, company, copartnership or corporation from said statements or otherwise for that purpose, taking the aggregate value of all the shares of capital stock, in case shares have a... |
1905_public laws_548_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 547 | 1 | CHAPTER 547 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 44, ACTS OF 1899, AND TO FACILITATE THE RESTORATION TO THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP IN CERTAIN CASES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section one of chapter forty-four, Public Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be amended by inserting between the words Governor and such in line seyen the following: or the court suspended judgment or suspended judgment on payment of the costs and the costs have been paid. |
1911_public laws_88_13 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 87 | 12 | CHAPTER 87 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED. Whereas the Constitution of North Carolina, article two, see- tion nine, authorizes the State to make provisions for her feeble- minded, idiots, and imbeciles; and whereas it is necessary from a humanitarian, economic, and health standpoint... | The board of trustees shall have power to take any measures which they deem expedient for encouraging subscriptions, donations, and bequests to said school; to take charge of al) the interests and concerns of said school: to enter into and bin said institution by such compacts and engagements as they may deem advantage... |
1909_public laws_901_2 | project experts | 0no_jim_crow | public laws | 900 | 1 | CHAPTER 900 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 368, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1907, ENTITLED AN ACT TO PREVENT THE MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF ADULTERATED, MISBRANDED, POISONOUS OR DELETERIOUS FOODS, DRUGS, MEDICINES OR LIQUORS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That chapter three hundred and sixty-eight, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and seven, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: After the word colored and before the word powdered, in line one, subsection four, section six, insert the word bleached. |
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