1895_public laws_160_34
CHAPTER 159 An act to revise, amend, and consolidate the election laws of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That any registrar or judge of election, or any register of deeds, clerk or sheriff, failing or neglecting to make the returns and perform the duties required of him, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six nor less than two months, at the discretion of the court; and every such officer, for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the name and to the use of the state, on motion of the attorney-general, in the superior court of Wake county, ten days previous notice, in writing, of such intended motion having been given to such officer by the secretary. The proceedings thereon shall be summary, and if any matter of fact shall be in issue, the same shall be tried at the first term ; and on such trial, or for any other purpose in the prosecution of such motion to judgment, the certificate of the secretary, or of the governor, as the case may be, of the particular default on which the motion is founded, shall be received as competent prima facie evidence to prove the same.