FlUDAY, MARCH T, Itl*
THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C.
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GROCERIES
A PENNY SAVED IS A pm HADE-
We are out of the high-rent-district,
and in these war-ridden times it behooves
all of us to save every penny. We want
your business and will appreciate it when
we get it. Come in and let us get ac
quainted.
R. P. Kilpatrick
GROCERIES, NOTIONS AND SHOES
Phone 141 Near Depot. Brevard, N. C.
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Brevard Lumber Co.
THE WAR IS OVER. NOW IS THE
TIME TO DO THAT BUILDING YOU
HAD PLANNED. WE CARRY A FULL
LINE OF BUILDING MATERIAL AT
AS LOW PRICE AS IT CAN BE SOLD.
PRICES ARE LIKELY TO STAY UP
FOR SOME TIME, SO YOU NEED NOT
WAIT ANY LONGER TO DO YOUR
BUILDING.
Brevard Lumber
Company
FRANK JENKINS, Manager
Phone 120
Close to Depot
BREVARD,
NORTH CAROLINA
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DRAINAGE FOR
THISCOUNTY
Raleigh, March 1, 1919.—Repre
sentative Lyday has introduced the
following bill providing for the drain
age of streams in Transylvania coun
ty. The passage of this bill may
place the county in position to secure
Federal aid. It provides:
Sec. 1. That the County Commis
sioners of Transylvania County, and
their successors in office be and they
are hereby appointed and constituted
a commission to drain the rivers and
creeks and their tributaries in Tran
sylvania County, and to be known as
“Transylvania County Drainage Com
mission,” and iif that name they shall
have the right to contract and be
contracted with, sue and be sued and
generally to do what may be neces
sary to be done in order to make ef
fectual the drainage of the creeks
and their tributaries in Transylvania
County, North Carolina. They shall
have the power and authority to pur
chase all necessary machinery, dredg
ing machine, tools and appliances and
any other material that may be neces
sary to carry out this work, and shall
have the right to borrow money, is
sue notes therefor, which shall be
come a lein on the property that is
to be drained, said notes to be paid
off out of the first money collected
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Said Commission shall meet
and organize after the ratification of
this Act, and the Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners shall
be the Chairman of the Drainage
Commission, and the Clerk of the
Board of County Commissioners shall
be the Secretary of the Drainage
Commission, and the Treasurer of
Transylvania County shall be the
Treasurer of the Drainage Commis
sion.
Sec. 3. When a petition has been
filed by a majority of the land owners
of any drainage district of Transyl
vania County, said petition to set
forth the boundary of said district,
and the amount of tax to be levied;
then the Commissioners are hereby
authorized, empowered and directed
to levy a special tax on all of the
lands in said District at their June
session, said tax to be collected in
the same manner as other taxes in
Transylvania County, and to be held
by the Treasurer of said County, and
to be paid out by him on warrants
issued by the said Transylvania Coun
ty Drainage Commission.
Sec. 4. After the petition has been
filed with the Commission establish
ing the drainage district, and acted
upon by the Commission, it shall be
their duty to employ a competent en
gineer to survey the lands that are to
be drained in said District, and said
surveyor shall immediately make an
accurate survey of all the lands in
said district that will be benefitted
by drainage, and shall furnish to the
commissioners the name of each land
owner, and the number of acres own
ed by each land owner that is to be
benefitted, and this list is to consti
tute that land on which the special
taxes are to be levied.
Sec. 5. The lands to be improved
in any drainage district shall be di
vided into two classes which shall be
known as Class A and Class B. The
lands receiving the most benefit from
drainage to be known as Class “A,”
and the lands receiving less benefits
to be known as Class “B,” and the
scale of assessment upon the class of
land shall be in the ratio of one to
two, that is to say, that the land in
Class “A” shall be assessed twice as
much as the land in Class “B.”
