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Friday, Aug. 2, 1935. MANY CHANGES INIOCAI, LAWS PASS IN RFV1FW Last Session Notable One From Recent Comprehensive Survey By: Horry Brandis. Jr., Dillnrd S. Q.-rdnrr. T. N. G'icr. the amount of taxes involved is, in i th ir opini n, too small to justify t ;e cost involved in the foreclosure 1 proceeding. ? GAS, I I OIL, I -J- All Accessories for | ? Your Car X iDrive in and let us ser-t |vice your car with those? | Good Gulf Products | |'"SERVICE WITH A f I SMILE" I | MURPHY SERVICE \ I STATION \ | A. J. Hembree, Prop. | Foil win? a practice inaugurated in 1933 Th Institute ?f Gov.rnment pr se: ts h re with, tor the .onvei: ience of I cal official- and the press, a summary of th new* local .:?\v- : feet., ir Cherokee ' unty. ;*s <tie-, towns. subd. visions ;r.?i c?t:? z lis. Of i uvse .many general law.i'?s.? affect th County, but space PHB88^*>'"W?WBHPHS|5HHh aiunmar. ize M. A summary thes jren< : al. -wide I ?v> may be found I i thHh'-iv-June issue cf Popular | Gove nnii' f. Th * Institute's ma-a- ; L . T. - summ.iy fo: the (' it tty , v U !-.: ' only s*r:c!I\ i >cai laws end go vera! laws from which the inty r soma part of th. C i -peci ticaliy excepted. No attem. p will b made t?? include bids whi h were intiodu. d but never became la. f. LAWS AFFIh TING THE EXTIRE C UN TV. A. Tax Laws. i. Chapter 2<55. PuU e-Locul La.vs validates all -ales held a:: 1 tax c rt;ficati--ued l?\ the County or any n. :ni'vap i y in the t jn:v t r the yeai s 1. _ 7 1 i?t:?. It e..*e d? to Octol ; 1. i: ". th tint? within which t ! e -tires suit- may be instil ut 1 f" taxes <!u ill 19-'7.11'22. \Vh"r sui i tax f rcclosures had al, , lv bee:. instituted, but mmous id iu>l ? t*i? sen ii. either by personal service or publicat: n. or a'iiis of pluties summons ha'! not eon issu d at :he proper time. ihe Chapter allows until Octl. 1935, to perfect - vices f s-iiii,,,' . in whatever i.nann r may be ivci'. y. I" also validate'- such stM* < - <d imnvws as ha?? air ady bee made at im; i p?r times, ant. pr ?t - i? all such : reclosure suits should ho overn ?1 b> t e laws in force at the time such s iit.- were instituted. ?T the ext nt ii...t this : revision minrht iutho. :;/.< taxing? as costs any attorney's fi- t*y.-eeciir.tr $2.50 it was probably r jieated by a su sequer tly pas>ed geneini law). Finally, the Chtpter I r vides that w.. . re tax c rtiticatehave i. t been sold f >r 1927-1933 taxes, the\ may be sold ?>n the first Monday of a y m nth before July 1. 193.". 2. Mous Bill 1035, ratified May 10, 1925, canceled all unpaid penalti and .nterest on tax -ale certifi- j rates for 1927-1932 taxes held by ' the C*oun':y o its municipaliti s.| ..'ever, an;, costs incurred in tax 1 are pr<?eei nin^r.- we'-e nv?t t s.Jice! Wker. s i. owned by s mesone other than ; l -e C' 1.1 y ' . a mu: ivi; alky, the taxpayer is allow d to red em his I-.,pelt; l-y y:::g t the cer?:fi.n; h I,lor the mount the latter pa;'. r th . 'rtificat . any expenses incurred by him, ami C, interest S cli I lynicnt- imm' be made to the . r. t.ficate hnlil i prior to f iSclosur . All provisions of the Chapter so fay menti >ned must be taken advant .gr of by the tax; ay r by paying the 1 < rtifieates (,n or before Sept. 1. 