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HomeMy WebLinkAboutUS Public Works Administration Files (part 18)t FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS TELEGRAM wt REPLY PLEABE REFER TO CHARLOTTS, WORTH CARCLIEA o% be a a4 Z ‘eget “at terweteg 203 peTTs2 Boss 26TH wez3s07 se eurp ogy SeypETesT oar cream none aug wovseeTe EP 37 +(9) 7 Chariotte: sulg #7, ise es, bftebh 129-1- 0) A regular mecting of the City Coueil wes beld in the al i Council Chauber of the City all et 4 ovclock, P, Mp, Mayor Douglas, a presiding, and Cometinen Alben, Barter, Derhen, Griswcld, Hovis, 3 Hudson, Huntley, Nance, Sides and Wijkinsom being present. | = Absent: Cometinen Little € ca * Councilman Albea introduced the following ordinance which was reed end is as follows: BONDS . EUSEAS, 1% 1s doumed advisable to construct anf equip "puta Renpttal to She Shay of Chartetes eat engine « site | therefor, end aes, 1% in eepesned teat ten Oity oil matches CUD from the Beteral Muergency Aisinistration of Public Works end contributions fron other sourere for paring # portion of the cost WEEEAS, it is necessary to issue bonds to pay the balance of such cost; now, therafore, : Be Ir ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Gection 1, ‘That the City cf Charlotte issue its bonds, pursuant to the Municipal Finance Act, es amended, in sn amount not extes@ing $550,000 for the purpose of paying « portion of the cost of constructing amd equipping « public hospitel in the City of Charlotte end acquiring « site therefor. Section &. Theat « tax sufficient to pay the principal ené interest of said bonds shall be ennualy levied and collected. ie “Section 5 ‘That © statement of the debt of the 7 City hes been filed with the Clerk and is open to public 3 Section 4, That this ordinance shall take effect 3 ty the voters of the City et am election as yea by lem, = “1 Aad Mhmreupon the City Council, by waanimous wore, + quateqnated , 1p Ceotmorsland, City Accoustant, as the offi~ eer whose Guty £8 shall be to make and file with said Clerk |) Che sworn statement required ty the Municipel Finance Act os te debt and asseused valustion, and directed Lloyd Mec, Ross, City Engineer, to furnish the City Accountant the City Engineer*s ‘estimate of the amount of special assesaments te be levied on “ @eeount of locel improvements for which any part of the gross @ebs of the City ms or is to be incurred and which will be applied, when collected, to the payment of such part of the gross debt. Thereupon, M. L. Westmoreland, City Accowrsagt filed with the Clerk, Alice B. MeCounell, in the presence of ee nee the City Council, such statement of debt and assessed valua- tion at the foot of which statement Licyd McC. Boss, City Tagineer, had meted his estimate of the amount of the special assessments to be levied, which amount the City Accountant hed imeluded in his own statement. : ee 3 aa = > = = - = aE eT NNN Pege #141. CITY OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA STATIRGNT OF DEBT AND ASSESSED VALUATION MADE PURSUANT TO SECTION 2943, MUNICIPAL FINANCE ACT, AS MGNDED. I, Me Ls Westmoreland, being duly do hereby certify Beas oa cs cans cee en of Charlotte, and have been designated by the City Cuuncil to make and ae file with the City Caerk a statement pursuant to Section 2943, Municipal Finance Act, es amended, and that the following is = true statement as show by the books in my office, aot taking into consideration any debdt incurred or to be incurred in anticipation of the collection of taxes or in anticipation of the sale of bonds other then funding end refuné- 2 (e) GROSS DEBT a(l) Outstanding debt, aot evidenced by bonds,.-.--.+. § 76,500.00 (State Loans Payable ~ Sehoo) Builé- : IMGBeeeccccecccocreceseneces ; 52,000.00 SERCO] BORMBsccsevecsesessese $ 1,427,000.00 ars Water Bonds... scccccccvesesse 2,973,446,01 nation Bonds.eccesescoevseees 86,000.00 Other Bonds. .s.ceccccescesses 5,867,053.99 § 130,365,500.00 a(3) Bended debt to be incurred under ordinances passed or introduced: Water Works Extension Bords $ 65,000.00 oe Public Hospital BORGSs++ s+» ¢ 380,000.00 435,000.00 (a) GROSS DEBT, being the sum of e{1), e{2), GeO 615) vin sd 000 hes buck used sees cer ecsessoncees $ 16,335 ,000.00 (>) DEDUCTIONS bil) Uhissued funding or refunding bonds......+.++-+- None b{2) Sirking fumés or other funds held for debt, other than debt incurred for schools, water, gas, electric light or power ocurposes cr two or more of said PUTPOSSS. eee ccesecereesee ese eeesereeee ee eetersere $ 364,616.12 #142. b{4) Special assesaments to be levied om ac- count of local improvements for which ' amy part of the gross debt was or is to be incurred, end which, when collected, will be applied to the payment of such part of the gross nach: checkmate en: a ee aad 2 46,102.67 Bonded debt included in gross “edt and incurred or to be incurred for water, gas, electric light or power purposes, or two or more of said purposes. «.c0<eeee pecans $ 3,036,446.01 The amount which the City “ill be em- . titled to received fram ary railreed or street raileny company under contrect heretofore made for payment by such company of all or « ion of the cost of eliminating «& crossing or crossings within the City, which amount will be applied, when received, to the payment of some part of the gross Gebt.-.-+-++++ $ 39,638.52 Indebtedness ineludeé in gross debt end imeurred for school PUFLOSES. oeneseseeseseesoess $ 1,469 ,000.00 DEDUCTIONS, being the sum of b(2}, di2), : v{3), via), v{8), pis) and WT} a cacavscevscssecs $ 5,911,814,34 NET DEPT, being the difference between the GROSS DEBT (a) and the seteeaicrsns (dB) case. § 4,925,185. 66 @ ASSESSED VALUATION ASSESSED VALUATIC of property as lest fixed for municipe] texetion, being the — valuation fixed in pS eet 945 7295.00 (e}) DEBT RATIO Percentage that the net debt bears to said eesessed WRlUBtion....sescecnsecserecenseee 4.435798 Tae foregoing statement is true. ty Subscribed end sworn tc vefore me this 27th day of My commission expires May 31, 1959. The undersigned, City Engineer of the City of Charlotte, hereby states thet he has examined ths foregoing statement end thet the mount there steted of special assessments to be levied - Page #143. item b(4) + is im accordance with the undersigned’s estimate. eee MECKLENBURG COUNTY. The foregoing is © true copy of « statement filed. with me as City Clerk of the City of Charlotte, om July 27th, 1958 at @ meeting of the City Council of said City, said statement coksisting of « statement of certain financial ‘natters sworn by the City Accoutant, followed by a statment of the City Engineer, not sworn, all of which was so filed after the int-oduetion and before the passage of an ordinance authorizing $950,000 Public Hospital Bonés, which statement : is and has becn since said filing open for public inevection = —_ in my office, ‘ WITHESS my hand and the seal of mid City, this mise ot aug, 1290 <f Upon motion of Councilman Albcs, seconded by Counciiman Risks fal manebaniattg sanwicl, Shu sxtinmse webhedioing (0i0.0t0 Public Hospital Bonds wes read and passed upon its first reacing. The vVotss test upom the first reeding were as follows: Councilman Albea Cvuncilman Baxter Couneilman Durham Councilmen Griswold Counce‘ iman Hovis Covmecilman Hudson HReaR ES Councileen Nance aT8 4 Councilman Fides» am8 oi Counetlman Wilkinscn aE Upon motion of Councilman Albee, seconded by Counci Iman Hance end unanimously carried, the rules were suspended and the oSdinance authorizing $350,000 Public Hospitel Bonds was read and passed upon its second reading. fhe wes cant won the second reading were as follows: , Councilman Albes Gounsiunn Better Councilman Durhen Councilman Griswold Councilman Hovis Councilman Hudson Councilmen Huntley Councilman Wenco Counetiman Sides BRRERRRAE SG : Upon motion of Councilman Albee, seconded by Counciinan Menee and unanimously carried, the rules were suspended ané the ordinance authorizing $350,000 Public Hospital] Bonds was read and _ passed upon its third an¢ final reading, ané declared to be an ordinance by the Mhyor. Tae votes cast upon the third and final reading wore as follows: | - Souneiinan Albes Councilman Baxter Councilnan Durham Councilman Griswold Councilman Hovis Councilman Hudson Councilman Huntley Councilman Nance Councilman tides Councilman Wiikinson BRHBRBARSBAS Page $145. Thereupon. Councilmen Baxter introduced the follos- img resolution which was reed and is as follows: BE If RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Charlotte: Section 1. That @ special election is hereby called to be held on Tuesdey, September 15, 1958 between 7 A.M, ond sunset, Eastern Standard Tins, at which there shall be sulmit¥et to the qulified voters af the City of Charlotte the following question: x “Shall an ordinance passed July 27, 1938 au- thorizing not : : Section 2. ‘That there shall be « new registra- = oas tion of voters for the vurpose of said election, the books to be opened om Saturday, August 15, 1958 and to be closed on Saturday, Septenber 5, 1958, risiaining open during ell @ays within said poricd, except and holidays, from 9 A.M, wtil sunset, Section 5. ice cf said election end : new registration shall be publi aie than Thursday, August 4, 1936, and again during read stration period aot lateh than Jugust 22, 1938 in the ieastonin ows, reading substariaclly eas follows: aND NEW REGISTRATION CITY OF CHARLOTTE, RORTH CAROLINA $360,000 PUBLIC HOSPITAL BONDS Page 146 A special election wili be held between 7 4. and sunset, Eastern Staaderd Tine, Tuesday, September 15, 1938, at which there will be submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Charlotte the following question: Oe ew cae os gdm fl ade ee ees ac ee, cal a for said bofids, be approved? Said ordinance authorized not exceeding (350,000 Public Hospitel Bonds for paying ® portion of the cost of constructing end equipping © public hospital in the City of Charlotte and acquiring a site therefor. : It is expected that the City will receive « grant and contributions from other sources for paying the balance of the cost of such public hospital. If said bonds are issued = tax will be levied for the paynent of the principal ané interest thereof on all tazable property én the City of Charlotte. A new registration bas been ordered and no one will be pemitted to vote unless registered anes, The bookie for such new registration will remain open fron 9 A.J. til sunset on each day, oxeept Sundays ané holidays, beginning Saturdey, August 15, 1988 end closing Saturday, Sept. 3, 1958, Qe cach Saturday during seid registration period seid books shall rewain open at the several polling places. The pollirg pleces and names of the election officers, subject to change as provided by law, gre ag follows: ‘ Page fist, Precinct Wert Box Bulling Place Registrar i L Wl w. College St. Mre. J. H. Dickinson I 8 601 &. Trade 3s. Cc. D. Selby 1 Miret Ward Sebool §~ 3D. «BR. Yarbrough @ “2 City mu irs. C, L. Porter 2 & Gourt Howe Mrs. Mary C. Dicks S 1 S885. Church St. i, P. Kine 3 @ 36 S. Cedar St. Mes. Paul Reath + 2 439 8. Cuurch St. Mrs. B. L. Bebors 4 © @ Bethune School Mrs. J, M. Hudson 4 S 3i2 ¥, Binth Ss. Mrs. L. S, Boyd 5 i Wifth Wert School W. H. Ferguson 5 -@ 3206 BR. Caldwell St. Ray Stutts 6 1 Louise Pharmacy Jno. F. Miler 6 2 Piedmont Jusicr L. H. Query 6 3 1527 Central Ave. Mrs. Geo. B, Cooke 6 4 1942 Best Oth St, Mrs, HN. W, Bridges 7 2 ammory Audétorion Mrs, J. Gilmer Orr ¥ @& 2115 Crescent Ave. Jeff B. Morris °? S 226 Providence Rc. Mrs. L. H. Tucker, Jr. ? & Myers Perk School Mrs. EH, R. Stume 8 i Dilworth School Mrs. C. K. Messick 8 & 436 £. Boulevard Mrs. Inc. Griffith 8 3 Myers Park Paarmecy Mrs. C. W. Alexander : B.Morehead St. 8 4 <Avondéele Pharmacy £E. A. Moffit 3 1 Al? Winifred Place Mies Mary ©. Wileon 9 2 Wilmore School Mrs. J. A. Daly io i 1937 WW. Trade St. Mrs. G. Clayton Neal 10 2 Blair Bros. Drug Mrs. J. Lloyd Todd 2719 Tuckeseege Ra. 10 3 Wesley Heights Phar- Mrs, 8. P. Bradley macy ,1504 F.Morehead St. a, ae Hatchison School Mrs. Chas,.S. Hord re Hf PUESTOPSTE ESE cite See hebecere eeTectice ape mt PP i «srr if i Mre. C. S, Britt H. @. Aldred Mre. F. E. Milier john Ayers By order of the City Council of the City of Charlotte. “ee ) ie By order of the Coumty Boerd of Elections of Mecklenburg County. S. Y. MeAden Secretary, County Board of Elections. Section 4. That the persons whose names are set out in the foregoing for of sleetion notice are hereby appointed registrars and judges, respectively, for the several polling places therein indiceted, and that ssid election shall be held at tie pleces set out in said election notice. es Section 5. Thet the form ef the bellot te be wped st said election shall be substantielly as follcus: : : we: = * . nities NR mT : : r SSOP SCS HOSS SESE SESE HEE ESSE SSS SESE SE Peesizile cf sigusture cf City Clerk SPSS OSHS ETE SS SESH RSE SES OH OES EO HESS Fecsinile of signature of Chairman cf County Board cf Elections. Section 6. That the County Boar? of Electicas te ené is hereby requested “tc appoimt the seme registrars and jweres “ho are «pointed by this resolution and to unite with the City of Charlotte in the publication of said notice of election ani recist-at- iow apd in ecn¢ucting said registration oni said electicn, si) in accordance with Chapter 97, Private lows of 1931, smd that a certifiec4 Page #149. copy of this resolution be delivered to the Cheirman of said County Board of Elections. : Upon motion of Councilman Baxter, seconded by Councilman Albee and weanimously carried, the resolution celling a special election was reed and passed upon its first reeding. ‘The votes eest upon ite first reading were as follows: Councilmen Albea Councilman Baxter Councilman Durhen Councilman Griswold Councilman Hovis Councilmen Hudson Councilman Huntley © meilman Nance Coumcilman Sides Councilmen YWilkinaca -- ‘Wpem action of Couneiimas Baxter, seconded by Countilnnn Alves and umanimously carried, the resolution calling @ special election was read and passed upon its second reading. ‘The wtes cast woon its second reading were as follows: Councilman Albea Councilman Baxter Coumcilnman Durhen Councilman Griswold Councilmen Hovis Souncilman Hu’son Councilman Huntley Councilman Nence Coume ilman Sides PRR RBRRR RES Cowmei imen Wilkineoa Pege #180 Upcn motion of Courcilean Bexter, secanded by 2 “<« Councilman Albes sné uaeninmcuesly carries, the rescletion calling @ special «lection ems reed end passed upce its third emé finel reading ané the Mayor declared it bed passed. The votes cast upon its third an¢ fimel reading were es follows: Cowncilnen Albee Councilmen Baxter Cowumeilran Durkan Counciluen Griswold Couneilnan Ecvis Councilman Eececa Couneilman Huntley Coustilnan Hance PHRRREEEES - - = = I, Alice B. MeComme}2, City Cierk of the City of of the City Coueil of the Gity of Charlotte at a regular necting held July 27, 1936, the record having been mace in Mimute Book Mo. 7, beginning st page No, 139 and ending at page 160, end is @ true copy of se much of the said proceedings as relate in any way to the authorization of $550,000 Public Hospital Bonds of the City of Cparlotte and the calling of = special election to wote upc the epprowal of the oréinance suthorizing said bonis. ~~ WITNESS my hand anf the official seel of said City sue 27% day of Duly, 1936. eats 229.2. is , Sw ranbeivee, that Mecklenburg Gourty coat thinte the eon 120,009 toward the eowurast ite and sine ns Sahl PERRET ore (weg cobs tad se 2 | pubiont department ror the tr at ent the ea iz Pi = = s. Ps ‘ - * cr a. Bs Bradglien; Glebi te the: Beard of Gendt satoners ¢ heme! Shae shee anes me g. &., do herety ry 1 ®& trae and = # ea les go Mo Gi hdd £47. f- 1 LO 3, ar Shi ielkcianaes in the lieation to at for funds See net Se"chenereas ne eee 4 <M wae Sate eee to bicdiieltes from cash om hané, a 2 cogs of Ste ee eee for thi On motion ef Counciluan Baxter, seconded Sy Councilesn Durban, and cerpied?, the rules were suspended an@ the foregcing ordinance wes passed en its third end finsl reading sad mag unanimously adepteéd, and Zetlered te be em mréinince of the City of Charlotte. The wotes cast on the third reading were as folloss: Ratified thie I6te, dey of August, 1998. <@ a oie Oo Cu or. < Mifta SURPLUS ano UNDIVIDED PROFITS § 1. 200.000.00 8 : « 5 | S S ~~ Ss NS C Feces, SESERVE SYSTEM fagest 2, 1933. C f Lt, ight 119. 1. U8) ti 5 SECURITIES (Private Laws of North Carolina, 1927; page 360.) at a point in the center line of the Beattie's Pord Road at its intersection with the Tate property line, proximately one thousand four hundred feet north of the intersection of the center line of the Beattie'’s Ford Road with the present City limits line; thence in an easterly di- rection te & corner moment of the present City limits at the head of the old water works pomd; thence in a continuation - ef the same line, intersecting the center line of the A é (413) ye with the center line of Roswell Avermme to a wester ly direction th line of Queens Road iy direction parallel to and teo hun- intersection with the thence in a norther south line of Queens Road Vest to a point present City limite Queens Hoad East te its intersection of Roswell Avermme; thence in a eet south of the sou West; thence in a wester si ies atl Se af : : i 5 ; ; 3 s @red feet sGuth of the GENERAL PROVISIONS 2-3. ef Selwyn Avenue; thence in a northwester. ly te corner, aepprexins one sicker SUR wont of; URE center tin ak of the Columbia Division of the Southern Reilwey; thence in a northerly direction following the present City Lint s te intersection with the center line of West Tremont in @ more thwesterly direction to a point in the Dowd Road two hundred feet ef the west west of the Gulf Refining Company's plant; Girection te a point in the center line eG two hundred feet west of the west line mear the Glemwood Church; thence in a northerly the center line of the Piedmont and trecks, two hundred feet west of the west lim oat Oy 335 seneuengy thane in on sentel ly Streesion center of the e Creek Bridge on the Rozzeli's *s ts intersection te ee ne, LINES OF WARDS (1) The FIRST WARD, or Ward Humber One, is bounded by cng running the center of Independ runn Line Railroad; thence with said reilroad, easterly, to East Sugaw Creek; thence down the creek te the cemter of the bridge on Elizabeth Avenue with that street and the Monroe te limite cross that Road; ly and seuth- int where said corporate limits t the Seventh Street bridge on ak rented! int where the corpora or “Elizabeth and Myers Park," is limite in a souther > > . te limits te Parkwood Aveme, and thence East ora Creek, end thence with that (7) THE SEVENTH WARD, iy direction to the po bounded by lines, East Sugaw te Roal to the po point of b c a § : i j , : : thence with seid corporate we of Db a, beginning at the point on East Sugew Creek where Morehead Street catkins enemas each aaams ereek to the point where said te thence im @ westerly direction, with said limits, Columbia and Auguste Esilroed: thence with that railroed bridge on Morehead Street; thence with Morehead Street (extended) to the point of beginning. . 4-7-CITY GOVERSMENT | /“Charter PLAN “D", MAYOR, CITE COUNCIL, AND CITY MANAGER Se EE EERE ERR SUS 4. How to become operative 10-Yaeancies in Council 2 Governing . 11. EBleetion of Mayor - Mamber and election of ie Saeeeee of Mayor and : Couneil. 13.City Manager appointed a 5 vole aren oo Be 4 removal ef officers. 15. Control of officers and — Lag Er of the City shall be wested in the City Council. City ii elected as aforesaid shail meet at ten o'clock in the fore- noon on Wedne after the first Monday of May in each year, and the members of City Couneii whose terms of office then begin shall severally make oath before the City Clerk or Justice of the Peace to perform faithfully the duties of their respective offices. The City Council shall th be organized by the choice from ite members of @ Mayor, who hold his effice during the term for which he was elected a member of the City Council, and a r : ; pleasure of the City The ergenization of therCity Council shall take place as aforesaid, notwithstanding the absence, death, refusal to serve, oF mon-electiom ef one or more of the members; provided, that at iemst three of the persons entitled to be members of the City Coumcil are present and make cath as aforesaid. Afiy member entitled i.) 9 MEETINGS REGULATED- The City Council shall fix suitable (1917, e. 3 at the time any time thereafter. (1917 3; 1919, ¢. s. the Mayor pro tem. ? ey or vote. » Plan B, s. 5 ® © 9 * © $ ae wee oan be mecessary oath at a en to make the aforesaid oath, fixed therefor, mey make e. a sub-ch. 16, Part ¥V, Plan DB, s. order, ordinance eres ea i mee 10~12-CITY GOVERNMENT /Snerter 10. VACANCIES IN COUNCIL- Vacancies in the City Council shail be or wa council for the remainder of the un- expired terms. (1917, ¢. 136,sub-ch.16,Part V,Plan D, s.8.) il. ELECTION OF MAYOR- The Mayor shall be elected by the City Council from its own members, and shall hold office Guring the term for which he has been te the council. In case of a vac in the office of Mayor, the remaining of the council shall choose from their own number his successor for the unexpired term. nk or 16, Part V,Plan D, S- 9; 1919, ¢. 60, s. 1, e. tt F appointed with regard to merit only, and he need not be @ resident of the City when appointed. He shall hold office during the pleasure of the Ci Council, and shall receive such compensation as it shall fix ordinance. (1917 ¢. 136, subwch. 16, Part V, Plan D, s. 11.) i3a. POFERS AND DUTIES OF MANAGER~ The City Manager shall (1) be the administrative head of the eity government; (2) see that within the city the laws of the State and the o s resolutions, and regulations of the city council are faithful executed; (3) attend all meetings of the council, and recommend for adoption such measures as he shall deem expidient; (4) make reports te the council from time to time upon the affairs of the eity, keep the co ncil fully advised of the city’s financial condition and its future financial needs; (5) appoint and remove arn of departments, superintendents, and other employees ° @ city. 14. APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF OFFICERS- Such City officers and employees as the council shall determine are necessary for the proper administration of the City shall be appointed by the City Manager, and any such officer or employee may be removed by him; bot the City Manager shall report every such appointment and removal to the council at the next meeting thereof following any . (Qrerter ott is CITY GOVERMMENT-13-15- 158 .S such appointment or removal. (1917, c. 136, eub-ch. 16, Part V, Plan D, s. 13.) ; 15. CONTROL OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES- The offiders and of the City shall perform such duties as may be re- of them by the City Manager, under general regulations of the City Council. (1917, e. 136, » 16, Part V, Plan D,s.14.) 15a. SCHOOL SYSTEM CONTROLLED@he public school system may be placed by the council under the management and control of a board of education of not less than three and not more than seven to be @ pointed by the council under such rules and regulations and with powers and duties as the council may from time t time : Provided, however, that any city edopting this form of mt dhall have, at the time ef such adoption, on the voters of such city, such of in existence and the powers and duties rep Aggie: Prspradigter grr, gs Syn the intment of such Provided further CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR~-16-17 CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR 16. Pass ordinances. . 37. Powers granted C.C. (Cont. ) 17. Powers graxted City Council. (23) Doors of theaters. {2} Stree hoc torttes aes. ery areas ‘ 6, ete. es. eon Laeetiy ee - 27) Drain pipes. sidewalks, etc. ) Cemeteries. Lighting streets, li Sewerage. ” and puildings. . : ; Enumeration. ons in s (5) eof railroad trains, (30) Fines anid penalties. cars, etc. 18. lation of ordinances (6) Gates and witchnen at ~§ oh ee one street crossings. Officers contracting avengines tn Oey. 3 unlewfal. | ee . Hae duties <— = ee ee es. 22. cictr Mretes for Police — Fire Departments. - The City Council ghall have power to make and provide for the execution thereof, such ordinances, for the government of the City, es they may deem proper, not in- consistent herewith, or with Shots it ak tee i?. POPERS GRANTED CITY GOUNCIL- The City Council shall have contrel of all the finances end of the property, real and personal, belonging to the City, and amo powers hereby granted shall have power and cudaoe diet te sehiaioaes duly acted: an is FOR ee anne provide for the payment of any st indebtedness, and of any obligation that may from time to time be made bg the City, and to appropriate funds for that purpose. ERO RY ot PS SRE Ae ae i7- . =e CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR, | (Charter (2) SYHEETS, BRIDGES, BTC.- To establish, construct and keep in repair streets, sid >» bridges, cual » Grains and con- Guits in the City, to regulate the construction and use @f sane, and to abate or punish any obstruction or encroechment thereon. clam et ths City Muotboer, to prescribe and exact fees for such privilege, and te deposits as guarantees of the proper restoration of such street or sidewalk, (4) LIGaTine wide for the ligh buildings. and for fixture (5) SPEED OF ALL RAILROAD TRAINS STREET CaRS, ETC.— To regulate the speed of all railroad traina, street care and loso- et motives with City and their stops at street eros a ) wire the companies to keep the streets through which | in repair and to require ell railroad ownersé. GATES AND WATCHMEN AT STREET CROSSTIGS- To require 11 .. ercssings railroad when deened & (7) RALUNAY TRACKS AND STREETS- To regulate and control the Laying and construction of railroad to require that they be constructed . as Little as possible with the ordinary travel and use « and te that they be Kept in repair, To regu the location of cable and street railroad tracks and reiiroad tracks and to require railway construct at their own expense such bridges, turnouts, culverts, crossings and other things as the City Council may deem necessary. (8) STEAM ENGINES IW CITY- To control and regulate the location and use of steam engines in the City and to adopt such rules and r tions in relation therete as may seem best for the publie safety and comfort. 3 (9) AUTOMOBILES AED VEHICLES- To regulate the use of auto- mobiles, motor cars, motor cycles or any other motor vehicles, to iseue permits for the use of such vehicies, ani to require the Same to be numbered. = companies to maintain gates or watehmen at necessary. jaa ae ANE AARON RN aa en _ cleanse, repair CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR- 17 DRINKS IN CITY- To provide for md regulate ty of everything to eat and drink offered To provide for the inspection of all dairies of the City limits doing business within the City and charge and provide license fees; to re te and maintain @ standard for the quality of milk sold in the City, and provide for penalties for the viclation thereof. (i2) See ee ee ee prohibi business of slaughtering animals e @; te revoké such license for maleonduct in business; to © regulate and license the sale of fresh meats and to license and regulate or prohibit slaughterhouses which furnish meats to markets within the City. cgi ee. oe. (13) DATRY, GRocERY. ETC.- To require any owner or oceupant of any , grocery, Dldckanith shop, stable, slaughter-house to or } as may be necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants. aa) MAREET- To establish ‘markets and market places, and (15) PUBLIC GROUNDS* fo establish and te lic and to regulate, restrain and prohibit the at Li horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goate, dogs and other an City, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same eosts of the proceedings and penalty incurred, and to arder destruction of such as cannot be so and to impose penalties the owners or keepers thereof for vio on of ordinance at all euch sales the ef any animal . a and title thereto, if provisions o ortissnne tome been complied with, (16) SUNDAY OBSERVANCE« To pass ordinances for the due observance of Sunday and for msaintehatice of order in the vicinity of churches and schools, (27) FIRE DEPARTMENT- To establish arii_own stations and sos ah eeneene aia ; ae Seamintion dni mathe and to provide eve neces or’ the tion ma tenance of such depab tues’. (18) FIRE LIMITS- To establish fire limits, and prehibit the erection, building, placing, removing or repairing of wooden buildings within seid Limits; to prohibit the removal of any wooden bui from one place to another within said limits require ell buildings within said limits to be constructed with fireproof material; also prohibit the repairing of wooden bui & within said limits when the sane shall have been damaged one- of their value and may provide the mode of eacertaining euch Gamage; 17-CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR - Charter also may declare all dilapidated wooden buildings which they Gees dangerous on ac of fire, muisances, and require the Same to be removed euch manner as the Council may direct. (19) BUILDINGS- provide for an inspection of the con- — of all buildings in said City, and to prescribe and regulations, in thereto; to regulate and e erection of all poles the Site het canes the sae es o changed, whether telegraph, telephone, eleetric light or otherwise. - (20) DANGEROUS PLACES- fo authorize one or more officers, yo ig ance hg ably Pg Sg iy an Snchoviinde Gineovar abet imgs and premises within the oe eee ver whether “PEs sane Gre dangerous on account of fire a a CHRMEYS AND FURNACES = aus filers, furnac ° Tae uuhe tn Ba baneted Wak wads account of dense amoke from such furnaces. (23) DOORS OF THEATERS- To pce ang ean gedagnnng oe pe es ne — eae. tk ee ee of a large mumber of people, whether now built or Beresrter tebe built, so thet they aay 8 convenient, ae and speedy exit in case f fires. (24) MWOUISANCES- ae setine Shek theli Se dusisences th the City, and to abate them by summary proceedings, and to punish the authors thereof by penalties, fon, or imprisonment. (25) CREMATORIES - To establish one or more crematories ami to provide for the removal of all filth, earcesses of dead animals, and other unhealthful substances for cremation, and to require the owners and occupants of all premises to keep them im a cleanly eae sens 1L7-CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR « 14 - {Charter ire the owners of private leanse eres relay, by to do for the breach of the provision o paseed in pursuance » Sball be recovered parent, guardian or master (if the mihor be an apprenti ef such minor. OFFICERS CONTRACTING WITH CITY UNLANFUL- That it shall officer of said City, direetly or become, directly or indirectly personally interested in, or receive profit from, any purchase of supplies for any depert- Charter/ CITY QQUNCIL AND MYOR-18-21 ment. of esid City, and any such person so offending dhall be guilty of a misdemeancr. : 21. ‘THE MAYOR'S DUTIES AMD POWERS-MAYOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE- The r shali be the chief executive officer of the City. 1 be active in enforcing the laws and ordinances of the City, and shall have power to appoint special policemen for any special oceasion, and to cail upon the lecal military, under an order of theGovernor of the for the suppression (See Service Act.22) MEASURES TD CITY COUNCIE— He shail from time the City Council information about the condition affeirs and recommend for consideration such measures best for the City; and he may exercises uch other re ee eee eee nee eee, eee eee the ty Council not inconsistent with this charter (and the 8 ef North Carolina). 