0925194319
September 255 1943�
The Board of Commissioners met in a call session on Saturday September 25, 1943
at 10:00 o'clock with J.B.Ennis,Chairman, R.L. Pate, Ferd D. Jackson, L.R.Byrd and
A.A.Cameron. Also present were H.S. Freeman, H.C. Strickland,W.D.Harrington and
Clerk to the Board. _
The two lots in Coats, each 25 by 100 feet, on Ida Street, formerly owned by
Grove Township Road Commission and to Which the County of Harnett succeeded in
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title, having been advertised n Dunn Dispatch and otherwise as provided by law, in
keeping with the order of the Board of Commissioners of Harnett County, and having
been offerred for sale at public auction for cash to the highest bidder on Monday,
September 20,1943, at the courthouse door in Lillington,N.C., at 12 o'clock Noon
when and where W.E.Nichols, through M.O. Lee, his agent, became the highest bidder
at the price of $70.00 are hereby ordered conveyed to said W.E.Nichols upon receipt
of the sum of $70.00 and the Chairman of the board of Commissioners is authorized
and directed to execute deed to the purchaser for same in the name of the County
of Harnett, and the Clerk to the Board will attest the sane and affix corporate seal
thereto.
The Board approved the Bond of W.D.Harrington and ordered same recorded on
minutes of this meeting and filed with Clerk of Superior Court.
MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY -- BALTIMORE
KNOW ALL'MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That William Dalrymple Harrington, Lillington,
N.C. as Principal, (hereinafter called Principal) and the Maryland Casualty
Company, a corporation of the State of Maryland, having its principal office in
the City of Baltimore, Maryland, as Surety, (hereinafter called the Surety) are
held and firmly bound unto the State of North Carolina, For Benefit of Board of
Commissioners, Harnett County,N.C. in the penalty of Thirty Five Thousand & No /100
Dollars ($35,000.00) to the payment whereof, well and truly to be made and done,
the said Principal binds himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, and
the said Surety binds itself, its successors and assigns, jointly and severally,
firmly by these presents. -
THE CONDITION OF THE AFOREGOING OBLIGATION IS SUCH, that WHEREAS, the said
Principal was appo'nted Harnett County Tax Collector for the term beginning
on t he 15th day of September 1943, and ending on the 15th day of September,1944.
NOW, THEREFORE, if the said Principal shall, during the term of this bond,
well and faithfully perform all and singular the duties incumbent upon him by
reason of his election ar appointment as said Harnett County Tax Collector,
except as hereinafter limited, and honestly account for all moneys coming into his
hands as said Harnett County Tax Collector obligation shall be null and void; it is
otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
THIS BOND is executed by the Surety upon the following express cni3itiong which
shall be conditions precedent to the right of recovery hereunder:
IT IS MUTUALLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED BETWEEN ALL PARTIES HERETO, that if the
Surety shall so elect, this bond may be cancelled by giving-tlirty (30) days'
notice in writing to the said Board of Commissioners, Harnett County,N.C. and this
bond shall be deemed cancelled at the expiration of said thirty (30) days, the
said Surety remaining liable for all or any act or acts covered by this bond which
may have been committed by the rrincipal up to the date of such cancellation,
under the terms, conditions and provisions of this bond, and the Surety shall,
upon surrender of this bond and its release from all liability thereunder, refund
the premium paid, less a pro rata part thereof, ro the time this bond shall have
been in force.
AND IT IS FURTHER MUTUALLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED BETWEEN ALL PARTIES HERETO,
that the Surety shall not be liable to said Board of Commissioners, Harnett County
for any loss or lesses resulting by reason of the failure of the said Principal to
collect any portion or all taxes which he may be chargeable to collect by reason
of his election or appointment as said Harnett County Tax Collector and that
said Surety shall not be liable for failure of the said principal to tale any
legal action to collect suck taxes.
AND IT IS FURTHER MUTUALLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED BETWEEN ALL THE PARTIES HERETO,
that the said Surety shall not be liable to said Board of Commissioners, Harnett
County,N.C. for any losses resulting to said Board of Commissioners, Harnett
County,N.C. by reason of any public moneys being now on general or special
deposit or hereafter placed on general or special deposit by the said Principal,
with any bank, depository, or depositories, or by reason of the allowance to or
accpetance by said Principal of any in erest thereon, any Law, Decision or Statute
of the State of North Carolina or Ordinance of the said Board of Commissioners,
Harnett County,N.C. to the contrary notwithstanding.
Signed, sealed and dated this 2nd day of September,1943.
