1899 private laws – Ch.307 Sec.67
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CHAPTER 307 An act to amend the charter cf the town of Sanford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the aldermen of said town shall have power to contract for a water supply and for furnishing the town with lights; they shall have power to make permanent and exclusive contracts with any individual, corporation or company to build waterworks and furnish said town with water, and grant exelusive privileges and permission to use the streets of the town for said purpose. They may have work done on the country roads leading into the town, and appropriate money from the town treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for such work and improvement. They shall have power to exempt from taxation such manufacturing establishments in the town of Sanford as they may think proper and for the best interests of the community.