21-CITY GOUNCIL AND MAYOR (5) PRESIDE AT ALL. MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL- It shall Soir dimer, sean cal mieetals ae 6813 etings F elaciubies y me ° and executive boards ef which he le ex-officio ehairaen but in all mch meet he shall have no vote except in cased a tie. When the Ma or absent from the City, or is unabie from any eause to perform his duties, the Mayor pro tem. shall be the acting Mayor. . ‘ (6) CALL VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER FOR CONSULTATICH- That whenever the Mayor shall deem it necessary, the members of the several See annecis tases tse Gt time and place by said or for consultation end advice upon.the affairs of the City. (Paragraph 46, ee as to salary of Mayor end Aldermen omitted. Paragraph omitted.) 7? QATH OF MAYOR WHEN BSTERING UPON DUTIES- That upon the Gay fo his election or as soon thereafter as practicable, " I do soleamly wear that I will fo the utmost of ay power : support, and defend the order, peace and — of Charlotte and its inhabitants, | advance 4 of the City said board tten oon P te of the City Council, the appointing body. When such mre made by any citizen of said City, they mist set forth serpin inde: OF with Bienes. Seserers Se een ed by the person complaining. Before any action is taken That the by and with the advice of the chief have comttel over the employees of i the Police Department of said City of Cherlotts im that it shell meke all necessary rules and ons for improving and regulating the service ef said departments, establish and fix ts of applicants for employment therein, and requirezents waite all such general rules and regulations for gech notice be posted conspicuous of the said board for at least two weeks preceding That said board shall prepare and keep «4 succeasfully said examinati saic whieh said ve upon determine appointments to be in each of saia departments under the rules and regulations established by said board. (7) Theat all promotions in said fire and police departments eshallbe made by the chief of each respective department, ty ad with the apprewal of seid board, except the office of the chief, which office shall be filled a eger of the Mayor end City Council, but no candidate be eligibie for such CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR- 22 thirds majority lating this in said and said chiefs . shall be dismissed from service, t; or any political eee » with a twee of said Fire or Police De- appeo in any election aoe eee convicted : ! A : itl of which he seeks to te Chief for e@ period ro te said the officer or employee Ps Y 3 i vides i He . Busts Lee frou ty Council Zi. % i tae i i fl Le saylishy ij i sth sikiba a : eede i a ee es ee > Board as an or system in use, of said % in the files of said rules and regu the > Clerk shall act as secretary to said in force actions for the of said gulations shail wered City = i eae Fe ae @hall make an anneal report of its and it may Asal a de saa ri Soi mimutes of its pro- end he shall keep the ens held, taining to the ti such reasonable exanzina examinations of such board rail exeai i es wide suitable rooms ad shall ai for /seid civil service boards, and an of all ”~, il shall pro a record of de such Guties as said board shall prescribe. ic buildings for holding necessary. 12) «That the City Counc x(a may a 22-CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR /Sharter (i3) That the members of said board, and its secretary, Shall be peid @ reasonable compensation for their services, such compensation to be paid in the diseretion of the City Couneil. oe Supeees the. Sity Bouneti. of 408 contrel ever damagzes. Procedure, general thod of. Condeanation y saiehaaton. eer — of title. 23. PROCEDURE; APPOINTMENT OF COsmc[Ss] the opinion of the City Council, any lant, = tke paren ef © bacon arsnen She. age 24.~-PROCEDURE BEFORE CLERE- That upon the filing of the said petition the Clerk of the Superior Court shall issue a eammons to the parties interested in the rights, privileges or easements described in the petition them to appear at his office in the court house of said county, on a day at least ten@ays after the service of the said t the valua take into mating that may accrue to the any time after the at t matt subject ma a ights by apprai ed on and or ownership or transfer » or of the : of Ganaze excess of loss of any benefit shall in any ft may be sfer hed been property or r be found that the title to thereo § ; 8 i 26. That the v terest therein it. shell and assesament aforessid sideration the loss or reason of the land or benefit or thereof, and : of the said benefit or advan benefit or advantage together proceedings with the judgement een condemned under by it in the said i i 2 5 Z j ad » Which have b +. Shall west in the said City upon its paying into court or to the parties entitled to receive the same tion or damages recovered against it udged to be paid m its fo ther complying in all respects pf the court. compensa » privileges or easexents provisions of this act 33. TIT coierie cIry- rights = © amount of with the costes adj these and upo: right of eiti- is restored, an infasous 3 ore at more than one place def! a — crime. + Judges to of voters influencing voters. or intimidating 47. 44. Ve 45 an guilty of, perjury. up elections, mis- an pass on qualifications eo ee ee eee @ court for so pd in the ei Li . Hh aos : ty of a Hi 1 me 6 to 20 of charter ee shall te held under the Shari ie i sf Charter] | BLECTIONS-37-40- 37- ones GUILTY OF, PERJURY- if ey person shall ene Scnaanih: SUNG tha sneuk Wremiuena tar coneba amanda be shalive guilty of perjury, ani be fined not less than five : @ollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned effer to receive such bribe, shall also be guilty of an infamous crime, and fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court. 42. REGISTRARS AND JUDGES ADMINISTER OATES- The registrars and judges of election are hereby empowered to administer all oaths and affirmations mecessary in conduct of elections. : <.-45-macTIONS - & - Raarter 43. WAGER OF ELECTIONS, A MISDEMaAOR- If any person shall bet of wager soney or other of value apom the result of any élection under this Act, he be guilty of o misdemeanor. = respecti possess : Y te maintain order, amd te enforce obedience te their lexful command during their sessions, respectively, and shall be constituted inferior courts for that purpose, and if any person shall refuse te obey the . lewfil commend of emy such registrar or judge of election, or by ~ —- . G@isorderiy condect im their hearing or presence shall interrupt or disturbde their proceedings, they . = order in writing, signed the chairmen and attested by their.c Suge the person so offem@ing to be guilty of contempt and c + te the common jail the county for # period of not exceeding thirty days, and such + Rad # ordem shell be exeected by the Sheriff or Comstable to whom the same delivered, or if the Sheriff ar Comstable'shall mot be refuse to ect, eee se person who shall be _— Se Se of shall receive the persem so ccoamitted safely keep Bhim for such 4 as shall be mentioned im the commit- * OFFICERS WILFULLY REFUSING TO BEEFORM DUTY UNDER THIS 4g; Clerk of the Superior Court, City Coumeil of : ’ Charlotte, ar any member of such board, offigers — | i i ie fie Es 4 i bs . eRe iH (3) Theat it is the intent and purpose of this act that one set of registration books be used in the City of Charlotte for primaries or elections, national, State, County or municipal <5) £11 laws and clauses of laws in cémfiict with this act are hereby repealed. <6) This act shallte in full force amid effect from amd after ita rectification. v A i a, 8 a 7 i il ‘ a i Mii eta ie i Bond of Chier Inspector. Publie Cotten Weigher.. 55. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES- That the Inspection Department on Rieetrionl 7 Seeantia Deigsctet. eek cot Gaatbint an e r Inspectors as shail be necessary. . 56. CHIEF BUILDING * The Chief Building | —_ executive head of the department, under the AND DUTIZS- That it shell be the to inspect all buildings whi 59. PUBLIC COTTON WEIGHER- That the City Council may establish one oF more stations in said City for the of cottem, by the Cotton Jeigher of ty assistemt weighers as hemy appoint, subject te approval of the Board af County Commissioners. That said City Council may appoint one oF more Cotton Inspectors for each of said stations, whose duties — amd compensation may be ted by ordinance of the C ; and the duties of Assistant Ye rs ami Assistant inspector gay be ‘ performed by the same persom. (Paragraphs 122 through i3Ge of charter as printed, City Code of 1914; as te Beard of Public 60-PARKS AED PLAYGROUNDS- PARES AED PLAYGROUNDS - Incorporate Chearlette Park and Necreation Commission. “hereby ereated ani composed of t uo’ bees taxtitad ue as : voters of ie sthp ad tuaotaather geeeigite aah aria etl cane Cation and een wr aes Lk ne ne ee SS ae ee Sent Sin pupervinion 3é thes igteteet oF wiblic wae . Eee, from Cine time be epproprintad For such Purposes, and sand duties of the “Charlotte Park pikes oad as may seid facili ties as as the may prescribe, to charge — Se SGC Gisk seadedllsa ignite dies tece ake aa officers for the efficient smagenent end opera-: ste oa titre tt satetne of mal Rae rporaticna <— of the City of Charlotte, vacancies octurring in said board either : eee as of office or otherwise, shall be filled expires governing body ef whe City of Charlotte. (S$) The corporation ah=ll not have power to mortgage or encumber eny property umier its es nor shall it have the power te contract eny debt or incur any obligation in excess of the amount of taxes levied by the governing body of the City of Charlotte for park purposes for the current year. (6) That said "Charlotte Park and Reereation Commission* is hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Park and Recreation Commission, and by that mame shall sue and ! be sued; may have @ common seal; me: y acquire, receive and hold real estate in the City of Chariotts, North Carolina, ani vicinity by purchase, gift, devise, or otherwise; and ami mey acquire, receive and hold personal property by purchase, itt, and bequest by will or ae itneelens may contract and be contrectad with for the purpose provided for’ in this act, and make such rules, regulations and by iews for its government and the exercise of its as may be » mc may alter the same from time to in which manner a3 I not be in conflict with the laws of this State, er of thé ordinance of the City of Charlotte. (7) The members of the corporation, other than the desi ated Sn its funds, shail receive no compensation for GO} At a1 nestings of the corporation a ori of men bers shalt constitute © qoorun. ona Governing Body of the Ci of Charlotte at Ses tacet for ine neceuney of Fontes aig Governing Body to lew, in ad ¥ ae eed (42) That for the purpose of ascertaining St = of nae He voters of the City of Charictte upon the questi se ok chaste taxes and contracting the debt authorised a thas ection shall be held at all the voting precincts in the said’ Grae on the Tuesday after the first in September, nineteen humdred and twenty-five, it being the day of September. At said electim ali voters of the City of Lotte qualified to vote at said election may vote a written or printed ticket. Those who faéyot such levy and authority shall vote a ticket with the words “For park end recreation tax” written or printed thereon, and those “ead oppose such levy and authority shall - vote « ticket with the words "Ageinst park and recreation tax" written or printed thereon; 60-PERES AED PLAYGROUNDS - 33 - f and if = majority of qualified voters at said election shall vote for park and recreation tax amd the result shell so be Geciared, then the isions of this ect shall be in full force and effect. The d election shall be hel4 im the sanner pro- vided by law for holding the regular mmicipal elections in the City of Charlotte, except as in this act is etherwise provided. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the county board of eiec- tions to give motice of said election ss now provided by lam, and he shall see that the registrars of the several voting precincts in the City are provided in due time with the registration books for their respective precincts, and he shall camse to be printed and distributed te the registrars a sufficient mumber of tickets, both for and against park and recreation tax, and shall provide the registrar of each precinctwith at least three blank forms for the returns cf said election. ‘The registration books for said election shallte ope on the third day of ee and. 61-63-STREETS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS- Anarter STREETS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS A OREN Street Department; officers Assessments, how contesta@i. and employees. | | 69. Personal notice,optional. — Superintendent of Streets. Aet mendatory- Powers. Street improvement notice. Ordinance Porm of such notice. str railroeds.. "es 3}- Street improvement bonds. Street t funds. Power vanten in City Cou Moetice to City for damage. ee preservation i protection. ‘| for ae taitheel discharge of his @a&ties. 63. POEERS- That said City Council shail have full power end authority, to grade, pare, macadamize, and otherwise permenent-— ly improve for travel and dreinage any street, sidewalk and public ey of said City; to pat down curbing, cross drains, and cross- — SOs ws ie, Seine 10 Ihe Se ee ee to as okie 2 open, make such improvements thereon as the public ence may require. 64. ORDINANCE FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS*That the City Council shall have full power and authority to adopt, by ordinance, such @ system of laying out districts or sections of streets, and side- for permanent improvement, and of equalizing the assesament om real estate to pay the cost of such improvement as ~—— — and proper; amd in order te more fully carry out the duties posed by the provisions of this act for street improvement, the City Council shall have the power amd authority to pass ordinances assessing the entire cost of paving or repaving, mac or remicadani all such streets and sidewalks within any such dis- trict or seetion laid out for improvement on the reali estate abutting on the street or sidewalk or portion thereof so paved or repaved, macadamized or remacadamized, and it shall te incumbent on the owners of the real estate abutting on each side of the street or sidewalk or part thereof é0 improved or repaired, to pay the * 3§ « ; | Charter/ STREETS AND PUBLIC ImPROVEMEN amount so assessed far such improvement, and such cost aad or charges shall be a lien on all such abutting property from the commencement of the work, as provided in this act; provided, that the City Council shall not order such improvement district or se@Rion to Be laid out until and umless the persons owning the land abutting on guch street or sidewalk or public alley, or the portion thereof. proposed to be improved, which is more than one half of = frontage abutting on such street, sidewalk or Lie Sees SS ee shall, in ting, request said council te make such » except that in view of the fact that Eleventh Street from Graham Street to the abattoir, and 411 other pave, repave, . improve that part of such street or streets which the City Council may * prescribe, not to exceed, however, the space covered by its tracks, © and at least thirty inches on each side of each line of track as they @re now or may hereafter be constructed by any such com- y; provided, that the City Counmsil, in erder to .secure uniforn- ty in the workmanship and avoid delay in the progress of the work, shall have full power and authority to pave or repave macademize or remacadam: ze, or contract for paving or repaving, macadamizing or remacadamizing, the whole of said space without giving such street railroad compamy or other occupant of the street or streets, the option of having said space paved or re- paved, macadam! zed or remacadamizecd by itself or otherwise; and the cost of such permanent improvement, properly chargeable to abe o 65-STREESS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS such railroad company, shall be assessed upon the franchise or the property of said railroad company located in said City, and special tx levies made thereon for the purpose of collec the same in the manner herein elsewhere provided for the assessment and levy upon other property so improved. | 66. NOTICE OF PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS TO FRANCHISE HOLDERS- All companies, corporations and persons having franchises or permits to use the streets of the City for lay railway tracks, pipes or conduits, and for other purposes requir the excavation of the streets, sidewalks and public alleys, shall be notified by the said eouneil when any street is to be permanently improved and given a reasonable opportunity to lay said railways, pipes, or conduits, or do such work as they may be authorized to do under said chises, and in case any such company, corporation or persons fail to lay seid railways or pipes, or to do said work before such permanent improvements are made, they be permitted to do so thereafter, upon the they shall pay such reasonable pr on of the original ee of such permanent improvements as may be fixed by the Gifg Council. ye Ree 67. COSTS, ASSESSED UPON ABUTTING PROPERTY- That in order te equalize the assessments on real estate for the purposes de- 8 as elsewhere provided in this act, the City Council «| shall, before the commencement of any such work or “in ,. =: estimate the total cost of such improvement to be made through- out the entire 1 of such work or improvement, and shall then prorate the cost eof on the real estate abutt thereon in on to the frontage on the street or portion of the street so improved, and char toe and assess upon each side of “he street upon which said work done its pro share of the entire cost of all such improvements aa of this act; provi however, in ord lot owmmers sub-dividing and selling ef the liens hereby ereated upon the sub-divide their lots in such manner they see file in the office of the City Clerk and Treasurer a plat of the sub-divisione, making the lots fronting on the street so paved or improved of any desired frontage, dut not less than one hundred feet in depth, and the assessment made and the liens created by virtue of this act for street improvement shall there- after affect and attach to such front lots only not less than one hundred feet in depth, and wherein any such cases lands fronting on such improvements are so sub-divided into lots, each of said lots fronting on such improvements shall be and remain chargeable with its ratable portion of said assessment and liens, according to its frontage; that the City Manager and City Couneil shall eause to be established a permanent grade on any such street, Oa RUA IRA RR, aay) - 37 - 67-STRESTS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS Sidewalk or public tie improved — shall cause any $ street, sidewalk or public alley to be acevrately map to be made of the various lots and properties abut street, sidewalk or alley, or portion thereof so proposed to be improved, showing the exact front of each lot ts ami also the syb- divisions, if any, and the said map shall be filed with the City Clerk and Treasurer to be subject te public inspection; and when the assessments and liens, as provided for in this act, shail have been made mn the various lots and — on the streets, side- walks oar eys, the City Clerk and Treasurer, or other proper Clerical City officer, 11 writs upon said map the amount assessed - upon the same, and he’ shall keep a properly indexed record book shows ing such assecsmerits and liens, and.the date and amount of all pay- © ments made on any of the said assesamente and liens; provided, further Rohit ae tates perty improved : act provided, in amy case, exceed the amount of ae benatib or enhaneement in waine of said of — improvement oe — of hips tan ne prope manent street <a : tie strlet for inca | teases oes of such unequal the plan of equalization of assessments as above set 9 any. abutting owner, then and in that case the Cit ere authoriz divide auch district into sub-sections — ‘apply the Tule of equalisation of assessments preseribed here- such sub-sections, instead of to the entire district or sec re may make as many sub-sections eas may be necessary . @ just distribution of the cost of permanent improvement made — ce oe made in such district. The cost of all such improvements ‘or special benefits to property as estimated in the above manner, Sa tai Gaced tr WBA tncae Of Dende tok tha Leer bE ateeiad tak” A Pay. ie Samm end: the. interest therwen, as hereinafter provided. . 68. ASSESSMENTS, HOW CONTSSTSD- That the notice of assessment ef special benefits by the City Council, as herein elsewhere in this act, against ae property on any street, sidewalk or peblic alley in any such improvement district or section, shall be given at least twice a week for two weeks in some daily nhewspa: vs poblished in the City of Charlotte, which notice shall state time and piace that such assesaments are to be made and éetnietnels and shall notify ell persons interested in any particular improve- ment district or section or such assesament to appear and show cause, if any, why such assessment shall not be made; and in the event the owner of such lot or lots is an Ane fant, idiot, lunatic, or incompe- tent, then his general guardian, if he has such, shall act for him; % ae {Charter - 38 - 68.65. rs if he has none, it shall be the duty cf the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County to appoint a guardian ai lites te act for him. That any person who shsil feel aggrieved by the findings of said council, with reference to seid asseaswent for such perma- nent improvements, shall have the right within ten Gays after such findings of said board, and not after that time, to file his ob- Jections to such findings, and to appeal from the decision of said board to the next term of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg Gounty, Eorth Carolina, by serving upon said City notice in writing of his intentions so to do, and specifying in s2id notice the grounds of his objections to said findings and by filing,within the time pre- seribed for taking appeals in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenb Bounty, “a settee andemtattng in ok Suakt the sum of two hundred dollars, with sufficient sarety to be justified before and approved by said Clerk to the effect t said appellant will pay to said City all such costs and damages as it may sustain by reason of said appeal; in such cases of a from the Ci 4, the ordimance laying out the speci improved districts, ce nathan of said council in Set eee i benefits, the _@bjections of the preperty owner filed thereto, and all other Material to the matter shall constitute the cas¢ oe certified by the City Clerk and Treasurer to the Super Court, _ and shalibe docketed on the civil issue docket: and stand at issue - Such eppeal, as above ee lien for said assesament - ghall ee however, issues, or any of them, be found in favor o city of Charlotte to any amount, then judg- . ment shall be rendered in favor of said City for such amount, to the end that no mérely technical objections ill defeat the rights of the City; and the amounts so found, together with the cost of auch spores, which costs shall be assessed as costs in other civil actions, be and contimue a lien against the perty upen which the ori assessment was placed, from the date of the findings of id City Couneil, and be collected by the Tax Collector of the City of Charlotte, as elsewhere in this act provided. 69. PERSONAL NOTICE, OPTIONAL- That in lieu of notice by publication to property owners affected improvements te abutting real property, as elsewhere provided in this chapter, the City Council, if it so determines, may give ten days’ personal notice to all persons affected by any permanent improvements for which « Charge is to be made on real estate, to appear before said council at a certain time and place to show cause, if any, why such assessment — should notbe made, which notice may be served by any policeman of the City of Cherlotte, or any other proper officer. STREETS AND PUBLIC IMPROVESENTS . 70-72 e 7O. ACT MANDATORY- This act Shall Be conatrued te make it mandatory on the City Council to require abutting property owners to pay the cost of micadam, bithulithic, t, vitrified bri and other permanent pavements against the abutting property, a: elsewhere provided in this act; provided, further, that nothing in ~ this act shalilbe construed to make it mandatory on the City Council, - to issue bonds to finance the construction of sidewalks end charge = the entire cost of same not. including curbing to the abutting PAS Seon pate ta of the street to pay or bear the cost of the on its respective side, which ecest shall be a lien on the abutting property, as herein elsewhere provided, and peid immediately, thereafter as practicable, by the erty owners, and P by_an issue of bonds as is elsewhere ed, if the City : Council so determine; and such charge or assessment shall be enforeed and collected the Tax Collector by the sale of the abutting es ne iy benefitted, in the same manner as real estate is 7i. ether sections of this is finally determi end after the contract is let for any such work ae Council may cause a notice to be wabii 72. © STREST IMPROVEMENT NOTICE,” FORM OF- “Notice is hereby given that a contract has been let for (deseribing work and s sidewalk or alley), and that the improvement chargeable to the estate to be especially benefitted has been determined as to each parcel of said real egtate, and a statement of the same is on file with the City Clerk. It is propesed to issue bonds chargeable to — the said real eatate to pay the special assessment, ani such bonds — willte issedd covering all of said assessments except im cases ae where the owners of pro file with the City Clerk, within the time stipulated in said notice, a written motice that they elect —— to pay the special assessments on their property, the same. 73- STREET IMPROVEMENT BONDS- After the expiration of thectime fixed for filing notice of election to pay the special assessments — as provided in the proceding section, the City ‘council may issue = improvement bonds cover all of the assessments, except such as the owners have filed notice of election to pay, as stated in the preceding section, which bonds shallte of corresponding amounts and known as “Street Improvement Bonds"; shall comprise tem equal series; each series shall consist of a like mumber of bonds, and shall bear interest not to exceed six per cent per anmm; and shall be sold for not less than par; and shall be signed by the City Manager and attested by the City Clerk; and shall contain such recitals as may be necessary to show that they are chargeable to ticular perty; and may be bola at either public. or private Sale; and the interest 73— STREETS AUD PISLIC IMPROYEENTS-_ upom the seid bends shall be payable semi-annually, and each in- staliment of interest shallte represented by corresponding coupons;. the respective series of the said bonds shailte payable annually, — and the last series thereof siall be payable not exceeding ten years from the date of their issue; the proceeds collected ty the City .