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Individual liability.

Principal office.

Certain re'lef for sureties of J. H. Able, former tax collector of Waynesville.

of said company at any time, whether the fare of said drunken. disorderly or profane persons has been paid or not. and the said company shall not be liable or responsible in damages therefor, and such agent or officer shall not be liable, civilly or criminally therefor unless he use greater force than is necessary to eject such perons.

SEC 12. That the stockholders shall not be individually or personally liable for any of the contracts, obligations, indebtedness, defaults or torts of the corporation, and no stockholder shall be liable to pay for more stock than he has subscribed for.

SEC. 13. That the principal office of said corporation shall be at Charlotte, North Carolina, and such branch offices as may be desirable for the purposes of the corporation shall be established at such places as the by-laws of the corporation shall designate and prescribe.

SEC. 14. That exclusive rights granted to other corporations shall not prevent the exercise of the powers granted in this act : Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the company hereby created to run its line or lines of railway along those parts of Trade and Tryon streets in said city which are now occupied and used by the Charlotte Electric Railway, Light and Power Company," except for purposes of crossing on West Trade street in such manner as may be prescribed by the board of aldermen of said city, and in making such crossing the line of railway of the "Charlotte Electric Railway, Light and Power Company" may be paralleled for a distance of not more than one square on West Trade street, if the board of aldermen of said city in their discretion may so allow: And provided further, that the company created by this act may lay its track on East Morehead street between Tryon and Brevard streets if said part of Morehead street shall be so widened by the said city as to provide sufficient space for that purpose, and the board of aldermen of said city shall authorize said track to be laid in said part of Morehead street.

SEC. 15. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 27th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 132.

An act for the relief of the sureties on the official bond of J. H. Able, former tax collector for the town of Waynesville.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That D. F. Rhinehart, one of the sureties on the official bond of J. H. Able, former tax collector for the town of Waynesville, be and is hereby authorized and empowered to col

lect for the benefit of himself and his co-sureties on said bond all arrears of taxes due the said town of Waynesville for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six under such rules and regulations as are or may be prescribed for the collection of taxes in said town.

SEC. 2. That the authority herein given shall cease and determine on the first day of Jauuary, in the year nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

When this authority shall

cea se.

CHAPTER 133.

An act to change the name of Berryville, in Catawba county, to West

Hickory.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

ville, Catawba

county, changed to West Hickory.

SECTION 1. That the name of the town of Berryville, in Ca- Name of Berry tawba county, be changed to West Hickory; and that in the act incorporating said town the name of Berryville is stricken out and the name of West Hickory is substituted therefor.

SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 134.

An act to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-six, private laws eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Chapter 156, private laws of 1885, relating to

SECTION 1. That section two of chapter one hundred and fiftysix of the private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five be amended as follows, viz: Strike out all after the word 'town" in incorporation of town of the fourth line of said section and substitute the following in Elizabethtown, lieu thereof, viz: "Thence with Swanzy street to Ben street; amended. thence with the Bladenboro road forty yards; thence a direct line parallel with Swanzy street to a point opposite the lower edge of Cypress street; thence with said street to Main street; thence with Main street to Lower street; thence with Lower street to the Cape Fear river; thence up the river to the beginning."

SEC. 2. That section three of said chapter is hereby repealed officers of town. and the following substituted in lieu thereof, viz: "That the offi

Commissioners may license sale of liquor.

Said chapter as amended, reenacted.

cers of said town shall consist of a mayor and two commissioners and such other officers as they may elect, and the followingnamed persons shall fill the offices of mayor and commissioners till the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred and one, and until their successors are elected and qualified, viz: For mayor, Frances M. Willis: for commissioners, John W. Hall and G. F. Melvin."

SEC. 3. That section four of said chapter is hereby repealed and the following substituted as section four, viz: "That said commissioners shall have power and authority to tax all liquor dealers and manufacturers of liquor doing business in said town, a license tax of not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum.” SEC. 4. That said chapter as amended by this act is hereby reenacted.

SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 135.

Time for organization of bank of Maxton extended

Certain road taxes ordered to be paid to treas.

county.

Bank of Maxton,”

An act to extend the time for the organization of the
chapter one hundred and thirty-six, private laws of eighteen hundred
and ninety-seven.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That the time for the organization and commencing business under the charter granted in chapter three hundred and fifty, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and amendments thereto be and the same is hereby extended for two years from the ratification of this act.

SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 136.

An act to authorize J. L. Welch to pay over surplus road tax to treasurer of Cherokee county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That J. L. Welch is directed to pay over the surplus of road tax of Valley Town township now in his hands to the urer of Cherokee treasurer of Cherokee county, to be paid out by order of the county commissioners on any indebtedness for the public now existing or that may hereafter accrue on the public roads in Valley Town township.

SEC. 2. That this act shall oe in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 137.

An act to amend chapter three hundred and two, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to charter The Murphy Banking Company."

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That section one of the said act be and the same is hereby amended by adding the names of W. T. Corder, R. L. Cooper and W. C. Kenyon as corporators.

Section 1, chapter 302, private acts of 1891, relating to organization of Murphy Banking Company, amended. "Corporate name changed.

SEC. 2. That said act be amended by striking out of said section one of said act the words, "The Murphy Banking Company, and by inserting in the said [stead] thereof the words "The Bank of Murphy." SEC. 3. That sections two and three of the said act be amended Capital stock. by striking out the words "twenty-five" in said sections and by inserting in the stead thereof the word "twenty"; so that the same will be read "twenty thousand" in the stead of "twenty-five thousand"; that the said act, chapter three hundred and two, 'is hereby re-enacted as amended by this act.

SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

CHAPTER 138.

An act to amend chapter fifty, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That section four of chapter fifty, laws of eighteen Chapter 50, laws of 1883, relative to hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed incorporation of and the following substituted therefor, viz: That the trustees, High School, Kings Mountain five (5), in number, provided for in said chapter fifty, laws of amended. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town of Kings Mountain, and they shall be Trustees elected by voters of elected by said qualified voters at the general town election in Kings MounMay, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and every three years thereafter at the general town election. The qualification of voters or electors under this act shall be the same as the qualification for electors in the annual town elections of Kings Mountain.

tain.

SEC. 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Conflicting laws act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

repealed.

Time for collection of taxes by collector of Rutherfordton extended.

May levy on any property in Rutherford county to make such collection. Persons making affidavit that tax has been paid.

CHAPTER 139.

An act to extend the time for collecting the taxes of the town of
Rutherfordton.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for the tax collector of Rutherfordton for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to collect the taxes for the year aforesaid until January, nineteen hundred, under the same rules and regulations and with the same powers and rights as he had in eighteen hundred and ninety

seven.

SEC. 2. That said tax collector shall have the right to levy on property anywhere in Rutherford county for the collection of said taxes.

SEC. 3. That any person who will make affidavit that said tax has been paid shall not be required to pay under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899.

Chapter 106, private laws of 1873 and 1874, relative to incorpc

ration of Pee Dee Manufacturing Company, amended.

Amended.

Boundaries of municipal corporation.

CHAPTER 140.

An act to amend chapter one hundred and six of the private laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four of North Carolina, the same being an act to incorporate the "Pee Dee Manufacturing Company," in the county of Richmond.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That chapter one hundred and six of the private laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four of North Caolina be amended by striking out all between the word “Fabricks" in line seven of section one and the word "near" in line eight of said section; and by inserting between the words "organization" and the words “and” in line twenty of said section one, "may do a general mercantile business in their corporate capacity."

SEC. 2. That section nine of said act be amended by striking out the word "fifty" in line three of said section nine and inserting in lieu thereof the words "one hundred.”

SEC. 3. That section ten of said act be amended by adding thereto: "That the boundaries of the municipal corporation created by this act shall extend to all the land on which Pee Dee Mill Number Two is erected, and shall include the fifty acres of

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