Real estate bid in by the mayor for taxes. Levy of privilege taxes. Privilege taxes. Manufacture or sale of spirituous liquor within five for the use of the town at sales made by the constable or tax collector for taxes may be redeemed as herein before provided by the payment on the part of the delinquent, his agent or attorney of the amount bid and twenty-five per centum additional to the town clerk and treasurer within twelve months from date of such sale. Sec. 43. That the commissioners of said town shall have the power to annually levy and cause to be collected for the necessary expenses of the town such privilege taxes as shall seem to them fair [and] equitable on the professions, callings, trades, occupations and all other business carried on in said town; that is to say, on every lawyer, merchant, physician, dentist, druggist, artisan, mechanic, daguerrean artist or other taker of pictures; on all officers or agents of incorporated companies; on all clerks or employees of other persons or corporations; on every drummer, editor, printer, butcher, tinner, carpenter, shoemaker, wheelwright, carriage, buggy or wagon maker, jeweller, confection[er], grocer, harness maker, saddler, blacksmith; on every billiard or bagatelle table, public or private bowling nine or ten pin alley; on all lectures for reward; on all riding or pleasure vehicles; on all gold, silver or metal watches; on all pianos; on all pistols; on every livery, feed or sale stable; on every person hiring any number of horses; on every cotton gin; on every turpentine or other distillery; on every hotel, boarding house, restaurant or eating saloon; on all drays, carts, wagons, carriages, buggies, road carts, bicycles; on all horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, goats or dogs owned or kept in said town or allowed to run at large therein; on every stallion, jack, bull or boar kept or exhibited in said town; on all itinerant traders and peddlers; on all banks, railroads, telephone and telegraph companies; on all saw and planing mills, brick, lath or shingle mills; on all sash, door and blind, furniture or cotton factories, and on all incorporated companies of whatever nature or kind; on all and every person or persons. company or companies who may exhibit, sing, play, act or perform, or on anything for which they charge or receive any gratuity, fee or pay or award [reward] whatsoever within the limits of said town, and in every opera house or public hall to which an admission fee is charged, and the commissioners of said town shall prescribe when the license tax herein provided for shall be due and payable. Sec. 44. That it shall be unlawful for any person or company miles of corporate to manufacture any spirituous or malt liquor or to sell or in any limits prohib ited. manner, directly or indirectly, to receive any compensation for any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider or any other intoxicating liquor within the corporate limits of said town of Red Springs or within five miles from the corporate limits thereof, as set out in section three hereof; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished upon a conviction thereof by a fine not exceed ing one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve Penalty. months establish fire limits. Sec. 45. That the board of commissioners of said town shall Fire companies. have power to provide for the establishment, organization and equipment, government and pay of such number of fire companies as they may deem necessary and proper for the protection of the said town against damage by fire, and in case of a fire occurring in said town, the mayor, or in his absence, a majority of the commissioners of said town who may be present, may order the blowing up, pulling down or destroying of any house or building deemed necessary to stop the progress of the fire. Sec. 46. That the said commissioners shall also have power to Empowered to establish fire limits within said town, within which it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or build any wooden house or structure or make any wooden addition to any building or repair or cover the outside surface of any building with any material other than metal or slate; they may prohibit the removal of any wooden building from without to within such fire limits as they shall establish, and shall have power to enforce obedience to their regulations under this section by punishing such persons as violate the same by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment of not more than thirty days, and shall further have the power to cause the removal of any structure or building erected contrary to the laws by them enacted under the power vested in them by this section. Sec. 47. That the town of Red Springs is hereby authorized and May create a empowered to create a debt for public improvements, such as improvements. debt for public grading and paving streets and sidewalks, sewerage and drainage, waterworks, fire engines, lighting the streets and buildings, purchasing land for a cemetery, and the erection of necessary buildings thereon, and other improvements of a public character, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and may issue Maximum bonds to that amount or any less amount for any one, or more amount. or all of said purposes in the name of "The Town of Red Springs," in such denomination and form and payable at such place and time not exceeding thirty years, and bearing interest at no greater rate than six per centum per annum, payable annually or Rate of interest. semi-annually, as the board of commissioners may determine. Sec. 48. That the bonds for the aforesaid purposes or any one Bonds shall be of them shall not be issued until approved by a majority of the Issued on ap proval of qualiqualified voters of said town, after thirty days' notice at the door fled voters. of the mayor's office and four other public places in said town at an election to be held under the same rules and regulations as are provided by this charter for elections in the said town; such Manner of holding election. Form of ballot. Bonds for various purposes, how voted upon. Bonds issued under signature of mayor. Commissioners empowered to levy special tax and create sink. ing fund. Proviso. Treasurer shall make investment of sinking fund. notice shall set forth the object for which bonds are to be issued, the amount of the same, the rate of interest. the time when they mature, and the rate of tax to be levied to pay the principal and interest on said bonds. The qualified voters approving the issue of such bonds and the levy and collection of the taxes to pay the same shall deposit in a ballot box a written or printed ballot with the word "Approved" thereon; and those disapproving the same shall deposit a like ballot with the word "Disapproved" thereon If at such election a majority of the qualified voters shall vote "Approved," then the mayor and board of commis sioners of the said town shall issue the bonds provided for in such notice and shall levy and cause to be collected the taxes therein