-. Treasurer shallte paid to the somtractor when due him, or the con-— tract may provide that the eegtractor shall take bonds as payment on his eontract, at their par walse, the contractor to be charged with acerued interest; at the date of each tax levy after the issuance of any Goth bonds, watil all of them are paid, when the tax roll or levy for the year is prepared, sufficient assessments of taxes on each parcel of land covered by bonds to pay the snnual installment of the principal amd interest on the ef such speciel assessments then unpaid, shall be imcludied in the tax levy | ey S3 a special tax on said property, amd thereafter this tax, - shall Ge treated in all respects as any other City Tax, tote co in the same manner and constitute a lien om the property tte, ; a special Zaprovement . Fund,” and the same, with funds derived from the-taxes hereafter authorized to be levied for street ee be 7 separate from aii other funds of the City and a s | Record s thereat shall be kept by the City Clerk; an@ seid = every thereof, shail be applied the said City Manager and City & sively, to the gre paving, macadamizing ther= — awa of said lty efcording to the true intent 75- POWER WESTED IN THe CITY COUNCEL- The City Council shall have the power amd euthority to locate, lay, establish end maintain public sewers ami water-maing im such of the streets or e¢isewhere as the Council muy deem necessary, and shail require the oumers of real property upom which residences or other buildings are located abutting upon the etreets in which said sewers and water gains are —— loceted, or within a reasonabie distance thereof, to cammeet said resiSences or cther buildings with such public sewers and water- mains, under such reasonable mules and regulations, anc upon such comiitions as said Council, sheli by ordimamce, fix an? establish, ae in which shellbe included the right to fix reasonable fees and rates te = be Charged, u pem such property owners, for the privileges of com- as netting with the anid publie semers and water-mains and the subse- quem use thereof, which rates shall also apply to the oumers whose - 4) o 76<77-STREETS AND PUBLIC IMPROVELENTS-~ fourter property has heretofore been connected with the public sewers and water-mains now established as well as to those to be connected here- after. The said Council shall heave the right and power to pass such erdinanees as shall be necessary to enforce the collection of such Yees and charges. ae 76. -WOTICES TO CITY FOR DAMAGS- No action for damages against — said City of any character whatever, to either person or property: ; shall be instituted against said City unless within six mon after the happening or infliction of the jury complained of, the leinant, his executors or administrators, shsli have given notice to the Ci Pat Council of said City of auch injury in writing, ste in such notice — the date and place of happening or infliction of such ury, the = manner of such infliction, the character of the injury and the smount of cee Claimed therefor, but this shall not prevent any time of limi preseribed by law from commencing to rum at the date of . pening or imfliction of such injury or in any manner interfere of e abuttin make pr X parcels of land, from said water pipes and sewers to ts or parcels of land upon like notice, terns, end under Yeguictions as are herein provided for making or requiring ~ ions with improved lots in seid pins Fag upon fsilure of the owner or. owners of guch umiaproved or vacant iots or parcels of land to so eis connect. the same within the time required, said City Council may make and charge the costs thereof agsinst said lets or - the same manner as is hereinbefore provided in the ease of sidewalks, and such costs sc charged shall constitute a lien upon such lots or parcels of land to the sae extent and to be enforced ami collected in the same monner as the liens hereinbefore provided with respect to the sidewalks in said city. Provided, further, that im @ll sections for permanent paving, the City Coumcii may require any person, firm or corporation ownin? or using gas mains, gas pipes, or ahy other pipes whatever, or underground electric or other wires, in Or under said street, sc being paved or about tote paved, te forthwith make ali their lateral commections in seid streets at least to the edges thereof before said streets are paved and so as not toe interfere with the progresa of the paving; and fcr failure for twenty Gays after notice of said requirement to comply with seme, said person, firm or corporation, so in default, shall thereby forever thereafter forfeit the right to use seid streeta for the purposes aforesaid, anc the City Council of said City may at its discretion remove said ges maina, pipes and wires from seid streets. e ee & ' Fe: Length of Tera Bosrd ef School Cammission- ers. Heme; beady c Wayor chairman —— > twol2) camdidates receiving the highest mumber election shall hol4 office for a period six(6) ye can@idates receiving the next highest number of wotes fcr four years; and the three(3) members receiving the next highest mumber cf wotes cast shall held office for a period of twot2) years. In the event of a tie wote between meubers for the different terms set @ut above, the board of schcol commissioners shall decide by | majority WGte which member shall serve for the longer term and which member Shall serve for the shorter term. (4) Biemially after said election in May, ome thousand nine humdred and twenty-three, there shall be elected three (3) or tro (2) mesbers of gaid bourd, as the case may be, who shall hola office for & period of six (6) years, eni until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and shail serve without compensation- *(e) vacancy in said board fo school commissioners shall be tilted by i board, and the person sc elected ty the said board shall hold office until the next genersi election of the City of Charlotte after said appointment, in which general election said vacancy shallte filled for the remainder of the unexpired term. (Chapter 142, Private Laws, 1929.) eee RMS RRND Ha os E ae ee = bast E #3 wees ie = Fe z Cherteg/ : PUBLIC SCHOOLS- 60-81. “(f) The nes terms for which members are paw. elected hail be filled by those persons receiving the highest number of wotes, the next langest terms by those receiving the next highest number of votes ami the next longest terms those receiving the mext highest number of votes: Provided, t mo person shall be declared elected who shall mot have received a majority of the votes cast in said election. "In the event of a tie vote between members for the different terms, the Board of School Commissioners shall decide’ by a majority vote which member shail serve for the longer term and which member shall serve for the shorter term.* Ali lews and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are her repealed. gna aoe “bat this act shall be in force from ahd after its retifi- i Commissioners of the City of Charlotte* with ail powersof the school committees of the resyective itd audteas af’ ately aad ix gemeres to ao. everything = : presser @eurses o to e 4 that maybe Recessary and proper to open and conduct a sufficient... — number of schools to meet the needs of the scholastic population of the City of Charlotte, and it shallbte lawful for said Board of School Comiissioners in their diseretion, to receive into the public schools of the City of Charlotte, upon such terns as they may think reasonable, any chiidren of school age residing beyond the Limits of said City. 83. SCHOOL LIBRARIES- Theat said Board of School Comnission- ers ahali have power and authority to establish and maintain @ library im connection with each school building, which shell be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools ef said City; amd shall have the power to aeguire’ by donation, purchase or otherwise, books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications and property of every kind suitwtile for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publica- tions for the white and colored races and provide separate rooms 22-84- LIC SCHOCLS for the use of efch of ms races. And the said Board of Seacol =. -.< Comsiesioners shall have the power to prescribe such rules and regula-_ tiong for the use sf su ich i braries as it.mar deem proper, 4nd do all acts @cxi things necessary for the successful maintemance of operation of sat@ libraries. The expense of equipping and Beintaining the same. shall Be paid out of the school revenues of said City of Charlotte. Se, Wicd SCHOOL Thet said Board of School Commissioners shall have the! power and authority to establish snd maintain ome or more . bigh pehocls in the City of Charlotte, to be known as “The Charlotte High Sehool,* and mot purchase sites, provide necessary buildings, employ a. : Ga tccuherd Gat Be tele eee ae courges oro, FP ge an ie general. @o whatever may i ary and to. estenilah Fags peri § said hig schean 2 for the highe ee core tetas cs ee en ae 3 of twelve and tue teive inte said hi aeons, ‘wpen ‘comm taicne as they oay le, risk Sate = = ages ecaiense: lemnzinn ~~ = og tahope rotrs wala of the City Ge Chariecter on they may @een suitable and proper, and the said Board shall not be bound or compelled to adopt for use in the public schools in said a (grace ogni nie fee 3: I by the State Text-Sook Couzission. se. TREASURER- ship bat buss cf Sclael Comiadiaden aubdi” . "® Treasurer, “end preseribe his duties and compensation. He _ shall give bond for the faithful perforsance of his duties gn auch sum a@ the said Scard may preseribe, which bomi shall not de lesa - double the bocunt which may reaseriehly come inte hia hends at one tise, and with sufficient security to be approved by said’ Ss 87. TREASURER, DUTIES GP- It shell be the duty of the Cit Coune’ 2 of the City of Charlotte te provide fer the paymeyt of said Treameeer of ail m@omeys collected under this ant and it eball be the cas cf. th @ Tresaurer of MecklenDurs Cot toc Spy tO the Treasurer of a Scard of Seo} Barr) vere a.d6 ae in 2 a out onal s asects oz i Sesertaten iostegeehon, at the see petoen and penalties for as seaie officers are liable to fer like failure. é 88-92+ PUBLIC SCHOOLS - reeter G9. EXPENSES- That the City Cousetl shall provide for-eit ae " expenses arising from permanent repairs and improvements made frou time to time by asid Board ef School Comissionera upon any of thé boildings and premises in use for school purposes within the City of Charlotte. gO. CERSUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN- That said Board of School | es Comaissioners may cause to be made annually on or before the : first day of Decesber, an accurate school ¢ensus of all children of school age within the limits of said we of Charlotte, and - upen such census so taken in each year shallte based the apportian- ment t¢@ the City of Charlotte of its proper share of the County school fund. — ; teens: Poe $i. ANNUAL SCHOCL TAX- hat the City Council ef the City — of Charlotte shall lecy an erauel tax for the i dividing the whole amount ty Treasurer of and salary of the County Supe tion, by the total mumber of ¢ en of scho: as determined by the last census pr: ing auch et. by sat tiplying the quotient so obtained by the total musber : idren of school age in the City of Charlotte, as depermined by last sebhocol census preceding such Eee ond the amount ~ SO ascertained and determined is ta. paid by the Treasurer of said Mecklenburg County to the Treasurer of the Public Sehcols of the City of Charlotte, or such other official as may be lJega ly designated tc receive the same, to be used for the said public schools of sais City, under the control and direction of the Board of School Commissioners of said City of Charictte. Prewided, that the amount so ascertained and determined for said greded school shall bear its proportionate pert of the lags sustain«@ on account of any taxes not collected by reason of errors, releases from taxa- tion, or otherwise. PUBLIC SCHOOLS- 93) -93- SCHOOL PROPERTY, TRANSFERRED; PROCEDURS- jets and public sehool bul and fixtures located roosng iw Ana aid re od City es defined by this Aet, Eerecase County Board of Eaucation of Weckiesurg Seman wy, or by any pu ic sehool trustees, and used as a part of the public system, within said territory shall SS ae ly upon the ratification of this nmin hd oe >» Tights and effects of the = ot of Charkottes ami of School Commissioners of said are hereby authoris- to take St tht Shen oh ann the . eee eet eee and all ¢eleins private viduals such lands, . the purchase bi Tea pe peta ldings, shall or construction eae Spartise casmot ogres upon a settienen 4 94. Powers and authority. a: Daily Sessions. Jurisdiction. HS Warrants. 93. Complaint against police. ~<_... 99. Appeal from Justice of Peace. 100. duatice warrants returnable before Recorder. 94. POWERS AND AUTHORITY- A special court for the trial ef misdemeanors to be designated as * RECCHDER*S COURT OF | Tas city oF " is hereby created end established. a eda ‘be a court of record and the presiding ~- officer i be known as the Recorder who shall be office and who shall be an elector of the City of Charlotte, -@he Recorder shall be @lected by the City Council end he shall Be dlected at the first mee of the said City Council in . shall have been elected. He shall office for two get and il his successor shall be elected and quslified. \t the expir of his biennial term of office, the City Council shall e&ect his successor. His salary ghall be fixed by the Cit Council not exeeeding the sum of thirty-six hun- dred dollars ($ .00) per year, payable in monthly install~- ments, and shall not be dimished during his term of office. (Pravate Laws, 1929, page 203.) 95. DAILY SH3SIONS- ‘The Recorder shail held daily sessions of the Court at the City Hall in ‘the City of Charidtte, beginning at nine o'clock A.N. (Sundays excepted), and con- ing until the business of the court is disposed of. g6. JURISDICTION- Seid Court shall have all.the juris- dietion ani powers in 311 criminal offenses Securing Within the corporate limits of the City of Charlotte @hi¢h are now, or may hereafter be given the justices of the peace, and shail also have originel jurisdiction to heer end determine ail end misdeme s consisting of the violation of any within said City limits are hereby declared to be petty 97. WARRANTS- Warrents may be issued by the Recorder for any person or persons charged with the comsission of offence as defined in the two preceding sections of which the said court has jurisdiction, and person convicted in seid court shall have the right of appeal to the Superior Court cof = ne County, and upon such appeal the trial in Superior Court shall be de nove. . -1* 9G. COMPLAINY AGAINST POLICE- Upon written compisiat = made to the Mayor by the Recorder that the Chief or any member. of the policaé foree has failed or refused to perform any Guty required of him by law, it shali be the duty of the Mayor to immediately suspend «uch officer from service until the Bosrd . ogf Pullie Safety shail meet and take action in the matter. = fos 99. .APEEAL PROU JUSTICE OF PEACE+ In a]1 cases heard. =~ _ by —— of the peace and ether committing magistrates agsinst any person or persons for any offence included in. ee et which Said justices of the peace or other ¢ommit mugistretes have not fins] jurisdiction, and in which eo --@euse of guilt is found, such person or persons shall | » bound, ever in a reasonable reco, @ with sufficient surety to ee nee reas | persons shall be committed to the emanon jail of Bs County awaiting trial. ; justice of the peace of the City of Charlotte may issue his wa for any of the offences enumerated in this Act and may mke the: Saue returnable to the said Recorder's Court; ailtrials in the. seid court shall be upon warrants issued by the said court or by — justice of the peace as aforesaid. Any person convicted in said court of amy of the offences embraced in this Act, shall = be fined or impriscmed, or both, according te law. Whenever a any person is comvicted in said court and the punishment Igposed is imprisonadnt and cost, the Reeorder shall have power to gentence the defendant to the county jail of Mecklenburg County to be worked upon the county reads until such sentence has been complied with. 101. NO JURISDICTION GF MAYOR, COUNCEL AND POLICE- The Recerder shail preside over the said court and hear, try and determine 211 criminal actions of which said court has jurisdic- tion, except criminal charges against the Magor or City Council er any police officer of the City of Charlotte, or in cases where the said.Recorder is legally incompetent to try the same, such & incempetency to be construed to mean the same as would disqualify = a judge of the Superior Court to try a case pending in that courte] fharter me - RBRORDER'S COURT-100-102 Criminal charges oy st the Mayor er any mauber of the: City Council or any policeman of the City shell be triable in that court, which would have jurisdiction thereof in case the said Recorder"s Court did not exist. 102. PRACTICE- The practice and proceedings in the seid ae Recorder's Court shall be the same ss are now, or hereafter be, preseribed by law in the courts of justices of the peace a (except that seetions one thousand five hundred and one to one thousand five hundred and mingtyesight sixteen (1501-1516), Consolidated Statutes inclusive, anc section one thousand four | hundred and ninety-eight (Section 1498, Congolidated Statutes) shall not apply te the said Recorder's Court), end in all cases shail be a t of appeal on the part of the defendant adjuged | te the next term of the ier, ite Court. Inall cases of the defendant shalite required to give bohd to insure his sppearance at the next succee common jail of Mecklenburg County until he shall be discherged ‘end in an against hi ith the ; at eins “the Bape gains S master, w er f appeal to ‘ or Court on the of the person ageinst whom judgment may be dered for such penalty. 2: 104. PRECEPTS- ‘The Recorde> aay issue his precepts to the Chief of Police or any policeman of the City of Charlotte, tc the Sheriff of Meckineburg County or ay constable of said county, or any officer te whom a justice of the peace gay bis precepts. The said Recorder shall cause to be kept - ful minute of all warrants or precepts issued by him and of sll his judicisl proceedings; warrents, precepts or other process oe issued by the Recorder shell be executed by any officer above named. 105. VWACANCY- In case of a vacaney occurring in the office of the Recorder for any cause, seid vacancy shall be filled by the City Council for the reosinder of the term. The Recorder may be removed from office by the City Council by unanimous vote for galfeasance in office. 1903-106 RECORDER'S COURT 3 hater 106. SUBSTITUTE RECORDER- Tmuddiately the qualification of the Recorder or as soon there © as may be - practicable, the City Council shall elect a duly qualified elector of the aig City, possessing the qualifications of the Recorder as Substitute Recorder, who shhll perform the Guties and have ali power of the Recorder in case of his absence from the City or disability to perform the duties of this office. The term of office the Substitute Recorder shall be coneurrent with that of Recorder and he Sheil receive as compensation for his service ane of five dollars ($5.00) per day for such time as he may’ eles engaged in the performance of his duties, to be from the salary of the Recorder. 107. -CLERE- The City Council is authorized to appoint and employ a clerk for the said Recorder's Court end fix his 5 - Salary; in the event this power is not exercised by the Council, Recorder shall perform the duties of clerk of said court. 108. COSTS The costs in the seid Recorder's Court shailbe as follows: 2 - Bffidawit of compleint........-$.50 Warrant of arrast.....sceceseeske00 aaa os te wmdigment..serereseeve 2 Takinz ** ert eee eee eeeereee & 50 Issuing subpoena(for each : witness) .15 Preparing bill of costs...s.sss +25 Contin eee et ee ee 8 ee 8 23 ¢ +50 The fees for serving process and precepts of the Recorder's « Court. to the policemen or other officers herein mentioned oo shall be the same as is now prescribed by law for sheriffs or cénstables. All fees or costs of the Recorder, Chief of Police or policemen of the City shell be the property of the City, and Shail be paid over to the City Treasurer. warn Tamsin, Tax CoLECTR, CITY A TIORUSY O9- Hew elected. il2. Assistant Tax Collector: Oo. Teeasurer 1lij. City Attormey and lll. “City Tax Col ; Assistants | ; : cb 114. City Tax Commissioner. i09.. HOW BIACTES- That at the first meeting of the City cond WET ekacc ie Ole tied: $e St “Eee ann is they seit elect @ erk, a Tressurer, @ City Tax Collector, and such deputies anc Tesistahtncas they nay deen necessary, who sh hilé taeir offices, tively, during the term of the Board electing then, and until theri Scecessors are @lected ami qualifi — however, to be removed at any time, and others appointed im ‘stead, for misbehavior or neglect in office. Before acting — as ae each of saié officers shall t2ke an oath before the Mayor te faithfully discharge the duties required of him by the City Couned: Oe ee ee ere oe Sach an eet 06 Ne ee a ae ; ©, with security, to be a@pproved by the Council. . fhe bo 3 @ of the Clerk snd Tresserer and Tax Collector shall be re- arid Pemsonable nalery to be fined by said Council, and it shall be - hig Gety to keep regular and feir minutes of the proceedings of the. City Council and of ail Executive Boards of which he is made ex-officis clerk, end to preserve all books and other erticles committed to his = care his continuance in office, and deliver them to his ao sucesseer. “He shall receive and faithfully keep all momeys which shall Bave been paid to him for the use and in behalf of said City, disburse the seme eccording to en order given, in obediemce to the ordinemees of said Cewmmcil, appearing on their minutes. Se shall keep a fair and correct account of their moneys so received and dis- bursed ty him, in a book kept for that purpose, showing fram what source money is received, snd far what purpese paid out, and shall submit eaid. account to said Council, whenever required. He shall ay te Ris successer ail aconeys in his hands: belonging te said City, and faithfully perform ali duties imposed on him as Clerk and Treasurer, by the Jews and ordimances of said Council. iii. CITY TAX CCLIECTOR=- The City Tax Collector sbeil have a fair amd reasonable salery, te be fixed by the Gity Council, and shallte wested with the same power anc authority in the coliection of taxes thet sheriffs have, and subject to the sane fines und penalties for failure or negligemce of duty. He shall de charged with the sums eppearing by the tax list as que for City taxes. He shallt credited in settlement, as sheriffs are credi eae with amounts in suit by appeal, sli poll tax and taxes on personal property certified ty the Clerk of the Commissioners of the County, by opder of the Board of County Commissiomers, to be inscivent and wicollectable. He shall at no time retain in his heads over ei © | 212-112.° TREASURER, TAK COLLECTOR, gre. ~ two thousand dollars for a longer time than seven days, under a penalty of ten per cent per month to the City, upon a sums so unlawfully retained. The City Council, at a meeting before the = - last meeting in each year, shall appoint one or more of their number: to be present and assist at the accounting and settle- ment between the Tax Collector and City Treasurer, and to audit and Settle the accounts of the City Clerk and Treasurer. The accounts SO audited shall be reported to the City Council, and when approved eee shail be recorded in the minute book of seid Council, and il be prima facie evidence of their correctness, and enly for framd or specified error. It shall be the duty said. Council to remove any Tax Collector who shall fail to settle and ~~~ duly pay up the taxes by law due f rom him, and he shall not be eligible to re-election to saia office. , 2i2. ASSISTANT WAX COLLECTOR- That whenever the City Council © shail deem it mecessary to elect an Assistant Tax Collector, his te duties shall be ee assist the Collector in collecting wee 6 SE -©ity Council efter their ras practicable, they shall elect s City ffi> Guring the term of the Council electing him and whose duties shall be to attend to all cases in any court of this State ani of the party dn tetee ee ein, ine City or any of its departaents may de @ o party in interest, unless uncil should otherwise provide; to Graw all ordinances snd contracts referred to him end inspect and =r upén all papers and documents invclvy any {nteres % of the City. shailte the legal advisor of the Mayor, City Council or any other ~ committee thereof, of all the executive Boards and all officers of _— the City upon legal questions touching their official duties. nothing in this section shali be held to proibit the emplgyment of an Assistant Attorney and the Payment to said City Attorney and to such assistants, of such cémpensation as the Ceuncil shall deem proper. ii4. CITY TAX COMMISSIONER- The Mayor, by and with the consent of the City Council, at their reguir meeting, in Nay, one thousand nine hundred and nine, or as soon thereafter as practicable, shall appoint a City Tex Commissioner, who shall devote his entire time end attention to investigating inequalities ani uridervaluations in the assessment of real and personal property within ‘the corporate dimits of said City, and all delinquents who have failed to properly iist their taxables; he shall report to. the county list tekers and assessors of Charlotte Township all @mequalities or undervaluations in the assesament of real and personai property, and ali delinguent taxables hexey have discovered within the said City. Se shall urge upon said list takers ani assessors the proper assessment andr ¢turn Charter? | “°PRRASURER, TAX COLLECTOR, ETC. 114. of all property, real and personal, in said City, and shall repers ts <o the Board 5f County - Commissioners of ~ecaiendurg County on or before the expiration cf the time fixed by the lew tor re- vising ead equalising the assesement on real and personal property, all such inequalities and undervaiuations as he shail have discovered; erga phe rpg, apd said Board on or before the expiration of the time fixed. by for placing ar ee the tax books, all delinguents taxebies in said City, and shail seen upon the Board the proper assesament and valuation and lis of all real and = personai property therein. He shall also the books of the Tax Collector of said City and report to the City Council alt ee . and inaceuracies and discrepancies that may appear therein a uncollected and unlisted taxes for such sot inounded Ln the tn = pe pe ac talon = ease Aha een fl: = him by ¢he Mayor amé City Council of the City of Charlotte. Sa . Commissioner shall receive such compensation for his services as the City Coumeil or the Cite at imesdatte and ae Board oF Eoceibalanacn et County shell fix, eas sete Pelt ty ee ond eee: % be paid by the said @ounty-. 215-116-Taxzes - 94 -« eae 235. Levying am collecting Taxes 125. Other subjects ofA Cont '4)———- (1)..aiz Property in lisits (5) Theatrical plays, taxable. (6) Artificial Curiosities » 2) Poli tax. (7) Exhibitions. 310. Adve ; (3) Goats and hogs. i117. List of returns; assessments (9) Ounibus corrected. = . ' 430) Dray wagons. tise < Selinquents; penalty. a Nebioles. Failure to pay. 126. Trades, Professions; ete. Real property sola for taxes. soe Taxes be graduated, Collectér to return account. 125. Redeem within one year. on after ree ie: Subjects of taxation. “ (i) Peddlers. i3i. * ee So BS oe (2) Tables for games. -Collsetion of taxes » Partial payments G) Circus. D3le: tax Cogeni ssion. LEVYING AND COLLECTING TAXES- that in order to raise 4 the @3 malay Teepe e eee goverment of . Couneti may ennaacte levy and collec . : i 4ssexbly every hundred dollars (2) POLL tax - A poll tary not exceeding three dollars « poll, Om the taxable polls of ail persons who may be residents in the City on the first day of June each year. ‘ 116. AUDWERSTsexevr- Tha vy Clerk and Treasurer, on the third Monday in May, of each und every year, shall make edver- Cisment in S0m@ BewuSspaper published in th> City notifying alt persons, ==c own or heveetontrol of property liable to texation by the City Sm the first of June, to return te hin on or before the last day of June, a list of their said taxable property; said list sheil state the nuuber of lots or Pe z “8, @n0 all other Property now S@meble or thst may be made taxabl State, or the omdinances of the City, and +t Lis returned to She Clerk and 2reasurer shall be Sworn to def him in every case, is hereby authcrizea to Sdminister the follow: 4g cath: a3... do SQlemnly swear that : 3 me, c sad other Preperty s ordinances of said eens + 2 « a 42+ -emo.,0On end ee RL TAXES- 117-118 - 337. LIST OF RETURNS, ASSESSLZNT CORRECTED - ‘That from the retutms so made the Clerk end Treasurer shall, within thirty days after the expiration of the term for taking said hist make out in @ book Kept for that purpose an alphabetical list of “the persons ad ome ers of preperty, who have so made their returns in the same manner 45 tax ¥ iste are maie out by law for the collection of State taxes. And the said Clerk and Treasurer shail copy in said book the assessments made the Board of Township assessors of all property within the City ts; which assesament may be revised, corrected or amended by the City Council. 228. LIsT GF DELINQUENTS; PENALTY ~ That the Clerk and Treasurer ahall, within thirty 4 from the return of the tax list, Bake oat to the best of his culedge and belief by compsring his ook with the returns made to the Board of Township As rs, ang . y a from other sources, a list of taxable. and rs pro in said City who shall have faiie areal Schlep oo Se Sar ps 89 . Shall forfeit and pay a sm fixed Board, not exceeding = twice the amount of his tax; which petialty be recovered as other fines and peuslties imposed by the i’ 1 before the Recorder or alata 2 and the same weed by the a the City Council ghall proceed evy ‘Such subjects taxation as they may choo and shail place the tax list the hands of the Celliector for co tion; “he ahall proceed forthwith in the collection, and sell complete She Same on or before the first day of January next beseens amd shall pay the moneys as they are eoliected to the Treas - and the Collecter for his compensation shall receive not exeeeding per cent on the amount colleeted. i120. FAILURE TO PAY- That if any person liable to taxes on subjects Girected to be Msted, shall fil to pay them within the Sine preegeined for eoliection, the collector shall proceed forth- with te cellect the same by es. and sale, after public er- tisenent <or the space of ten@ays in some newspaper publish pin the City, if tts property to be solid be personality, and of thirty days, if the property be resity. That when the taxes due clared to be @ iien on iay of January, and there d of -the person in ‘ > le known — aw es m peas y+ 4p 5H Oo Oo mW WhO ry pt Dy pw $2 «) Ut (? yas} c. 4 ? ve hh ot ty’ era: “4 i the Collector parts as may be Sone eeS rich purpose he is authorized te eaploy « sur¥eyor) ami shalt Sa many parts as may be required to pay said taxes and ail expenses ‘PO © Mw mee ew OOP wee eet © ho be O om Chater? es. TAXES- 122-125 attermiant thereon. If the same can not be conveniently divided the Collector shail sal 1 the whole. ii mo persom will the whole of the taxes and the a for the whole Jani, Same Ghall be struck off to the City; if not redeemed as here= inafter provided, shall belong te sida ec City in fee. 122. COLER@TOR TO RETURN ACCOUNT- That the Collector shall return an account of his proceedings to the Councilmes, specifying | the portions inte which the land was divided, end the purchaser .. and purchasers thereof, and the prices of each satey jc entered on the book of proceedings of the Soard, . pena 2 ign foe pad oer Bane y = ee ect + es ete ne hiny without fn BF SER) 2 - oe ee SOs eee Ce See That 1£ the real se Aarmmpie Dhoni ag dadlamaltaig organi n:nat ep pecs on Sbail convey the seme in Bee to the pam iepieer ince by a deed simed by the Tax Collector, attested by ae City took @iui Treasurer, ani with the corporate Seal oe coil ema the recitais in such comvreyance shail he conclusive evidence - that the Tax Collector has complied with ail the Pegoiteveuts or: this Charter necesmary to make the sale valid, and the deed shal} be presumptive evidence that the taxes ter ahich the preperty — solic, were Gue emi unpaid. 