11031941361
November 3, 1941
The Board of Commissioners for the county of Harnett, met in regular
session at the courthouse ±z n in Lillington, North Carolina, the usual
place of meeting, on November 3, 1941, at 10 O'clock A.M.
Present: Chairman J.B.Ennis, and Commissioners F.D.Jackson, R.L.Pate,
A.A.Cameron, and L.R.Byrd.
Absent: None.
The Chairman announced that this was the date and hour fixed by the
Board for the public hearing upon the following bond order:
ORDER AUTHORIZING $41,000 SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS
and that the Board would immediately hear any and all citizens and
taxpayers who might desire to protest against the issuance of said bonds.
No citizen or taypayer of the county appeared, either in person or by
attorney, to protest against the issuance of any of said bonds and the
Clerk announced that no protest in writing, signed by any citizen or
taxpayer, had been presented.
Thereupon, upon motion of Commissioner L.R.Byrd, seconded by
Commissioner A.A.Cameron, and carried, the order introduced and passed on first
reading on October 22, 1941, authorizing $41,000 School Building Bonds was
read a second time and placed upon its final passage. The vote upon the final
passage of said order was: Ayes: L.R.Byrd, F.D.Jackson, R.L.Pate, and
A.A.Cameron. Noes: None.
The Chairman then announced that the order authorizing $41,000 School
Building Bonds had passed.
The Clerk was thereupon directed to publish in the Harnett County News,
once in each of two successive weeks, the bond order which was finally passed
this day, and to publish at the foot of said bond order the appended note as
required by Section 19 of the County Finance Act.
Commissioner F.D.Jackson thereupon introduced the following resolution
which was read:
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TEE ISSUANCE OF $41,000 SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS.
Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Harnett:
Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners, after careful consideration,
has ascertained and found and does hereby declare:
(a) That it is necessary that Harnett County, acting as an administrative
agent of the State in providing a State System of public schools, issue all
of the $41,000 School Building Bonds authorized by an order finally passed
November 3, 1941.
(b) That the additions or units to be erected from the proceeds of said
bonds shall be of non fireproof construction as defined in the County
Finance Act.
(c) That the period of the life of said additions or units has been and
is estimated by this Board as a period of thirty years, such period being
computed fro-: November 3, 1942, being a date one year after the final
passage of said order, and that such period expires November 3, 1972.
Section 2. That for the purpose of providing the school improvements
pursuant to said bond order, such school improvements having become
absolutely necessary in order to maintain the constitutional six months'
school term, the negotiable coupon bonds of Harnett County shall be issued
in the aggregate principal amount of 041,000, designated 'School Building
Bonds ", consisting of 41 bonds of the denomination of $1,000 each, numbered
1 to 41, inclusive, dated December 1, 1941, maturing annually, December 1,
in numerical order, lowest numbers first, without option of prior payment,
as follows: $2,000 1944 to 1954, inclusive, $4,000 1955 and $5,000 1956
to 1958, inclusive.
Section 3. That said School Building Bonds shall bear interest at a
rate or rates, not exceeding 6% per annum to be determined by the Local
Government Commission at the time the bonds are sold, which interest shall
be payable semi - annually on the first days of June and December of each year,
both principal and interest to be payable at The Chase National Bank of the
City of thew York in New York City in any coin or currency of the United
States of America which, at the respective dates of payment thereof, is
legal tender for public and private debts.
Section 4. That said bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board
of Commissioners and the Register of Deeds of said county and ex officio
Clerk of said Board, and sealed with the corporate seal of the County and
the interest coupons thereto attached shall be executed with the facsimile
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signature of said Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk. Said bonds and the
coupons attached thereto, and the endorsements to be printed on the reverse
of each bond, shall be in substantially the following form:
No.
