NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 244

HOUSE BILL 114

 

 

AN ACT TO RATIFY AND VALIDATE THE CREATION OF THE TOWN OF HAVELOCK AND TO CONFIRM AND VALIDATE THE ACTS OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF SAID TOWN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The election called and conducted by the Craven County Board of Elections on the 25th day of July, 1959, as was required by Section 4 of Chapter 952 of the Session Laws of 1959, which resulted in a majority vote by the qualified electors residing in that territory described in Section 2 of said Act, in favor of the incorporation of the Town of Havelock, according to the declared results thereof, with said town having corporate limits as therein set out, is hereby in all respects confirmed, ratified and validated; and the Town of Havelock is hereby declared incorporated as of the date of the declaration of the results of said election by the Board of Elections of Craven County.

Sec. 2. The mayor, George W. Griffin, and five commissioners, Henry Clay Wynne, Irving Beck, Reuel S. Lee, Norwood R. Sanders and Jesse Robert Lewis, elected at the election held and conducted pursuant to the authority of the Act referred to in Section 1 of this Act are hereby declared to be the proper and qualified officials of the Town of Havelock as of the date of the declaration of the results of said election, and all their official acts as mayor and commissioners of said town since said date are hereby in all respects confirmed, ratified and validated.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 18th day of April, 1961.