1921 extra_private laws_36_3
CHAPTER 35 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ROCKINGHAM GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR WHITE AND COLORED CHIL- DREN, RICHMOND COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
No bonds shall be issued hereunder unless a majority of the qualified voters of said school district shall yote in favor of the issuance of the same, at an. election to be called by said board of commissioners after a petition requesting said election and signed by a majority of the board of trustees of the Rockingham Graded School District for the white and colored children, or their duly elected officers, has been filed with the said board of commissioners. It shall not be necessary to submit to the yoters any other details of said bonds than the amount or maximum amount of the issue, with a statement of such purpose as stated herein and the fact that a tax for the payment of the bonds and interest will be levied. No other or further notice of said election shall be required except a publication, not more than forty days and not less than twenty days before said election, in a newspaper published in the town of Rockingham and circulating within the said district, such publication to state the question or questions as herein provided for, as well as the day of election and the place or places at which the polls will be open. The board of commissioners. may order.a new registration of voters if the petition of the board of trustees of said district requests. same. No further or other notice of such new registration shall be required than a publication at least thirty days before the closing of the registration books, in a newspaper published in the town of Rockingham and circulating within said district, such publication to state the days on which the books of registration will be open and the place or places on which they will be open on Saturdays. The board of commissioners shall appoint the registrars and judges of election and fix the polling places and canvass the election and, except as herein otherwise provided, the provisions of the law then applicable to elections in the town of Rockingham, shall be applicable to the registration and election hereunder.