1889 private laws – Ch.241 Sec.28
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CHAPTER 241 An act to amend the charter of the town of Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That it shall not be lawful for the board of county commissioners to grant any license to retail spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of the town or within two miles thereof without permission in writing first obtained by the person or persons applying to the said county commissioners for such license from the commissioners of the town therein being, such permission to be granted at a regular meeting of the town commissioners; and if any license be granted without such permission so granted and attested by the clerk of the board of town commissioners and exhibited to the board of county commissioners and filed with the clerk of said board, the same shall be utterly void, and the persons retailing under such licenses shall be liable to indictment as for retailing without license, and shall, moreover, forfeit to the town the sum of fifty doilars.