1917_public local laws_570_2
CHAPTER 569 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS OF PITT COUNTY TO FIX THE SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That upon receipt of a petition signed by twenty per cent of the qualified voters registered at the preceding general election in Pitt County asking that the salary or salaries of one or more of the county officers of said county be increased or decreased, and stating the amount of increase or decrease in such petition, the board of county commissioners of Pitt County is hereby authorized and empowered to set a day for a hearing on such increase or decrease of salary or salaries, and give ten days notice thereof in such manner as they shall deem best calculated to give the widest publicity to such petition for increase or decrease; and after a hearing, said board of commissioners shall be authorized to make such increase or decrease in the salary or salaries as it may deem just and proper: Provided, that any increase or decrease in salary shall be made only in those cases when, in the discretion of said board of commissioners the county revenues justify such increase or increases in salaries.