Sec. 25 amended. Certain buildings may be declared a nuisance. Abatement. Expenses. Abatement of nuisances. Proviso. Bec. 26 amended. Prevention of contagious diseases, &c. missioners shall have power to adopt ordinances making the fines recovered for violation of any town ordinance payable to said town. SEC. 8. That section twenty-five be amended by adding thereto the following: The board of commissioners may declare any public or private building, or any framework, smoke-stack, windmill or structure of any kind in the corporation to be a nuisance, and have it abated by removal or otherwise, as they may direct: Provided, that upon inspection such building or structure is found to be dangerous or hazardous in any way to life or property. The expense of removing or otherwise abating such nuisance shall attach to the property and be a lien thereon, and collectible as other taxes. Section 25a. That the board of commissioners shall have the power and it shall be their duty to prohibit all trades, occupations or acts which are a nuisance from being carried on in said town; and the power and authority of said board of commissioners for the abatement and removal of nuisances shall extend one mile beyond the limits of the town. They shall have power, and it shall be their duty to cause all ponds, sunken lots and other places in which water stands and stagnates to be drained and filled up and to recover from the owner or occupier the expenses, which expense shall be a lien on the lot, which lien may be enforced as liens for taxes: Provided, the owner or occupier of said lots, after ten days notice, shall neglect or refuse to remove or abate said nuisance. They shall have authority to cause all nuisances arising from any cause within and for one mile without the town limits to be removed or abated, and for removing or abating any such nuisance, the person permitting or causing or creating the same shall pay the expenses as above required and enforced. SEC. 9. That section twenty-six be and the same is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof the following: Section 26a. That the commissioners may take such measures as they may deem effectual to prevent the entrance into the town or the spreading therein of any contagious or infectious disease; may stop, detain and examine for that purpose every person coming from places believed to be infected with such diseases; may establish and regulate hospitals within the town or within three miles thereof; may cause any person in the town suspected to be infected with such disease and whose stay may endanger the health of the town, to be removed to the hospital if the town has one; if not where the mayor may direct; may remove from the town or destroy any furniture or other article which shall be suspected of being tainted or infected with contagious or infectious diseases, or of which there shall be reasonable cause to apprehend that they may pass into such a state as to generate and propagate disease; may abate by any reasonable means all nuisances which may be injurious to public health. Section 266. That in case any person shall be removed to the hos- Recovery of hospital expenses. pital, or to the place directed by the mayor, the corporation may recover, before the mayor or any justice of the peace, of such person the expenses of the removal, support, nursing and medical attendance, burial expenses also in case of death. vent removal to Section 26c. That if any person shall attempt by force or by threat Penalty for of violence to prevent the removal to the hospital, or the place selected attempt to preby the mayor as aforesaid, of any person ordered to be carried there, hospital, &c. the person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the town fifty dollars, and be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 26d. That all persons owning lots in the town of Lexing- Liability of abutting landowners ton, North Carolina, which front on streets and sidewalks that may for street imbe macadamized, graded, paved and otherwise improved by the mayor provements. and commissioners of said town shall pay respectively one-half of the expenses of grading, paving or otherwise improving said sidewalks which shall be adjoining and immediately in front of said lots respect ively; that the board of commissioners of said town shall levy a tax Levy of tax. on each and every of said persons owning said lots, which shall be equal to one-half of said amount of such expenses respectively, and the same shall be a lien on said lots respectively; and the town tax Lien. collector shall collect said taxes in the manner and at the time pro- Collection. vided by law for the collection of other town taxes, and the said Application of money shall be applied to the payment of said expenses respectively and to no other. money. SEC. 10. That section twenty-nine shall be amended by adding to Sec. 29 amended. the end thereof the following: They may also provide for the estab- Fire companies. lishing, organization, equipment, government and pay of such number of fire companies as they shall deem necessary and proper. That in case of fire occurring in said town the mayor, or in his absence, a Destruction of buildings to premajority of the commissioners who may be present, may order the vent fire, &o. blowing up or pulling down or destroying of any house or houses deemed necessary to stop the progress of the fire, and no person shall be held liable civilly or criminally for acting in such case in obedience to such orders. They shall have power to establish fire limits within Fire limits. the town. They may prohibit wooden buildings from being removed from without into said fire limits, or from being removed from one place to another within the same, under such penalties as the board may establish. SEC. 11. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be Conflicting laws repealed. and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 12. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1893. Name changed. Body politic. CHAPTER 282. An act to incorporate the Elizabeth City Colored Normal and Industrial The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : SECTION 1. That the name of the institution known at present as the "Elizabeth City Colored Normal School" be and the same is hereby changed and shall be hereafter known as the "Elizabeth City Colored Normal and Industrial Institute," and that Emanuel M. Davis, W. C. Butler, L. C. Brothers, Jordan Close, Edward Morrell, John H. Converse, W. P. Hentzey, E. W. Clark, D. Holliday, Charles H. Marshall, Rowland Hazzard, Andrew Cowstock, Albert A. Pope, William H. Allen, William Lee Church, Joseph Sawyer, Martin Brimmer, H. L. Pickman, Nathan Appleton, Charles J. Pickford, J. N. Smith, James Phillips, junior, C. T. Christenson, William T. Wardwell and G. A. Mebane, and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created and constituted a body politic Corporate name. and corporate by the name and style of "Trustees of the Elizabeth City Colored Normal and Industrial Institute," an institution of learning situated at Elizabeth City in the county of Pasquotank and state of North Carolina, and as such and by said name of institution as aforesaid shall be capable in law and in equity to sue and to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to use a common seal, and to make such by-laws and regulations and rules as they the said trustees and their successors may deem best, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or the state of North Carolina. Corporate powers. Officers. Property to be held in trust. Proviso. Executive committee. SEC. 2. That said trustees and their successors are and shall be authorized to appoint a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, a recording secretary, a general superintendent and such other officers and teachers as may in their judgment be necessary to serve the purposes and to carry into effect the objects of said institution. SEC. 3. That said trustees and their successors shall have and hold all estate, property and funds now belonging to said institution, and shall have and hold all property, funds, money, donations, legacies and devises which may hereafter be granted, given, conveyed, bequeathed and devised to said institution in trust for the use and support of the said institution: Provided, such property shall not exceed in value two hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 4. That the said trustees shall have power to appoint an executive committee, to consist of ten members including the president, vice-president, treasurer, recording secretary and superintendent, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum and shall have full power to transact any business for the said institution. mittee to elect SEC. 5. That the said executive committee shall have power after Executive comthe first two years next ensuing after the adoption of this act, to elect trustees after two the trustees for said institution and to fill all vacancies that may years. occur in the same. SEC. 6. That all acts or parts of acts contrary to this act are hereby Conflicting laws repealed. repealed. SEC. 7. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. CHAPTER 283. An act to incorporate the Louisburg Savings Bank. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That C. M. Cook, R. T. Gray, J. P. Timberlake, J. S. Incorporators._ Barrow, H. C. Kearney, E. W. Timberlake, T. J. Simmons, J. H. Simmons and F. N. Egerton, and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate ers. under name and style of "Louisburg Savings Bank," and by such Corporate name. name may acquire, hold and convey real and personal property, sue Corporate powand be sued, plead and be impleaded in any of the courts of the state, and have a continual succession for ninety-nine years, and a common seal for the purposes indicated in the title. SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said corporation shall not be less Capital stock. than ten thousand dollars, which may be increased from time to time to a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, payable in such manner and at such time as the board of directors may prescribe. Said corporation may, how- When to comever, commence the business of banking when three thousand dollars mence business. of the capital stock aforesaid has been paid in. The stockholders Non-liability of shall not be individually liable for the debts of the corporation. stockholders. SEC. 3. That the persons first named in section one of this act shall Directors. be and remain directors of this corporation until their successors are chosen: Provided, that no person shall be a director in said corpora- Proviso. tion without having first subscribed and taken at least ten shares of said stock. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of directors to prescribe Duties of direcrules, regulations and by-laws for the government thereof, to choose tors. officers, fix salaries, fill vacancies, and generally do and perform such duties as the rules, regulations and by-laws of this corporation shall prescribe, when the same shall have been duly ratified by a majority in number and value of the stockholders voting thereon in person or by proxy. Omce. Corporate pow ers. Corporate powers as guarantor. Corporate powers as bank of issue. SEC. 5. The office or banking house of this corporation shall be located in the town of Louisburg, state of North Carolina. SEC. 6. That this corporation shall have power to receive and pay out the lawful currency of the country, deal in exchange, gold and silver coin, stocks, bonds, notes and other securities; to loan money or receive deposits of money or other property or evidences of debt from corporations, minors, apprentices, femes covert or other persons on such terms and time and manner of collection and payment as may be agreed upon between the parties, and for use and loan of money may charge a rate not exceeding that prescribed by the laws of North Carolina, and may take and receive said interest at the time of making said loan, free from all other control, contract or liability whatsoever; to invest in the stocks, bonds or other securities of this or any other state or of the United States, or of any corporation under the laws thereof, and to take such real or personal property conditioned in such form for the payment of the principal and interest of money loaned or advanced or expended as may be deemed most safe, expedient and beneficial. SEC. 7. That this corporation shall have power and authority to guarantee the payment of principal and interest of notes, bonds, bills of exchange and other securities or evidences of debt, including the obligations of such corporations and individuals as may have secured their payment by deed of trust made to this corporation for such special purpose, and to receive for any guarantee such compensation as the parties may agree upon. SEC. 8. That said corporation shall have power and authority to issue money or currency or other circulating medium in such manner and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed hereafter by the laws of North Carolina and of the United States. SEC. 9. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Authorized to consolidate with other company. CHAPTER 284. An act to authorize the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company to consolidate with any other railroad company with which it may connect directly or indirectly. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That authority is hereby given to the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company to consolidate with any other railroad company with which it may connect either directly or in directly, |