1'I35. Finally the Chapter authorize' governing auth titi s holding eerti. fir. res to refuse to foreclose i Murphy, North Carolii ;tate." :h ;t Valleytown has boti oid and railroad binds. The Bil xpressly would not authorize as sumption of any part of thes. debt vit ut a-sumi tior f all of them 3nct. the election has been held. r. The Cherokee Scout B. Election Law*. 1. Senate Bill 492 divided th t County in>a 3 districts from each of ? whi h ?"e County Commissi mer is . it nominated and elected, sol y , by the vaters of the district. The ^ three districts ar : 1?Yalleytown E Township; 2 ? Tom??tla Precinct. } Muphy. X "th nd South Ward-, and j Brasst wn, Peachtre and Burnt j Meeting House Precincts; 3? siH , t other pr cinets. * 2. Chapter 4-I4. Public Laws, i limits the rrivileg f absentee vot- c n_ o Federal a id State mpU Vv-es ..ecessarlly absent from the C unty a .p the discharge ??: their duties. Th f t i apter applies ? nly to voting for t unty fficeis, in.imling members 1 <?l the House of R preventatives, but * ; applicable to both primaries and jeneral elections. M 3. Senate Bill 601 rep a led Chap- *' 1 ter 470, Public-L cal Laws of 11*27. * J which 1 lowed one official marker * b- appointed by the Republican c 1 u'Mnpi LieciiOi.s and one by the * _ri-1litr ?. t>eiii c# lie -Judge. 14) l1 a.'ter 4*?1 Public Laws. * xempts :.?k e from that part of the gen. r ral election laws which provides fori ^ n TU??? to Vftlor* - iir nffirial nt^r. ? kers. The Chapter provides that in t hi kee when an elect i requests 1 - stance in marking his ball >: the ( R gisirar shall require him t take ^ oath or affirmation thai: he is un- F aMt to read or wit. or. y reason f ! hys cal infirmity or some ther t good reason, is unable to mark his ,, allot. If th oath or affirmation t ; satisfactory t the Registrar th-?. ?; tiie Registrar may assist the elector c oi may appoint a poll holder if th- f i vuiaui j ui ty as me elector tl to assist the elector in marking his -Hot. The Cha|t r a Is authorizes each Registrar t appoint as many | clerks or assistants as ht deems f, necessary. not \ceedinr one for each i:?0 qualnieu voters in the pre- I ci c".. to perform the duties assigned si by the R pristrar; hut no such clerk _ o* assistant is all wed to g-o in the a v t injr bojth with the voter or to 8]' ;,i\e a voter an assistance in preparing a bil!o~? fm 9 C. Assumption cf Township and District Debts by County. (j House Hill 1'tis authorizes Ch ro. * , ket (' nnty to as>ume tin bonded i iehtedncs- of certain townships i ami a lvai district i: such assump- A . app oved by th. v ters at a B special el- etion culled t ? decide the c nuestion. The townships and dis- C tri t li>ted in the Bill ar Valley- f town and Marble Road District Mui; hy, X >tla, Shoal Creek, Beav r. -1 dam and H thousc, and the Bill | I y Kgoocf Ci neec/s And th: Chesterfie! one again much of another. i w t 1<u the right tobacco ? land and It is thi that ma and Q 1935, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. iction to contest :l vaiumy mi) o K.ujrht unless brought within 3i icy- aft r publication of the elect r. results. I- the !* :.ds ait? ssum y the C unty the Commissi n r: ire eni. wered to adjust and setti md refund the fc nds ??n any bas'.: ?n wiii. an agre men: may Ilea, h d with the bondholders The; ire also authorized t i.-e certaii 7 aunty funds t purchase bonds h market which are in default, a ea>t - to interest. In cwni.t ho. vith any refunding plan, the Com -s: ners m.