1915_public local laws_586_7
CHAPTER 585 AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 442, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION 1911, AND CHAPTER 674, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION 1913, AMENDATORY THEREOF, AND ABOLISH THE BOARD OF AUDIT AND FINANCE FOR COLUMBUS COUNTY, AND APPOINT AN AUDITOR FOR COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
If any clerk of the Superior Court, sheriff, county treasurer, register of deeds, road commissioner or trustee, or any other public officer who may hold any county money shall fail to account for the same as provided by law, the auditor shall give such person ten days previous notice in writing of the time and place at which said auditor will attend to make a settlement, and every officer receiving notice and failing to make settlement as required by this act shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be sued for by said auditor for the use and at the expense of the public school fund of Columbus County, and shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court: Provided, however, that the court may, in its discretion and for good cause, release any officer from said forfeiture.