1881_private laws_41_46
CHAPTER 40 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That they may provide for the establishment, organization and equipment, government and pay of such number of fire companies as they shall deem necessary and proper. That in case of a fire occurring in said city, the mayor, or, in his absence, a majority of the aldermen who may be present, may erder the blowing up, or pulling down, or destroying any house or houses deemed necessary to stop the progress of the fire; and no person shall be held liable civilly or criminally for acting is [in] such case in obedience to such orders. They shall also have power to establish fire limits within said city, within which it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or build any wooden house, make any wooden additions to any buildings, or cover any building with any material other than metal or slate. They may prohibit wooden buildings from being removed from without into said fire limits, or from being removed from one place to another within the same, under such penalties as the board of aldermen may establish; and said penalty may be sued for and recovered from the owner in an action of debt in any court having jurisdiction.