NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 171
HOUSE BILL 211

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF HYDE COUNTY TO MAKE CERTAIN PAYMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN DREDGING OPERATIONS AND A PUBLIC DOCK AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, in the summer of 1956 the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army committed the Federal Government to re‑dredge Far Creek to a navigable depth of twelve (12) feet upon condition that local interest would (1) acquire an area adjacent to said property to be used as a public dock, and (2) furnish the Federal Government free of cost easements over certain lands to be used as disposal areas together with a certificate to the effect that said easements were valid; and
WHEREAS, in order to obtain these improvements a few of the local citizens at Engelhard, North Carolina, arranged with an attorney of Hyde County to do the necessary abstract work and obtain the required easements for the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and negotiated the purchase of a satisfactory lot in the name of Hyde County to be used as a public dock at a cost of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00); and
WHEREAS, these citizens have guaranteed the payment of both of these sums upon condition that they are not paid by the county: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Hyde County is authorized, in its discretion, to pay the above described indebtedness out of any non ad valorem tax funds which may be available for this purpose.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of March, 1959.