United States of America
State of North Carolina
County of Harnett
School Building Bonds
1,000.00
The County of Harnett, North Carolina, is justly indebted and for value
received hereby promises to pay to the bearer or, if this bond be
registered, to the registered owner hereof, on the first day of December,19
the principal sum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS together with interest thereon at
the rate of per centum per annum, payable semi - annually on the first days
of June aril. December in each year upon thepresentation and surrender of the
annexed interest coupons &s they severally fall due, Both principal and
interest of this bond are payable at The Chase National Bank of the City
of New York in New York City in any coin or currency of the United States
of America which, at the respective dates of payment thereof, is legal
tender for public and private debts. For t he prompt payment hereof, both
principal and interest as the same shall become due, the fall faith and
credit of said county are hereby irrevocably pledged.
This bond is one of a series issued by said County, acting as an
administrative agent of the State of North Carolina in providing a state
system of public schools, for the purpose of providing school improvements
in said county in order to maintain Schools therein for the constitutional
six monthst school term, and is issued under and pusurant to the County
Finance Act, as amended, and the Local Government Act, as amended, and an
order and resolutions duly passed by the Board of Commissionersof said -
County.
It is hereby certified and recited that all acts, conditions and things
required to happen, exist and be performed precedent to and in the issuance
of this bond by the laws and Constitution of North. Carolina, have happened,
exist and have been performed in regular and due form and time as so
required; that provision has been made for the leyy and collection of a
direct annual tax upon all taxable property within said county sufficient
to pay the principal and interest of this bond as the same shall fall due;
and that the total indebtedness of said County, including this bond and all
other indebtedness heretofore contracted during the fiscal year in which this
bond is issued, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation
thereon.
This bond is registerable as to principal alone in accordance with the
provisions endorsed hereon.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the county of Harnett by order of its Board of
Commissioners, has caused this bond to-be signed by the Chairman of said
Board and by the Register of Deeds of said County and ex officio Clerk of
said Board, under the corporate seal of said county, and has caused the
annexed interest coupons to be executed with the facsimile signature of said
Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk, all as of the first day of
December 1941.
Chairman,Board of Commissioners
Reg. of Deeds & ex officio Clerk
(endorsements on bonds)
This bond may be registered as to principal in the Bond Register of the
County of Harnett by the Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk of the Board
of Commissioners as Bond Registrar or by such other bond registrar as may be
legally appointed by the governing body of said County, notation of such
registry to be made hereon by such Bond Registrar, and this bond may there-
after be transferred on said Bond Registrar only upon a written assignment
of the registered owner or his attorney duly acknowledged or proved, such
transfer to be endorsed hereon by the Bond Registrar. Such transfer may be
to bearer and thereby transferability by delivery shall be restored, but
this bond shall again be subject to successive registrations and transfers
as before. The principal of this bond, if registered, shall be payable
only to the registered owner or his legal representative. Notwithstanding
the registration of this bond, the coupons shall remain payable to bearer
and shall continue to be transferable by delivery.
Date of Registry Registered Owner Bond Registrar
The issuance of the within bond has -been approved under the provisions
of the Local Government Act of North Carolina.
W.E.Easterling, Secretary
Local Government Commission
by:
(COUPON) Degignated Assistant
No.
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The County of narnett, North Carolina will pay to bearer at The Chase
National Bank of the City of New York in New York City, the sum d'
Dollars, in any coin or currency of the United States of American which at the
time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts, as provided in
and for the interest then due on its School Building Bond, dated Dec. 1, 1941,
numbered
Register of Deeds and ex officio
Clerk of Board of Commissioners.
Section 5. That said bond shall be registerable as to principal alone in
accordance with the provisions for registration hereinabove provided for
endorsement upon said bonds, and the Register of Deeds and ex officio Clerk of
the Board of Commissioners is hereby designated and appointed Bond Registrar
for the purpose of registering said bonds, subject to the right of this Board
hereafter to designate and appoint another Registrar. No charge shall be made
to any bondholder for the privilege of registration herein granted.
Section 6. That said $41,000 School Building Bonds and all other
indebtedness heretofore contracted in the current fiscal year, does not exceed
two - thirds of the amount by which the outstanding indebtedness of the County
of Harnett was reduced in the preceding fiscal year.