Witness:
H.C.Strickland Principal William Dalyymple Harrington (SEAL)
MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY,
COUNTERSIGNED (SEAL) By H.M.Durham, Attorney in Fact.
Elizabeth T. Harris
Resident Agent
FS)
NORTH CAROLINA
HARNETT COUNTY.
BE IP RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF HARNETT COUNTY:
1. That W.D. Harrington be and he hereby is appointed Tax Collector for the
County of Harnett for the tax year beginning September 15,1943, and ending Sept.
15,1944.
2. That the official bond of W.D.Harrington, the duly appointed Tax Collector
of Harnett County, in the sum of $35,000.00, with Maryland Casualty Company as
Sunety 1 44, be the bereperiod acceptedeand approved.to and including Sept. 15,
s 3'
3. That the compensation of the said W.D.Harrington as Tax Collector be and the
same hereby is fixed at the su$ of 'i 31.25 per month, payable monthly, together with
travel expense allowance of (125.00 per month, payable monthly; and he shall also
be paid and receive all lawful levy and garnishee fees allowed by..law, together with
such sums for land sales as shall be allowed and fixed by the Board of County
Commissioners; and the expenses in connection with the maintenance of his clerical
force, assistants and incidental expenses, will be paid by the County of ,Harnett
within the limitations of law and as declared in a resolution adopted by the
Board of Commissioners of Harnett County on July 5,1943.
4. That the deisgnations by the Tax Collector of IvaJ.Sloan as his assitant,
and.of Lottie Patterson as his cler]A be and the same are hereby approved.
5. That W.D.Harrington,Harnett County Tax Collector, shall deposit daily all
amounts collected by him in the Firs Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Dann, N.C.
to the credit of Harnett County Tax distribution Account, and that the said depository
shall issue dal ley to said Tax Collector a receipt for such deposits, which said
receipts shall thereupon be delivered daily to the Harnett County accountant; and
that upon compliance with these instructions, the said Tax Collector and his surety
on his official bond, shall be relieved of further liability for such amounts or
sums as may be depsoited in said depository.
6. That First Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Dunn, N.C., be and the same
hereby is designated as the official depository of the County of Harnett for all
funds of said County, including all such funds which may be collected by the said
W.D.Harrington as Harnett ounty Tax Collector; and the said First Citizens Bank
and Truste Company, Depository, shall make bond in keeping with the provisions of
law to secure All deposits of the County of Harnett which may be deposited in said
Bank, in a sum of not less than $75,000.00 to be increased and fixed from time to
time as the amounts of deposits at any one time may require, said bond at all times
to be in a principal amount aggregating more than the total deposits of the County
of Harnett on any given date; and in lieu of said bond, said depository may place
in trust with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company of Raleigh, N.C., Trustee or Central
Hanover Bank & Trust Co.,N.Y. acceptable securities approved by the County
Accountant, for the purpose of securing all the deposits of Harnett County in said
First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, the aggregate, amount of such securities to
be a sum notless than the bond required by law.
7. That the following order and command be and the same hereby is ordered
delivered to W.D.Harrington, the duly appointed Tax Collector of Harnett County for
the year beginning Sept. 15,1943 and ending Sept. 15,1944;
"To Hon. W.D.Harrington, Tax Collector of Harnett County:
You are hereby ordered and commanded to forthwith proceed with the
collection of the 1943 county tax levy made by the County of Harnett,
North Carolina.
You are further hereby ordered and commanded to forthwith proceed
with the collection of all other taxes and revenues which are now due,
or which may hereafter become due during your term of office with
the County of Harnett."
Adopted and done by the Board of Commissioners cf Harnett County,, North Carolina,
all members of said Board being present and voting for adoption, this 25th -day of
aept.,1943.
SOUR of COMMISSIONERS OF HARNET' COUNTY,
Attest: Inez Harrington BY J.B.Ennis
Secretary to Board of Harnett Chairman.
County Commissioners.
NORTH CAROLINA
HARNETT COUNTY
I,Inez Harrington,Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners of Harnett County,
N.C.,do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true, literal and compared
copy -of the original of said resolution duly.adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of Harnett County,N.C., on the 25 day of Sept.,1943.
Witness my hand and official seal this 25 day of Sept.,1943.
(SEAL) Inez Harrington
Clerk to the Board
NORTH CAROLINA
HARNETT COUNTY.