2 i25. OTaee mPIECTS GF TAXATION- That ih addition te subjects listed for taxation, the Council tay levy = tax on the following - Subjetts, the amount of eich tex, when Fixed, shall Se collected by the Tax Sollector imuediately, and if the Sane be mot paid on <— Cemand, the same mmey be recovered by suit-an the erti¢ias upon which the tax ig imposed, cr any other preperty of the owner may be forthwith legied upon and sald to satismiy the sane, wiss (1) PSDDLERS- Ppon ait itinerant serchants or peddlers selling offe ing ; for Sele in the City cf Charictte, « tax act Secs per yesor, except such only @e sell books, charts, such as sell oniy goods, wares ond merchamdise, and ions of the growth or manufectere of this State; oyt ng veadors of med by whogacever manufactured. TABLES POR GALZS* On every bowling alley smd every table, amd every Dagatelie table, and every pone. table, , other table or gaabhing contrivamee, the object of which | i ang fcr. the use of @hich a charge is made, ®& Lax not Tt * + A mk EN Renee es ee 125-TAXES ee Gae: p= ect exceeding two hundred dollars, reserving the right te remove it ox them at any time as a nuisance. “a (3) RESTAURARTS* On all keepers of esting houses or restau- rants, fish or meats or vegetables, or tread stands or fruiters, ~ a tax not exceeding one hundred dollars & year. (4) CIRCUS- Upon every company of circus riders who shall exhibit within the City or within one mile thereof, o tax not exceeding three hundred dollars for each day, the tax to be pale before the exhibition, and if not, to be doubied. (S$) THEATRICAL PLays- every person or coapany exhibiti in. ice City, within ome miie ee stage or theatrical plays, ‘ior -hink gant performances, rope danc tumbling, wire cr nenageries ei tax not excieding two hundred dolists for every 6) ARTIFICIAL CURICSITIES- Upon every exnibi tion. for oe an{G} SEPICU. CURIOSITIES Upon every, exnibitio tions excepted) in the Cliy or ap one alle therect, a tax aot exceeding Firty ‘Soliara, to be paid in: sivence. (7) Horsrrions- cick hie Se testo et oe other kind, ani on each cone for reward, end on every : musician, a tax not exceeding twenty ~dollars to be paid before Fh exhibiting. (8) coaTs ali HoGs- Ube exery goat ae ber waeaten st lates sala ribet whch: Gach Ge kag tang ve MORMMEGIR: taaRA Wek SP end every such rosaries may be sé¢ized or impounded, and if the owner, on be notit will not pay the tax, the enimai shail be sold or three days* notice at the Court House. ‘ (9) CMNTSUS- On every four-horse ommibus 2 tax not exceeding fifty doliars, on every two-horse omnibus &@ tex not exceeding : forty dollars. (1G) DRAY WAGONS- Onevery Gray or express wagom drawn by ene or two horses, tax not exeeeding twenty-five Goliars; if a by more than two horses, = tax not exceeding fifty dollars. (11) VEHICLES- On 211 carriages, buggies, sulkies, and other vehicles used in the City for the carriage of persons or for pleasure, & tax not exceeding fifty dollars. (22) DOG TAX + On every dog a tax not exceeding ten dollars, provided that a discrimination may be made within this limit on the different species and sexes of dogs. Chanter? ais - $8 - TAXES- 126. 126. TRADES, PROFESSICSS, ETC - That taxes for City purposes © shall be levied on ‘Sii reak ana persed. > trades, professi frenchises, licenses and other subjéects taxation, as provided in section three, article five, of the State Constitation. ore all moneys arising from taxes, donations or cther sources be paigé to the Treasurer and no « du thekest shnki ue nal but by a board constituted of a maj ty of all the Councilsen. 127. TAXSS MAY BE GRADUATED- That the City Council shall have the power to te any of the license taxes levied on trades or business by dividimeg the business inte classes according to aimee patronage or income; provided, the ssid saxea must be uniform for all in & class. . 126. PRACTICES SITHOUT LICENSE, A. mTSUEMRANOR- That any person. carrying on or practicing any business, profession, trade or a avocation of any kind in said City upem which a License tex hes sae been levied by said Board without first having Peretnes: 0 Fico therefor, coals’ ae guilty of = ee 130. FAILURE TO List- nck ede is GORY acre) the cig Sea anes amen an ee »realor = personal, has escaped taxation in the ~~ .o for "City purposes _ ok aceount of the failure of the omer of th to list = = property fem taxation, ar for any ake. reasen, it shail be e duty of the said Council te notify the said persons or cor- - porations whose property has thus escaped taxation to cppear before %, at 2 time and dace mentioned in the notice, and show cause, .= if eny there be, the said gener shozld not be charzed with the tax on the Said property for the year or yeurs during which it eseaped taxation. At the time and mentioned in the notice, the City Council shail hear end de the matter, and if they — find that said property was liable for paaetton. and was not listed, they sabli direct the Clerk of the saizt City to enter upon the tax books agsingst the owmer of the said pro » who should have Seber it, the taxes due for the years it escaped taxation, and the. — tax thus ievied shall be collected aS Other taxes against the ‘a owner who failed te list his property, or whose property was not listed for any cause. 131. APPEAL- That from the decision of the City Council the owner may take an appeal to the next. term of the Superior Court of <ecklenburg County, end the coliection of such taxes shall be stayed pending such appeal if the owner shall give bond in at least double the amount of taxes assessed ageinst him, conditioned that he will pay to the City. of Chariotte all such Judgments as may be had ognize. him in the Superior Court upon such appeal, which bom shall in no case be less than fifty dollars. (Paragraphs 88104 of Charter as printed in Cit x Code, 1924; ©. as to Beard of Pubjic Safety omitted. Paragraphs 105-110 aiac onitted. Charteg? | TAXES- 132-lile I3la, COLLECTION GF TAXSS- CLTY-Cowvry TAX COLLECTOR (1) That in order to avoid duplication of work, save expenses, - and afford ¢onvenience to the tax; rs, the territory within ‘the linits of the City of Tharlctte is hereby created as a tax collec- tion distriet for both ity taxes and ecunty taxes as herein pro- vided. That for the year one thousama nine hundred snd thrity~one end subquent years oniy ome tax return by each taxpayer, one set of tax books, one set of tax receipt books, and one set of any other necessary records in connection with the ilsting and collection of — taxes, shall be required for both the City of Charlotte and the es County of Mecklenburg, with respect to the property located within the lintts of-the City of Chariotte, as the same now exist or may be hereafter extended, «nd ‘subject to an ad valorem tax, as now oF heresfter provided 7 law, instead of separate tax records for said. county and city, as heretofore. Wothing herein contained shail be ae te tein te hin ke s of any or all of said tax records, deemed best by the proper authorities. (2). That the office of City-County Tax Collector is hereby | -ereated for the purpose of collecting the taxes of the City of . $0 becomes due the city and/or the emits: for which business, Charictte and the oroperty taxes of ana for the County of Me a han upon property located within the limits of said city, end” ubject te an ad valorem tax, es provided by law. The said City-. County Tax Collecter shall also collect all license taxes, Gue or and fesaionsa conducted within the | te of said city may be liable. The said City-County Tax Collector shall be elected. by the joint vote of the city coucil or other governing body of the Ci of Charlotte and the Board of Comuigg@ioners of the County of Meek lenburg. “His tera of office shall Be for two years from the Gate of his eleetion and until his successor is elected and qualified. The seid gowernins body of the city and the said hoard cf county —— commissionere shail on or before the first Monday in the month of = Septesber, ome thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and every two” ~ ears theréafter, elect such tex collector in the manner coats oo. nm the election of such tax collector the bourd of county conulssion~ ers shall have five votes and the city council or other ame hody ef said eity shall have five votes, irrespective of the ‘S or the members of which seid city governing body may be composed at ~ the time of any such election, the woting strength of each member. = to be represented by the quotient obtained by dividing five ty the then number of members of the city governing body. Im caseat 4 tie upon the question of the ele¢tion of ssid City-County Tax Coiltec= tor, of upom any sther question left to the Joint action of the said county aud city ; hing bodiea, it shall be the Guty of such governing Bodies to notify the then f the superior court of Mecklenburg County of su ie, and: it ‘shall be the: duty of the thes =a ct = 13la-TAKES barter or to becouse due, the County of Meckimturg, upon orcperty- located within the. linits of the City of Charlotte and subject £5 taxes for the year one thousand nine humdred and thirty-one, amd there- / after. That oefore enteriag upom the performance of his dutiss, the sada City-County Tax Collector shall tuke the oath of office, 4s Pequired of tax collectors, and sich other ocths, if =y, s ey De required by law. He shail give bod to the City of Charict and.Re shail cive @ separate bond to Mecklenburg County, the bond o the City of Charlotte to be approved ty the city governing body, and. the bond to the County of Mgeklenburg to be epproved by the beard of county comsissioners, the said bonds in all respects to Se as mow or hereafter required by law for the collection, remittance and settlement of taxes ami the proper performance of duties. ae (4) Theat said City-County Tax Ccolleetor, in he collection of taxes, sheil all the power and authority now or herdafter con- ferpmed by las upom the City Tax Collector of said city, amd upon sheriffs or other tax collectors for the eollection of taxes, as | 6) That the said City-County Tax Collector shall Le given 3 @Saistants and clerks as the city Sent Upon the total emount of taxes collected by and through said taxm-eoilection office, plus the reasonable, usual and ordinary expenses thereof. {(S}. The property taxes ¢ollected thruigh and by said. tax ecliector, his agsistents and ¢lerks, shail, subject to proper edjusteents cn acecunt of poll taxes, rebates, pensities, or other items iat the subject of proportionate division betaeen the county enc ity, be divicad between the City cf Charlotte and the County of Beeklenburg in the proportion that the city tax rate bears to the Gounty tax rate; snd nothing herein eomtained shail interfere with the ancunt of tax levied by the city af count}, as otherwise provided by lar. The seid tax.collector ahell on each business day report anc pay to the treasurer of the City of Charictte its portion Of the ‘taxes colieeted by him, his assistants end clerks, on the previous business day; and shall on each business day likesise report end pay to the treasurer of liecklendDurg County its Portion Ci the taxes collected through and by said office on the ; business day. “ Said collector shail be and penalties, an ail be régquired to perfors al or hereafter imposed by lew upon sheriffs or with respect to th 2 snd .ttante of ¢ authorities; and hall Be hia duty to be active all taxes whic! (7) tax Books, T31a-TAXES - 1 - thereto, end the costs And expenses, of books, records, Blanks, supplies, and-ail other incidental expenses, shailte Berne br the city end county in the proportion that the total ammount of taxes received by the city Bears to the tote] saount seceived ag ; the county through amt by the tax office hereby created. It shall be: he duty of seid City-County Tax Collector to colleet ifeense taxes, “ penalties, end poll taxes due, or te beeome due the city, ani aiaoe te colleet license taxe6; poll taxes and penaities upok property and polls within the city limits, due or te become due Heckleshburg County. That if in the joint judgrent of the said city and county governing boSies, economies may be effected Dy the solilection of Street assesaments end other iteus in which the county has ne : interest, and by the collectian through said office of drainaze assese- ments and other ftexs in- which the city has no interest, then, in = thet event, a fair and reasonable wijustment shall be made in the division of the expenses thereof between the county and the “ep Se a office cf eaid Tax ee in the city Bail of = tte or the Mecklenburg Coun ty Court House, ss may. -Gesignated | by the Joint action of the city and county aetaeot al bedies. (8) One of the objects of this act is to 4o away with the Guplication in placing property the tax books and ¢o: Otay eee, county taxes upon: pr ist City of Charlotte and sub, the governing body ef the _ ection, all such forms, methods, egulations not istent with the provisions of this act, ss in their joist —=“— Judgment may be necessary te effect the ebjects and purposes in this act set forth. | (9) ‘That the taxpayers shall heve the right to pay their taxes in two installments. The discounts and penaities for the . payoent of taxes, cs ctherwise provided by law, shail @pply te the taxes payable to the tax office hereby created. ’ eee = cee (10) That the present Tax Collectors for Tax Gotteetion — Districts Busbers One and Three, of =n4 for Mecklenburg County, &S now provided by lax, and Guly elected successors in o7fi ¢e, Sh@il collect the texes for the tax pores one thousand ninehundred and thirty-one, ending September thirt eth, one thousand mine hundred and thirty-two, and one thousand nine hundred and thirty- two, ending September thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, in their respective diatricts, as now constituted: amd the Tax Collector for District. Number Three shall for the tax Jeers one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, ending September tuirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and one theusend nine hundred an thirty-tus, ending Septesher thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, collect taxes in thet pertion of Charictte township shich lies outside the ligits cl the City of Charlotte. That said duly ele: colleeters for Oistricts One and Three, nemely Fraxi ett and BE. J. Prices, shell receive as their « < oliection oF taxes in their respective districts the sum of ‘ usand dollars each the tax years one. thousand nine hundred and thirty- and.one thousand nine humdred and thirty-two, as above de- Signated, payable monthly; said salaries shall be in Ifew of all ; ~ ether compensation fcr ccllection of taxes; and the said tax collec~— - ers shail give bond for the faithful performance of their duties “end the accounting for taxes collected by them as now or hereafter prowided by 1 said bond te he filed with the beard of county commissioners: cvided, however, that stamps, office supplies and premiums on tex bonds shail be pxid by the county out of the generai func: Provided, further, that said tax collectors for Jistricts Number One and Three shall, on the first day in October, ome thousand nine hundrec and thirty-three or es soon thereafter &S& the board of county commissioners may require, settle with county comsissioners for sll taxes collected to that date, and the tax books upem that dete shail be turned over to the tax collector cf Mecklenburg County as hereinafter provided for, and seid taxg collector shail collect the balance of taxes dus or to ee ee ree said Districts Bumbera One That there is hereby created the office of Tax Collector » which said tax coilector shsil be nominated now provided for the election of Members of the (el Assembly, and shallte a resident of Mhe County of Mecklen- burg outside of the City cf Charlotte, who shall be nowineted and ected in the year one thougand nine hundred ani thirty-two, and take office end collect taxegz for a term of two yeara from thé See ore fe CoLMeeey 800 Shemeend cine lmceek and Tete cares, : end untii his suceesscor shail be elected und qualified as provided . Gy law, except in the case of his death, resignation or removal, s ‘fea which event, the County Soaissioners shall appoint Ais successor until the next county election and the election of his successor, That said Tax Collecter for Mecklesburg County shall receive for bis compensation the sum of one per cent of tetel amount of all taxes collected, plus the costs of stamps, effice suppiies and . premiums on tax bonds, which compensation shall be in lieu of ali other compensation, ani he shall receive the same comuission for the collection of ail special assessnents and special taxes collected, @ anc shail collect, account for, psy cover, and aettie all county, : lecei, special, icense taxes, special assessments and State taxes: i? any, under anid by virtue of the lew prescribed for the collection anc Settlement of taxes by sheriffs or other tax collectors; and before entering upom the discharge of his Guties he shall execute and file with the board of county comcissieners of said county such tax bends as are now or may be prescribed by law; and shall take amd prescribe the oath of office provided by law for tax collectors. It. ig hereby expressly provided and required that the said tax collector shall collect county Micense taxes, as provided by lar, “pon business, trades and prefessions conducted and maintained Gutaide of the limits of the Sity of Chariotte.dlle such taxes upon Business, trades and professions within the City of Vharilotte shall be collected by the said City-County Tax Collector: Provided, hov- ever, thet shoc id the taxes be so reduced by the taking over by > Caarter/ | + 6} - . TAXES- ijla The State of the County roads and the six months’ school term, as te meke the compensation of one per cent upon the amount of taxes collected inadequate, then the Board of Commissioners of Meckienburg County shali fix a reasonable compensation for said tax collector, which compensation shall not exceed four thousand dollars per annun, the cost of hig office supplies, stamps and bond premiums. (32) That in the event the said Frank G. Barnett and E. J. Price, the duly elseted tax collectors for the Tax Collection Distriets ~~ Numbers One and Three, shall f2il to enter upon their duties for the colle§tion of taxes, hereinbefore prescribed, or in the event of : . heir th, resignation, or removal, the board of county comaissicners — shail have the power to fili their places so made vacant for the re- — mainder of their term, namely the years one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one end one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two. That the 3 sheriff of Mecklenburg County is hereby relieved from the collection of taxes for the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one and. the years subsequent thereto. f me a (33) ‘That said tax araeceis are herety invested with ali © = the rights and powers prescribed law for collec taxes; and all laws end clauses of law in conflict or inconsistent with this act are” pene aa). waxes AVKERER-~That this act shall take effect from 432m. PARTIAL PAYMENTS- te Board of County Commissioners and 2 -@uthority of the various munici ties in Meck- . es ave =a lenburg ©: are hereby authorized and empowered to make reasonable . rules and tions providing for the payment of taxes in install- — ments. ed that any such rules and regulations shali not con- ~— ee with the genéral State law relating to the collection of past That this ect shall be in full force ani effect from and after its ratification. 3 os ; i3le. COUNTY SUPERVISOR OF TAKATION-~ ()) That chapter four hundred end thirty-six, Public~Locsl Lews of one thousand nine hun- ~~ dred and eee be and kerhereby repealed as of December first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and the Tax Commission of uecklenburg County, created under and pursuant to said act. shall comtinue to funetion under and invaceoPdince with the providions of seid act until December first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty- ome, at which time said Tax Commission is hereby abolished. (2) That from and after December first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one all property and polls in Mecklenburg County, shall be listed and all property assessed as provided hy general lam, extept the County Supervisor of Taxation shalite = pointed oy the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County and the governing body ity of Charlotte, and shall be required to devote his entire he @uties of his position. His compensation shail be fixed oard of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County, ami shail not <— Charter7 - 64 - TAXES- 131e. exceed thirty-six hubdred dollars ger year, payable monthly. Such Supervisor of Taxation shall be appointed in the manner specified, on or before the first Monday in December one Cleusand nine bundred and thirty-one, and every tro years thereafte~. His term of office shail be for two yerrs and until his successor is elected and qualified. He alall be Weste* with all of the power and agthority conferred by Z general law upon Supervisors of Texstion. He shall be furnished © with such assistants and clerks, and at such compensation as the said Board of County 7 ssioners gay deem necessary, i thet ail preperty and polis fice, shail be paid out of the general fund = -- se, Mar tao ys Same Manner &s other items are lawfnlly = (3) Mhat the Board of County Comite inns of the State @ Gener 23 age pes ae ride for listing property and. collection enacted at the nineteen thirty-one session of the Gener 5) That wis act shel take effect from end after the date of its ratification. 3 al eo aoe oo See 132-TRAWSPORTATION = 65 - 132. FARES; TRANSFER; SEs rcs. (Paragraph 143, City Code of 1914; as te Board ef Public Service omitted.) 132. FARES; TRANSFER; SERVICE— The City Council shall . = have power to regulate the fares for transportation by ali licensed hacks and other vehicles on the streets of said City; to regulate the convenient transfer of passengers from one : line te another of any railroad coupany or of any street rsilwey company. * i}}. Sater rents, collection. : fasting, ete., water; 134. Sater Beste; resisting . @isdeneansr. Tmspectar. 136. Public highways, rigat = : te use. ae WaTzR BEETS, COLLSCTIGN- That. the Gov Board shall ss have power and authority te collect ail rents, forfeitures il eptteeeite Tove Ow cperetion of Sait sreten 6 ee ot Sera . t in advances for the use Gr Fent of See Meter hee So lggrest “te supp sais preaises, . with = i 5 o.ceecoriorien with interest theresa, aia Ge Fanay pat e ee Bade ros catene ee ail reasonable hours, any ae te the cangs of waste; and if omy person refuse per puemieant ion, or opposes or obstructs such officer in the oF sack duty, he, she or ‘they, so offending, sisil ferter a ous of ten doliars, to be recess aoe ny justice ¥ the a iaia Councit, and ths uppiy of of water water may a “alse be eat att a the recuired” genteel 278 the required elteeetions and repairs campleted. __333- WASTING, ETC., WATER; NMISDEMRANCE- That if say person 32 maliciousiy or wiltully divert tne water, or oy wreet, trom wis _seid water works, or shall corrupt cr seme im=pure, or shait aeetrey or injure any canal, i or other = opert, cease or acguired treed. for precuring 25 the «ater, per o shall ae fined ast exceed- red doliars or ¢! e impris a got ceeding one fA ane = as State SS eee et Nee eens, Hi 3 rg he 4 a 4? j ei i ‘ag eh a ) A fiat ‘J { f i ma oF ‘ ww 4 ec ay bs be + ptlal on " i] GY , 4 fe Og mn ; i f + = aac =O aI* Code, 1914, : State Jaws applicabie, when. i147. Terms of certain city Ordinances, how pleaded; as officer evidence. - 148. tine; stanjart or eastern” : Collections, civil action. errs “ Poliesmen serve civil process. 149.. tablishing a jeint Doaneis Debts paid by taxation. tie Beiations Court. i Pubiic jeeperty turned over 149e.Domestic Relations Court te soccessor. homey “wee Tax list, inspection. ~ 250s = Commission establisik Powers to sell real property. aah. Guang tds Tat tenors oe Act operates from ratification.i§i. Emergency and Pension Pung Crimes, effect of change upen- for officers created. oe 12s S27 Lass APP LCAsLS, WEE Tot ol? estions arising ant a the ae ; as BYLINE uot “by Saad one 3 on shall aurrt iptic: art bali or ee ee ee : £ . ordinance or section: 4ii.printed ordinances or codes aes published in Dook form ty authority of the City Council shall be ot etait ent Ge ee ee and affect ss e0uld the original ordinances. 139. COLLSCTIONS, CIVIL ACTIGE-~ That in additien te the other. modes of eplilecticn in” this — proviced, ali taxes due <e. ~ te scab geterei or special, end eit assonenen ts for simeset an oves ts or _¢ therwise, may De collects’ by a civil action fm the neture. of of ia action of debt and all such liens on resi esteta aay be fore- © closed in ay court having juriadi¢tion. The assesement relis of : Such taxes anc essesssents shall Ge taxen as prian facie eridence of the statements sade therein, ead the City shail have equal right © te betomé the purchaser at all saies Gi property *or teases ss @5 Sessmants due it, umier judgment or otherwise. it shell be duty of = = Bayor to attend such ssies to make such purthases they de cessary. 9 nai se ~ ov het m9 io i t é ee ‘ & , F ae + Sid eligi aon ce - o be - _— - ee SO i qd $ hat iv rw a 1 ip i 4 O pe era et ¢ Conus ta Se ¢ =a 140-144-NISCSLEANEOUS LASS i141. DEBTS Pat DY TAXATION- That no levy sheil be made on © any property belongitig to the City nor shail any levy be made — ees the property of any individus) for any sels @ae by the City, bus “=~ all such d@ bts shall Se paid only by taxation upon subjects pro- —~ perly taxable by guckh corporaticn. “=e 342. . POSLIC SRGPERTY Tages SVER TO SOSCRSSCR.- That any . officer of the City of Charictte =tic shall om Gemand, fii to turn ©. ‘@ver te his successer in offiee the property, Becks, moneys, eeahay: be or effects of 5: uch City, shell Se deemed gui&ty of a misdemeanor = aod imprisoned for met more than Tive years and —— not exceeding . one thousand dollars, at the diserstion of the ecu : 143. TAK LIS TESPSCTIONS #11 tsx-ligts shich have or may hereafter be piste the hands of the Tax Seliector shall be, at all times, subject to the comtral of the authorities impo: es oe see be corrected or altered by thes, amd shal open fer inspectian by ye eee) ek ee : ancecieaas imposing tie tax in offies, Be supremdered to ae or isea oe for such Emgpection ot correcti -@nd eny Tax Collector who shall f£4i1 or refese t< surrender his. ee ee Oe ee eee ee may | @ttest whe City Clart tof Treasurer or , 32, with the corporate seg@k sf the ina “that: this seetion shall sat apply $0. except as to the uanmer of ef execution of the 345... ACT OPERATES FROE RATIFICATION~. Teat from and afar em ratification of this Act the same shsll thesesforth be the Gharter of the City of Chablette, and ail laws now constituting the Charter Of tis Kite and BfSecking the geeurament thawwat in the.grante heretofore aaie of tts corporate franchise end powers, except Acta’ to the issue of bonis, amt all laws of public and eral igtent with or cemimg within the purview of th are tlic repesied; sc fur oniy, rene ae they may affect this = ity. Previa ? however, that sath repesl shall not anneal an; ordinances, by-laws op rules of the corporation, unless the same be intomsigtent wite-—Stis Act. Zar shail soem repeal affect a any act. dome, or my rigkt — or accrued x a eos Sears or suit had om commer : ony case ee erS - + take effect; neits ne 26325 ~ ~— ersemir at eS 4 LAS-145-146 146- Caruana, ‘EPPECT GF CHANGE TPOE- That no offense committed mad “26 penalties. ox forfeitures incurred under eny of the acts . @rdinanee hereiy repesied, snd. detcre the time when such repeal shall t ske effect, shall te affected by th repeal, exsapt that “hen any panishwest, pemaity or forfeiture aia il have bean siticatad . Oy the provisioms of the Act, such provisions aay be extented and applied te eny jadgrent to te pronounced after tic repeal. Provided, | thet 86 suit or "prosecution pending ot the tise of repeai for my = offense committed, or for ahy aty or forfeitare incurred uncer: any. of the acté-or omiinances eny repealas, sheil be affected by such repeal. Provided, further, that to jaw heretofore repealed sheli be revived’ by the repeal of any act repealing such law? Ani provided, 1 eee Laks —— tine then the said ‘Pepeai shall teke effect, any oft ace under any oF the | ets hereby ee oe ebail Sere tote ‘to heim the smie aceording te the, tenure Merwe d Paes ept these offices which may have Seen abolished, and those.as to different eee Shall have Seen made by ‘this Act. tAaareane 229 rough City Soe, 1914, as to ae tive. Board omitted.) ss “147. . ERG Oe commis CIty OWPTCURS B12 etticors af ws ty, who shall be elected or appointed by the Governing | = soatt nla offices antii their successors arc appointed om: ected ae the case be, ee See tat this section shali not. @ffect the right or power of the seid emning Body to remove at any tise, ‘or good cause, any officer or expl yee of the Fity- 2a. Pre; StamDARD OR BASTERY GOVERE- In 211 the erdinances eae Sx -soves 20s SRE, Sf GREE, or shah a2 bee chs fires ana corporations whe ere anus ores My she einy rSthalibe held to have accepted te gaze os Ghe condition that the said time shail govern. “yas. ESTABLISHING & JOINT DGs=estic RELATIONS CGURT- Resolved, that there he, end there ia hereby, establighed a Domestic Relations whieh Court shall be a joint Clty ens County Court for Keek~ enburg County and for the City of Charlotte, a6 provided by & of the Generei Assacbiy of Rorth Carolina, Sauetas ak tee 5 session thereof, fhe said Act being known ané designated as House Bilt ees Senate Bill No. 1451, Ratified on the 19th day of Earch, . 