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- Laws and resolutions of the State of North Carolina, passed by the General Assembly at its session [1885]
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- 1885
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Laws and resolutions of the State of North Carolina, passed by the General Assembly at its session [1885]
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1SS5. — Private — Chapter 29.
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CHAPTER 29.
Au act to incorporate “Prineeville” iu tiie comity of Edgecombe.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the town of Princeville, in the county
of Edgecombe, be and the same is hereby incorporated
by the name and style of “ Princeville,” and shall be sub¬
ject to all the provisions of law applicable to the town of
Tarboro, save iu so far as they are modified by the further
sectious of this act.
Sec. 2. That the corporate limits of said town shall be
as follows: Beginning at the upper side of the Albemarle
and Raleigh Railroad bridge on the hank of Tar river,
opposite Tarboro.; thence running a straight line to Battle
Bryan’s lower spring; thence west two hundred and fifty
yards; thence south-east a line parallel to the Albemarle
and Raleigh Railroad, seven hundred and fifty yards;
thence east sis hundred yards to a stake in H. H. Shaw’s
field; thence north to Tar river bank; thence dowu said
river bank to the beginning.
Sec. 3. That the officers of said corporation shall con¬
sist of a mayor, five commissioners, clerk, treasurer and
a constable.
Sec. 4. The first election for mayor and commissioners
shall be held in May, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-six, and until the officers under said first election
qualify, the following shall be the officers of said corpora¬
tion upon qualifying, by giving the proper bonds, and tak¬
ing tbe prescribed oaths : Mayor, Milton Pittman ; Commis¬
sioners, Turner Prince, M. S. Dancy, Harry Smith, Orren
James and Pleury Sparrow; Clerk, Victor E. Howard;
Treasurer-, Gordon Jenkins; Constable, John Henry Nor¬
fleet.
Sec. 5. That the authority to tax real and personal
estate and polls shall be limited to ten cents annually on
Princeville. Edge¬
combe county,
incorporated.
Corporate limits.
Officers of tbe
corporation.
Election, when
held.
Until election,
officers named.
Tax limited to
10 cents on 8100.
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