Section 7. That the County Attorney be and is hereby designated as the
officer who shall apply to the Local government Commission for the advertisement
and sale of said bonds.
Upon motion of Commissioner A.A.Cameron, seconded by Commissioner L.R.Byrd,
the foregoing resolution entitled "Resolution authorizing the issuance of
$41,000 School Building Bonds" was passed by the following vote:
Ayes: F.D.Jackson, R.L.Pate, L.R.Byrd and A.A.Cameron.
Noes: None.
I hereby certify that the fore .Ting is a true copy of so much of the
proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of Harnett County at a meeting
thereof held November 3, 1941, as relate in any way to the authorization of
School Building Bonds of said County, aid that such proceedings are recorded
in Volume 7, beginning at page 361, and ending at page 363.
Witness my hand and the corporate seal of said County, this 4 day of
November, 1941.
re°.ister of Deeds and ex officio
Clerk of Board of Commissioners.
It is ordered that '.W.Wall, Hectors Creek Township, be granted free
peddler's license for the year 1941 -1942 on account of physical disability.
It is ordered that Carlyle Core of Dunn, be refunded taxes for three years
on 14 acres of land in Averasboro Township, amounting to $2.79, covering
taxes for three years.
BE If RESOLVED that the 40 acres of Cupe McLean land , in Anderson Creek
Township, and acquired by the County at tax foreclosure sale under
Judgment No. 2176 -A -1134, be sold to Mark McLean, colored
Lillington, N.C. RFD 2, for $200.00 on the following terms: $25.00 cash, and
M0.00 November 1, 1942; $50100 November 1, 1943; and $75.00 November 1, 1944,
and the Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized and directed to execute
deed to Mark McLean, and the Clerk will attest same.
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BE IT RESOLVED that the 103 acres of land in Upper Little River Township,
formerly listed by J.J.Kelly ( Book 244, page 363), and acquired by the County
of Harnett at a tax foreclosure sale under Judgment No. 2119 -A -1245, be sold
to - - -- J.N.Patterson, Broadway, N.C. RFD 1 for $200.00 CASH, and the
Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized to,execute deed to J.N.Patterson
and the Clerk will attest same.
The following road petitions was approved and ordered forwarded to the
State Highway and Public Works Commission:
(1) that road in Stewart's Creek Township, leaving Highway 15A in front of
Yrs. C.L.Avery's residence, and running West approximately 2 or 2.5
miles to the old wire road which will go by the following persons' homes:
A.B.Parker, L.A.Parker, J.L. Waddell, D.F.Coleman, Herman Temple, Miller Byrd,
and W.L.Co&eman. This route will enter the wire road at the intersection near
Hodges Spring.
(2) To work or pull up with machine, the road going east from the Highway at
Rawls by Dayton Gardner's across the S.D.Smith plantation, J.M.Judd's
farm and into the dirt road at Bennett Cotten's place.
It is ordered that D.G.Darroch,`.Anderson Creek Township, be relieved of
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poll taxes for the year 1940 and 1941 and subsequent years on account of being
a disabled World War Veteran.
The County Attorney is hereby authorized to conserl, to a judgment
distissing the action by the County of Harnett -vs- Mrs. J.E.Strickland, et els,
non- compos iientis, upon receipt by the County of the net taxes involved in the
suit, the civil issue docket.
It is ordered that W.H.Stephenson, Angier, N.C. be relieved $$5.64,
the penalty for late listing of property In Upper Little River Township.
It is ordered that tax valuation of x`700.00 on the house recently
built on the property of V.D.Dickens in barbecue Township, aril listed to him,
be released in the amount of $700.00 on account of error in listing.
It is ordered that Jas.E.Snow, Johnsonville Township, be allowed to
rebate of all penalties on property listed by him in Johnsonville Township.
It is ordered that $300.00 be appropriated by the County to the
organization of home Guard in Dunn on condition that the town of Dunn
appropriate the sum of .$300.00 and that the State appropriate the sum of $600.00.
