1885 public laws – Ch.2 Sec.1
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CHAPTER 2 An act to stop a special election in school district number eleven in Cabarrus county. WHEREAS, the board of county commissioners of Ca- barrus, under a petition for that purpose, has ordered an election, in accordance with section 2594 of the Code of North Carolina, to be held in school district number eleven of said county on the third Tuesday of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for levying a special tax to supplement the common schogl fund of the whites in said district ; AND WHEREAS, the citizens of dH school district have agreed and determined in meeting for that purpose, to dispense with said election and to have in lieu thereof their representative and senator to ask this general as- sembly to pass an act to establish a graded school in Con- cord for said school district ; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the board of county commissioners of Cabarrus county, or R. W. Allison, the chairman of. said board, is authorized and empowered to stop and prevent said election, and to take such steps and measures therefor as said board or chairman may deem proper.