named and authorized by this act. At such election, upon the proper notice being given as above set out, the question of issuing bonds for more than one purpose, within the meaning of this act, may be voted on in separate boxes, under the same rules and regulations as above set out; but in such a case the ballots shall contain the purpose of the bonds with the word “Approved” or "Disapproved" following, as the voter may desire: Provided, that no election shall be ordered unless a petition requesting the same, signed by a majority of the qualified voters of said town be presented to the mayor and commissioners thereof, setting forth the matter above required in the notice of election. Sec. 49. That said bonds shall be issued under the signature of the mayor of said town and attested by the town clerk and treasurer, under the official seal of said town, and the mayor shall. under the direction of the board of commissioners, dispose of said bonds at a sum not less than par value. Sec. 50. That for the purposes of paying the interest on said bonds as it falls due and for providing a sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds when due, or for purchasing and cancelling the same before due, it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of said town at the time fixed for the levy of other taxes in the same, to levy and cause to be collected with the other taxes each year, so long as any of the said bonds are unpaid, a sufficient special tax upon all the subjects of taxation set out in section thirty of this act, which taxes so collected shall at all times be kept separate and distinct and used only for the purposes above set out: Provided, that so much of the tax levied and collected each year as may not be required to pay the interest on said bonds and which can not be applied to the purchase or discharge of said bonds shall be invested so as to secure the payment at maturity of the principal of said bonds; and to insure the due investment of the above described amounts from time to time it shall be the duty of the treasurer of said town, under such regulations as the board of commissioners thereof shall from time to time prescribe, to make investments of such amounts, and to do and perform all such other services in connection with said bonds as said commissioners may prescribe: Provided further, that the board of commissioners of said town may require an official bond of the clerk and treasurer not exceeding five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of all his official duties pertaining to his said office. Sec. 51. That the bonds authorized to be issued by this act and Bonds and coupons not subject their coupons shall not be subject to taxation by said town until to taxation. after they become due or tender of payment shall have been made by the town through its treasurer, and the coupons shall be received in payment of town taxes for any fiscal year in which they become due or thereafter; and if the holders of any said bonds or coupons shall fail to present the same for payment at the time or times and place therein named, he shall not be entitled to any interest thereon for the time they have been outstanding after maturity. chasers of bonds. Sec. 52. That the clerk and treasurer shall keep a record in Record shall be which shall be written the name of every purchaser of a bond kept of purand the number and amount thereof; and he, the said town clerk and treasurer of said town, shall keep an accurate account of the coupons and bonds which shall be paid and cancelled, so that the true state of the bonded indebtedness of the town shall be readily seen and ascertained at any time by any taxpayer of said town. Sec. 53. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Conflicting laws act are hereby repealed in so far as this act is concerned. Sec. 54. That this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 28th day of February, A. D. 1899. repealed. CHAPTER 156. An act to incorporate the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That John Merrick, Dr. A. M. Moore, J. E. Shepard, Corporators. W. G. Pearson and D. T. Watson, of Durham; T. O. Fuller, of Warrenton, and E. A. Johnson and N. C. Bruce, of Raleigh, and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style Body corporate of the "North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association." Corporate name. whose motto shall be "Merciful to All," and as such shall be ca- Motto. pable of suing and being sued, shall have and use a corporate Duration of exist- seal, shall exist for sixty (60) years and shall have all the powers and privileges belonging to corporations under the laws of North Carolina. ence. Object of eorpo ration. Principal lodge. Property of such lodges exempt from taxation Individual liability. Certain per cent shall be turned over to Colored Sec. 2. That the object of the said corporation shall be the relief of the widows and orphans, of the sick and of those injured by accident, and the burial of the dead; and to this end the corporation may issue certificates to its members agreeing to pay at their death, or in the event of their injury by accident, sums of inoney to the beneficiaries named therein; may provide for the payment of sick benefits and for the further care of the sick and for the burial of the dead, and may adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations, fixing the assessments, dues and premiums to be paid to it by its members, the manner of electing its directors, the members necessary to make a quorum of the members of the corporation and of the directors, and generally for the government of the corporation as are not contrary to law. Sec. 3. That the principal lodge or office of said corporation shall be in Durham, North Carolina, but the board of directors may establish lodges or branch offices anywhere in this or other states; and the said corporation, its lodges and property shall be exempt from all taxation and from the rules governing insurance companies. Sec. 4. That the said association or corporation shall have the right to take by gift, purchase or otherwise property both real and personal not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and to hold and dispose of same at pleasure. Sec. 5. That none of the members of the corporation shall be individually liable for its debts, contracts or torts, except to the extent of the assessments, dues and premiums agreed to be paid by them. Sec. 6. That a certain per centum of the proceeds, to be fixed by the board of directors, shall be turned over to the Colored Orphan Asylum Orphan Asylum at Oxford, North Carolina. at Oxford. Sec. 7. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Aldermen of High Point em. powered to issue bonds. CHAPTER 157. An act to allow the city of High Point to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the board of aldermen of the city of High Point is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the name of the city of High Point, in such denominations and forms as it may determine, to an amount not exceeding fifty |