1891 private laws – Ch.238 Sec.61

That every owner of a lot or person having as great an interest therein as a lease for three years, which shall front any street on which a sidewalk has been established, shall improve, curb, or pave or repair in such manner as the aldermen may direct-such sidewalk as far as it may extend along such lot, and on failure to do so within thirty days after the notice by the chief of police to said owner, or if he be a non-resident of the county of Guilford, to his agent, or if such non-resident has no agent in said county, or if personal notice cannot be served upon the owner or agent, then after publication of the notice by the chief of police for thirty days in some newspaper published in High Point, calling on the owner to make such repairs, the aldermen may cause the same to be repaired either with brick, stone or gravel, at their discretion, and the expenses shall be paid by the person in default; said expenses shall be a lien on said lot, and if not paid in six months after the completion of the repairs such lot may be sold, or enough of the same to pay such expenses and costs, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, rights of redemption and savings as are prescribed in said charter in sale of land for unpaid taxes.