-.v 1: xperts to assis hem a. ' : a\ : ?.h ixp*r -i :n mount a ?-""ved h\ Lop??l v" ' ! ment Conunuaivn, The Bill >21 ains nunier us other provisions c-n rnir.g the conduct of the ' j *:i .i l tliv; i any rcfu-'uiiij lan. D. Laws Affecting Appoint ert, Compcnsa'ion or Duties o *ounty Officers. i 1J Chapter 163 Public-Iocs! r vide- that W. T. Moore shal erve out his unexpired t rm on th< unty Tax C -mmission and ap ointed J. W. McMillan and W. \X larton to serve on the Commisioi or 4 years from Decemb r 1. 11*33 he last ramtd to serve out the un x pi red term of Walter Anders >n esigncd. The Chapt r also piovide? hat the Register of Deeds shall re eive not nior than $1000 pet ycdj >1 his services in the preparation o he tax books and receipts. <2) Chapter 203, Public Laws, ap Vi .,,.;nn i, r ntvu *4?v 1VII 'H1IIK UUSLILO Ul tIM eace for Cherokee, each to servi tn- <? years: Not la Township?J. W [ilpatrick; Beav-rdam Township? . S. G. Phillips; Shoal Creek Town hip?Ijon Raper; Murphy Townshij -S. D. Akin, J. D. Alall >nee, Jr. <! J. W. Otlell; Valleytown Town hip?J H. Bryson ami \Y. W. Ashe <3) Chapter 296, Public Laws ppointed Fr d Martin, W. S. Dick y and R. H. King to serve on tin ounty Board of Education, eaci or two years. (1) Chapter 14S, i*ublie-Loca aus. app inted Harve Mhitaker o kndr us. Tom King of Ranker am lascomb Carroll of Murphy to sue eed th m.selves as the County Jurj ommission and serve for 2 ye .1: rom March 10, 1935. It was j1s< no v ides that in March 46 instead 0, qualified jurors he drawn, fron hich a grand jury is to be selects ?. 1 igarette, too 7? / t ?? it's why the tobaccos in Id are carefully balanced st the other . . . not too one ? not too little of te the right amounts of kinds of four types of - Bright, Burley, MaryTurkish. '5 balancing of tobaccos ikes Chesterfields milder ikes them taste better. la 1 at the April term, the remainder to I serve as p tit jurors for the first - w ek of thit term. 3 (5) Hou< Bill 13 5*? uuthonz?; n\ duly appointed and qualified * deputy sheriff in <*h rokee to se*-ve in th. Sheriffs stead in laying >ut a * hmesteai. (0) Chapter 259, Pub lie.Local Laws, authorizes the Coun y Commissioners, in th ir discretion t? relieve x-Sheriff N. \V. Aberna. ox" liability for money recited to s : have b en "lost in the failure if anks in which th. Commissioners lequired him t_> deposit funds. The i preamble to the Chapter stat s that i the amount invloved is $1535. t 1 E. Game Laws. . j tl) and (2) Chapter Id", Public - iav-. a-* mended by Chapter 238, * Public Laws, fix d special game i ea- ns in 9 western counties? - ...m.ly. Buncombe, Cherokee ,C,lay, - Giaham. Hay wo d, Henderson. Jack so . Swain and Transylvania. Th i seasons fixed are as follows: squir? el Sept. 15 ts Dee. 15; rabbit r Nov. 2' to Feb. 1 ; quail Nov. 20 to - 1 f?x? y-Jf rounti open seas n f I hunting fox s with dogs only, and no change in seasons for o.her , ! t\p.s of fox hu-.ting. The Chapt r 1 al?o m sies ;t a misdemeanor, in ihese C ?.unties, ] unishable by not _ ni"ie than $50 line or 30 days in j&il, to sell squirrel to any hotel, ' st urant l other buv.-r .fn?