1899_private laws_244_45
CHAPTER 243 An act to revise, amend and consolidate the act of incorporation of the town of Louisburg, North Carolina, and the acts amendatory thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
They may also appoint a town engineer, a town attorney or attorneys, employ detectives, and to offer rewards for the capture and conviction of criminals, and to exercise like powers in the premises in order to bring offenders against the laws of the state and town ordinances, when the offense is committed in the town limits, to justice, and to use any funds belonging to the city not otherwise appropriated to carry out this purpose.