NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 820

HOUSE BILL 1000

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PITT COUNTY TO DELIVER THE RECORDS OF A DECEASED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF PITT COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, Theodore K. Fountain, a former Justice of the Peace of Pitt County, now deceased, left papers and records concerning litigations then pending before him; and

WHEREAS, said papers and records have been turned over to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt County; that no administrator has been appointed and it is necessary that the actions and other matters pending before said justice of the peace be handled through to completion: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. All of the papers and records of Theodore K. Fountain, deceased, a former Justice of the Peace of Pitt County, now in the hands of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt County, shall be turned over to some other justice of the peace for handling to completion by said clerk, and the said clerk is hereby empowered and directed to turn said papers and records over to another Justice of the Peace in Pitt County for handling.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.