W.D.Harrington,first being duly sworn, says:
That he is the duly appointed Tax Collector of Harnett County for the tax
year 1942 -1943 county tax levy; that as such collector he or his deputies visited
the dwelling places of each of the persons whose names are listed as insolvent on
the attached list; or that he or his deputies visited -the usual place of abode of
each of said persons, and that he or they, the said deputies, could not find at
the dwelling or place of usual abode of each or the said respective tax payers on
said attached list, or elsewhere in said County of Harnett, any property where with
to discharge said 1942 taxes, or much part thereof as is returned unpaid on the
said attached list; and that said persons so named on said list were insolvent at
the time when by law he, the said Tax Collector, ought to have endeavored to collect
said taxes of said persons so listed on the said attached list.
W.D.Harrington
Tax Collector
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of Sept.,1943.
Howard Godwin
C.S.C.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, W.D.Harrington was appointed and duly qualified as Harnett County
Tax Collector for the levy of 1942 county taxes; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of a resolution heretofore adopted by the Board of
Commissoners of Harnett County, the said W.D.Harrington, as County Tax Collector,
was charged With t he d uty of collecting all delinquent taxes and revenues due the
County of Harnett, beginning and as of August 1,1943; and
WHEREAS, the said W.D.Harrington, as Harnett County Tax Collector for the
1942 county tax levy, has submitted his official insolvent list of persons charged
with the payment of taxes to Harnett County for the 1942 county levy, and has made
settlement as provided- by law of all items with which he was charged in connection
with the 1942 levy of Harnett County taxes; and the said Tax Collector has made
full settlement with the County of Harnett for all delinquent taxes collected by
him through Septembe 11,1943:
NOW, THEREFORE' be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of Harnett
County as follows: •
1. That the list submitted by W.D.Harrington,Harnett County Tax Collector
for the county levy of 1942, of insolvents in his final settlement in connection
with said levy, be and the same hereby is accepted and approved.
2. That the final settlement of said W.D.Harrington,Harnett County Tax
Collector -for the county levy of 1942, having.been examined and found correct,
be and the same hereby is accepted and approved.
3. That the accounts and settlement of W.D.Harrington, Harnett County Tax
Collector, relating to taxes and revenues other than items in connection with the
County tax levy of 1942, particularly including delinquent taxes which became due
to the County of Harnett prior to the levy of 1942, having been examined and found
correct as of the close of the day on September 11,1943, is hereby accepted and
spewed.
4. That subject to the provisions of law, W.D.Harrington, Harnett County
Tax Collector for the county levy of 1942, and as the collector of delinquent taxes
due Harnett County, for the period ending at the close of Setpember 11,1943,
together with the surety on his official bonds covering liability for the 1942
county tax levy and the collection of delinquent taxes from August 1,1943, to and
including September 11,1943, to wit, Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore,
Maryland, be and they are hereby relieved of liability during said periods.
5. That Lottie Patterson, who during the collection of taxes due the County
of Harnett under the 1942 county t ax levy served as assistant to W.D.Harrington,
Tax Collector, and Maryland Casualty Company, Surety on her official bond,in
connection with said levy, be and they hereby are relieved and released of
liability, subject to the provisions of law, her accounts having been audited and
found correct.
6. That W.D.Harrington,Harnett County Tax Collector for the year 1942 county
tax levy, be and he hereby is allowed the sum of $1.20 for each and every land
sale made by him in connection with the county levy of 1942 taxes, and salary up
to Oct. 1,1943; provided the said W.D.Harrington shall from the compensation herein
allowed for land sales, pay all expenses in connection with said land sales,
including the account of newspapers for publication of land sale notices.
7. That this resolution be recorded in the Minutes of the Board of Commissioners
of Harnett County. -
Adopted and Done by order of the'Board of Commissioners of Harnett County, all
members of said Board being present and voting for adoption, this 25 day of Sept.,
1943.
ATTEST: Inez Harrington
Clerk to Board of Commissioners
Board of Commissioners dr. Harnett
County,
By J.B.Ennis Chairman.
NORTH CAROLINA.
HARNETT COUNTY.
I, Inez Harrington,Clerk.t o -the Board of Commissioners of Harnett County, North
Carolina,, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, literal and compared
copy of the original of a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of said County on Sept. 25,1943.
Witness my hand and official seal,this 25th day of September,1943.
Inez Harrington
stktto Board of
Commissioners.
