1919_public local laws_582_2
CHAPTER 581 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ERECTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS SMITHS CREEK, PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The board of county commissioners of Pamlico County is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion and upon petition of local residents and property owners, to erect or cause to be erected a bridge across Smiths Creek opposite or near the town of Oriental, Pamlico County, and to pay the cost of said bridge out of the public road funds of Pamlico County: Provided, that the erection of said bridge shall not be begun and the contract for its erection shall not be let until the residents and the property owners of the community requesting such erection shall have given to the board of county commissioners a written guarantee that they will, upon the completion of the bridge, reimburse the public road funds-of the county in such an amount as shall be stated in said guarantee, and shall be satisfactory to the board of county commissioners, and until said residents and property owners shall have, at their own expense and without expense to the county, constructed satisfactory roads connecting the nearest existing public roads on either side of Smiths Creek with the site of said proposed bridge.