1899_private laws_149_13
CHAPTER 148 An act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The mayor of the said town of Gastonia while acting as such is hereby constituted an official court with all the jurisdiction and power in criminal offenses occurring within the limits of said town which now or may hereafter be given by law to justices of the peace, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all misfemeanors consisting of all the violations of the ordinances of the said town. The proceedings in said court shall be the same as now or hereafter shall be prescribed for courts of justice of the peace, and in all eases there shall be the right of appeal, and in all cases where a defendant may be adjudged to be imprisoned by the said mayor it shall be competent for him to adjudge also that such person work during the period of his confinement on the public streets or other public works of said town of Gastonia.