BE IT RESOLVED that, settlement of W.D.Harrington, Tax Collector for the period
beginning July 1,1943 and ending Sept. 11,1943 on 1942 tax levy and period beginning
August 1,1943, and ending Sept. 11,1943 on all prior years, as shown by the,follcxcing
pp
statement be aid the same is hereby _approved and 'cete
Voting for resolution
Voting against resolution
J.B.Ennis
.Chairman
R.L.Pate
Ferri D.Jackson
Lonnie R.Byrd
Angus A.Cameron
HARNETT COUNTY TAX SETTLEMENT AS OF
SEPTEMBER 123194.3._
DEBITS
Total charge at beginning of period 139,087.64
Discoveries added 315.20
Penalties, interest and
cost collected 400.13
Schedule B fees collected 491.95
Overage, nevessary to balance 3.07 - 140,772.54
REDITS
Cash Remittances
Releases Issued
Taxes Receivable
Approved:
H.5.Freeman
Auditor
12,113.08
277.95
128,381.51 140,772.54
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The following decks were
1:. .I
Dr.A.W.Peede Expense
II
Dr.L.R.Doffermyre
Dr.C.b.Codrington rc
Irma Smith
L.K. Boston
Carolina Telephones & TelCo.
W.H.Matthews
Joe Murchison
Angus A. Cameron
First Citizens Bank & Tr.Co.
Estelle McLean
Henderson Harris
Jerlena Ferguson
Russell Ferguson
W.E.Salmon
K.C.Matthews
Inez Harrington
J.A.Darroch
J.N.Smith
R.C.Oakley
E L Jackson
R.A Collier
P A Arnold
1,
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$30.
67.50
22.50
10.00
20.00
89.65
27.00
17.80
52.20
2273.18
20.00
6.00
30.00
30.00
4.00
26.60
17.55
15.00
15.86
5.00
5.00
10.00
10.60
161.80
33.00
350.00
6.57
Travel Allowance
Telephone Service
Salary
Salary
expense
Principal,int. etc.