149a. Asi ACT TO ESTABLISH A DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT In ceRTaiy ecu wD CITIES IN NOSTH CAROLINA. General Assembly cf Horth Carolina 35 enact: That the beard of county commissioners in the _ various having @ county seat with twenty-five theusend or more of the State, or the governing authorities in citi of or more inhabitants shail have auth ority to R >. +2 a» * e « tah sire a ae toint 2.484 ..0R8 curt Baulch court aeg be 3 a Ss provided in sectien two cf this act. or cr city as may de determined by the governing Crarter/ = 7O =. SMISCELLAMOUS LANS-l4g8; heretofore vested in the. juveniie courts of Borth Caroling, and seid poser, oa Sere a (Z} That in case the board of county commissioners sid governing euthorities cf a particular city decide to establiah joist city anc county Domestic Relations Court- they, voting as - separate bodies shall determine whetier or not such Done stic Re- iatioas Court shall De e¢etablished.:. If both ODodies shall vote for its establishment, each of them shail record the resolutions in their minutes and upen such consent hy Soth beards, the court sheil be established. In coiumties in «hich the said joint court is thus established by the board of county comiissioners enc the governing antherities of the meso d <8 a city, such esteblishoent of the eourt shail not prevent any © city within the terpitarial linits of the county and having more. aah tventy-fhee thousand... ADEE SITENTS establishing its own court under section. one of this. (3) That said Domestic Relations Courts shall have, and are hereby vested with sll the power, authority, and jurisdiction. and jurisdiction being as fully vested. in the Domestic Relations Court as if herein particularly set . forth im @etail; and in addition thereto the said Domestic Relations —cee ee ee eee oO Pe cases eae any adult is deed with mt, or desertion of any jee. or where ger a hg iaceent, nen-support, or desertion of the other. &) “gu2 cases involving voluntary desertion of any suvendie by its mother.” (oc) All cases involving the cuatody of juwesiles, exeapt — where the case is tried in Superior Court os a part of any divorce proceeding. ae (4) All cases where assault, or assault snd patenes or a a is charged against against an adult, or where taken er. fe Gs charged with Scaaeth oF or assault and battery, upon the whee (e} All cases in which an adult is charged with aaa or being responsibie for delinquency, dependeney y or neglect o a joveniie. (7) All bastardy cases within said enunty: (2} All cases where adopticn of juveniles is sought abaii first be brought before the said Domestic Relations Court ft ful investigation, etit and other papers as are now ré= guired te be filed he € of the Superior Court shali be filed with the ic Relations Court; and the result of said be reported te the Clerk of the supericr Court, recosmendation as the Judge of Le Domestic Ze i ake on. tAé suestion st the tart tens 149a-MISCELLANEOUS LAWS- + Jl - _ Mearter and whem such adoption is acted upon by the Glerk of the eS Superior Court, & Copy of ail recoms in the case shall be furnished | to the Clerk of the Domestic Relations Court, to be kept = a . permanent record of such court. @i) All cases wherein any person is charged «ith receiving stolen gocds from any juvenile, knowing them to be stolen. (i) All cases involving violation of the North Carolina School Attendance Law as set forth in Public Laws of North Carolina, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, chapter one hundred, and . Public Laws of North Carolina, one thousand nine hundred and oe . three, chapter one hundred and thirty-six; and in Consolidated Statutes five thousand seven hiindred ana fifty ~seven and five thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, caeeeanees and such other — ee eee ee ee after, « a Sep meet pee econ Sane aes oe Path pale: and provide for payment of the same. So ee ae ween ae said office during the two year term, for any cause, it shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner ani by the same bedies es provided for the election of said judge. It shall be the < ty of the judge of the Domestic Relations Court to appoint a elerk for said court, the salary of said cierk to be fixed, provided for, and paid by the board of county comais- sioners of any such counties and the governing doard of any such cities, acting Jointly, or independently, when a joint county end eity court is not estabdlished. The probat their method of eee Laws. - | : Ltharter in Consolidated Statutes, five thousand and forty-nine, tor probation officers of the Juvenile Court. The des of said probation officers, sid the necessary equipment for the proper maintenance end. functioning of ssid court, shail be a —s upon. such county and such city jointly, or upon the county dr city, if it is an &ndependent court. a (5). Tiat ft shailte the duty of ail officers of the comties and of the cities to assist the Domestic Relations Court in oe. eat ail ways in the line of their official duties as fully as “the same extent and in the same manner as they heretofore ne been authorized and required to do in the case of all other courts. - . 46). That the procedure, practice and punishment et 2 Sie ~: dm the Domestic Relations Court as herein. catablished be the 2 kien aa Sie provided 2p ise in courts now having origins! juris- — pear ap og of the various offenses or causea hereinabove emimerated, Judge of the said Domestic Relations Court is hereby 3 prescribe such rules end fix auch modes of a it his. ie nt ag will best effect: ‘te -perpeeee: for which court. is- created. Sor. Week widest ttn wth priniiiad “Soctdabenigs bs : the Domestic Relations Court there shall be the . Uae area ins Tee Cet y eae eho peer pocaseaehe eoren Ge other inferior criminal courts to the Superior Court, and the same- rubes end regulations of such appeals from inferior courts shall apply to is from thas court, and in the Superior Court the trial “be de novo, \ capeligetie:. 18 nappa erga bitin trials in bastardy cases. (8) That eF2 the offenses for the trial of which the Domestic Relations Court is given juriadiction are hereby declared - > te be petty misdemeanors shable as now prescribed by law. Cn — the trial before such Domestic Relations Court, if a jury trial is demanded, the cause shall be therewith transferred for trial to some criminal term of the Superior Court of the counties in which the Domestic Relations Court is situated.. The defendant.or defendants. shall be held under an adequate bond to secure his or their attendance at the criminal term of the Superior Court to which the record is transferred. If in the exercise of the jarisa- di¢etion hereinbefore eonferred upon the Domestic Relations Court, it snould appear that a felony has been committed, said caurt shail have jurisdiction snd adthority upon proper investigation to Bim over the alieged felon in all cases in which probabil found, te the “Superior Court of the gounty, under proper %& cognizances. Tae? therter/ MISCLLLATEOGS LASS-149x; (30) That the sections of this ect md ever, part thereof are geverable one frou the others, 4ni the holding cf any section thereof to be imvaiid or void shail net' affect any other section or part thereofy provided, that this act shall not af ee of Srmicombe, Forsyth, Guilford, Durham, fak aw Hanover, Pitt, Wayne, Mash and Edgecombe. QI) Stat this act shall be in force from and after its retification. 2f0-BGKIEG COMMISSION ESTABLISEED- (1) That the oa of the. Cit of Charlotte is hereby empowered 2nd authorized to int « Combission, to consist.of three citizens, «ho serve fom < peerion not te exceed that of the Meyor appointing asia Eeneets at we. shell serve. without. pte-phemaaade ns : tions in io ‘oh oD Gharistte @). a person or ‘bastsons onguaeee in or promoting, wiatees or abetting such sparring matches #ithout first having written consent:of seid Boxing Commission, and any person or. pees viclatin othe rules @5 réegilations of seid commission, ‘ . SSey the orders of said commission controlling A : sverring no “ghall be suilty of » =isdemeanor and shall be fined not more then nog toy hundred dollars or imprisoned nct tore. thar rae. monsns, in tke discretio: or the court. (4) That” ‘ail jaws <n4 clauses cf laws in conflict with the provisions of this ‘ast ar- > hareby repealed: Provided, that this © act shall oniy apply to the City of Charlotta. i51. HOMES FOR FALLEN SOMEN- (2) m one of chapter* twe Bandred sixty-four of the Public Lees of one tho asand nine humared and seventeen be ane ae a by rae Sut of sais section the sentence Degianing with th word Th he governing bedy”* Ha sine twenty-one and ending; wi th the «o is } silen @ozmen" in. tine ae co ~~ +h — ~~ -§- tmagetri-«- =e eS -On¢é, a aes offici« baubers: 4 six directers - : Chartery: MISCRLLANZOUS LASS-252 shail have entire management and control-of the refoz matory for frllen Women, and the Chairman of “the Board of County vommissi Shall be pruchasins azent for said institution.Such. direstors serve for the term of ons year, and until their successors are elected amd qualified; provided, baperers that in the event any cf such directors elected + oy the governing body of the City shall cease to be a meuber of such zoverning body, or in the ¢vent any of such directors elected by the Board of County Comsfesioners shall cecss ta be g@ metber of auch Board of County Comnissior WweTSy ‘the term of office of such director shail ¢xpire:and the governing body of the City or the Boars of County Commissioners, 5 Ss: the case may be, at the first apcapeciaiooesting reguiar or special meeting thereafter, ons das = * the guceessors of such directors whose terus have expired.” @ That this act shall apply te the County of Mecklenbur | All dews ani clauses of lew a conflict with the provisions © are er repealed. ffect upon and. after GENC AND PaieSTOK FUND POR orricers caaamap- ae tte Y att shail be known snd may be cited a 3 "The Buergan ee ion Fund oF Mecklenburg County,” tnd shall paePiy to ail lag eee octicers excant 25 othersiaeé provited herein eee: im the enfortenent of the erisinal lows of the State of Vorth Cerolina eee tae. County of kecklenburg. 5 2): Lew enforceseat officers” shall tb ail pesee officers In ts ck ienuurs County who ; terms Of taeir employment to give their full time te the ¢ of perfset ord aie proteetion of life and _ property aad the abd prevention of Crime ani-su¢ : time peate may be kiiied or: pern ffieial duties as 2hare in + ae he es , fe Offiners' PlEryposse intormiti on ro eh mh: a had & Pegi + At t — we Se = eS ae ee | * > ¥ — ive ° ow Ee ean Cali PURE i muissioner of mile hi rye So 8 * a eee “4 Soei14 82150 8200 83 1L§2-MISCELLEANOUS LAZS. - , . (cnarter - # * , § and tressurer oi the Board anc shall act. under the instructions of the Boast? in ead Matters pertaining to the administration of 9 this wet, And the beard ghall reqcire the secretary aad treasures, t2 sive good and ¢afficient bond, ‘the amount te be eters sieed in: the disemetion of the Saard, for the proper performance a Guties ea guch.. Thé premium of said bond aici) be paid fund nerein provided: for. Go Se . (4) Theat im order to provide funds for * fee Sumerzeacy t Pengion Fund cf the Souity az Netkienburg" Herein set. out, Share shail te taxed in. the bill of costs in sll erixcinal cases in eny @durt other than thet of Justice of Pasi wherein there is. @ eouviction or ¢ ae or: guilty, a fee of one (94.00) Soliar te-- be known a4 “The Bucrz cy and Pension Fea" and the saue shall be. collected Sy the Cier ue City Recomter's Court, the Clerk of: the County Recorder's co shi the’ Clegk of the muper ior Sourk -<2 4 and shall be paid to the Trassurer of the “Officers’ Relief Board . 6f Mockienturg Sounty* ‘or ig cases of ee from ¢gia City oo < Recerder's Court or ¢ wy Recorder's Oourt to. tae Superis oF Court, ~ Rie Clark of. the Supaeior Court. shall Gbllect. said feces and el =the seme to the Treasurer S2.jhe "Offiters' Relief Board of -- Mecklenburg County. *. “All money @iliected by the Clerk of the — er's Court, Clerk ¢ the genet ecorder's Court med to the Trea . icers* Helief Roars of “es ieek Lenburg -ounty “herein provided for. ee tha éetendant is: cosmitied te the reads, t the fee herein provided “Sheil aot be charzed ageinst scia dsfencant where seid defendant serves thé sentence sed by the Court end it 26° further pro~ . vided that the one deilar ($1.00) fee hercinbefare set. out shall: net be Goliseted in casas of conviction or plea of guilty far | witlation of the traffic or highway laws hy use of «moter weniclé wWaere the punischsent provided by. the Statute fa het in excesea of — oirty dollers($50.0G) fine Gr thirty (45) dese imprislonnent; the: @eid foe shall b collected in all other cases for wiclation’ af said laws where the junishent. fixed by the Statmte is in excess - ci the pensities hereinbefore mentioned; Provided furtier, thet where the defencgant ig convicted on more thar vam charge, the fee hereinbefore provised for saiall only be taxed fn the cost im on?: conviction. as > w 7 - 8 & ow (5) . The funds accumlated under “Emergency and emsicn Pund of the shail De used a5° 2 ae for ese arr > . faniii r = Te tam @ é Cree iy , - +e «g L52-MISCELLZANOUS LAZS- Qa 8 monty pension whice se disabied not in exseas of seveu ty- ~five. fdoliare($75.00) per month, and the dDeard wey pay to. such déicsabied officer an edtitional sum not in excess of foe tke dallars ($20.00) per mouth for euch child or dependent under age of elgiteen years while the disability of such officer may @xist ani while she said officer sheild live; and. in case of death Peaulting whiie in the actual performance of his duties, if the Officer shall be uerried, the board may pay immediately to the aigow of —— ortiour. & Sum mot in excess of five mindred doliars ($900.00) may further pay « sum not in extess of fifty $56.00) + per month for said widow during widowhood, anes, in addition thereto, the Board may pay the ssid widow for th Support of any. dependent children shy cay haves & sum not es excess of twenty-dollars ($20.00) per month ie each child until aig child shall reach the age cf eighteen (18) years; and in cas @f death Pas e e while in the actual performanes of official Dyisee under this ett where the individual or officer as herein. @efined may be unmarried,. the board-may pay to the nearest . : feilen te Kein of deceased a sum not in excess of five. ey ita ($500.00), or in lieu thereof the board may pay the tu ners ‘al. expen. of deceased not in excess of five | dolle AS900. 3 end 4t is further the true intent, meanin, and ae 2 thie @Bt that the boand shall be empow her in its Lise 5 to. pay any Amount less than the maxiaun é a St ee my refuse to make « at of — it of the classes: hi . 6 ‘the ‘board ereated/under the - wovisian: of u all serve without coupensation. . The Secretary and Treasur ~@f said. board shall reteive such compensation és My the board not to exceed the sum of fifty doltarel$30.00) per per jeenth, anc the said board shell beve full power and authority _ te _ eee for aduinistrating this act including the. ae 8 ae lepel’ advice, etc., out of the fund pro- - -wided ne he The board ghall have euthority to make Such © ‘“Pules, regulations and provisions as may be necessary to the: proper adainistration of this (act. (7) ny person or officer of eourt covered by the pro-" : Wisions o= this act who ahaiil fail to comply. with the geben taser? Es of this act and make proper Accounting and remittance to t i treasurer designated by the beard, or to the secretary, eet collected under and by virtureot this act, as provided herein, Popa be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be ed oy imprisoned, in the discretion of the court. (8) All laws and are hereby repealed, anc if an; etion horeof be aaa by the te es unconstitutional or invali f. the sam shail nat attees +* tem 7 4 = & <2 , +} =F «= ’ ate wali dity Oz i Charter/ than the part. decided to be unconstitutional or invalid: (3). This. ect shell be in force and effect from ang after < the first day ef June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, but Sisbursemant of funds in accordance with this act, except = — Tor Getessary s of aGministration, and organization, net gosmence witil the first day of December, one thousand nine about the CHARLOTTE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL for ALL the PEOPLE OF CHARLOTTE + THE NEED The hospital fecilities of the Gry of Charlotte ore so inadequate that mony of sur people ore finding it Gficuit to obtain hespetal beds. Hundreds ef cases where speck equipment of the most modesm type is required ore token: Owoy from Choriote every yeor because such equip- ment is unawaitable here. The provisions for charity comes ore wholly in- sutficient, ond aur poot ond mdigent people ore not able to abaain the trectnten! provided for trem. There is am urgent need in Charlotte today for non-political, non-racial, non- oied security for The Gity of Choriotte, usar completion of tas % become one of the great The Charlotte Memorial Hospital the hecith of ther potients: Complete files of Case Histories, moastoined by o thoroughly efficient hespital staff. will be of vital volue to the medical profession. Adequdéte provision wall be made for Emergencies of every nature—inciuding epidemics, it will be A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, EFFICI- ENTLY OPERATED by o BOARD OF TRUSTEES wis ore thoroughly sepresentotive of every class, Station, profession ond business octivity in the Life of Charictte. FINANCIAL FACTS $1,000,000.00 wil? be the tofol immediate ex- perciiture for the Hospitol. This will be obtained from the following sources: $450,000.00 from the Public Works Gift from the Government; $350,000.00 from the City of Chorlotte by a- Bond issue to be approved by the voters September 13th; $100,000.00 from a cash contribution by St. Peter’s Hospital: $100,000.00 from cosh contributions to be roused before August i4th. The immedote need, therefore, is $100,000.00 IN CASH BEFORE AUGUST I4ch St Peter's Hospito! Trustees Rove voted to pat in their entire piont ond property, ond the Good Somoriton Hospital! (for colored people) will do likewise. These odditionc! contributions will odd ot least $250:000 to the tote: So that the entire property ond equipment of the Choriotte Memorial Hospite! Association, when the new hos- pitol is comoleted, will represent 2 volue of a mil- fon ond ¢ quorter coviers ULTIMATE AIM Endowments ore expected to be ocded from time to time, so thot Choriotte will uitmrotely hove a hospite! that will ronk with the creofest in the Country The Charlotte Memorial Hospital THE INITIAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES The hospital will be kept out of politics. its monagement will be in the hands of the Char- lotte Memorial Hospite! Associction under board of eighteen members, the Initial Boord being composed as follows: The Mayor of the City of Charlotte—Ben €. Douglas; The President of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society—Dr. Wm. Allan; Six Members elected by the membership of the Memorial Hospital Association——W. H. Wood) Harry L. Dalton, George C. Snyder, F. J. Biythe, John C. Shepherd and P. C. Whitlock. Five members appointed by the Trustees of St. Peter's Hospital M. Murphy, J. 1. Gutter, Hamilton C. Jones, A. L. Boyle and M. E. Pierson. Two members appointed by the Trustees of the Good Samaritan Hospital—Mrs. &. C. Marshall and Miss Emmo Hall. Two Members appointed by the City Council W_N. Hovis ond B. M. Boyd; The Chairman of the Boord of County Com- missioners—H. W. Harkey, - The composition ond manner of election of the: Board ore definitely fixed and limited in the chorter of the Association granted by the Secre- tary of State of North Carolina. WHY WILL THE CITY NOT RUN THE HOSPITAL ITSELF? It doesn’t want to run it. It isnt equipped to operate a hospital The Council would not hove called the bond election hod not the Charlotte Memorial Hospital Association agreed to reheve the City of the manogement. WHAT WILL THE CITY GET OUT OF fT? The benefits thet will occrue fo its citizens from a 300-bed hospital, fully equipped, with out- patient department and groduote interns, isolation ey, The Charlotte Memorial Hospital _words for contagious cases; large facilities for charity work; relief from. the clinic the City is now forced to maintain with insufficient focilities; pro- tection of the health of the people: prevention of — epidernics; diagnosis and treatment of syphilitic — ™ patients through its out-patient deportment; the | ability of our physicians to do better work for the sick by virtue of the up-to-date and most approved equipment ond facilities afforded by o modem hospital; the moterial advantages that will come to the City by reason of it being o medicol center. WHAT WILL IT COST THE TAXPAYER? if he owns property valued for foxotion. at — $1,000.00, Mayor Douglos thinks it will cost him TEN CENTS a year--the cost of a shoe-shine. WHY DIDN'T THE CITY CALL AN ELECTION — FOR $450,000 SO THE PEOPLE WOULON'T HAVE TO RAISE ANYTHING BY PRIVATE The Courcil wanted the public, the peuple ole WILL THERE BE ANY STRINGS TO THE GOVERNMENT GIFT? None whatever. The Public Works Adminis- e tration will give $450,000 outright. = WILL THE CONTRACTS BE LET TO THE LOWEST BIDDER? You bet your life. They will be let by the City — to the lowest bidders. The work will be done ac- _ cording to plans and specifications prepored by Chariotte architects with the ossistonce of the — | ablest consultants to be hod, under the constanf supervision of two highly competent inspectors, one furnished by the City ond one by the United States Government. fed woode. Owned by St Peter’. ital, East Morehead Street and East Boulevord. S Gn idea! location, Gnd the large Screage will Offord room for Unlinatad EXPANSION in the future. Rivic-minded and City All who will be enrolled as ributing active, wrs—and only one No The Charlotte Memorial Hospital iy IS THE MOVEMENT TO BUILD THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ANTAGONISTIC TO, THE OTHER HOSPITALS OF CHARLOTTE? Not at all. Were it not for the projected addi- tions to the Mercy and the Presbyterian Hospitals, the Memorial Hospital would not be sufficient to supply the need. The Memorio! Hospital! will sup- plement and odd to the means afforded by the otners. It will round out ond complete the hos- pital focilities of the community and put Char- lotte on the map as a Medical Center. TWELVE REASONS WHY THE NEW HOSPITAR: SHOULD BE SUPPORTED 1. Any worthy and needed civic project, whether it be schools for the education of the children, a courthouse for the administration of justice, or hospitals for the treatment of the sick, should be _ Supported by the citizens of any community, por- Siculorly when offered to them on:o basis $0 gare: @rous os this. a ; 1}. The new Community Hospital is an instonce- of a worthy and needed institution for Chorlotte where a million dollar ocquisition con be had. now, ord if the opportunity is not embraced, it may not be ovailable again within the lifetime of this generation. ill. Modern medicine is so closely interwoven with the equipment and activities of o hospital that the doctor finds the hospital and the octivi- ties which rodicte from it indispensable to his proper core of the sick and particularly the poor sick. The rich moy substitute hospital advantages — = in their homes; the poor can not do this. 'V. 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FA.CP. CONSULTING SPECIALIST ON HOSPITALS 612 North Michigan Avenue CHICAGO, ILLINOIS APRIL—1938 bic te MM ah on ae TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS .........0..3 III nay eiceeie sind eh 5 asians bncpilap goa RN ai cringe ese al al ed a ee ea er ee CHARLOTIE—"The. Friendly City” ooo i Pepuiation—Housing—Transportation fodustry and Trade — Water and Sewage ein cinaie wes ibaa tak ekdGhakamdk eee Culture, Education and Recreation .......-- 2. e eet? hn Public Buildings — Banks and Finance 32 Community Chest iz City Government hile nei, Hthebnkid wi Hike omni d Sebo acute wade cant Public Health, the Medical Profession and Moepltelts. isi Sa, “i Pablic Health — The Medical Profession The Hospitals ..... General Comments Good Samaritan Hospital Financial aan 18 Mercy Hospital _2..-...-..... Shoe bk vhs eikewdeen have aula bninic inl iba « OLS: act Financial — General Comments ....... 3 Presbyterian Hospital wc Fimancial — General Comments wdaimiedia-eniarhling ant bin neces kgs Late Charlotte Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital General Comments General Comments Hospital inadequacy — Hospital Capacity Required - 2.02... Large Versus Small Hospitals — Comimunity Panels o-oo Hospitals Arc Public Agencies ....-.0 0. Public Interest Paramount — The Immediate Problem PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF THE CHARLOTTE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Hespital Association mnnrd of Tiusiies oo ne Officers — Committees — Superintendent Hespital Personnel — Professional Staff Medical Advisory Council. ....-. 525 Functions of the Medical Advisory Council .. Advisory Council on Nersing Education Women's Auxiliary Board .... Amaigamation of Assets Perpetuation of Identity ._. Size and Cost of Hospital Proposed . Appendix Hospitals of Charlotte .... Approval by National Organizatio: ivpe, Capacity, Ownersh p Adjanct Services om . Income Sources, Expenses and Hospital Dav« for 3 Years Available Professional Matt and Onalifications GENERAL SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1. This survey was conducted under the auspices of a group comprising a large majority of the local medical profession for .. the purpose of analyzing the hospital situation of Charlotte in order that reliable information might be assembled and recommen- dations submitted for the guidance of the community in futere hospital development. ~ @ The facts ascertained conclusively e that both Char- lotte and Mecklenburg County are in ‘financial condition ; that the city is rapidly growing in population and wealth ; that pub- lic utilities, recreational and cultural facilities, churches and schools are adequate and modern; and that in practically every respect other than health protection and hospitalization, the city stands in the forefront of American municipalities. 3. The medical profession of Charlotte is composed largely of physicians who have graduated from the best American schools, the majority of them have served internships in leading hospitals throughout the country and every specialty in medicine and sur- gery is represented by well qualified clinicians, excepting only brain surgery, The extraordinary unity of the local medical pro- fession, demonstrated its efforts to guide the community in wisely planning hospital development, and the enormous amount of charitable work performed, deserve well merited credit and clearly reflect tne calibre and civic mindedness of those composing this group. 4. Each of the local hospitals i: briefly described in the report with the object of pointing out \ ‘erein it fails to fully meet accepted standards and community 1 eds. The information indi- cates that Mercy Hospital is the only general hospital fully ap- proved by the American College of Sur_>ons, that no hospital in Charlotte is approved for the training 0: interns by the il on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Asso- ciation ; that the accommodations provided by all hospitals together are totally inadequate to meet the minimum needs; and finally, that with few exceptions, the hospital plants and equipment are unsuitable, antiquated or inadequate. S. The hospital bed requirements of a given community cannot be accurately estimated without a rather intensive study of a num- ber of factors affecting the utilization of hospital services, but it has been rather generally agreed that an urban center which makes any pretense of providing its own hospital facilities requires about five beds per thousand population for general hospital cases and one-half bed per thousand for communicable and other special diseases. Assuming the population of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to be 100,000 and the immediate trading area dependent upon the city for hospital service to be 150,000, there is required a minimum of 825 beds. Anticipating possible increase and decrease of beds in existing institutions we have arrived at the conclusion napa wena = > [3] that under the most favorable estimates, under existing plans, there will be a shortage of from 252 to 352 beds. The plans hereinafter proposed will greatly improve this situation. 6. The number of hospital beds is not so vitally important as the standards maintained by the hospitals and the report points out the handicaps under which a number of small hospitals must operate in comparison with the aduaniages of one hospital of suffi- client size to wy all of the expensive appa- ratus and ¢g At ano the corps echnical assistants required for moder Magnosis and treatment of disease. Regardless of its size, there are certain basic services and standards which must be maintained by every hospital that makes any pretense of mect- ing its obligations, and the unnecessary duplication of the high costs involved when there are 2 number of small hospitals is un- wise and contrary to the public interest. 7. It would seem to be the inescapable duty of those who spon- sor quasi public institations which are to be exempt from taxation, to seek the most authoritative information upon the desi and practicability of any new hospital project before its inception. The community has a right to pass upon the public convenience and necessity of all such projects and, acting upon that belief, the suggestion is herein offered that the plan projected in this . as well as any others that may be contemplated, be submitted to such a test. * & With the objective of securing the verdict of ic opinion upon the relative merits of the f extension of the Presby- terian and Saint Peter's Hospitals as independent units, versus the Sa tieror gs of these ay vines = form one first class unit pi is proposed that there be organized a Hospital Council to cénsist of one representative from the controlling boards of each of the two hospitals, one from the board of ae Good Samaritan Hospital, two medical r tatives designated by the sponsors of this report; the City Seeadaae: the president of the Chamber of Commerce; a representative from the Duke Founda- tion; and such other representatives of civic organizations as may be desired. An agreement upon the part of all participants to abide by the decisions of a majority vote of the Council will stinvulate interest in its proceedings and will offer some promise of an equit- able decision. 9. If it is the decision of the Council that each existing hospital! shall continue its own independent existence without to the political, social and economic interests involved, it w then seem ast no alternative remains but to consign the issues to the court of public opinion. In the confident expectation that this matter of grave public concern will be decided on its merits, how- ever, we have outlined certain fundamental principles of hospital tats + ; ion i uniting the Presbyterian and Saint Peter’s Hospitals into one first class hos- pital to be known as— [4] + GENERAL SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1. This survey was conducted under the auspices of a group comprising a large majority of the local medical profession for the purpose of analyzing the hospital situation of Charlotte in order that reliable information might be assembled and recommen- dations submitted for the guidance of the community in future hospital development. 2. The facts ascertained conclusively show that both Char- lotte and Mecklenburg County are in sound financial condition ; that the city is rapidly growing in population and wealth ; that pub- lic utilities, recreational and cultural facilities, churches and schools are adequate and modern; and that in practically every respect other than health protection and a ization, the city stands in the forefront of American municipalities. 3. The medical profession of Charlotte is composed largely of physicians who have graduated from the best American schools, the majority of them have served internships in leading hospitals throughout the country and every specialty in medicine and sur- gery ts represented by well qualified clinicians, excepting only brain surgery. The extraordinary unity of the local medical pro- fession, demonstrated by its efforts to guide the community in wisely planning hospital development, and the enormous amount of charitable work performed, deserve well merited credit and clearly reflect the calibre and civic mindedness of those composing this group. 