Che Library of the University of North Carolina Callertion of North Caroliniana From ki barry of Ww.h. Saun ers Oia C4G6n'J Con fo ee CT oe ee GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE Ves Perl CN eer Gtrouletlen of enamel uZill, RATIFIED 29th OF JANUARY 1851; AND TE ORDINANCES O® THE CouMISSION ERS, 7 \ REVISED AND ADOPTED 19th March 1859. ~’% CHAPEL HILL : PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. MENDERSON, ‘ 1859. # # ene, LP PPL P PID IP PP LPP LILIPPLIPLP PLL PPPDPPPP IPL DPI ANAL PRP ™ LAWS AND ORDINANCES. OF THE VILLAGE OF CHAPEL HILL. SPP RRA ARAL RU UA PPLP LL LVI PLL LPL LL het iene OT ree hs oP Ed By FAC 1! OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE Getter Grnalation of Chay! Lau, RATIFIED 29th OF JANUARY 1851; THE ORDINANCES OF THE COMMISSIONERS, REVISED AND ADOPTED 19th March 1859. CHAPEL HILL: PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. HENDERSON. 1859. bs Ab fy 4, ns ry : Teeraye ; i ti be Oy i “ (Ete iy INCORPORATION. AN ACT FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF CHAPEL HILL. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of thesame, That A. Mickle, C. Scott, Foster Utley, John H. Wat" son, John Ward, and their successors in office, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name of ‘‘ The Commissioners of Chapel Hill ;” and as such, shall have all the powers and privil- eges necessary for the proper government of said village. Seco. 2. Beit further enacted, That on the first Thursday in February, in every year, the citizens of Chapel Hill shall elect five persons Commissioners thereof, who shall remain in office one year, and until the election of their successors. >a SNL Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligi- ble as a Commissioner unless he be a resident and the owner of an acre lot, or freehold estate of the value of five hundred dollars in said village; nor shall any person vote insaid election but free white males at the age of twenty-one years, subject to taxation, and resident therein six months immediately preceeding the day of election. Sec. 4. Be a further enacted, That any Justice of the Peace or any two citizens of the village elligible to the office of Com- missioner, (in case there be no resident Justice of the Peace,) may hold the election and determine who are elected. A Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners, as soon as may be after the election, shall choose a resident of the village 6 (not of there own body,) a Magistrate of Police to preside at their meetings, and give a casting vote in case of atie; a Town Treasurer, Constable and Clerk. They shall ascertain and settle the boundaries of Chapel Hill, and cause a plot thereof to be re- corded in the journal of their proceedings; and may, on or be- fore the first day of April in each year, assess the value of town property (Students of the University, and property owned by the Trustees thereof, excepted,) as they may deem proper, and apply the revenue arising therefrom to the construction, im- provement and repair of the streets, and to such other purposes as they may deem conducive to the prosperity of the village. Sec. 6. Be tt further enacted, That the Town Constable, when directed by the Commissioners, shall proceed to collect the tax- es; and in the execution of his duty, shall have all the authori- ty, and may use all the means, exercised and used by the Sher- iffs of this State.in the collection of public taxes. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all residents of the vil- lage, and persons owning property therein, shall, on or before the first day of April, annually, make a written statement of all taxable polls and property for which they,may be accountable, and deliver the same to the Magistrate of Police. Any person fail- ing to make such statement, shall be subject toa double tax ; and it shall be the duty of the Town Constable, on the requisi- tion of the Commissioners, to proceed to collect the same, on all such unreturned persons and property. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners shall appoint a Patrol, ,to consist of all white males, residents of said village, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, (members of the Faculty and Students of the University except- ed,) and shall divide into as many companies as they may deem proper, and direct the time for the performance of duty by each company. Any person who shall fail to perform such duty, (ex- cept for good cause, to be judged of by the Commissioners,) shall forfeit the sum of one dollar for each failure ; and it shall be the duty of the Town Constable to collect and pay over the same to the Town Treasurer. 7 Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to adopt proper ordinances, and use all other lawful measures for the suppression of nuisances, the proper reg- ulation of shop-keepers, and the exclusion of itinerant venders of spirituous liquors, and all other articles, the sale Me which is not licensed by the laws of this State. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That all enactments, coming within the perview of this act, are hereby repealed; and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. ORDINANCES. Br rt Orpainep by the Commissioners of Chap-- el Hill, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same: | I. That the boundaries of the. village are, and shall be as follows, to wit: Franklin street shall be- gin at the point of intersection with a road to Pu- refoy’s Mill, in the lands of John Craig, and extend. North 63° 40’; East, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two yards, to the point where it intersects the line of the land owned by the Trustees of the University. Raleigh Street shall extend to a point in a line parallel with Franklin Street, which shall in- elude the Grave Yard—and Hillsborough Street to. a point ina line parallel with Franklin Street, which. shall be equidistant from said Street, with the term- inus of Raleigh Street. The exterior boundary shall be a rectangle, formed by hnes passing through these four points, including by computation, an area of eight hundred and thirty-nine acres and one sixth of an acre. It. The Town Constable shall, as early as prac- ticable, after the first day of April in each year, 10 collect and pay over to the