1907 private laws – Ch.424 Sec.60

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CHAPTER 424 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of commissioners shall not issue said bonds nor any of them, nor levy or collect said tax, until it shall have been authorized and empowered so to do by a majority of the qualified voters of said town at an election to be held at such time as said board may appoint, of which election notice shall be given for not less than thirty days in some newspaper published in said town, and at such an election those favoring the issue of said bonds and the levy and collection of the tax for the payment of said bonds and coupons shall vote a ballot upon which is written or printed the word Improvements, and those opposing the same shall vote a written or printed ballot containing the words No Improvements. Said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as elections for mayor and other town officials: Provided, that the board of commissioners may in its discretion order a new registration of voters: Provided further, that a failure of the voters to ratify this act in any election held: as aforesaid shall not prevent the board of county commissioners in its, discretion from causing a subsequent election to be held for the same purpose.

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