CHAPTER 204. An act to provide a light plant for the town of Tarboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the Board of Public Works of the town of Board of public Tarboro, approved by the act of the board of commissioners of works may submit to voters question said town, is hereby authorized, in manner and form provided of issuing bonds to buy and maintain by "Act to provide water-works and sewerage for said town," light plant. enacted at this session of the general assembly, to submit to the qualified voters of said town, at such time as said board may direct, the question of issuing bonds of the town of Tarboro not to exceed ten thousand dollars, in like manner as provided for in said act to provide water and sewerage, for the purpose of establishing a plant and operating same to furnish light to said town and its citizens. vious act extended. Sec. 2. That all provisions of said act to provide water-works Provisions of preand sewerage are extended to this act, and power hereby conferred, as if the provisions of said act applicable hereto were embodied herein. Sec. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 1st day of March, A. D. 1899. CHAPTER 205. An act to provide water-works and sewerage for the town of Tarboro, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: for water-works voters. Section 1. That the board of commissioners of the town of Commissioners of Tarboro authorTarboro is hereby authorized and directed to submit to the quali- ized to submit fied voters of the said town, on a day to be fixed by said board, question of bonds between April fifteenth and April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sewerage to and ninety-nine, the question whether the said town of Tarboro shall issue bonds of said town in an amount not to exceed forty Limitation to issue. thousand dollars ($40,000) for the purpose of providing and maintaining a system of water-works and sewerage for the said town, or purchasing the system of water-works heretofore constructed by Tarboro Water Supply Company. The said election shall be Election, how conheld and conducted under the same rules and regulations and penalties now prescribed by law for the election of commissioners of said town. And at said election each voter shall vote a ducted. Form of ballot. Commissioners shall appoint board of public works. Term of office. Members of said board shall take oath. written or printed ballot, with the words "For water-works and sewerage," or "Against water-works and sewerage." Sec. 2. The board of commissioners of the town of Tarboro shall be authorized, and is directed, within ten days after the ratification of this act, to elect or appoint seven residents of the town, who shall constitute and be called The Board of Public Works of the town of Tarboro, whose term of office shall begin at their election and continue until the second Monday in May, nineteen hundred and two, and until their successors are elected; that, at the regular meeting of the board of commissioners of said town, next after the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred and two, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elected by the said board of commissioners seven resident voters of said town as members of said board of public works. The members of said board of public works shall take an oath before the mayor to faithfully discharge the duties of their office, and in case of vacancies the same shall be filled by the board of commissioners. Sec. 3. If, at the election as required by section one of this act, a majority of the votes cast shall be cast "For water-works and sewerage," then the board of public works aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to have said bonds prepared in denominations to be fixed by them, and running for a period or periods of years, not exceeding forty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent., and payable at such place or places as said board may designate, and to sell said bonds, or so many as may be necessary, after public advertisement, publicly or privately, on the best terms obtainable, not less than par. How bonds shall be For the due execution of said bonds they shall be signed by the executed. Denomination of bonds. When bonds mature. Money derived from sale of bonds. president of the board of public works, attested by the secretary of said board and countersigned by the mayor of the town and the treasurer, attested by the seal of the town. And the money derived from the sale of said bonds, the said board of public works shall use in providing and maintaining a system of waterworks and sewerage for the use and as the property of said town, furnishing for the use of said town all water necessary for public use and to all citizens of the town who may desire water or sewerage on such conditions and at such rates as said board of public works may prescribe; and the said board is hereby fully Powers of board of authorized and empowered to perform any and all acts not inconpublic works. Moneys derived from sale of bonds, how applied. Election of treasurer of board. sistent with this act, which are necessary to establish and maintain a system of water-works and sewerage for the town of Tarboro and the citizens thereof. Sec. 4. All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds and every other source pertaining to said water-works and sewerage, shall be paid to the treasurer of said board of public works, to be disbursed under the direction of said board. The treasurer elected by said board of public works shall be elected annually on the second Monday in May of each year, and before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall execute a bond, payable to Shall execute bond. the town of Tarboro, to safely keep all moneys that may come to his hands, and in all things to faithfully discharge the duties of treasurer, the amount of said bond to be fixed by the board of public works, who shall fix his compensation and prescribe the oath to be taken as treasurer. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of Certain amount of taxes shall be set Tarboro to set apart from the taxes levied and collected for the aside. town, one-fourth or twenty-five per cent. of the same, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act-the same to be subject to be drawn from the town treasury by the board of public works on its order or orders. And the said appropriation, together with the income from said water-works and sewerage, is hereby pledged for the payment of the aforesaid bonds and the interest coupons thereto. But should the full amount not be When full amount required in any year to maintain the system of water-works and is not required. sewerage, the residue to be covered into the town treasury for general purposes of the town; the coupons of the aforesaid bonds to be taken for all town taxes. held at later date. Sec. 6. If, for any reason the aforesaid election shall not be Election may be held within the time herein specified, then the same may be held at a later date, to be fixed by the board of commissioners, if requested by said board of public works, under the same rules and regulations herein specified. Sec. 7. