CHAPTER 362. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THE COMMIS- The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: missioners in SECTION 1. That the number of the Commissioners of the town Number of comof Louisburg be and the same is hereby increased from four to six. creased. SEC. 2. That wherever in the charter of the said town the word Charter amended accordingly. "four" occurs with reference to the number of Commissioners to be elected, voted for, or hold office in said town, the same be stricken out and the word "six" be inserted in lieu thereof. tional commission SEC. 3. That at the next regular or special meeting of the Board Election of addiof Commissioners of said town held after the ratification of this act, ers. there shall be elected by the said board from among the qualified voters of said town the two additional Commissioners provided for by this act, who shall hold office until the next regular election for municipal officers in said town. SEC. 4. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Conflicting laws repealed. act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this 9th day of March, A. D. 1903. CHAPTER 363. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF FAITH, IN ROWAN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That the present town of Faith, in the county of Town of Faith inRowan, is hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name corporated. and style of "The Town of Faith," and shall be, as such incorpora- Corporate name. tion, subject to, and invested with, all the powers, rights, privileges Powers. and provisions contained in Chapter 62 of The Code, and in the Constitution and laws of the State of North Carolina, and amendments thereto, in reference to municipal corporations, as the same may now exist, except as they may be in conflict with or modified by the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. That the corporate limits of said town of Faith shall Corporate limits. embrace all the territory circumscribed by the following boundary lines, to-wit: Beginning at a stake on the lands of L. M. Peeler, and runs thence S. 24 chains to a white-oak on Fesperman's line; thence S. 20 E. 49.25 chains to a stake on Hoffner's line; thence E. 17.30 chains to a stone, Peeler and Hoffner's corner; thence S. 18 chains Town officers. Elections. Notice of elections, when dispensed with. Qualifications of mayor. Qualifications of electors. Manufacture and hibited. to a black-oak on Mahaley's line; thence E. 29.50 chains to a stake in a road; thence N. 32 chains to Kluttz's corner; thence N. 6.50 chains to an oak stump, Hoffner's and Frick's corner; thence N. 14 W. 40 chains to a rock in Peeler's field; thence west, crossing public road at a branch at 20 chains; and thence again west to the beginning. SEC. 3. That the officers of said town shall consist of a Mayor, five Aldermen, a Tax Collector, and Police; and the Aldermen, when qualified as required by law, may elect a Town Clerk and other officers necessary to the preservation and regulation of the town's best interests. SEC. 4. That there shall be held, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and three, and every two years thereafter, in some convenient place in said town, to be designated by notice of the time and place thereof, posted in three public places in said town, or published in some newspaper published in said county, for four consecutive weeks, an election for a Mayor and five Aldermen, who shall hold their offices until their successors are qualified. Said election shall be ordered by the Board of Commissioners of Rowan County, after giving the notice required in this act, and the Registrar and two Judges of Election shall be appointed by said Board of Commissioners, and a new registration shall be ordered by said Board of Commissioners, and said election shall be held and the result declared, as near as may be, according to Chapter 750 of the Public Laws of the year 1901. SEC. 5. That after the first election held in pursuance to the provisions of the preceding section, the said Board of Aldermen may dispense with the notice of the time and place for holding the election provided for in this act: Provided, they shall establish, by ordinance or otherwise, a permanent polling place in said town. SEC. 6. That any qualified elector in this State shall be eligible as Mayor or Aldermen: Provided, he shall have resided within the corporate limits of said town for six months next preceding the day of election. SEC. 7. That all persons entitled to vote in the county of Rowan for members of the General Assembly, and who shall have been bona fide residents of the town of Faith ninety (90) days next preceding the day of election, and shall be otherwise qualified to vote as required by law, shall be entitled to vote at any and all municipal elections for said town. SEC. 8. There shall be no intoxicating liquors or intoxicating wines sale of liquors pro- or beers manufactured or sold within said town, or within a radius of two miles of any part of said town line, and any person violating this act shall be fined fifty dollars for each offence. Ordinances, etc. SEC. 9. The Board of Aldermen of said town may adopt and enact such ordinances, rules and regulations for the government of said town, and preserving the peace and abating nuisances, as in their judgment may seem reasonable and just, and may enforce the same by fine, not exceeding $50, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days on the public roads of the county, or be worked on the streets of said town. ordinances. SEC. 10. When any person has violated or does hereafter violate Mayor may enforce any ordinance that the Board of Aldermen may enact, the Mayor may enforce the same by a fine for its violation, or a term to be served on its streets or on the public roads of the county, as set forth in the preceding section; and when any person is ordered to pay a fine and shall fail or refuse to pay same, then the Mayor Commitment of ofshall issue a commitment to its officer or to the Sheriff of said fenders. county to receive said person, and shall state in said commitment the number of days the said person shall work on the streets or public roads aforesaid, and its officer or the Sheriff shall thereupon turn said person over to the proper authorities, to be worked on said streets or road. SEC. 11. The Mayor of said town shall have the same criminal Jurisdiction of jurisdiction over all criminal matters arising within the limits of mayor. the town that Justices of the Peace now have, in addition to the jurisdiction of violations of the ordinances of said town, and his warrants may be served anywhere in the county by the town officers or the Sheriff of the county. SEC. 12. That in addition to the powers conferred on the Aldermen Corporate powers. in the corporated towns enumerated in Chapter 62 of The Code of The Code. North Carolina, and which is