1883_public laws_368_6
CHAPTER 367 An act to amend chapter two hundred and forty-seven, acts of one thousand elght hundred and eighty-one, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That Dr. R. H. Speight, J. Q. Bryan and M. H. Wetherbee be and they are hereby appointed fence commissioners in and for that part of said territory lying and being in the county of Edgecombe, with power to contract for the erection of a substantial fence upon the boundary above described, so as to connect with the Nash county territory, with gates at every crossing of a publie road; that they hold their office during good behavior, and upon a vacancy occurring by death or resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled by the board of county commissioners of Edgecombe county.