Sec. 6. After the surveyor shall
have filed a list of the land owners
showing the number of acres and the
different classes, with the Commission
the Commission will then deliver the
list to the tax collector of Transyl
vania County with an order to collect
a special tax as is shown by said list,
and the same shall have the force and
effect of a judgment as in the case
of State and County taxes, and shall
be collected in the same manner, with
the same power, same responsibility,
and settled in the same way as taxes
are required to be collected and set
tled under the general laws.
Sec. 7. The Commission shall have
the right to levy a^ually on all of
the lands in any drainage district un
til such amount has been collected to
meet and pay off &ny indebtedness
that may have contracted by the
Commission in the drainage of any
District.
Sec. 8. The Commissioners or their
agents shall have the power :o re
move or cause to be remove 1 from
the banks of any stream included in
any drainage district, all such growth
or other hindrances as tend to re
tard rapid flow of the water in said
stream, and shall have the right from
time to time, its agents and employ
ees or any contractors, to enter upon
any land along said water course for
the purpose of carrying out the im
provements and work contemplated
in this Act; and shall, after the coin-
pletion of same, haye the right to en
ter upon said Iscnds at any time for
the purpose of performing any work,
making repairs or clearing away ob
structions.
Sec. 9. Each member of said Com
mission shall receive two dollars per
day for his services for the time ac
tually required to carry out the pro
visions of this Act.
Sec. 10'. The said Commission is
hereby authorized, and empowered
to borrow moneV to anticipate the
tax that may be levied under this
Act.
Sec. 11. This Act shall be in force
from and after its ratification.
NOTICE OF RE-SALE.
North Carolina,—Transylvania Coun
ty—In the Superior Court,—Before
the Clerk.
L. P. Suromey, Amanda Burns, G.
W. Sommey, T. B. Summey, Rachel
Kilpatrick, C. C. Kilpatrick, Emma
Loftis, and T. T. Loftis.
vs.
Louis Allison, Street Allison, John
Allison, Mitchel Allison, Mary Gresh
am, Robt. Gresham, Minnie ^mmey,,
Maggie Long, and Husband
Long, and Cison.
Under and by virtue of an order
and judgement of the Superior Court
of Transylvania County made in the
Special I^oceeding entitled as above
set out, the undersigned commissioner
Will, on Monday the 17, day of March
1919 at 12 o’clock M. at the Court
House Door in Brevard, Transylvania
County, North Carolina, offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash; all,
those certain tracts or parcels of land j
ying and being in Transylvania Coun- j
ty, and in Dunns Rock Township ad
joining the lands of the E. E. Batson
heirs, Eubanks, Candler’s et. al., and
bounded as follows, viz:—
FIRST TRACT:—
Begining on a white oak on the east
side of a small creek and runs south
GOdeg. east 100 poles to a stake in
the Candler line; then with said line
south 66% deg. east 200 poles to a
stake; then north 20 deg. east 10
poles to the Eubank corner, a white
oak; then same course with said line
20 poles to a stake in Robert Crissim’s
line; Thence with his line north 58
deg. west 210 poles to his corner;
Thence with the Henry line north 54
deg. west 105 poles to a stake; Thence
south 5 deg.- west 80 poles to the be
gining, containing 100 acres more or
less.
SECOND TRACT:—
Begining at a white oak and do-
wood and runs a westerly direction to
a spruce pine; Thence southwest to a
white oak. Thence southwest to a
ickory in Batson’s line: Thence north
west with the trail to a Blackgum,
corner made between E. E. Batson’s
and John Summey, Sr.; Thence a
northerly direction crossing a branch
to the top of a ridge on the southeast
side of a chestnut flat; Thence north
east along the ridge to said Summeys
line; Thence to the beginning; Said to
about 50 acres more or less.
Said sale for partition between the
plaintiffs and defendants as tenants
in common;
This the 21, day of February 1919,
J. H. PICKILSIMER,
COMMISSIONER.
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