collected for the poor, and for other County purposes, on said lists, on or before the first day of the Spring Term, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, of the Superior Court of Carteret County, to such person or persons, as the said County Commissioners may direct; and on failure of the said Sheriff to pay the said County taxes as herein required, the said Superior Court at the Spring Term, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, thereof, may, on motion of the said Commissioners, render judgment against the said Sheriff and his sureties, (ten days' notice having been previously given to them,) for the amount of such taxes then due, and on failure of the said Sheriff to pay the State taxes to the Treasurer as herein required, the Treasurer may recover the same in the manner now prescribed by law for the recovery of State taxes from delinquent Sheriffs. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 11th day of December, A. D. 1868. CHAPTER III. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS IN ALL Preamble. WHEREAS, Doubts and uncertainty exists as to the true construction of the registration law of the State; therefore, SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina Persons heretofore do enact, That all persons heretofore registered as voters in registered allowed this State, shall be allowed to vote in all special elections. to vote. SEC. 2. That in all special elections held in this State Judges to register under proclamation of the Governor or otherwise, it shall tofore registered. be the duty of the Judges holding said election in the sev eral precincts to register on application all persons who When act to take cfect. have not heretofore been registered, subject to all the require ments of the general registration law of the State. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its rati fication. Ratified the 16th day of December, A. D. 1868. CHAPTER IV. Company authorized to continue Construction of Ikul. Proviso to ordiRance repealed. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CHERAW AND COAL SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the charter of the Cheraw and Coalfields Rail Road Company be, and the same is hereby so altered and amended as to authorize the said Company to continue the construction of their said Road, from such point on the South Carolina line as may be selected by the said Company, to a point on the line of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road, at or near Wadesboro', with the privilege of extending the same across the track of the said Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road to such point on the North Carolina Rail Road at or near Salisbury as may be selected by said Company. SEC. 2. That the proviso to an ordinance entitled an ordinance to repeal the ninth section of the charter of the Cheraw and Coalfields Rail Road, as amended by the Legislature of eighteen hundred and sixty and eighteen hundred and sixty-one, ratified on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the said Company be allowed five years, from the ratification of this act, to complete their Road to the crossing of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road, and five additional years thereto to complete the extension hereby authorized. SEC. 3. That the name of the said Company shall be, and the same is hereby changed from that of the "Cheraw and Coalfields Rail Road Company," to that of the "Cheraw and Salisbury Rail Road Company." SEC. 4. Provided further, That no discrimination shall be made in tariffs in favor of either North or South Carolina Rail Road, crossing or connecting with this Road. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from its ratification. Name changed. No discrimination of tariff. CHAPTER V. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE HOLDING OF MUNICIPAL ELEC TIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Voters. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina de Qualification of enact, That no person not actually residing within the corporate limits of any Town in this State shall be entitled to vote therein in any municipal election, or to hold any municipal election, or to hold any municipal office in said town. SEC. 2. An actual residence of ten days within the corporate limits of any Town in this State shall constitute any citizen of the United States a qualified voter therein in any inunicipal election, and such qualified voter shall be eligi ble to any municipal office within said corporation: Provided, That said person is in other respects a qualified voter in the State. SFC. 3. All acts or charters, or parts of the same incon- Repealing clause. sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall go into effect from and after its rat ification. Ratified the 16th day of December, A. D. 1868. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JAMES F. WHITE, FORMER SHERIFF To collect taxes due for the years 1866-67. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That James F. White, former Sheriff of the County of Gaston, is authorized to collect the amount of taxes still due on the tax lists of his County for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixtyseven: Provided, That said ex-Sheriff shall not collect taxes out of any tax-payer who may make affidavit before any Magistrate that he has formerly paid the taxes aforesaid, and has lost the receipt for the same: And provided further, That the authority given said White by this act shall cease on the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixtynine. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 16th day of December, A. D. 1868. CHAPTER VII. AN ACT TO RE-ENACT AND CONFIRM CERTAIN ACTS OF THE Preamble. WHEREAS, Doubts have been raised as to the validity of bonds of the State issued to and for certain Rail Road Companies under acts whose titles are hereinafter recited; and whereas, it is the purpose of this General Assembly to place the validity of such bonds beyond question; now, therefore, SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Williamston and Tarboro' Rail Road Company," ratified the seventeenth day of August, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Western North Carolina Rail Road Company," ratified the nineteenth day of August, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and all the provisions thereof be and the same are hereby re-enacted and in all things confirmed, and they are hereby constituted part of this act; and all bonds of the State heretofore made and issued to and for the Rail Road Companies and for the purposes in said act specified, and in pursuance of the same, are hereby ratified and made good to all intents. and purposes as if issued under and in pursuance of the provisions of this act. the Acts of August 17 and 19, 1868, re-en acted and confirmed. to issue new bonds. SEC. 2. That on the surrender of any of the bonds here- Treasurer required tofore issued under and by virtue of any one of said acts, Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to issue and substitute new bonds of the State, of like tenor and date, executed in like manner and in all respects similar, for such bonds so surrendered, except that such new and substituted bonds shall be issued and purport to be issued under and by virtue of this act, and the bonds so surrendered shall be burnt by the Treasurer in the presence of the Governor and Auditor, who shall cause to be made and sign a certificate specifying the number and dates of such bonds so burnt and the acts under which the same were issued, and the Treasurer shall report such action and certificate to the General Assembly. A tax of one-thircent. to be levied an nually to pay interest. tieth of one per SEC. 3. In order to provide for the payment of the interest that may, from time to time, accrue upon such bonds 80 issued under said acts and the bonds to be issued and so substituted under this act, there shall be annually levied and collected a special tax of one-thirtieth of one per cent. on the taxable property of the State to pay the interest of one-thirtieth of that has accrued and may, from time to time, accrue on the A special tax to be annually levied one per cent. to pay interest. PUB. 4.] |