Art. 6. - Street improvements.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That chapter two hundred and seventeen of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and nine be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the word "aforesaid," in line thirty-two, in section one of said act, the following:

"Provided, that whenever the town of Sanford has had any of said paving or street improvement work done, it shall give the owner of abutting property ten days notice of the amount charged or assessed against his said property by the street committee of said board of aldermen as the cost of said work or improvement, and if the said owner is dissatisfied with said assessment or charge, he may, within ten days after service of the notice of assessment charged against him, appeal therefrom to the next term of the Superior Court of Lee County, and shall give said board of aldermen notice of such appeal within ten days after the service of notice of charge or assessment against him, by serving upon the street committee of said board a statement of fact setting forth the ground upon which said appeal is based, and within five days after giving such notice to said board of aldermen said owner shall serve upon and furnish the mayor of Sanford a statement of fact setting forth wherein he is aggrieved, and specifying with particularity the grounds of said appeal, whereupon the mayor shall certify to the clerk of the Superior Court all papers and documents, orders and resolutions of the board of aldermen or street committee pertaining to said assessment, and the said appeal shall be docketed and tried at the said term of Lee Superior Court as other actions, and said owner may in like manner appeal from any order or act of the board of aldermen or street committee in assessing said charge or enforcing the collection thereof, but said appeal shall not delay or stop said street improvement.

Sec. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified this the 6th day of October, A.D. 1913.

(Private Laws of 1913, chapter 34)