hereby made a part of this chapter, etc. land. the said Aldermen shall have full power to lay out and open any Laying out streets, new street or streets within the corporate limits of said town, whenever by them deemed necessary, and of [the] necessity thereof the said Aldermen are to be the sole judges within the said corporation. Condemnation of And they shall have power at any time to widen, enlarge, change, Procedure. extend or discontinue any street or streets, or any part thereof, within the corporate limits of said town, and shall have full power and authority to condemn, appropriate or use any land or lands necessary for any of the purposes named in this section, upon making a reasonable compensation to the owner or owners of the lands sought to be condemned or appropriated for public use by the Aldermen; and if the Aldermen cannot agree as to the compensation, then the matter shall be referred to arbitration, the Aldermen and owners of the land each choosing one freeholder and a qualified elector of said town; and in case the owner of the land sought to be condemned shall refuse to choose such an arbitrator, then the Mayor shall, in his stead, choose such arbitrator for him or her; and in case the two chosen as aforesaid cannot agree, then the arbitrators so chosen shall elect an umpire, like qualified as themselves, whose duty it shall be to examine the land sought to be condemned, and Priv-53 Appeal. May prohibit the running at large of certain animals. Police regulations. Authority of tax collector. Collection of taxes. ascertain the damages that will be sustained by, and the benefits accruing to, [the] owner, in consequence of the taking and appropriating of said land, and award to the said owner the amount, if any, that shall be paid by the town for the use of the land so taken, and the award of the arbitrators shall be conclusive of the rights of the parties, and shall vest in the Aldermen the right to use the land for the purpose for which it was condemned; and the damages agreed upon between the owners of the land and the Board of Aldermen, as awarded by the arbitrators, shall be paid as other town liabilities: Provided, that either party may appeal to the Superior Court of Rowan County. SEC. 13. That the said board may prohibit the running at large of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, jacks, goats and such other live-stock in the corporate limits of said town, and are hereby empowered to make such rules and regulations as they may deem best for the impounding and sale of all the animals mentioned in this section, as well as other live-stock not mentioned, from roaming at large within the corporate limits of said town, contrary to the ordinances of said town. SEC. 14. That the said Board of Aldermen are hereby empowered to enact such police regulations as may be necessary for the government of the town. SEC. 15. That the Tax Collector shall collect the taxes of said town, and shall have the same right, powers and authority as the Sheriff of the county now has, or may hereafter [have], for the collection of State and county taxes; and said Tax Collector shall be governed by the same laws, rules and regulations, in regard to the collection of taxes and levies and sales for taxes, that said Sheriffs are governed by for the collection of State and county taxes; but before the aforesaid Tax Collector shall have any right or authority to collect taxes, he shall give a good and sufficient bond to said town, to be approved by the Aldermen of said town, in such sum as To also be a peace they may deem sufficient. The said Tax Collector shall, ex-officio, be a peace officer of said town, with full power and authority to serve the processes of said town, anywhere in the county, and the Board of Aldermen may combine in one the office of Policeman and Tax Collector, if they should so desire. Official bond. officer. Taxation. SEC. 16. The Board of Aldermen shall, at the time State and county taxes are levied, annually levy an ad valorem tax on property, real and personal, not exceeding twenty-five cents on every one hundred dollars worth of property, as assessed for the State and county taxes, and according to the same valuations assessed for State and county taxes, and shall place a per capita tax on every male residing within the said town, liable to pay poll-taxes, as now provided by law, a poll-tax not exceeding seventy-five cents per head; the Constitution and laws of the State to be observed in the assessing of property and levying of taxes, and the collection of taxes and sales of property for the same. SEC. 17. The Board of Aldermen may fix the salaries of the officers Salaries of officers. of said town and pay the same from any money in the hands of the Treasurer. Taxes, costs and penalties shall be used as the said Aldermen may deem for the best interest of said town. pay fines may be SEC. 18. The Mayor may work on the streets of said town all per- Persons failing to sons failing to pay his or their fine and penalties, instead of sending worked on streets. them to the public roads of the county, as prescribed above. SEC. 19. The said Board of Aldermen, at the time of levying ad License tax on trades, professions, valorem and poll-taxes, shall levy such privilege or license tax on etc. trades, shows, exhibitions, and on such things as are liable for a tax under the revenue laws of the State then in force. The revenue laws of 1903 of this State, and every revenue law hereafter of the State, shall be made a part of this act, to govern and enable the said Aldermen to levy such license tax as they desire. money to erect SEC. 20. The Board of Aldermen of said town shall have the right Power to borrow to borrow a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for the purpose school house, town of a school, aid in erecting a school-house, building a town hall, or hall, etc. Mayor's office, or repairing the streets of said town, and may pledge for same. the faith and credit of said town to secure the same, and execute Execution of bond a bond or note in the name of the town, signed by the Mayor thereof, with the seal of said town, and attested by the Tax Collector of said town that said note or bond shall be valid and legal in every respect in the hands of the bona fide holder thereof. SEC. 21. That the said town shall have the right to sue and be Corporate powers. sued, sign all legal documents or papers, execute its notes and bonds in its corporate limits, as "The Town of Faith," and by this name shall it transact all of its business. The said Aldermen may fine and remove any of its officers for cause or neglect of duty. SEC. 22. That the Board of Aldermen shall have the right to Vacancies on fill all vacancies in the offices of said town caused by death, removal Board of Alderfrom said town, resignation or otherwise. SEC. 23. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this 9th day of March, A. D. 1903. men, how filled. |