Work at County Home
Work at County Home
Work at County Home
Work at County Home
Postage
Turn Key fees and Laundry
Postage
Expense
Expense
expense
expense
expense
expense
Mitchell Printing Co. tax receipts
Monroe Calculating Machine Co Maintenance contract
J.C.Thomson Insurance Agency Premium on Bond
A.L.Newberry i Commissions
void
Burroughs Adding Machine Co
J M Shaw
Harnett Cunnty News
Johnson & Bryan Company
Lillington Ice & Coal Co
Lillingtcn Furniture Co
Epes Fitzgerald Paper Co
W.C.Denmark
Owen G Dunn
782 Capital Printing Co.
783 Edwards & Broughton Co
784 void
785 Pope's 5 to $5 Store
786 Billie Sexton
787 A.W Peede
788 Stewart's Garage
789 W A Davis Milling Co
790 Farmers Cotton Oil Co
791 Womble's Food Store
792 LaFayette Drug Cc
793 Kelly's Drug Store
794 Layton Supply Co
795 City Market
796 McLean & O'Quinn
797 Modern Laundry & Cleaners
798 Orkin Exterminating Co
799 Machine & Welding Co
800 C R Ammons
801 Gray & Creech Inc
802 Capital Printing Co
803 Ferd D Jackson
804 H C Cameron
805 Art Display Service
806 L R Doffermyre
807 Fred H Fleming
808 Dr. W C Byrd
809 Joseph J Combs
810 LaFayette Drug Co
811 R W Pope
812 J A Holmes
813 Howard M Lee
814 R T Jackson
815 Duke hospital
816 Maude L Searcy
817 State Laboratory of Hygiene
818 Alfred Williams & Company
819 N S Green
820 Winchester Surgical Supply Co.
821 N C Sanatorium
expense 2.50
preparing datails for cabinet 2.50
Printing and supplies 474.10
Groceries, etc. 82.72
Ice 15.25
Supplies 37.39
10 M Vortex Cups 20.57
One Sampson Flag 9.00
Ribbons & Bond fur Reg of Deeds
Office 16.10
1 document file etc. 122.58
birth certificates 5.16
Supplies for jail 2.78
milk for Jail 5.27
County Home 43.00
Repairs to Boiler door 3.00
Flour and Feed 107.40
Meal for County Home 4.00
Groceries for County Home 61.51
Drugs for County Home 47.74
Drugs for County Home 23.82
Supplies 25.40
Groceries for County Home 12.35
Mdse. 36.00
Laundry 21.86
Fumigation 285.00
Repairing water cooler 8.11
scales and janitor work 35.65
supplies 9.60
2 chairs 50.00
welfiare board meeting 4.60
welfare board meeting 6.00
order #399 21.17
services rendered L D Forbee 24.00
services 20.00
services rendered Bernice Smith20.45
services rendered Willie Walker 6.00
Medicine for Mrs Sally Hobson 2.50
Food for Mrs.John R Brock 4.00
Groceries 2.00
Order of Ruby Lee Guiton 5.00
Orders of Mrs Hodges C Cobb 8.00
X Ray 4.50
Materials 35.94
36 Sputum Outfits 1.80
Ledger for Health Dept. 3.15
July & August Lab Tee. 12.50
Supplies 88.89
Hospitalization 117.67
822 State Commission for the Blind
823 Howard Godwin
824 Howard Godwin
825 Dept of Conservation & Dev.
826 J C Thomson Ins. Agency
827 C 5 Cade
828 W D Harrington
829 Carrie Speight Edwards
830 W D Harrington
831 Commercial Printing Co
832 Storr Engraving Co
833 void
834 Venable S Baggett
835 W H Matthews
836 Joe Murchison
837 Ernest McLean
838 Cromartie Dail Hardware Co
839 H S Freeman
840 Dr. A.W.Peede
841 Dr.L.R.Doffermyre
842 Dr.C.B.Codrington
843 Irma Smith
844 Miss Nell Cobb
845 Mrs.Troy Godwin
846 R L Pate
847 Att Ocletree
848 John Johnson
849 Mrs.R.A.Collier
850 Mrs A A Jones
851 void
852 Flora Green Milton
853 W H Matthews
854 void
855 Ernest McLean
856 Mrs Carrie Speight Edwards
857 W D Harrington
858 M D Lanier
859 Joe Murchison
860 Ernest McLean
861 W H Matthews
862 J D Russell
863 Mrs B F Parker
864 W E Salmon
865 'Ozella B Adams
866 Mabel Alston
867 C R Ammons
868 Mrs Hiram Baggett
869 -- E C Byrd
870 Helen Bradley
871 L M Chaffin
872 Inez Harrington
873 J B.“=ndley
874 W D Harrington
875 MissNell.Cobb
876 Elsie B Crowder
877 H S Freeman
878 Howard Godwin
879 Edna Kelly
880 M 0 Lee
881 Dr.John ti. Lineberry
882 Miss Margaret McQueen
883 Mrs. Brantley Matthews
884 Mrs Elizabeth Matthews
885 K C Matthews
886 T D O'Quinn
887 Duncan P, Ray
888 Anne T Salmon
889 Maude L. Searcey
890 F H Taylor
891 Doris Upchurch
892 Wilma Williams
893 J B Ennis
894 H 0 Strickland
895 B F Miller
896 Mrs Sarah Butler
897 L K Boston
898 Dunn Home Guard
899 M Irene Lassiter
900 Iva J Sloan
901 Lottie Patterson
expense 67.62
postage and labor -7.00
costs in recorder'gcourt47.32
Forest fire control 38.70
expense 46.10
services - 16.00
refund for jury tickets325.44
Salary & Expenses 59.15
refund for Jury tickets454.46
P C A No. 427 book 28.96
Office Supplies 35.11
5% commission 15.00
expense 27.00
expense 17.80
Janitor 29.60
Heater for Civilian Defense
Office 30.00
salary 150.00
four clinics 40.00
4 V D Clinics 30.00
3 V D Clinics 22.50
Clerk in V D Clinics, 13.00
Office expense 6.98
work on tax books 72.25
commissioner 36.40
work gathering corn 10.00
plumbing work at County
Home 35.00
work on tax books 88.00
Work on Tax Books 43.20
work on tax books
salary, as janitor
Janitor work
57.75
27.00
14.80
court stenographer 45.90
refund for juror fees 148.56
stamps 3.00
Janitor work at Counccu x2.00
Courthouse
Janitor service Agr. Bldg
14.80
27.00
5.50
94.05
300.67
103.15
166.88
133.30
69.60
138.90
98.40
136.00
205.13
209.48
410.80
119.40
113.30
100.80
293.50
92.40
220.80
341.05
166.76
108.30
45.85
88.90
80.90
110.40
116.40
68.85
140.80
78.40
207.30
25.00
200.00:
10.00
10.00
20.00
25.00
165.40
1140.80
71.65
salary
work
salary
salary
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salary
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salary
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salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
salary
Sept. allowance
Sept. allowance
Sept.
Sept. allowance
salary
salary
salary
25�
9Q2 S ie.'S -Tard .sh Salary t10,00
'9 ; M u Lanier war bonds 68.75
904 'N S Green August and Sept.1943 12.50
905 Carolina Power & Light Co. Lights 69.83
906 John Johnson Work at County Home 10.00
907 Carolina Telephone & Tel.Co. Telephone Service
908 Mrs Bertha Felton Salary
909 Mrs. Mary B Carlson salary
910 Clara Lee Johnson salary
911 Gertrude P. Wilburn salary
912 Collector of Internal Rev. witholding tax
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80.30
76.10
68.40
64.60
63.00
1474.93