4. Each of the local hospitald is briefly described in the report with the object of pointing out \ erein it fails to fully meet accepted standards and community neds, The information indi- cates that Mercy Hospital is the onl) general hospital fully ap- proved by the American College of Sur, cons, that no hospital in Charlotte is approved for the training 0; interns by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Asso- ciation ; that the accommodations provided by all hospitals together are totally inadequate to meet the minimum needs; and finally, that with few exceptions, the hospital plants and equipment are unsuitable, antiquated or inadequate. S. The hospital bed requirements of a given community cannot be accurately estimated without a rather intensive study of a num- ber of factors affecting the utilization of hospital services, but it has been rather generally agreed that an urban center which makes any pretense of providing its own hospital facilities requires about five beds per thousand population for general eee cases and one-half bed per anaal tr communicable and other special diseases. Assuming the population of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to be 100,000 and the immediate trading area dependent upon the city for hospital service to be 150,000, there is required a minimum of 825 beds. Anticipating possible increase and decrease of beds in existing institutions we have arrived at the conclusion that under the moat imates, under existing plans, there will he a shortage 352 beds. The plans hereinafter proposed will gre gation. The sumt vitally important 4s the report points i hospitals must hospital of gat fi- expensive BPPe- ants required oe of its be mai ! pi etense of mect- jnge ite ion of the high coeta Ive 4 . hospitals is UP wise and of q, Te would see ' iuty o f thore whe spon cor qual public jnatieutie » hye exempt fF ganatlon,, to eek the most @ the Z_girwbllity and practicability of any pre 4 pefore 14 inception The community ypon the public convenience and necessity & ete ard, acting Hpon chat. belief, the suggestion is hat the plan projected in thie 1 ort, ae well ae an . be contemplated, be cshmnitte 4, With the lic opinion wpe the relative Presby’ terian and Saint Peter * ! veraue the amalgamation of these 9 jons to elass united hospital, it is ed that there he 0 a Hospital Council to i representative from the contr oars af each © . ienis, OTe f he board of the Good Samaritan ical repre es designated by the sponsors ident of the Chamber. ' Founda- cits | And aH be desired. An agree by the decisions of a yote 0 interest in its proceedings a if} offer some promise of an eqytit- able decision. 9. Wine the decision of the Council that each existing hospital shall continue its own | qdent existence without regard to the political, social @ . ests involye?. it would then seem ae thet Presbyteria pital to he knows ae THE CHARLO TE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Conselbdating The Presbyterian, Saint Peter's amd Good Samaritan Hespitals ‘The Good Samaritan Hospital wall continue in its present build- mgs under its present name as @ section of the Unioe Memorial Hospital. 30. Mercy Hospital has not bees comsidered as a prospect for amalgamation, first because of the religious differences, and second, for the reason that it is beyond the power of the controlimg Sister- hood to convey to others property owned by the Church. There is every reason te beliewe that there wall always be a need for Mercy Hospital m this area. il. A method of organizing = hospital association has been propesed whereby membership be to any respectable citizen of the community who ts 3 interested to pay the small annual dees. The charter Life members of the association, who will elect the first board of trestees, are to comet of the present members of the : beards of the Presbyterian, 12. It has been recommended that the first board of trustees | shall consist of a total of cightees members, eight of whom shall _ be from the jan, six from Saint Peter’s and four from ~ the Good Samaritan Hospital. The heard is to be divided mito three — groups of six each, the first beard te be so constituted that one. * group shall serve for one year, ome for twe years and ome for three years, and each year thereafter the eeseciation will elect <x trus- | _ tees, cach to serwe for three years. It is provided that the board © shall elect its own officers who shall also serve as the o‘ficers of BS. Suggestiers are offered i the report for the appointment of committees, the selection of a qualified superintende=t_ the em- — t of persomnel and the appeamtment of the professional stati. 84 For the proper conduct of professional affairs @ is pro- posed that there shall be organized a medical advisory council which shall be a deliberative and a@visery body withoee?t executive or administrative ts. The respemsibilities and famctions of * this important y are fully set forth. 1S. Because of the importance of sursing educate and serv- ice, Suggestions have been made & the report for the organization of an advisory coencil on nursimg education and service and the recommendations cover suggested personnel for this council. 16 The inflecnce of 2 Women’s Auxiliary Board @ hospital affairs is so vitally important that «uch an organizatiom has been recommended, the scheme of orgamization has been imdscated and the functions of the auxiliary board outlined. One of the special concerns of the Women's Auxiliary Board should be the Good {> i Samaritan Hospital amd it woald be app opfiate to call upon the presest board of that ital to assume th leadershy m orgeni- mg the proposed Weamen's Auxiliary Board. ; 8% Tie amalgamation of the interests of the Prest rterian and ‘Saiet Peter's Hospitals involves the poohng of real estate, cash assets amd habilitees. and the method of procedure has been dis- * cussed & the report. Conservative estimates indicate that the com- bined wesoarces of the teo mstitutions will provide a suitable site — ter the Umion Memeraa] Hospital: aboot $400,000 toward the cost ef com<trection: and ax endowment fund ef not less than $52,000. MB & is recommended that the sew hospital provide not less than 38G beds, but so designed that an additional 150 beds may be sche is recom- For the perpetuat composing the Union. & & proposed that the new hospital be so déesagued as to provide a Presbyterian Memorial Wing and a Sait Peter's Memorial Wing. and. as the imstitution grows. it will be tereste@-to meet the onset of the devedopenent. m name and te tach the proposed sew hospital will. for all time, stand as 3 te these whose onseifishness amd benevolence y be said that the propesal mended berein are beSered to be im the public terest and deserv- ing of the sywpatheta consecration of all concerned, to the end —- that Charlotte may be assured of a community hospital i te meet the very pressimg needs, and comducted in accordance apparest alternative m the continuance <f the existence of s independent hospitals. cach goimg ts cen way withest regard te the others, separatels umable to sweet modern requirements and Respectiully subenitecd, WILLIAM HENRY WALSH. MD FACP. May & 193 {6} reDO te MH PW st REPORT OF A SURVEY OF THE HOSPITAL SITUATION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT mgorge say or During the last few years many of the mem- bers of the Meckienberg Medica! Society have been comcermed shed the hospital sitastsem im Charlotte. manifested by the ap- pointesest of a special committee for the study of this “matter. Varseus reports were submitted to the Society outheimg the unfaversiie conditions prevailing and rec anmendations were sub- mitted edrcating a movement for the amalgamation of local hos- pitals which were not meeting modern standards, to the end that there might be estabiished one first class hospital of seffsctent capacity te meet the known seeds. and conducted in such manner as to assmre the approwal of the national accrediting agemcees. The committee addressed communications to the American Hospital Association, American Coliege of Surgeons. and the Amerxaz Medical Assoctation — setting forth the condrtems exist- ing amd requesting advice The replies received fully costirmed the comciastons previoady reached, but it was suggested be these orgamwateems that stmce every community —. —— profiem whose intellgext solution would be affected by var- iants, the wisest procedure would be for those interested to spomsor a hospeta? server by a In perseit of this admce am effort was made to secure the serv- wes of De. M. T. MacEachern of the American College of for the stady, but he was enable to undertake the task and % was final Geoded te engage the present writer who was recomumended by the three national orgamizations. For the purpose of spomsoring the survey am independent group of local physicians sumbering about mimety, through 2 ceenmittee of five. extented enti! Saturdzr. Apra 30), 1938. The instructions received from the coenmittee were to conduct a surrey of the local hospital situation with the object of determining the wisest course te sue in providing adequate and modern hosprtal facilities for the of Chariette and depem@ent arras, riers: Gaanebome ge miog Long ~ « serve the mterests amd promote the welfare of the entire com- HYURIty During the course of the surecy every ecifort was made to con- tact as many leading crtirens as possible far the purpose of sound- ing public opimion uper civic affairs. Each of the hospitals was isited, the admmistratere, professional and Board officials were interviewed and the imstitetions were imspected) Throughoat the period of this study everrene contacted displayed the ‘utmost cour- tesy and the hospital offacials graciously gave access to the various msthitutsess Wists were made to the city and country Health Departments, the sheriff's office. the police beadquarters, the Community Chest, The Deke Foundation. and the Chamber of Commerce, m cack t7] case interviewing the officials in charge who also extended every . courtesy and such information as was available comcerning local conditions affecting hospitalization. To all of these citizens, doc- tors. hospital and city and county officials, grateful acknowledg- ment is hereby made for the courtesies extended and the informa- thon furnished. HISTORICAL: It appears that the first hospital to be estab- lshed im Charlotte was one for the care of Confederate soldiers @aring the War Between the States. Perhaps due to the awful comditionsexisting at that time, a strong prejudice against hos- Is arose and persisted to such an extent that when the Charlotte tone and Hospital was opened im 1876, under the leadership of Mrs. Tohn Wilkes. it was necessary to secure police tection. Commenting upon conditions then existing before a Social Service Conference held in Charlotte in 1905, Mrs. Hamilton C. Jones said: “The first few patients were brought im under resistance so fierce that one of the two or three policemen which the town boasted had always to walk beside the patient and at times to hang around — the premises to intimidate the rioters who threatenad to shoot into _ The next hospital activity of which there is a reliable record =ppeats to be the beginning of the present Good Samaritan Hos- patal for the Colored im a private house in 1881, under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This institution was more per- manently established in ISS88, it has grown to its present size of S&B beds and 14 bassinets and stands today as a beneficient monu- tent to its founders and to those noble individuals whe have spon- seed and = it over the years. While the historical data on Saint Peter’s Hospital is somewhat vague. there is a record of the successiul removal of a kidney as Ns 1902 in that institution, said to be the only instance on record of such am operation performed at that time. The hospital — = — and 10 bassinets. yterian Hospital eee? established as a com- tmercial enterprise in 1898 by a group doctors, who presented it to = sumber of Presbyterian Churches im 1913. In 1917 the instits- tsom occupied the upper fleor of a business block in the heart of the =y but some years later acres of ground, located on a hill 1 ing the city. Accommo- dations are vi here for 06 hole aut fo wade _ Merey Hospital, with 107 beds and 2) bassinets. sow located 3 2 new and modern building, first made its appearance in 1906 i a private house : the present main building was erected in 1916, and a maternity section in 1931. It is favorably located, its plant % modern and with contemplated additions and organizational changes this institution will be able te meet the minimum stand- ards of the American College af Surgeons. _ Because of the lack of adequate hospital facilities in Charlotte, tmmdependent groups of physicians have exerted efforts to this unfortunate situation. In 1907 a small group decided to estah- fs} lish a private gemeral hospital and this was accomplished with the aki of some tay fimanctal assistance. ‘This institetion. the New Charlotte Samatertmm, is meorporated “fer profit,” and although xt has never met the standards fer full approval, it hae remdered a valuable service te the community at a time when modern hospital facilities were almost entirely absent. \t a later date (1923) another group of specialists, = am effort te provide adequate facilities not then available for the comdact of their work, estabhshed a private special hospital mcorporated for profit. This small institution, exclusively for eve, ear, mose and throat work, has met a pressing need since its establishment ated has gained a credmable reputation for the character of ~— fessional work apd the standing of the specialists connected Having briefly outlined the objective of the survey and the historical background of the existing hospitals, we will proceed to a consideration of those phases of the city affecting czar aad col- tural development m order that some comparison mar with hospital progress. Each of the hospitals will then arately considered amd comments will be freely made conditions existimg at the time of the survey. be concluded by the definition of a modern — suggestions for future developmen: in Cheriotte as the seem to justify. REPORT OF A SURVEY OF THE HOSPITAL SITUATION IN CHARLOTTE, RORTH CAROLINA, WITH SPECIAL ms DEVELOPMENT ; REFERENCE TO FUTURE CHARLOTTE - - “THE FRIENDLY CITY” } As a general rule. the adequacy and efficiency of hospitahzation of a city are lnkely to bear a clese relation to the development of the industrial, social and cultura? phases of civic progress, and\|so we will give scene consideration to these matters m otder to provide a measure for comparison. The Cete of Charlotte was incorporated in 1758 by early settlers of Scotch-Irish, Germans, Engish. Huguenots and Swiss. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. located im the south central section of North Carolina, 6) miles southwest of New York City, 300 miles southwest of Washiegton, D. C.. 600 mies southeast of Chicage. and 250 miles northeast of Atlanta. Georgia. It is the center of a rich agricultural area nationally known as the Pied- mont Carelimas. Charlotte has an elevation of 779 feet above the sea level and though having @ gradual rolling contour. it is the most level sectian in the two Carciinas. The climate is equable, mild yet bracing, with an average temperature for Jaewary for the last 45 years of 41° F. and for fuly of 78° F.: the mean average daily temperatere bering (02° F. This favorable temperature range. added to a rather constant degree of relative hemidity gives this area extraordimary advantages as an agricultural and manufac- turing center. POPULATION: The growth of the city has been phenomenal, — increasing from a population of 18,091 in 1900 to approximately 95,000 in FS3R. to which must be added about 55,000 population in Mecklenberg County served by the public utilities and trading - facilities of the city. Stedies of racial origin imdicate that ap- proximately 99 per cent_of the population is native born, consist- ing of 70 per cent white and 3) per cent colored. Within a radius- of fifty miles, there is a population of close to G0B,000. HOUSING: The city appears to be supplied with adequate housing factiities for the working population and an extraordinary number of substantial homes for those of moderate income. Some of the suberban districts are famous for their beautifully land- scaped residences. About @ per cent of the homes are connected with 2 goed water supply and 97 per cent are connected with an excellent sewerage system. There are. however. several areas im which dwellings have nether public water nor sewerage comnerc- tions, and these constitute potential danger zones. Approximately - 48 per cent of the families ip Charlotte own their own homes. there beimg about 22000 separate families and 19,000 dwellings, some of which, of course, are multiple TRANSPORTATION: Charlotte is the center of a network of hard surfaced roads which make it readily accessible by motor {10} hi a RM gi ail 8h ahh si c truck to all points im the Carolinas. Motor buses maintain regular schedules to all nearby cities, at which direct connections are made to more distant points. There ts an adequate street railway, sup- plemented by motor buses, compictely covering the city, and pas- senger traffic is expeditiously handled. There are four railways entering Charlotte, one of which is the main line of the Southern Railway. These rail facilities fully meet the passenger and freight requirements of this area. Airplane sérejce ik gradually developing, the Eastern Air Lines maintam a regular passenger and mail service with cight stops every twenty- four hoers. The municipal airpert has ah “A” rating and tt is likely that the volume of air service will waste increase within the next few years INDUSTRY AND TRADE: Th< city is the center of a textile manutacturing territory having over 700 mills operating more than 10,000,000 spmdles and comsuming more cotton than any other section in the world. Outlying imdustrial plants have developed settlements which are sizable tewns within themseives. industry is am important source of income to Charlotte, the city is dominated ty trade rather than industry and it is the shopping and distributing center for an area of about fifty miles. There are estimated to be about 3.000 persons with a payroll of $5,000,000 en- gaged im wholesale trade in Charlotte whose volume im the city alone is estimated at $125770,000, and in the metropolitan area of $157 585.000. According to reliable estimates, Chariotte ranks fifth amongst the principal cities of the southeast m buying income per capita with an average of $750. The same calcuiatwus place Char- lotte m 40th position amongst over 100 of the principal cities in the whole country. WATER AND SEWAGE: The water supply of Charlotte is obtained from the Catawba River, sine miles from the center of the city. with a constant volume of flow far in excess of any possible needs of the city. Raw water is pumped from the river to the Oakdale Reservoir through a 24-inch main which is to be replaced by es Sees eee a from ten millions to seventeen millions of gallons per day. Water flows by gravity to the city through a filter plant from which # i¢ dastributed As elsewhere stated, the sewerage system: covers approximately W per cent of the city and the sewage is disposed of m two well constructed treatment plants. CULTURE, EDUCATION AND RECREATION: There are thirty public schools, of which five are high, eighteen are clemen- tary for Whites and one high and six elementary for Negroes, cach ef which mainmtaims a branch of the Public Library. The school en- roliment is about 17750. Qucens-Chicora College for Women (Grade “A™), with an enroliment of about 400, is located in Myers Park and the co-cducational Johusen C. Smith University for fit} Negroes (Grade “A”) has an enroliment cf about 847. with a cam- pes of 75 acres. The Charlotte Peblic Library, of Greek classic architecture, matntams a branch for the Colored and fs< county town branches; t as well stocked with literature and, as cisewhere stated. it also maitains branches im the various pubhbc schools. It contains the private collection of General Jackson. the McLean Musical Col- lection, and a fine collection of books aad Magazines in Braille for the blind. The city is abundantly supplied with charches, there being one hundred and eighteen, representing seventeen denominations, some of these edifices being imposing architecturally and costly in con- strection. There are numerous parks, playgrounds, swimm ots and a lake; eight moving picture theatres, public football, golf and tennis courses, and a municipal stadium. Char- lotte boasts a Little Theatre which, in afSiiation with the Work- shop. produces and presents about six maior productions annually. An Art Museum housed im a replica of the old U. S. Mint con- tains art exhibits, historic collections, ceramics, native and foreign handcrafts and a number of very valuabie cil paintings. PUBLIC BUILDINGS: Th« <i and county buildings are ad- vantageousiy located on East T. Street. the municipal consisting of the City Hall, Fire Department Headquarters, Pole Department. the City Jail and the Health Department. The County Court House, comtains the courts, executive offices and 7 ; the finest Federal buildings im the were $1,028,553. BANKS AND FINANCE: Charlotte bes three National one Trust Company and the Carolina branch serve System. The resources of local banks for 124,536 ; bank deposits $82,460,417, and clearings $651,731,952. COMMUNITY CHEST: Simce 1931 there by the United Welfare Federation a 7 for the current year of $110,000, was reached after considerable effort, by expert direction. Twelve agencies are beneficiaries of the Chest, but it should be noted that “hospitals” are not incladed amongst these agencies. im spite of the very evident need for hos- pital accommodations for people of meagre means who are un- able to pay the rates charged by local institetions and the meagre pubbhc appropriations. A separate campaign has recently been completed by one hos- ital im the city for a beilding fund of $250,000, and another cam- x [12] naign was im progress 2t the time of this sorvwey for $100,000, for YMCA. capital e ndtture. cITy GOVERNMENT. The Catv of Charlotte is governed by a Council of eleven members presided over by a Mayor, with executive control delegated té a Gity Manager. The city business affairs are well condected, there is a central purchasing department and the administrative functions of the city are divided amongst various departments. divistons, trusters and ommissions. It will be of interest m this connection to note the exoemdtures of some of the mote maportant governmental bodes for the fiscal year ending Fume 30. 1937 as shown m the City Manager's report. Devartment of Public Safety Fire Department Street Maintenance Safety Inspection Division — Water and Sewage .........__._.._____...... FOS Earn 6 eee ee eee Public Health and Hospitelizetion............ T1S08.08 A few points brought out im the City Manager's report are sienificant—first. during the last fiscal wear bonds to the extent of $1.365.000 were voted to extend the water plant; second, a new municipal airport has faust been completed at a cost of $416154. The adiusted tax rate for the city was $1250 $1,000 valuation © im comparison with an average of $25.95 ior handred other cities of over 30000 populaton—and ~ the city manager stated at the end of the last fiecal year— City of Charlotse has never heen in better financial conditien than it is today. It has no floating debt and has completed another year without hav- ing to borrow money for operatios.” In the foregoing brief and sketchy description of the City of Charlotte we have shown that this is one of the leading cities of the south m dustry, agriculture, educational facilities and calture- It boasts a low tax rate, a prosperity second to few other cities of its size, and a spirit of progressivencss im those phases of civic development which make the city more modern, beautiful and attractive as a place to we. In ome vite! direction, however. the City of Charlotte is far behind many tess favered municipalities and its failure to meet its obligations with respect to public health protection and hospitalization can only be explained by the assump- tiom that those matters dealing with human welfare have not re- ceived the same public attention as have more material phases of civic betterment which affect commerce and industry. It was regrettable to note that many of the vitally important recommendations made by the Americas Public Health Associa- tion im its survey of the Health Department im 1934 seem to have been completely ignored and, apparentiy, that report received very little publicity, whereas, because of its relation to the ves and health of every imhabitant of the city, it constitutes one of the most important decuments im the archives of the city. 32? Bat the present survey must confine itself to only such phases of public health as touch apon hospitalization and it would now seem to be wappropriate to present some information about the existing hospitals, in order that we may tore accurately appraise . tHe situatidn. PUBLIC HEALTH, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND HOSPITALS Before we consider each hospital in detail it will be appropriate te discuss the recognized requirements for medical service in a ———~nextern commnanity. Ti has long been recognized that the adequate medical care of the people involves the mice adjustment of certain majer factors whi when coordinated, constitute an effective mechanism for the prevention and cure of disease. PUBLIC HEALTH: The first of these factors is a well « - ized, efficient and aggressive health department without _w neither medical skill nor good hospitals can make mach headway in improving community health conditions or the reduction of morbidity. Since the present stady deals exclusively with hospi- talization, little comment will be made upon this subject, but it is necessary to mention the fact that, as shown by the study of the Health Department conducted by the American Public Health Asso- ciation, the City of Charlotte is not appropriating sufficient funds to properly conduct the department and as already mentioned, many of the important recommendations offered for improve- ments have been disregarded. ; One of the direct obligations of the Health Department is to provide or support suitable accommodations for cases of com- municable disease that cannot be cared for in homes without risk to the individual and to the community. Neither the department nor any of the local hospitals provide for such cases, and, as a te- suit, both the morbidity and mortality rates are increased. For the care of the indigent sick the Health Department ap- propriation amounts to $15,000 annually, which at $2.00 per patient day provides hospitalization for only 7,500 hospital days, and, assuming that each patient requires eight days’ care, the number of patients that can be paid for if all of the funds could be used for that purpose during the year would be 938. But these funds must also meet charges for x-ray service. special nurses, special treatments and numerous ather items, so that the actual number of patients benefited is considerably below the number mentioned and the sum appropriated is totally madequate to meet the com- munity needs THE MEDICAL PROFESSION: The next important factor im providing adequate medical care to the community is the presence of a sufficient number of qualified physicians to assure accurate diagnosis and scientific treatment. In this respect, Char- lotte is highly favored, as may be noted from Exhibit “F” appended to this report. Every specialty in medicine except brain surgery {t4] is represented in the city, the physicians are all graduates of high grade medical schools and an unusual number of specialists hold the highest attainable credentials from the national. accrediting hoche<. The local medical profession has for years freely given profi sional services to indigent patients in hospitals and there is reason to believe that the value of the free service thus given far exceeds that of any other social agency. In consideration of this fact alone, the medical profession should have a decking voice in hospital affairs. It is hardly reasonable to expect the physicians to con- tribute their services free of charge ander ‘tal conditions that do not offer these essential facilities requisite or the performance of good service. The maintenance of high standards is a direct ———SOHCEMH Gf Whe Medical group and any efforts exerted by the pro- . fession to improve hospital standards deserve the respectful con- sideration of the entire commranity. THE HOSPITALS: The final major requirement for the pro- vision of scientific medical care to the community is the existence of a first class hospital, equipped with all of the modern appTiances for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. es een executive, staffed by qualified physicians and conducted in accord- ance with the standards set up by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and the Ameri- can College of Surgeons. In this respect, Charlotte has woefully failed to meet its obligations, thereby depriving the people of the community of those facilities which are essential to their health aod welfare and cresting an overwheiming handicap to the prac- tice of the highest grade of professional service. We will now submit a brief description of the existing hospitals, with special emphasis upon those points which determine their rating. SAINT PETER'S HOSPITAL This hospital is located in an old brick fire resisting. Ri naneoed tage eodeniaee te he © Protestant Episcopal Church and has 66 beds and 10 hassinets with an average daily census of 55 patients with a total admission of 3,038 patients with 23,073 patient days at a per caput cost of $3.29 for 1 . This indicates an occupancy rate of about 85 per cent. The hospital has attained conditional approval of the American College of Surgeons, but does not hold institutional in the American Hospital Association. Interns cannot be here because the ital does not meet the reqmrements of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Assov ciation. The professional staff is open, with 36 active members and 12 on the courtesy staff, but # is not depertmentalieed and the monthly meetings, intended for the complete analysis of profes- sional work consist chiefly of a luncheon and reading of monthly reports, with some discussion of deaths ftS} The medical records are sketchy and ix complete, written by @ nurse-historian and progress notes are also written by a nurse. Records are net promptly written, the staff record committee does net properly function, the majority of records are of little clinical value and would not be acceptable to the national accrediting agencies. A laboratory in one room on the third floor is provided, there is one technician, and pathological service is provided by a part-time patholagist. There is no autopsy room and so effort is made to secure aztopsies. The x-ray equipment is located in one room on the third floor and is adequate for radiography and fluoroscepy, but there is no radium or high tension apparatus. An outside specialist on a part- ~ sn-op be epartment. Anaesthesia is administered by amy of the doctors, bat physical examinations, if made before anaesthesia. are not generally re- corded. Urinalysis