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 1st day of March, A. D. 1899. CHAPTER 206. An act to amend chapter seventy-seven, private laws of eighteen hun dred and eighty-three. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: tax of 30 cents. Section 1. That section three (3), chapter seventy-seven (77), Commissioners of Mt. Pleasant, Caprivate laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three (1883), be barrus county, emamended by striking out the word "twenty" in line eight (8) of powered to levy sa section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "thirty," and by striking out the word "sixty" in line nine (9) of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word ninety. Sec. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 2d day of March, A. D. 1899. Chapter 240, private laws 1889, amended. Commissioners may levy and col. lect special tax. Chapter 199, laws 1897, amended. Applications for liquor license. Conflicting laws repealed. CHAPTER 207. An act to amend the charter of the town of Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That chapter two hundred and forty of the private laws of North Carolina, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the town of Wilkesboro, N. C.," be and the same is hereby amended as follows: 1. In line six, section seven, after the word "the" and before the word "first' insert the words "Tuesday after." 2. That the following clauses be added to section thirty-one: "6. For the purpose of providing a sinking fund with which to pay the bonded indebtedness of said town, the commissioners may annually levy and collect a tax on real estate and personal property situated therein, not to exceed fifty cents on every one hundred dollars value, and on all taxable polls a tax not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents on those who may be residents in the town on the first day of June of each year, or who have been so resident, within thirty days next preceding that day." “7. When said tax as provided in clause six shall be levied, it shall be collected in the manner prescribed for the collection of other taxes, and this fund shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds of saia town, and i. shall be the duty of the treasurer of said town to apply said funds to the liquidation of the bonded indebtedness as often as an amount sufficient to pay off one bond shall come into his hands." Sec. 2. That chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of the private laws of North Carolina, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: 1. In line eleven strike out the words "in each year" and insert in lieu thereof the word "biennial.y." 2. In line twelve of section one, after the word "the" and before the word "first" insert the words "Tuesday after." 3. After the word "license" in line thirty of section one, add "and upon certificate of the town commissioners that license has been granted to any applicant or applicants therein named to retail spirituous, malt and vinous liquors in said town, the county commissioners of Wilkes county shall grant state and county license to the applicant or applicants named in said certificate." Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 2d day of March, A. D. 1899. CHAPTER 208. An act to amend the charter of Siler City, Chatham county, chapter eighty-eight, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: extended. Section 1. That chapter eiguty-eight of the private laws of Boundary lines eighteen hundred and eighty-seven be and the same is hereby amended by auding and annexing to the territory included in the boundaries mentioned in section two of said act the following additional territory, to-wit: Commencing at a stone in the incorporation line on the west side of the public road leading to the Siler mill, and running north eighty-five poles to a stone, thence west to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, thence down the railroad to the original incorporation line, thence east to the beginning, anu all of said bounded territory shall henceforth be a part of the town of Siler City, subject to all the duties and obligations and entitled to all the privileges of said town. Sec. 2. That the present mayor and commissioners and other officers of the town of Siler City be and the same are hereby declared to be like officers, with the powers and duties appertaining to the same, until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter provided. Present officers continued. Sec. 3. That the board of commissioners shall, on the first Tues- Appointment of registrar and day in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and in each suc- judges of election. ceeding year, appoint a registrar and two judges of election who shall hold the elections for the town officers on the first Monday in May, under the same regulations as those governing the election of the members of the general assembly, and report the result to the next meeting after the election to the town commissioners. Sec. 4. That all citizens resident in said town over eighteen and Persons liable to road duty. under fifty years of age shall be liable to do six days work each year upon the streets and sidewalks. In lieu of said labor they may pay three dollars, which shall be expended in improving streets and sidewalks. may condemn land Sec. 5. The town commissioners shall have power, whenever Commissioners they deem it necessary, or to the interest of the town, to con- for necessary purdemn any land for the purpose of opening any new street, or for poses. the lengthening or widening or the changing of any street, and for that purpose shall appoint a jury of not less than three nor more than five freeholders of the town, who, after being notified Assessors of valuaof their appointment and sworn by the mayor or justice of the peace, shall meet on or at the premises or land to be condemned and assess the damages that the owner may sustain by reason of such condemnation, deducting, however, from the same the estimated value of the improvements that may accrue to the prem tion. |