Abatement of nuisances. fine imposed for violation of any ordinance against retailing without a license, or other offenses, shall accrue to the town, notwithstanding the said offenses shall also be triable before the Superior Court and punishable by said court, and the Aldermen shall have power to adopt ordinances making the fines recovered for violation of any town ordinance payable to said town. SEC. 21. That the Aldermen may require and compel the abatement and removal of all nuisances within the town, at the expense of the person causing the same or the owner or tenant of the ground Slaughter-houses, wherever the same may be; they may also prevent the establish etc. Proviso. Nuisances to be prohibited, etc. Proviso. Fire department. ment of and may regulate, if allowed to be established, any slaughterhouse or place for the exercise within the town of any offensive or unhealthy business, trade or employment; the Board of Aldermen may declare any public or private building, or any frame-work, smoke-stack, wind-mill 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. The Board of Aldermen 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 Aldermen for the abatement and removal of nuisances shall extend one (1) mile beyond the limits of the town. They shall have the 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 lot, 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. 22. That the Board of Aldermen shall have power to provide water, take all proper means to prevent and extinguish fires; to Police powers, etc. make regulations to cause due observance of the Sabbath, appoint and regulate town police, suppress and remove nuisances, preserve the health of the town from contagious and infectious diseases, to control and regulate the keeping of powder within the town, to regulate the speed of riding and driving on the public streets, and to keep, or require to be kept, the sidewalks clear of all obstructions, to cut and remove all limbs, branches and parts of trees or shrubbery extending upon or overhanging the sidewalks or streets, at the expense of the owner of the adjacent lots who may refuse to do the same on five days' notice from the Mayor of the town. The Aldermen may take such measures as they may deem effectual Contagious diseases, etc. 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 infested 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 diseases, 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 should 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. In case any person shall be removed to the hospital, or to the place directed by the Mayor, the corporation may recover, before the Mayor or some justice of the peace, of such person the expenses of removal, support, nursing and medical attendance, burial expenses also, in case of death. If any person shall attempt, by force or by threat of violence, to prevent the removal to the hospital or the place selected by the Mayor, as aforesaid, of any person ordered to be carried there, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the town fifty dollars, and be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. That all persons owning lots in the town of Thomasville, North Street improveCarolina, which front on the street and sidewalks that may be macadamized, graded, paved and otherwise improved by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, shall pay respectively one-half the expenses of grading, paving or otherwise improving said sidewalks which shall be adjoining and immediately in front of said lots respectively; that the Board of Aldermen of said town shall levy a 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 Town Tax Collector shall collect said taxes in the manner and at the time provided by law for the collection of other town taxes, and the said money shall be applied to the payment of said expenses respectively, and to no other. ments. SEC. 23. That the town of Thomasville is hereby vested with all Powers. the powers, rights, privileges and immunities enumerated in chapter sixty-two (62) of the 2d Volume of The Code, entitled "Towns and Code. Cities," not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act. SEC. 24. That the Aldermen shall have control and direction of Cemeteries. the cemetery, and pass all resolutions and ordinances for its care Building regulations. and preservation, and may appropriate such sums of money as they may deem fit to keep it in good order. SEC. 25. The Aldermen shall have power to regulate and control the erection of wooden buildings within the corporation, so as to prevent loss, danger or damage by fire; they may also provide for the establishing, organization, equipment, government and pay of such number of fire companies as they shall deem necessary and property, that in case of fire occurring in said town the Mayor, or in his absence a majority of the Aldermen who may be present, Destruction of may order the blowing up or pulling down or destroying of any buildings to prevent spread of fire, 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 order they shall have power to establish fire limits within the town; they may prohibit wooden buildings from being removed from without to within said fire limits, or from being removed from one place to another within the same, or the erection of wooden buildings within said fire limits, under such fines and penalties as the Aldermen may prescribe. Use of county jail, etc. Conflicting laws repealed. SEC. 26. That the Aldermen may use the county jail for the confinement of prisoners, or they may erect or rent suitable buildings for that purpose. SEC. 27. That all laws and clauses of laws inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 28. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this 5th day of March, A. D. 1903. Section 2, chapter 243, Private Laws 1901, amended. CHAPTER 279. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO OF CHAPTER 243 OF THE The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That section two of chapter two hundred and fortythree of the Private Laws of 1901 be amended by striking out all in said section after the word "Olive" in line five, down to and including the word "Olive" in line seven. SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of March, 1903. CHAPTER 280. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PERPETUAL INSURANCE The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That Edwin C. Gregory, Walter Murphy and A. H. Corporators. Boyden, and all other persons who may become stockholders thereof, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the "Perpetual Insurance Company Corporate name. of North Carolina" for a period of ninety years, and under that name shall have all the powers, privileges and franchises incident to Corporate powers. such corporation under the laws of North Carolina. That said com pany shall have a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, Capital stock. divided into ten thousand shares of ten dollars each, with the privi- Shares. lege of increasing as a majority of the directors may from time to time determine: Provided, fee is paid Secretary of State upon each Fees for increase. and every increase, as provided by chapter 2, Laws 1901. Said stock to be paid in such a way and manner as the board of directors Stock, how paid. may determine. business. SEC. 2. That said corporation shall have the right to insure build- Corporate rights and powers. ings, furniture, stocks of goods and other property against loss by fire, lightning and water, wind or tornado, to any amount not exceeding the cash value of the property insured, and to re-insure its business. No policy of insurance shall be insured until twenty- When to begin five thousand ($25,000) dollars stock is subscribed and ten thousand ($10,000) dollars paid in cash, or its equivalent. And said corpo- Corporate powers. ration shall sue and be sued in any court, and may use and have a common seal, and shall be entitled to own real and personal property to any amount that may be thought needful for the purpose of the corporation, and may buy and sell the same. SEC. 3. That there shall be annual meetings of the stockholders Stockholders' meetings. of said corporation for the election of a board of directors of at Directors. least five members. That at the stockholders' meeting each stock- Voting power. holder shall be allowed one vote for each share of stock owned, and a majority of the stock shall constitute a quorum for the transac- Quorum. tion of business, with the right of voting by proxy. That the board Proxy. of directors so elected may choose such officers and for such length Other officers. of time as they may by a majority of votes determine; shall have power to make such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be By-laws. thought necessary, not contrary to the laws of the State, and may establish their home and branch offices at such places as they may Offices. think best, and that three directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 4. That the reserve and assets of the company shall be in- Investment of revested in safe securities and in such securities as the directors may serve and assets. Powers of directors. Dividends. Liability of stockholders. Power of representation. direct; and the board of directors shall have full authority and discretion of doing all things necessary for the purpose of conducting a successful fire insurance business. SEC. 5. The authority is hereby vested in the officers and directors to declare a dividend to the policy-holders of this company as they may see fit, not to exceed twenty per cent. in any one year. SEC. 6. No stockholder or policy-holder shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation. SEC. 7. That said company shall have power to represent, as agent or attorney, any corporation or individual authorized to do business under the laws of North Carolina. SEC. 8. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this 5th day of March, 1903. Corporators. Corporate name. Corporate powers. Capital stock. Shares. Provisions for increase of capital stock. Subscriptions, in what paid. Voting power. CHAPTER 281. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTHPORT AND NORTH WESTERN RAILROAD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That Nathan O'Berry, Chas. Dewey, J. B. Edgerton, R. E. L. Brown, J. A. Brown, J. T. McKenzie, and such other parties that may be associated with them, and their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of The Southport and Northwestern Railroad, under which name it shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and enjoy all the powers, rights and privileges of other like corporations under existing laws and those hereafter enacted. SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the right to increase to five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each: Provided, such increase shall only be made upon applications to the Secretary of State, and leave granted by him; such applications to be accompanied by a receipt from the State Treasurer for the taxes prescribed by section 97 of chapter 2 of Public Laws of 1901, and all subscriptions to the capital stock may be paid in money, labor, land, materials or other things of value, as may be agreed upon between the company and the subscribers; and the shareholders of said company may from time to time increase the capital stock to an amount deemed requisite for the best interest of the company. In all stockholders' meetings each share shall entitle the owner to one vote. |