1889_private laws_59_4
CHAPTER 58 An act to permit the town of Elizabeth City to issue bonds and levy a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That in order to meet the payment of said bonds and the accruing interest thereon, the said board of commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect .each year a special tax not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of all property, both real, personal, choses in action and solvent credits, within the corporate limits of said town.