It is ordered that L.B.McLean, Erwin, N.C. be appointed as a collector
of Insg Me y,xcgai,2r Averasboro, Duke, and Grove Townships, for the year
1940, /HHiie i o receive as compensation 10% of his collection.
In Re: SD #1750 -A -843 and others.
BE 1T RESOLVED that if Glenn Brantley will pay the 1939, 1940, and 1941
taxes and interest on or before November 8, 1941, on 171* acres of land in
Lillington Township, on which he made contract with County to purchase
July 10, 1939, that the time for full payment on purchase price be extended
to Dec. 23, 1941.
WHEREAS, in the case entitled "County of Harnett -vs- Norman L.Bryan
and wife, being No. A 436, Judgment" was entered on the day of November 1931
which Judgment is docketed "Judgment Docket No. 23, page 116 ", and under said
judgment sale of the lands involved therein was made by J.O.West,
Commissioner, and at said sale, the County of Harnett, became the last and
highest bidder and said sale was confirmed and deed executed to the County
by the Commissioner, but never recorded; and whereas, all taxes on the lands
involved in said suit have been paid by the owner, and said judgment should
be cancelled.
IT IS THEREFORE, ORDERED, that said judgment be cancelled and said deed
not recorded, and that J.B.Ennis, Chairman, of this Board, be and he is
hereby authorized to cancel said judgment of record.
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It is ordered that beer license be granted to Z.W.Hodges, Erwin, N.C.
Box 324, East Erwin, N.C.
It is ordered that L.L.Layton of Barbecue Township, be relieved of $9.98
on account of double listing for the year 1937.
The report of Lola O'Quinn, D.T.C. was approved and ordered filed.
The report of Inez Harrington, Register of Deeds, was approved and ordered
filed.
The report of Howard Godwin, C.S.C. was approved and ordered filed.
The Bond in the amount of $1,000.00 of G.P.Temple, Constable of Stewart's
Creek Township, was approved and ordered copied on the Minutes, and filed with
the Clerk of Superior Court.
-bond-
NORTH CAROLINA:
HARN TT COUNTY:
KNOT ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That G.P.Temple of Bunnlevel, State of North
Carolina, hereinafter called the Principal, and W.M.Bethune, M.L.Bethune,
W.E.Bethune, Charlie Strickland, and A.B.Parker, hereinafter called Sureties,
of Harnett County said State, are held and firmly bound unto the Board of
Commissioners of Harnett County, State of North Carolina, hereinafter called
the Obligee, in the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for the payment
thereof to the obligee the principal binds himself, his executors, heirs,
administrators, and assigns, and the sureties bind themselves, their executors
and administrators, jointly and severally firmly by these presents.
Signed, sealed, delivered and dated this 3 day of November, 1941.
Whereas, the above named principal has en duly appointed to the office of
Constable of Stewart's Creek Township, Harnett County, North Carolina, for the
term of office expiring the first Monday in December, 1942:
Now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such, that if the principal
shall faithfully perform such dAties as may be imposed bn him by law and shall
honestly account for all money that may come into his hands in his official
capacity during the said term, then this obligation shall be void;, otherwise,
it shall remain in full force and affect.
APPROVED:
J.B.Ennis, Chairman
W.M.Bethune, M.L.Bethune, W.E.Bethune,
A.B.Parker, and Charlie Strickland, each
for himself first being duly sworn, says:
That he is worth the sum of $1,000.00 over and
all liabilities and exemptions allowed by law,
the County of hlarnett, State of North Carolina.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 3 day of November, 1941.
D.P.Ray, and eputy C.S.C.
Harnett County, North Carolina.
G.P.Temple, (SEAL)
Principal.
W.M.Bethune, (SEAL)
Surety
M.L.Bethune (SEAL)
Surety
?.E.Bethune (SEAL)
Surety
Charlie Strickland (SEAL)
Surety
A.B.Parker 4SEAL)
Surety
above
and that he is a freeholder of
W.M.Bethune
M.L.Bethune
W.E.Bethune
Charlie Strickland
A.B.Parker
The meeting adjourned to reconvene at the call of the Chairman.
Clerk to the Board
Chairman