1925_public local laws_631_2
CHAPTER 630 AN ACT TO ENABLE LEE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TO LEVY A TAX AND ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR, APPOINT HOS- PITAL TRUSTEES, MAINTAIN A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, ETC. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the board of county commissioners of Lee County, North Carolina, may, by a majority of said board, or upon petition of two hundred voters of said county, shall, after thirty days notice at the courthouse door and publication in one or more newspapers in said county for thirty days, order an election to be held at such time as they may fix, to determine the will of the people of the county whether there shall be issued and sold bonds to an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), to bear interest at not exceeding six per cent per annum, and to be payable, both principal and interest, when and where they may decide, and to levy a tax of not exceeding ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and thirty cents on the poll. The proceeds of said bonds to be used in securing lands and erecting or altering buildings and equipping same, to be used as a public hospital, and said tax to be levied to pay the interest on said bonds, and to Provide a sinking fund to pay said bonds at maturity, and for the maintenance of said hospital. If the majority of the qualified voters at said election shall vote in favor of the issuing of said bonds and the levying of said tax, then said bonds, or such part thereof as the said board of commissioners may determine, shall be issued and sold by said board, said tax, or such part thereof as shall be required, shall be levied. The hospital so erected from the sale of said bonds shall be known as Lee County memorial hospital in honor of the soldiers from Lee County in the world war and shall contain a tablet bearing the name of all who lost their lives in the service, as well as a suitable record of all the soldiers from Lee County who were enlisted in the service during the war.