1891 private laws – Ch.59 Sec.10

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CHAPTER 59 An act to amend the charter of the town of Salisbury. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That a poll shall be opened on the fourth Tuesday in March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, at the usual polling places in said town, when and where all qualified voters residing within the corporate limits of said town shall be entitled to vote. All persons who shall be in favor of issuing the bonds provided for in this act may vote on a written or printed ticket For bonds, and all persons who shall be opposed to the issuing of said bonds may vote on a written or printed ticket Against bonds, and if a majority of all the qualified voters shall vote For bonds, then the provisions of this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, and if a majority of all the qualified voters shall not vote For bonds, then each and every section of this act shall be void and of none effect. The judges for holding said poll shall be appointed by the board of commissioners for said town. There shall be three judges for each ward. They shall hold said poll and make return under their hands and seals on Wednesday following to the board of commissioners for said town, and said board shall declare the result. A registrar for each ward shall be appointed by the board of town commissioners, and they shall open the registration books in their respective wards on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and keep the same open till six oclock p. m. Saturday, the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and all persons not theretofore registered who are duly qualified may register as provided in the general election law. The mayor of said town shall give thirty days notice of holding said poll.

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