1887_private laws_5_2
CHAPTER 4 An act to amend chapter forty-seven of the privaie acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That chapter forty-seven -47 of the private acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one -1881 be amended by striking out the word  one between  exceeding and  hundred in the eighth -8 line of section five -5 of said act and inserting in lieu thereof the word  five. so that the paragraph shall read:  1st. On all licensed retailers of spirituous, alcoholic or malt liquors, a tax not exceeding five hundred dollars.