1903_public laws_239_8
CHAPTER 238 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COMMISSIONERS OF HENDERSON COUNTY TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD OR REPAIR COURT HOUSE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That if the Commissioners shall decide to erect new buildings, they shall have the right to sell the present buildings, with the block occupied by them, as a whole or in separate lots, also the lot deeded to the county of Henderson by Alledge, after advertising the same for thirty days at the court house door and in all the papers published in the county, to the highest bidder, provided that any one shall have thirty days in which to raise any bid to an amount not less than five per cent, said sale to be made on such terms as the Commissioners may fix. The Commissioners shall also have the right and authority to select and purchase a new site for such public buildings as are herein contemplated, if they shall deem best so to do. ;