1899_private laws_301_6
CHAPTER 300 An act to authorize the commissicners of the tewn of Rocky Mount to issue bonds to construct waterworks in said town. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the question of Waterworks or No waterworks shail be submitted to the quatified voters of said town at the next annua! election for town offices of said town. and at the voting place in each ward there sha!l be aseparate box in which this voie on waterworks shail be polled. and at said election those in favor of waterworks shall votea written or printed ticket wits Waterworks thereon and those opposed to waterworks shall vote a written or printed ticket with No waterworks thereon, an at the said election the registrars aud poll holders sha'l vote the number of freehollers in their respective wards and the number of said freeholders who vote for and against *Waterworks, and shall certify the same, showing fully the number of votes cast for waterworks, those cast against waterworks and the number of freeho!ders who voted **Waterworks, and the number of freeholders who voted No waterworks. These certificates shall be sealed and delivered to the cierk of the board of commissioners of said town, who shall present the same to the board of commissioners at their next meeting after said election, whether said meeting be a general or a special meeting and the result of the election in the several wards shall be ascertained by the said board and entered upon the record book of said town and the result posted at the door of the mayor's office of said town and at the post-office door for ten days; and if the votes so certified be in favor of waterworks, aud if no exception be filed thereto within ten days, said record shall thereafter import verity, and shal! be conclusive evidence of the correctness of said returns, and the same shall therefore be received in all the courts of this state and the United States as conclusive evidence of the correctness of the vote polled at said election.