* riio I irarkct or otherwise. In so far as these game regulations may be in ; conflict with the g>nerl gam. law i (Cnapter 486, Public Laws), sub. [i -equently passed, they are probably I. repeal <1. } i Chapter 2s, Public Laws, ap! Il.abL or.ly to Cherokee, extended - ie s ..sou for hunting quail and rab' . its Feb. 20, applicable in 1935 nlv. <4) House Bill 734 makes it . . misde meanor ,punishable by not - exceeding $50 or 30 days, to tak ish in any manner, either by rod, ' seine, gig, trap or by shooting of dynamite, in Shuler*s Cretk or any :* its tributaries within 2 y a*s af. ter passage of the Chapter. (5) .i use Bill 1336 continues in fleet the prohibition against fishing with trot line or basket and snooting ? suck.r. carp and led horse fish in the Valley River so far . s that part . ih River above Andrews is coivf . err.ed, but pel mils such fishing beI I w the Town. F. Other Law*. (1) Chapter 25, Public Laws. ^ v.hich applies to Cherokee, Graham, j-1 Haywood and Madison Counti s, II i rovides that when the records of [i 1 ? y couit hav. been burnt, lost, des,. 2fr TMSw ! " i 111IIHBUy n 11 3 : -<- iiQinnrnnniMtjaggfr^ | MH crficld.. . the cigarette thats . field.. . the cigarette that TAi B tr >yed or stolen, and a copy of anj I part of such records is in xistence. duly certified by a former cleik oi I tnc court (with or without s alt, the clerk of any court shall, upon I resentation of such crt Tied copy R and the payment of hi3 lawful fees. B r.cord the copy upon the minutes or R records of the court The recrd so a made is givtn the same e and lit el feet <rs the original re. 's. e Is c rtitied copy from whi h record * is os mad., on file in or c- titutine r. part of the records ; . 'other S court, is to b. turned to the court IS from which it came and need n t re- K m:in in the custody of t'n- clerk re. cording it. S (2) Chapt r 49, Public Laws, in. IK ease the permisable puni. men*. p for public drunkenness in Cherokee Is to r.ot nror. than $50 or :;n days, |* arid at thorizes Justices : f Mayors w to sentence pris ners for these %f. p .ensts to 30 days on the Stat toads, y requiring the Highway ' mission 31 t,. accent tVffl. (3) Cha; i. 004, I Public Laws, places the t ames of B Mrs. Quincy Whitak r a '1 Mrs. S C cm ntir.a Phillips Pie ce 011 the ]| Confederate widows' p. n toll, J -ubject to apfffava! by th State and j=> L r.erokce Boards 01 Pens ij; (4) Chapter 92, Fub.i. Laws. ;pplying to Cherokee vii a ii am H Counties, pr vides that when it ap. W pears from the records in the office nf ? i the Register ot Deeds that any If" instrument allowed by law b re. t; corded has bten registered :;?;or to % Jan. 1, 1920, without or with relective probat , acknowledgement, | rrcjf, privy, examination, adjudic*- B ion and ordtd of registration, such E insttument may neverthel s> be read fe in evidence in any court if th rwise B compet nt The Chapter does not E-apply to creditors and pur >ers for value or to pending suits j| (5) Cherokee, along with some | twe.lty-cight other counties, is ex- jg ceptid from the provisions of Chap, g ter 362, Public Laws, which pro- B ?des that, beginning with the terms B of those lected in tht general elect- | ion of 1936 Registers of P.eds shall I serve for four instead f two years. B II. LAWS AFFECTING TOWNS I IN CHEROKEE % A. Murphy. p Chapter 155. Private Laws, r de- fl fined the boundaries of th; Town, he recited purpose b ing to exclude B - ?me territory included in 1911 E which has never rec ived any bene- H fits from being included ir. the cor. pomte limits. B E. Andrews. I Chapter 80, Private Laws Continued on hack page R D 1 I ? * 1
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