Treasurer, all monies due for taxes. II. The Treasurer shall pay no account against the Commissioners, until it shall have been allow- ed by the Board, and certified by the Clerk. / WV. No contract made by a Committee, involv- ing an expenditure of more than twenty-five dol- lars, shall be valid, until it shall have been ratified .. and approved by the Board. V. No person shall receive compensation for al- leged services rendered the Commissioners, unless under a contract previously made with the Board. VI. No Instructor shall be permitted to occupy the Village School House, until he shall have given bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the Com- missioners, and delivered to the Treasurer, to pay rent at the rate of twenty-five dollars per annum, and at the end of the term to return the building in as good order as it was when he received it. VII. The carcasses of hogs, or other animals, dy- ing in the streets or lots, must be removed by the owner, immediately upon notice being given, under a penalty of one dollar for each omission to do so. Vill. No person, unless while engaged in erec- ting a ‘house, shall place timber, brick, stone, fire- wood, or rubbish of any kind, in any street, and suffer the same to remain longer than a day, under a penalty of one dollar for each day the nuisance may continue after notice to remove the same. 14 TX. No person, shall unnecessarily load or unload goods, wares or other articles, in or from a wagon or cart, on the Sabbath day, under a penalty of five dollars. X. No itinerant vender of spirituous liquors, or other prohibited articles, shall offer the same for sale, in any quantity, within the limits of the Vil- lage, under a penalty of five dollars in each instance of selling or offering to sell. XI. Every organist or travelling musician, or foreign beggar, who shall play for reward, or solicit charity in the streets or from door to door, shall in- eur a penalty of one dollar for each offence, unless the Magistrate of Police ‘shall remit the same to blind persons, and others unable to earn a liveli- hood by manual labor. XII. No person shall erect a kiln to dry plank, or other lumber, within two hundred feet of any dwelling house, or within forty feet of any shop or out-house. Such kiln, if erected, shall be deemed a nuisance, and be subject to abatement and a pen- _alty of twency-five dollars. No black-smith shop shall be erected, hereafter, (unless with brick walls and metal roof,) within two hundred feet of any dwelling house or within fifty feet of any shop or outhouse. Such shop, if erected, shall be deemed a nuisance, and be subject toe abatemant and a fine of twenty-five dollars. : XI. No person shall permit slaves, or persons of color, to meet and dance in any kitchen or oth- 12 er house, without license first obtained from the Magistrate of Police or two Commissioners, under the penalty of five dollars: for each offence. 1 XIV. No person shall hitch a horse or mule to a shade tree or on the side walks, or wontonly ride or drive with dangerous.rapidity through thestreets, — .. under a penalty of five dollars for each offence. XV. It shall be the duty of the Magistrate of Police and the Town Constable to adopt the proper measures to ascertain the true condition of all per- sons of color residing in the Village and claiming to be free. | XVI. No. person, shall opem any Restaurant, Refectory, or like establishment upon the Sabbath day. Any person. violating this ordinance, shall incur a penalty of five dollars. for each offence. XVII. All oats, hay, fodderand other provender sold in the Village, shall be weighed at the publie scales, by the Weigh Master, who shall give a cer- tificate of the weight of the lead, and also of the weight of the vehicle when unloaded ; and ifany person shall sell or buy any unweighed provender, he or she shall incur a penalty of five dollars.. XVIII. The Weigh Master shall record the name of the person, the weight of the load, and the amount charged for weighing the same, and shall be entitled to receive for each load weighing less than five hundred pounds, ten cents ; more than five 13 hundred and less than one thousand pounds, fifteen cents; and more than one thousand pounds, twenty cents. Those who sell Hay, Qats and other Proy- ender, shall pay the Weigh Master’s fee therefor. XIX. July 10th, 1857.—No_ hand-cart, wheel- barrow, wagon, nor any other vehicle shall be al- — lowed to pass upon the side walk, and no person shall ride on horse back’on any of the side walks in the village of Chapel Hill, under a penalty of fifty cents for rolling a wagon, cart or wheel-barrow, and one dollar for each offence of riding on the side- walks of said village. XX. April 21st, 1858.—No person or persons shall cut down, dig up, or otherwise destroy or in- jure any shade tree upon the sidewalk of any street in the Village of Chapel Hill, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars. XXI.—It¢ shall not be lawful for negroes from the country to collect in or loiter about the streets of Chapel Hill upen Tax gathering or lection days, after four o’clock, P. M., and any negro or negroes offending against this Rihaies, may be whipped at the discretion of the Town Constable. XXIL. Sept. 12th 1858.—It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to fill up or cause to be filled up, or in any way render any ditch, drain or - passage for water, useless for the purpose for which it was intended, under a penalty of ten dollars. XXIII. It shall be the special duty of the Town Constable to observe, and report at every meeting 14 of the Commissioners, all violations of’ these ordi- nances. He shall, moreover, be careful to arrest all persons, (Students of the University excepted,) who: may be drunken and disorderly and all itenerant venders of spirituous liquors, who may be found in the public streets, or within the limits of the vil- lage, by night or by day, and for these services he shall receive twenty per cent of allfines that may be collected under these laws. CORPORATION, 1859. MAGISTRATE OF POLICE, JAMES B. McDADE, ESQ. COMMISSIONERS. ANDREW MICKLE, CALVIN SCOTT, JOHN WARD, JOHN H. WATSON, FOSTER UTLEY. ANDREW MICKLE, Town Treasurer. WAYNE H. McDADE, Town ConstaBte. JOHN M. BLACKWOOD, Town Crerx. TO bani at « % This book must not be taken from the Library building.