is required and recorded. No special anaesthetic records are kept. The surgical department is on the third Slogr where there are three ‘operating rooms im charge of a competent supervisor. Some of the surgeons use nurses as assistants which is not considered the best practice. Apparently preoperative stady is very brief as are reports of findings, and preoperative diagnoses are net recorded thus chmmating any possibidity of appraising diagnostic of surgeons. Although equipment is available for fractures, no ture service is maintained, nor are fracture cases regularly dis- cussed at staff meetings. There is an i of obstetrics. and the deli room is located om the thad finer. Became of crowded conde tions, obstetric patients cannot be properly segregated and only isolation available is in private rooms. The medical records are too brief to be of amy value, no morbidity standard has been adiegetd ond a5: Satis mainteinnd, Te is no physical therapy department. no out-patient service, ne social service, no pharmacy, no isolation facilities, nor suitable accommodations for the psychopathic. The nursing service is performed by graduate nurses under the control of the superintendent and four supervisors. A nurses” home adjoins the hospital, but no school of narses is maintained. The intendent does not hold personal membership im the American Hospital Association, nor the American College of Hos- pital Admmistrators, but she is performing a creditable job under the adverse conditions encountered. FINANCIAL: The value of the hospital plant and equipment is estimated to be about $250,000 with a possible sale value of about $110,000. In the year 1957, the hospital carned S7R.94R61 at an expense of $72,745.50, thus showing an operating profit of $6,208.11. In addition to these carnings the institution received the sum of $12,440.75 irom the city, county, Duke Endowment, Parent-Teach- ers’ Association, State Orthopedic Fund, the Rotary Clab and indi- : ' {16} en SIRT RAR viduals, and $1,106 from endowments. Thus i appears as though this institution had a total surpias of $19,649.86 for the year IGY. GENERAL COMMENTS: From the foregomg it is clear that this hospital does not provide the facilities for the performance of the best professional service, the institution is too small to ai- ford the improvements required and the strocture itself is poorly adapted to modern hospital service. The management, the con- trollmg board and the stafi are making efforts to improve the institution, but the handicaps to be overcome te make this a first class hospital are almost imsearmeuntabic. There is a disposition —- the part of are controlling board to cousider any reasonable eeu ter of a new antenatal ‘ a tan ealicate all modern standards and is of sufficient size to meet the needs of the community. GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL The Good Samaritan. Hospital is a general hospital maintained - by,a group of ladies of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, for the care and treatment of Colored patiests. It has a sew modern fireproof building containing 80 beds and 14 bassinets. A nursing school is maintained which is accredited by the State Beard of Nurse Examiners. The school conducts a three year course and only high school graduates may matriculate.. A modern nurses’ home adjoms the hospital The hospital has not been approved for the training of interas, nor for the acceptance of residencies in the specialties. Et has @ well organized open staff. There are nine Colored doctors on the active staff, the associate and courtesy staff being made up of 2 few of the leading White phrsicians of the city. The clinical laboratory 1s located on the first floor aad occupees ome small room. A technician is in charge. Diagnostic equipment for radiography and fleoroscopy occupecs ome room also on the first floor, but a radiologist is not in charge, amd the doctors themscives interpret the films. The surgical department is on the second floor of the beid- ng and while there is only ene operating room, it seems adequately rquipped. The obstetrical service is on the first floor of a separate wing with a competent graduate nurse in charge. Maternity patients are wel! segregated. Ne attempt is made to maintaim a regular organized out-patient service m this hospital and social service is totally lacking, bui the records imdicate that there were 850 ambalast patients. treated during 1937 and many more patients could have been benefited br this service if adequate facilities were available. During 199 this hospital admitted 1,635 patients for a total of 13,586 patient days, about half of which represent free care. FINANCIAL: The plant and equipment of this institution may be valued at approximately $200,000. The teta! income of the hos- (17] pital for 1937 was $6401.88 of which only SIKORZ75 was carned trom patients, $1732290 was contribeted and $542.23 was from endowments. The expetse af the hospital fer the <ame year was $29,514.41, thes giving an operatieg defactt of SIS.531.56 which after contributions and endowments were added, gave a surpins of $4352.47. The total petiert davs were 13.585 and the per caput diem cost was $2.18. GENERAL COMMENT: This iestitution for Colored patients is ome of the outstanding charities ix: the ety and deserves com- mendation and suppert. While its plant is im excellent condition and the imstitution ts well managed the fact remains that the size s of the bespital is a handicap te sts earning capacity winch is low ——_— at best The future smocess of this worth : assured of it- can unite with a first > for omterms and residests te of furnishing to it expert pathsegeal, radielogeal amd comsalting services. MERCY HOSPITAL Mercy Hospital, established im IGA, is owned and the Sesters of Mercy, beimg governed br a board of Sisters, It is a general tal of KE . Hostal A rae The bespaital has met vet secured approval for the training of in- terms o resadents im the specialties, although it is anticipated that this will be secured whee a Sew wing 7 The open staff is well zed and comsists of 55 members of the regular staff amd a list of shot HOD physicians who are permitted to bring patients imto the hospital. There é a part-time patholog=st im the Inboratory which occu- chemecai amd pathological exam=mations. Im addition to the part- time pathoingist there are two well trained registered technicians on tell-rame. While a large somber of tissues were reported grossly. amily a few humdred microscope examinations were made. whereas the mimmom stamdard reqerres a macroscopical — ation fer most of the tissues. Six astopsies were reported for 1957 omt ef 48 deaths. The x-ray department of the hospital “accapies two rooms on the thard floor and while there is oo full-time radiologist on duty here, 2 bacal firm of radiologists has a part-time service. The hos- pital owes the equipment and there are facchties for diagnostic [Bs B therapeutic radiography and fluorescopy, superficial therapy, HW deep therapy Two operating rooms on the third floor of the buildmg com- wase the surgery. There is a qualified graduate warse im charge. / facilities here are inadequate and will be much improved by ime New wing. Nurses are permitted to act as asststants to sur- feoms and often when a nurse administers an anaesthetic the ting surgeon is the only doctor im the room. This is not con- seered good practice and constitutes a grave danger to the ients. The obstetrical department is also on the third floor and a duate nurse is also in charge of this service. This service is well © ted. Obstetrical records would be improved by the use of [pregnancy and a labor record on special sheets. A school of nursing is maintained by this hospital which is ac- dited by the State Board of Nurse Examiners. There is a three course with high school graduates only being acceptable. A wing was added to the nurses” home last year to provide ad- I facilities for the housing of nurses. The average number The hospital maintains a physical therapy department with one d. full-time technician in charge. There are facilities for o-therapy, helio-therapy, electro-therapy and massage. One of the Sisters is a graduate Gethin and an organized ry department is maintained. Student dietitians are not trained this hospital, however. ‘There is no out-patient department and no social service work ed on; there is no pharmacy and no facilities are available for be isolation of communicable disease patients nor the modern wre of psychopathic cases. _ A competent Sister is in charge of medical records giving part- tame to the work, assisted by two clerks. The staff record com- attce is not active. many histories are not promptly written wp and others are too brief to be of value. As is the practice else- J in Charlotte, progress notes are written often by nurses '@Stead of doctors, thereby decreasing their value. . Consultations farely recorded and condition on discharge is often omitted. ~ orts are not signed by the radiclogist and the standard ftacture form is mot used. FINANCIAL: The Mercy Hospital plant and equipment may © conservatively valued at 3200.00, The total income for 1937 was $151846, of which $108,674.82 was earned from patients, $42,- [65.60 was from contributicns and $205.81 came from endowments. Che total number of hospital days for the same year was $35,945, omd the per caput diem cost $3.06. The cost of operation was S390.128.09 so that there was an operating defictt of $1453.27. ach after the addition of contributions and endowment income cives a surplus of $41,718.14. GENERAL COMMENT: The Mercy Hospital commands the raest modern plant and has attained the highest standards of anv {19} other general hospital in Charlotte. The proposed addi toms this hospital will permit the expansion of the surgical and | Stetrical pavilions and provide approximately 50 addtional ty and the Sisters believe that tio further extensions will be 4 ary to meet their needs. While this institution will uneuestic cooperate to the fullest possible extent with aff other local engaged in hospital affairs it would not be interested plan of amalgamation. * PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL ; This general hospital occupies 2 very old. three-story non-fireprooé building which was built many years College. It is not in good repair as a new butiding is im p and very little effort is made to maintain the present old str bed capacity of the hospital is 100, with 10 i / average daily occupancy last year w which is overcrowding to a dan Tge room There is a part thologist in charge and a full-time, registered technician ag There appears te be no interest in autopsies, only two being formed out of 110 deaths during 1937. 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Under existing conditions this special hospital is not only a neces- sity, but a great asset to the community, and regardless. af any future hospital developments here. it might. continue indefinitely as an independent private institution. Should there be established. bowever, a first class general hospital with an adequate eye, ear, nose and throat department. it would be dependent upan the pro- texsiomal services of the staff of this private imstitution and con- sideration might then be given to the possibility of relieving these *,, doctors of the need for maintaining hospital beds if they feel so heaped. NEW CHARLOTTE SANATORIUM This hospital was organized in 1907 as a corporation “for profit” by forty local phwstcians and is governed by a board of four directors. It occupies a five story, brick, semi-fireproof building with a nee 100 beds and 10 bassinets. and has an average ocerpancy of 70 patients. During 1937 there were 3,098 patients received bere. This is a general hospital, bat without facilities for communkable disease of mentally deranged patients unless they are placed m private rooms. Colored are not admitted. The staff is well organized with 27 regular staff members and about the same number who are accorded courtesy privileges. This hospital has been able to attain only partial approval by the Ameri- | can Cofieee of Surgeons, and has not been accredited for the train- ing of imteras or for residencies in the specialties. It does not hold imstitatiamal membership m the American Hospital Association. One room in the basement is assigned to the laboratory service. There are facilities for chemical, bacteriological, serological and pathological examinations. with a part-time medical director in charge who is the owner of the equipment. He is assisted by a fall-tome trained laberatory technician. The =-tav equipment is also the property of the radiologists operatmg bere on a part-time basis. A iarge section of the fifth fleet has been assigned to radiology and there is available equip- ment for diagnostic and therapeutic radiology and fluoroscopy. Rasim i available but. also, 1s owned by the radiologists. The hospital dees not have mach contrel over the department of radi~ ology as the space is rented by the firm of doctors comincting the department and it is operated very largely as @ private enterprise. There @ an adequately equipped surgical department on the third oer with three operating rooms and a competent graduate furse in charge. The obstetrical servece is on the fourth floor of the hospital, : i = '23} but there are so few obstetrical cases cared for here that very Tittle has been done to prownde adequate segregation for these patients. Gradmate nursing service ts used exclusively here, as the hos- pital Joes not maintam a nursing schorl There are about thirty- —~ fiwe graduate nurses on duty, of which mumber six are supervisors. No attempt is made to conduct a& out-patient service. nor is medical social service represented bere. There is = graduate dhetitsan m charge of the food service, but student dietitsans are not bemng trained. There is no registered pharmacist, mor is there a pharmacy in the barking. GENERAL COMMENT: This i« @ privately owned hospital and therefore no attempt was made to secure fmancial data. A group ef high grade physicians and satgeons is connected with it and st has a good professional rating. im the event of the estab- lishment in Charlotte of a first class 1 of sufficient capacity to meet community needs, it is likely 2 this institetioe would be discontinued as tt must always remaie a heavy financial burden upon the doctors mterested in it. HOSPITAL INADEQUACY: From the information already set forth im this document we have shown that the Gity of Char- : lotte, so proud of its standing in every other respect, is mot only under hospitalized, but none of the exusting gencral hospetais has attaieed the highest standards. Added te this we fimd the city nt omaity ccins i eee ae ee oe of communicable diseases. and ncither the city nor the county is appropristing sufficient famds to meet the cost of ne cating for the indigent requiring hospital care. HOSPITAL CAPACITY REQUIRED: I: is generally recog- nized throughout the country that. for the adequate care of a com- ~ munity. ee Eee ae Soe Genel ee Se ee are required, and if we consider merely the actual of the city amd county dependent upon Chariotte (100,000), there are needed a minimum ot S00 beds I But Oheriotte is a trading center for = €stance of twenty-five miles im ewery direction withm which a ek» oe seers bo en Ll eae present perpose, may be estimated at 15,000 which is whelly de- pendent upon Chariotte for hospital service. - Thus the miniwom nutmber of beds reqamred may be comservatively placed at 750 gemerul beds. The four general hespitals for White patients provide beds for 33 ts, the ane special hospital kas 2) beds and the for Catered has 80 beds, giving a total ef 473 or a shortage genera] and special beds. In addition te the need for general beds the <iesc minded community provides beds for communicable disease to the extent of 54 (.5) bed thousand population, which im thes instance would amount to 73 beds for that purpose, and addeng this to the mamber of beds already indicated, we have 2 grand total of 825 beds required and a shortage of 352. it is mecessary, of course, m planmmg the hospital mceds of a . [24} community te ieek ahead for a comssderable period aad se we should take into comsadetation any development now contemplated. For example: we iemeew that the Mercy Hospital intends to increase its capacity by 33 eds, the Prestyterian Hospital has imdicated its in- tention te tmortest its capacity be BOD beds ; and the Good Samari- tan Hospital wil be obliged te mocrease its capacity by about 50 beds. We are justified, therefore. in assuming that, enless some change is made @ contemplated plans, there will be am increase of 200 beds. With these anticipated? increases we must further con- siier the poumbelity of decreases, and in that compection it is not unreasonabit Go predict that evemtmally the New Charlotte Sana- tormum will pass est of existence, particularly if adequate hospital facilities are etherwise provided. The contemplated imcrease by 200 beds amd the possible decrease ty 100 beds leaves us an expec- tation of only KD additional beds to meet the shortage of 352, thereby redmcimg that figure to 262. LARGE VERSUS SMALL HOSPITALS: Quite regardiess of the number o¢ beds in a community, it is of vital iemportance that the hospitals shall be of such size as to justify the acquisition of all of the expemsive scientific imstraments of precisbon and per- « sonnel essemtal to accurate diagmoses and treatment, all of whi add to the costs of maintenance. That is to say, however small a <= hospital, it seaid provide every known facility for the scientific _ diagnosis and treatment of disease; it must employ a staff of tech- | nical assistamts to conduct the work of the various Isboratories; _ and it should awe a professiomal staff organized and departmen- — tahzed, comssstimg of those medical men capable of performing the highest grade of scientific wnedicime. The requirements then of 2 small hospetal are exactly the samme as for the large destitution, but because of the high cost mvoleed it is absolutely ampossible for the small besgetal, with its limited earning capacity, to meet the required = uniess it cam fall back upon large endowments or secure saggert from other scearces. In the case of reral commecnities where only 9 small hospital is required to meet the community needs, such an imstitation is desirable amd pestifiable and the Deke Foundation has taken the leadership = skewing how a susall hospital may be established and maintained at a tagh level of efficiency. When a community, how- ever, outgrows the smal! hospetal. the logical procedare is to add additione! beds te the already existing institution, thereby increas- ing the scope of its usefulness amd permitting the development of its services. The duplication, therefore, of small hospitals in a community i amsound, it unnecessarily increases the overhead cost, thereby not amily imcreasing the cost to the indivsinals using the hospital, bet alse places an additional burden apom the entire community COMMUNITY PLANNING: 1: is the universal practice of the great public etaiity corporations te give the most careful consider- ation to the community need for the services they furnish, real- ts — | izing as they do that bankruptcy inevitably follows when plants are excessive in capacity, on the other hand. pubdsc resentment results when they ate inadequate or the rates excessive. In order to assure a proper balance, therefore. all great peblic atilities em- ploy able engineers to conduct “service requirement™ stadies which ate projected safficiently in adwance of needs sq that facilities are almost automatically mcreased or decreased as the Gemands re- quire. Indeed, im many localities there are statutes which prescribe minimum and maximum standards of quantity and @quakty for pub- be otilrties But i@ the hospital field. unfortunately, in most of our states. counties and sumnicipalities, there is no machinery so determine the needs and it thus follows that hospitals come imte existence through chance; as a result of imsistent public demand: as an out- let for the benevolently inclined; or because of the desire of some particular group-to attain distinction by z i movement. More rarely the community hospital ts established after a complete survey of the community needs and the united efforts of the population. It is im these latter cases that The Duke Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and other benevolent cor- porations have given expert aid and have contributed generously to their capetal outlays and s iS a growing belief on the part of the public spérited citi- zens that there shouk! be a recognized agency with the power or prestige te dictate that no new hospital development shall be ac- corded public support unless or unt the question of peblic con- venience amd mecessity has been passed upon. Likewise, such an agency should have the right to insist that new hospital projects shall be fimamced, and planned and equipped in a manner suitable to the ascertained needs and in accordance with those standards that have gained almost universal acceptance. HOSPITALS ARE PUBLIC AGENCIES: Hospitals are “pub- he works” ia every sense of the term and require the same eco- nomic planmimg as all other socially useful projects. Economic planning means a limiting or shapiag of corporate economic ac- tivity into group defined spheres which are rationally mapped ont and fitted. as parts of a mosaic, izite a coordinated whale, for the purpose of achieving certain intelligently conceived and socially comprehensive goals. There can be little doubt that # future hospital dewelopment could be placed upon this plase, the immed- tate effect would be to improve hospital service at 2 decreasing cust The hospétal situation presenting itself in Charlotte is one de- manding the dispassionate consideration of all who are truly inter- ested in the community welfare. We have shown that while there are six heesttals in the city, not a single one of them bes attained approval tor mmterms, none of them can be said to meet the high- est standards of the national agencies. and all of them + @ether dk mot provide the required hospital facilities for this area. Et is very sigmiiicant that no hospital m Chariatte maintaims a socdal service department and so far as could be learned, no efforts were being made to secure the services of social workers. Here then is pre- sented a golden opportunity for the union of effort te the end that there may be established one first-class hospital, of sufficient size to meet the community needs and to absorb the overbead main- tenance costs, and so conducted as to command the respect of the people and the confidence of the medical profession not only within the city but throughout the state and nation. PUBLIC INTEREST PARAMOUNT: If there exists a true community spirit amongst the various groups concerned with hes- pitalization, the questions involved may be promptly decided in the public interest by the organization of a Hospital Council upon which there should be one representative from the controlling board of each of the hospitals concerned/two representatives of the Medical Society, the City Manager, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and such other individuals representing public spirited organizations as might be designated by those above named. if a representative of the Duke Foundation can be in- duced to sit upon such a council it will be helpful. THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEM: The immediate considera- tion of this Council should be the ways and means of amalgamating the Presbyterian, Saint Peter's, and Good Samaritan Hospitals in such manner as to preserve the identity of the sponsors of each, and to satisfy those who hare contributed to their support in the past that the movement is in the community interest, sound in its conception and designed te afford the most feasible means af giv- ing to the city and county one union hospital capable of meeting the community needs, and committed to the adoption of the highest standards of administrative and professional mee. As an aid in the consideration of this project we will submit on the fol- lowing pages a method of procedure which, if followed, will ac- complish the desired objective. PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF THE CHARLOTTE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: Ii it is.the decision of the Hos- pital Council that a union of hospital interests is desirabic and teasible, it is then proposed that there be duly imcorporated the “Charlotte Union Memorial Hospital Association,” to be composed of Honorary, Life, Contributing and Annual members. Member- ship may be attained by the payment of one-hundred dollars for Life, five dollars for Annwal. and any sum between five and one hundred dollars for Contributing memberships, provided that all members of the present controlling boards of the Presbvterian, Saint Peter’s and Good Samaritan Hospitals shall become anto- matically Life members without the usual subscription. Honorary membership shall be exclusively for individuals nominated by the board of trustees and elected by the association at the annual meeting it will be noted that this plan of organization offers an appor- tunity to every person in the community to become a member of the hospital association and to, participate in the election of its officers. Thos, the institution becomes a true community enter- prise and its affairs, the responsibility of every citizen. BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Prior to incorporation it will be necessary to adopt a constitution and by-laws and to elect a board of trustees and, since the association, first composed of the mem- bers of the controlling boards of the three hospitals, will clect the trustees, the first board of the new hospital will be composed of a prescribed number of trustees from each of those imstitutious. The constitution and by-laws should provide for an annual meeting of the Charlotte Unien Memorial Hospital Association, at which ume the trustees should be elected. “The first board might consist of ali of the trustees of the three. hospitals, but we would advise agaist such a large board and would recommend a board of not more than eighteen lay, secular members, divided mto groups of six, each member to serve for three years, provided, however, that the first board shall consist of eight members of the present hoard of the Presbyterian Hospital, six members of the board of Saint Peter's Hospital, and four members of the board. of the Good Sa- maritan Hospital. The board shall periect its organization by drawing lots for terms of office whereby six members shall serve for one year, six for two years and six for three years, and cath = r thereafter sik new trustees shall be elected by the association. rustees should be eligible for reelection for not more than four terms of office. No member of the board should receive any re- muneration for his services, nor should he or she have any busmess © relationships with the institution for pecuniary profit. board _— hold monthly meetings at the Charlotte Union Memorial ospital. OFFICERS: The board should, immediately after its organi- zation, elect a president, a vice president. a treasurer and a secre- tary to serve for one year or until their successors are elected. The officers so elected shall also serve as the officers of the Chariotte Union Memorial Hospital Association. COMMITTEES: There should be an executive committee consisting of the president and two other members of the board selected by the board, which shall act for it during the interim be- tween meetings. The board shonld appoint such other standing committees and the president may appoimt such special committees as may be required from time to time. SUPERINTENDENT: Upon the completion of the organiza- tion of the board there should be appointed by the board, a sup- ¢rintendent or director who shall be the executive officer of the board of trustees, charged with complete responsibility for the conduct of hospital afiairs and vested with commensurate pre- rogatives and authority. The supermtendent should be a person [28] who has had adequate training in hospita! administration and whose qualifications are attested to by the American College of Hospital Administrators or some other reliable accrediting agency. The superintendent should nominate all other employees of the mstitution aud shoukd have the right to discharge the same for cause. HOSPITAL PERSONNEL: In a hospital of the type and size herein proposed, there will be needed a very considerable number of emplorees in all categories, and it is suggested that in the selec- tion of personnel first consideration be given to those who are now employed in the two hospitals, with the understanding, however, that selection be go solely upon the basis of qualifications. In this connection it is predicted that practically all of the nurses now employed may be utilized and additional specially qualified supervisors may be required. ii PROFESSIONAL STAFF: The staff should —- those ¥siclans now mg in the hospitals composing Union, im accordance anh sak rules and regulations as may be formu- lated by the Medical Advisory Council. Upon reaching the age of ©. seers of the staff should automatically retire from active staff membership and should be thereupon appointed to the Emeri- tus Staff, after which they may continue in private practice sub- ject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted. MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: This council should con- sist of five members of the Union staff selected by the board of trustees. Each member should serve for five years excepting the first members, whose terms of office should be from one to five years, so that there shall be one vacancy each year. In additios to the five members so inted, the elected president of the staff should serve as an ex-officio member, and the superintendent of the hospital should serve as secretary ex-officio. FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: The medical advisory council should be a deliberative and advisory body with no executive or administrative powers,- exercising its influence solely through the superintendent of the ital or the executive committee of the board of trustees. It shall be the duty of the council to aid the superintendent in the formulation of rules and regulations touching upon all phases of professional services and such other matters as may affect the efficient and economical conduct of the scientific work of the institution: to recommend the assignment of members of the clinical staff to the various services and to aid the superintendent in appraising the quality of professional performance; to conduct investigation, through the executive office, of all applications for admission to membership on the attending or resident clinical staffs, making such recom- mendations in each case as may be warranted by the information at hand , to consider any matters affecting the conduct of the hos- pital whach may be proposed by the attending staff or the super- (29) intendent of nurses, submitting a report thereon with recommenda- tions to the executive committee of the board; to assist the sup- erintendent in the investigation of any unethical or unprofessional conduct, or the violation of any rules or regulations by any phy- sictan accorded the privileges of the hospital, submitting a report of the findings in each case to the executive committee of the board; te act as a research council for the consideration of pro- posals for the pursuit of research projects involving the expendi- ture of extra budgetary funds, in which activity the council shall require the subnugsion of a program outlining the objectives sought, the personnel required and approximate costs. Im the dis- charge of this duty the council shall invite the director of labora- tories as an ex-officio member and may im its deliberations seek the advice of outstanding individuals or mstitutions specializing in the particular field under consideration. Recommendations on re- search projects shall be submitted te the board of trustees through the executive committee for final action. The.council shall also render such further advisory service to the supefiatendent of the hospital or to the executive committee of the board as may be re- quested from time to time. The medical advisory committee should hold such meetings as may be required for the proper discharge of its duties, provided that there shail be at least two formal meetings monthly (except- ing during July and August) one of which shall be yi wer meeting of the council with the executive committee of board of trustees. Five members of the council shall constitute 3 quorum. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON NURSING EDUCATION: The edu- cation of nurses would become a major responsibility of the Union Memorial Hospital and so it would be desirable to indicate an - proved method of assuring the proper conduct of this activity. e therefore suggest that there be appointed by the board of trustees a council on nursing education and service for the special consid- eration of matters relatmg to these activities. The councti should consist of eight members, two of whom shall be the superintendent of the hospital and the director of the school of nursing, ex-officio; the remaining six to serve each for three years and to be selected as follows: One member from the board of trustees, whe shall be the chairman: two members from the medical advisory council, one member representing the Women’s Auxiliary, one member representing the Nurses’ Alumni Association, and one member who is a recognized educator actively engaged in pe ¥. It should be the duty of this council to hold monthly meetings of which minutes shall be maintained; to assist the director of nurses im the formulation of programs for intra and extra curri- cular activities; to devise ways and.means for the acquisition of funds for endowment of the sttidol and for ether needs ; and to act as the agency of the board of trustees and: the executive com- mittee during the interval between meetings in all matters re- ferred to it by the director of hurses, the superintendent of the hospital or the medical advisory council; The ‘executive functions [30] mhespanclnen tere oye rnin aR inela se NeOnRReeD of this council shall be exercised solely through the superintendent of the hospital or the director of nurses WOMEN’S AUXILIARY BOARD: An active group of women interested in the activities of a hospital constitutes an invaluable asset and we therefore suggest that there be organized for the new hospital a Women's Auxiliary Board im such manner as the board of trustees shall dictate and after organization this board should have complete autonomy within the sphere of action herem proposed. The Women's Auxiliary Board should hold at least one meeting monthly excepting during the months of July and August and should maintain minutes of the proceedings. The Women’s Aux- iliary Board should have the right and privilege of visiting the wards of the hospital at such hours as the superintendent may pre- scribe; it shall consider ways and means of adding to the comfort and welfare of patients in the hospital and the contmuation of such interest after discharge, subject to the approval.of the superintend- ent; it shall have the right to raise funds amongst its membership to meet the expenses of its activities, but no public appeal for fin- ancial aid outside of the group itself shall be made without the approval of the executive committee of the board of trustees; it may contribute toward the financing of any development, tmprove- ment, of equipment for any department of the hospital, subject however, to the approval of the superintendent of the hospital; it may organize junior or subsidiary groups, define their functions and supervise their activities ; auxiliary or junior members may act as volunteer workers in the hospital in any department or on any occasion, with the consent and approval of the superintendent; it shal! hold an annual meeting for the election of officers: submit its accounts to the auditors designated by the hospital and render an annual report to the board of trustees of its activities. The Women’s Auxiliary Board shall designate one delegate to serve as its represenative and this delegate shall attend all meet- ings of the board of trustees of the hospital; it shall also designate one member with special qualifications, as delegate to the council on nutsing education and service. it is anticipated that this board will give special attention to the Good Samaritan Hospital and if desired there may be organized within the board a special group for exclusive service to that institution. AMALGAMATION OF ASSETS: Ii the preceding outline of organization, or some similar plan embracing the same basic prin- ciples, can be agreed upon, the next problem to be considered is the method of consolidating the various interests involved. These matters, of course, must necessarily be equitably adjusted before the previous steps mentioned are inaugurated. it appears that the Presbyterian Hospital owns a very desit- able site upon which there is adequate space for the erection of the type of hospital we have in mind, provided the existing structures [31) are razed, since they occupy the space most suitable for a new structure. In addition to the site, this hospital has a fund of $250,- 000 contributed, by the people of Charlotte to be applied to a new hospital. If it should transpire that any of the donors of this fund object to the use of their contributions for the establishment of the Union Memorial Hospital, it would be in the public interest to re- fund their contributions. : In addition to the above named assets, the Presbyterian Hos- pital has an endowment fund of $12,600, and cash surrender-—tlife imsurance assets of approximately $55,000, with notes payable of about $40,000, leaving a cash balance of $15,000, which, added to the endowment fund of $12,600, gives a total in cash assets of $27,600. It is proposed that this be set aside, together with any other cash assets, as an endowment fund under the general title of “The Presbyterian Endowment Fund.” The board of trustees of the new hospital would automatically assume all outstanding obli- gations not herein mentioned. With respect to furnishings and equipment, the value of these © items in the Presbyterian Hospital corresponds closely with those of Saint Peter's and for the purpose of this project all that is util- izable in both institutions would be salvaged for the Union Mem- orial Hospital. Saint Peter’s Hospital has a hospital plant of about the same size as Presbyterian and while it has a lower bed capacity and less land, the condition of its building is better and probably has some sale value, but in any event the book value of the structure and grounds is carried at an amount closely approximating that of the Presbyterian Hospital. It is recommended that this property be sold and that the receipts be added to the new hospital building fund. We will assume that the buildings and s occupied by the hospital will realize not more than $110,000. Saint Peter's owns other real estate, conservatively valued at $40,000, and has cash assets of approximately $27,000. It is sug- gested that the real estate be sold, the proceeds being added to the building fund and the cash assets added to the Union Memorial Hospital Endowment Fund under the general classification of the “Saint Peter's. Endowment Fund.” The valuation of the furnishings and equipment of Sait Peter’s Hospital is about $36,000, but as im the case of the Preshy- terian Hospital, it is suggested that whatever is usable be set aside for the new hospital and everything else sold. An alternate proposal is that the Presbyterian Hospital site be sold, adding the proceeds to the building fund and erecting the new hospital in the wooded area owned by Saint Peter’s Hospital. It is our belief, however, that the Presbyterian site is wet pais pro- viding the existing structures are completely demolished. Summarizing the relative contributions to the Union Memorial Hospital, it is shown that the Presbyterian Hospital would con- tribute the new site: the sum of $250,000 to the building fund; its furnishings and equipment ; and about $25,000 to the endowment (32) fund Saint Peter's would contribute $150,000 to the building fund, its furnishings and equipment, and about $27,000 to the en- dowment fund, thus making a total of $400,000 for the proposed new bospital and $52,000 for endowment. The Good Samaritan Hospital would continue in its present structure and preserve its mame, the only change contemplated being the transfer of control and responsibility to the new board of trustees, four of whom would be from the present board of this hospital. There would also be organized a Women’s Anx- ihary for this institution affiliated with the Auxiliary of the Union © Memorial Hospital. By this measure the Good Samaritan Section of the Union Memorial Hospital would receive the manifest bene- fits accruing from close affiliation with a large hospital which would assume complete responsibility for administration and financing. PERPETUATION OF IDENTITY: Both the Presbyterian and Saint Peter’s are proud of their accomplishments and quite nat- urally would be disinclined to consider any proposal that sub- merged their identities. To meet this situation it 1s proposed that the corporate mame be designated as— me THE CHARLOTTE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Consolidating THE PRESBYTERIAN, SAINT PETER'S AND GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITALS The name of Good Samaritan Hospital being preserved asa section of the main institution, it need not be included in the above title, although it may be if desired. In addition to the perpetuation of the identities of the present hospitals in the manner suggested, the new structure should be so designed as te lend itself to physical division into memorial sec- tions--one wing to be known as the “Presbyterian Memorial” and another as the “Saint Peter’s Memorial.” Hf at some future date any other group desires to establish a Memorial it will be a simple matter to so designate additional wings as the institution develops to its ultimate capacity. SIZE AND COST OF PROPOSED HOSPITAL: The minimum bed capacity of any new hospital established im Charlotte should be 00 beds, but so designed as to be readily expanded to 450 beds, which we believe will be the ultimate size required, assuming that the Mercy Hospital may eventually ex to 200 beds. Com- mencing then with 300 beds and estimating that the total cost for construction, architect’s and consultant's fees, and furnishings and equipment will closely approximate $3,000 per bed, or $900,000, we are confronted with the necessity of finding the difference between the anticipated building fund of $400,000 and the total cost, or $500,000. It is understood that any proposed hospital project mectting the standards required by the Duke Foundation will re- e¢tive sympathetic consideration from that benevolent agency, and [33] " may therefore be rea. Com taise hall of the soy the remainder can he se varces, There can be lotte and Meckie- a sound undertal tases Of this project 2 ¥ and if is reason sections for commen ibute teward the pathic cases and out- expedient to tise ever, thorities to eter int: city and county shall < the cost of hespitalizin *. 1S Fecopehized tha: Cnough to meet the kn provement BPOR present to establish an approve the technical facilities tution. Once such a ho< required there will be 3; sion. On the ether Charlotte of less ca tak:ng would be mo the known requirement less ¢ added It is re pat years of unselfish servi. prise are quite natural! others and there would §amMate one stitution ». deep seat to Sary to sacrifice any any high ideals of servi: ana defi ciples of th Nite se ideals af profes cerned i; : the implications invedved, it Port such action as wil community at the least the pooling of hospital j lotte Union Memorial H end. burg County-to raise ang, but it may be g hand. to institute pacity than 300 St tnt uplication of hospi: expense toe the comm Ppeal is made for the - intention of estabs of modern hospital } assure the greates: ably anticipated that if the commrnity 1,000 required to complete an ideal prosect, ured from the Deke Foundation and other ittle doubt of the ability of the people of the sum designated for pointed out that certain re the direct responsibility of the city and able to expect these Corporate’ bodies to cable disease, psrchio- * same time it would be te induce the public au- ne hospital whereby the are more adequately + San, I vent Service. At th possible influence atribute in the far o the indigent. a three hundred bed ‘WH requirements | conditions and wifi i hospital with interns and residents 2nd and personnel required by such ISL petal is im operation and additional beds are ttle difficulty in securing funds for expan- @ sew hospital Project m ze Opportuany ™ beds as = a! course, that those who have given many € to the building up of a charitable enter. ¥ reluctant to merge their interests with be Some justification in declining to amal- #h another if by so doing it became neces- ed principle of conduct or to abandon Quite ta the Contrary, in this instance Custmmation of this Proposal with the ishing and perpetuating accepted prin- administration and the implementation mal performance and social service whick authorities. tly appeal to all con. ighing the facts and cecision of all to sup- secial benefits to the unalterable belief tha: i f the Char- ptish that beneficens ce Sx we most urgen ter carefully we will be the ultimate cost—and it is our ntere : Usietai Respectiully submitted, WILLI May 28, 1938 AM HENRY WALSH, MD. F A.C.P HOSPITALS OF CHARLOTTE NAME. ADMINISTRATOR CHARLOTTE EYE, EAR & THRGAT HOSPITAL Estele Torrence, 2.N 1% Wese Seventh Stree: GGOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL M. Bodey, R.N. (White) (7327) 411 West Hill Street MERCY HOSPITAL Sister Mary Alpiomens, R.N. (156) 30 East Fifth Street NEW CHARLOTTE SANATORIUM Josephine Kerr. EN. ZF West Seventh Street PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL © © Beam (39%) SAINT PEERS HOSPITAL Hazel C. Williams, 2X. 229 Neeth Poplar Street ExhisiT -8~ HOSPITALS OF CHARLOTTE APPROVAL BY NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Meronsbees A.c.% Stes te Rea dtents NAME aA. AMA AMA Charlotte Eye. Ear & Threas Hospsai ; : Approved Good Samarman Hospitai Mercy Heapatal* Approved New Charieme Sanatorimm Condmonal Presbyteraa Hospital Condanonal Samt Peter's Hespital Condmenal Nete: Approval means that the mstitution s complyiag with the aam- mum stamderds of the Amercan Coliege of Surgeoas. Lack of approval for meeras iedicates that the mstitutios does not mett the requireapents of the Cooncil on Medical Education and Mospitals of te Ametican Medical Association for the training of terns FeRE EF Lack «f approval! for readents = specialties ncecates that the institwmoe is not commiinred suitable for specialty training by the Council on Medal Edscatios amd Hospitals of che American Medical Association. ‘Aim CRA On feudeopy 8 290909 ItNtG poaoudde wore (Rout POUMHQhIey) ORR pendvopy wesaypAqdass on HOURS F0,tq > MAN porciddy epead wor gt (9061 Payenqnieg ) fer v® {uiioosy A2aa poansdde span » UPal Ahn 9 A jevdeoyy UNEEg poor (g761 pauado) jendeopy x x On Woy, BW seq ‘94q sHopEY "pdogy , i‘yjust Aha 6+'aro 4oyg- x Aaoy Suan Armorg “OIE = worigd “woORey pP Pegg AWN SIOIAMAS LONNGVYA2LLOTYVH)D 40 STVLIdSOH A SIGIKA an seat we muvee * qo Mel Oe pnyy pesauory pendeogy, Fag MHNG or fot 901 ol yay) “Kqsaag gy “‘MounY’) pesauory peudiopy GeLapAqsaig $l Rone O01 (8ao1904] p) “MOK RIOd IO) pesauary HINO PEURS FOLeYy") MaN (#423815 ¢ 4° pH) cv ort 06 fol Aa09,% JO SaaS qany’) [esouary jevdsopy 4529 py f0t “gv OF 08 "YN Joon] «pedoowdy ‘young jRsauary (pasojory) endsoyy URyiueMEg poor gee’ rl ' Og £90948 4 LNWa eydeopy Wom] YW 4eq ‘Oy DOLKY) He Haaey eee “a poaynery anasey ’ aw (Asapnosig] WoReporry [expe Versemy we14) ALIOVdVD ONY dIHSWANMO “AdAL ALLOTHVHD 40 STV.LIdSOH wd» LIIHXS ZAniBIT “E* HOSPITALS OF CHARLOTTE (ELEEMOSYNARY) INCOME SOURCES, EXPENSES AND HOSPITAL DAYS FOR THREE YEARS 1935 Kom Sadat Samaritan Mercy Pregtts terse Peter's INCOME ~ NLOS Patents $ 9299.75 Hiss sa siIG 349,563.06 Censtritrstioas 17,549.84 52.981.08 22.3383 8,706.25 Endow ment 734% ok 1,025.33 Total Imocen SHO $906 983. 1MFSR $59.294.64 EXPENSES in-Patiemts $22,371.83 #77 03471 SHS FE ot $31 26.2) Ont- Patients iw 1118S 22370 Total Expenses $22,672.83 S7RiS3.21 _$16aRa $51,525.90 SURPLUS $ 4176.76 SMS RLY $ 18 Sa 76 8 776874 DAYS OF CARE Fall Pay 2,503 1171 19a67 Part Pay 42 Zi aia Free 9451 7.358 1S 12.796 K329 33.508 * * = * * > . * 3836 INCOME Patients $12940:75 5.097 Contr ibatiens 18,925.42 35,138.47 Endowment Total Income $31,266.17 RBMiwmL EXPENSES In-Patiessts $25,936.48 $3758.33 Ont- Patients 356.08 1538.06 Total Expenses $26,292.48 $95.596.33 SURPLUS S5K 530.54 DAYS OF CARE Full Pay : 37% 34,752 Part Par 1,183 11240 Free 9687 658 14610 32,495 > 2 INCOME Patients $16,08275 Sal 3 A $143 14048 HEMI Contribations Van S2565.00 a 12,340.75 Endowment $4223 5.81 i 1,106.00 Total Keeuene $34 445 BS SS F465 SASS $92,395. EXPENSES In-Patients $29,258.41 SH DRL Sir ee 972.345. 58 Out- Patients 356.00 1906.06 400.06 Total Expenses S29 61441 SMI Sere Ss $72.745. {37} sot ExXMISIT “E~ HOSPITALS OF CHARLOTTE (ELEEMOSYNARY) 1937 —(contmeed) ment Samar tae Mercy Presbyterian Hespital Hospital SURPLUS $ 48322 S41 718.14 S M533. DAYS OF CARE Fall Pa; mis 2h 484 Part Pay 779 10,348 2932 Free 7 4, 74 ee 13,S& 35.945 41023 * * * . & * * = PER CAPUT COST $2.18 $3.08 $3.35 Se AVAILABLE PROFESSIONAL STAFF AND QUALIFICATIONS The total nurtber of physicians in Meckieaberg County is 155, of which number 100 are active. ft is noted that practically every specialty is well represcated except the specialty of brain surgery. There is no braim surgeon in. Charlotte. The tabulation. which follows gives the sumber of Charlotte physicians whe are recognized ip their special fields By aational organizatoons and secieties of the profession American Medical Association (Fellows}g-.... American College of Sargeons_........... DB American Board of Examisers of Radiology .._.__......... 3 American Urological Association... 5 Amerikan College of Physicians American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons .—...-....... 4 American Academy of Pediatrics —........................--. 4 American Roentgen Ray Society Radiological Society of North America Licenciates af American Board of Pediatrics American Academy of Gphthaimology and Otolaryngology... { Licensed by American Board of Otclaryngology American Board of Obstctrics and Gynecology ........-....- Ainerican Board of Urology. Inc...--..-~. 1s Licensed by American Board of Ophthaimology—__._____. .-_- American Laryngological. Rhenological and Otological Society American Bronchoscopec Society American College of Radsology American Neisserian Socsets American Society of Anacstbetats American Psychiatric Association .........-....~.+.--~----- Sssuctation of American Physicians —.......0..2s..---.-.- American Dermatologi. al Association ~..0..1--+-+.--+-+<-+ Certificate American Board of Dermatology and Syphilology {38} ?.¥. Form PS-3Ol GRerised 4-240) | Docket Ho. -y, Pd YOR INDIVIDUAL earEs FILES OF THE FEDER WORKS AGEECY - PUSLIC WORES ADMINISTOATION: The Federal Merks Administmtor has by Allotment Order for Fon-~ Federal list Jo. .i, 5 spprowed @ change in the alloteent for the abore cantioned project in the following manner: Previous at ietment Allotzent inerensed Allctment re@uced Present allctment wee ee 77 £ é + The Allotaent Order from which this information is excerpte? is on file in the Projects and Statistics Division. a. £ dderrz Matthew L. Devine Acting Director, Projects ané Statistics Division re é : - Decket Ko. 8. C. 3413-7 Iseation Charietto Project Hospite] tuildiags Cctoder 26. 1959 NDIVIDJAL WORKING FILES OF THE FEDERAL FORKS AGENCY - co WORKS ADMEISTSATIC“: The Federal Borks Administrater has by Allotment Order for Bon- FeGerai List No. 4554 approved a change in the aliotmwent for the sbove enttenn’ project im the following manner: Loax GRANT Previcus silloteent $450,000 Allotment increased 16,363 Prosent aljeteent $456,363 The Allotment Order from which this information ie excerpted is on Pile in the Prejects and Statistics Division. @ G. 3. Samecy, Jr. Directer, Projects and Statistics Division By: /s/ &. a. Barrett Date of Order Octeber 20, 1939 Becket Ho. HN. @. i412-P rw a Porm me No. 18m State pRertm Carciian FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS State File No. i co Bezporat gamer rom, won, renee, Date _dstyt 3,290. -. 2 tae tat aed Gee oo: © | 3 te " es r A P. ¥. 83 Mi a. Zo. W.0.1412-F Location Charictte Pro! ect Hospital FOR INDIVIDUAL WORKING FILES OF THE PUBLIC WORES ADMINISTRATION: The Administrator has by Allotment Order for Non-Federal List Ko. 4035 approved an allotment im the following amount for the above captioned Project: Grant $450,000 The allotment order frou which this information is excerpted is om file in the Projects and Statistics Division. Dan E. Wheclor Director, Projects and Statistics Division By: /S/ James F. Richards Date of Order 8/2i/z8 Docket Bo. N.C. 1412-7 considered expendable. : the revised estimate, and will be furnished with the Grantee’s. om funde. : ; : , eu ar y 3 (a) date oe Bain aaa ae "Rese Ee i egg ri a Public Works Administration Engineering Division Docket Bo. B.C, 1412-F Hospital Buildings — Charlotte, North Carolina Fora No. Bl dated September 14, 1939 Bmendatory Engineering Field Report dated September 7, 1939 The Aueniatory Application requests an increased grant based én the revised estimated cost of the project, as indicated by contract awards and . aoe ia the allotted vin otter $0 propery bonee tho beating plant ae "fhm Brenaton A Gd des dhaloh ik lp Wiaceketar eesekia Be ea a 3 eee ee sion of the project completion time is unsscessary insofar te Bi Anentetory Anpliention 1s censeraet, en A he eee ee | Peasons. Sonelusion: This jeu ati hes been classified aa a multi-unit project. the ecladgenest of the leuniry-yower house ade not constitube an ebdd- tional unit and is necessary for the proper and more adequate funetioning of the allotted projedt. a Miocemendstion: It is recommended that in lieu of the present grant of ~ $450,000, thers be made « grant of $466,363 (which is 45% of the revised estimated total cost &f the project) with no chamgé in the destription of the project. Reccemendation Approved: Yor the Director, Buglneeting Division tt Ane ff re + Raven ie ea FRIGAL aes a SCY , P. ¥. Ae State Berth Carolina : } State File No. Me. Ga. J4iSaw APPROVAL SHEET FOR NON-FEDERAL PROJECTS _Daic Sephenbar 21, 1980 REND TORY WO 12°98 BY + ; 4 a ie He J . XPPLICANT .. SE Griese . Pepulstion 1990. 98,876 / fat Ss es Tn en ce ee AN i tint eat tt tat api watt salad ies sop seni say ‘at rol Deoket Bo. BE. S. 1412 ol oeaurel easmrict mmréea for bobpitsl ant wurden? hese an tow base Biti loss. Alternate Bo. 1 on hompitel ent ax Hos, 1, 2 ani 3 om murses™ home. > - Plumbing coutract estrded for hospital ent rote” | ieee on tow base bid dese 7h Alternates Bo. I and 2 om murecs’ home. <n t. SR, snr tn oe Me ie tain at . : 2a rc = Ss rs ae . : ae ‘ Docket Bo. B.C. 1a % ‘ * it = Sctoanionbtcatertentieeee ml neg y sae ad Hepes Be ats keer ne ee ee rea form Ne a ( ADREDNISTRATION te. FEDERAL EMERGENCY OF PUBLIC WORKS State File Net @ ® = Docket He.? N.. c. i412 S$. Dgeceirtios oF reorvect (ccata.) _ , Sekatereed conerete floor slabs. Baers chews iy om ante Bocete dee ~ : etene trina. Interior ee ee en bellow clay tile with walls and eeii- Sage plastere’. Ficor finish will ine S wavher tiie le, terggem and ceramic tile. _ Madows, in gmerel, will be steel, Se Rarovs? ew will fumien living quareere sad soboel. tustisies have bees gubmitted to expport the applicant's lump sen breakdowns, the cost & com @ mort tqesetods rebical combos tad otter Sate for oooh of he Uirwe Weildisg mite SS. CGCLISTOws (eontd.): 2 = = 2t ~ fa BOccRt ws Bac. 1412-1 es Date SEPT Me Aoab bee fides. > Date _4atP=Ag Vor the Finance Division. Diate 2 Ch Date — Fat Che Dpewoer of Lege! Divtaign. “Date For the Director uf Engineering Division, Det —————— For the Direetor of Finsice Division, = 4 corm ee > FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS APPROVAL SHEET FOR NON-FEDERAL PROIBCTS Borts Carclina._ a. & 3432 Date _ Angunt 18,198 State File Ne. . (2) Total etimated Oost (b) Grant: — ee a Agplican ‘gs ands: -— ates Ess Tne Applicant has“ the authority te construct the Project. Worth Careline Consolidated Statates, * APPLICANT'S FINANCING: The Applicant «ill tssue bonds for $35,000. Tt hes on hand $250,000. and $20,000., conm- stiteting the balance of its share of the funds, is wailebdle from Gcaenty of Mecklenburg appropriation, ELSCTICN SSQUIREMENTS: An @hection is reqgeired and has dean called for Septedber 13, 193%. « EoD 8 This Applicat? matters. PHA Fora No. P-1 (Rev. S-26659) Notice of Receipt. of Apendatory App : 5 “Lael Division; a oe Division: Finance Sevtik: Power Rivision; Grant and: Lost Payment Section. Administrative Division: Dockets Group, eo and Statistics Papaton; Expedi ter: eka ake irene tis sens Vait. Projects and Statistics Division 4 Reference. - _—_ . Date: This request will be disposed of in accordance sith existing procedure unless. you @cvise this office imeediately of cause for sot compidering it at this tine. WA Yorm Nx 168 FERRRAL WORKS AODHY, PF. F. A. ', Stete Worth Garelins SOR AALS EE SR OE EE State File No. Me @a 24084 APPROVAL SHEET FOR NON-FEDERAL PROJECTS Dae _Saphanbar 12, 1999- aan ee - a fee og Aprnoven: Sap. 6. FOSTER Wow salen es For the Engineering Division. Arraoven: 560.8 8 ScasPs _--_ ‘SBite] 2 $930 For the Finance Division. Aprroven: I far Rute new a ‘ Regicsal Aprnoven: Sob. UE B, NEWMAN JR = Date SEP 221229 gaummDirector. Date - For the Direotor of Legal Division. Fo the Director of Engineering Division. Por the Director of Finance Division, a FEDIRAL WORKS Kok ROY Docket H. @, 1412+ (dnendea) Charlotte ~~ ~ Bospitel. — im the cumeeuniicn Account. which ib ttetee te fies St ot ro the . ‘y ‘application. <- anoealees application ocwoibs an increased erent aitot- ‘nent Ove te qn overrun in oppyhaie tions cost. ; Bab ject to Adidatbtretive Aeterainstion at is the recommenda~ _ Sion of this Section that the amended application de approved. — Lu BANE, JR. Field Finanee bic taik Frases Examiner, Pw Recion No. 3 DATE: Septeaber 8, 1939. WrL:ds Allotsent History 2 Docket No. N. C. 1412-F, Charlotte, Hospital buildings - $170,863 Grant Approved August 29, 1938 for $450,000 Grant for "Hospital" amended October ih, 1939 for an increase of $16,363 Grant, revising alloteent t $466,363 Grant and changing description to "Hospital buildings* Amended August 14, 1940 fpr an increase of $13,500 Grant, revis allotment to FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY praviet Wonks ADMinTsTsa troy CATs STS PR SCT . DP idea? SECTION 2 CONTRACT SETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE APPLICAST IN THE. FORM OF ACREENEPT OR OFFER WITH WOCESSazY WAIVERS APD THE PROCEEDINGS CF TIS COVFRNING S0DY OF THE APOLICANT ADOPTING OCR ACCEPTING SUCH AGITE- EENT: OR OFFER + Bee ee ee ra Draft of Waivera ui... ... ; ....| Waiver, executed... FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION CONTENTS OF CONTROL DOCKET Docket No. 77 Sheet... a a a Se ee oe eee = a Agreement Section Draft of Offer. , PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNING BODY ACCEPTING OFFER: . Resolution accepting Offer... icons ht cinipniatinehen Minutes of Regular or Special Meeting... Notice or Waiver of Notice of Special Meeting... Certificate concerning Offer. Memorandum to Administrator forwarding Waiver for execution Offer, executed. SMe eee TEMS On een ee eee eee eee nke heer Eee tern as en eee ae ener eee ee oe sow: -” xeeee Offer, conformed copy of So: = % aeees Waiver, conformed copy of... Bc oa -<AAe ATES EES AP EEE Oe 00 eee ERE ED KO os eee ee renens + +s seuateeetame an Amendatory or Supplenzental Offer 4 ¥ - a : ¥ <sevsenwensecers se esie Sead eters one: Peso ew eere ames cesencseetines | oe FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY PUBL WORKS ADMINISTRATION CONTENTS OF CONTRO DOCKET er -~ Docket No aa = - Sheet... #5... of... Ate Qa Ree BS a SS I 2 SE =z = £ ss = 2 ea ee eee es OO Sn ne an , Amendatory or Date : Agreement Section Supplezeatal » Draft of Offer... Draft of Waiver................ | PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNING BODY ACCEPTING OFFER: Resolution accepting Offer... Minutes of Regular or Special metus ail aaa ae Notice or Waiver of Notice of Special Meeting... Mivisnmtaticaneel £3 - 28> © DO certificate concerning Offer... ge Memorandum to Administrator forwarding Waiver for execution Offer, executed... 4 ; F-25490 \eaiwer, executed. Da ec eae . ce - 28° 4/ = “ = | a. 4% fo r oy 7 TY. Offer. conformsed copy of... FS ecacneatuk eta Gaon ccs eck eo ervenecsamsconsnnt WRAVOEs: CORTORMOG CODY 02.2.5 ok or ee | ¥ © eee et ee ee re Ee iaaenbthienhheed aeaeeed 4 ite hntebthdk eden iter ae oP eo heviee 1500 Re Rees Peer Reet er ete ee eee reteds + P. ¥. 48444 JUNZ8 1941 To be attached to Offer sade Sy the United States ef America to the City of Charlotte, Merth Carolina, Gated as-of September 3, 1938, and accepted as of September 15. 1936, as amended (Docket Mo. B.C. 3412-F). By Waiver, dated November 25, 1940, the prevision of Paragraph 2 of the Offer herein relating te the completion of the Project, as emended and ag modified ty the Haiver, dated dome 28, 1940, wae con- Citionally waiwed to the extent mecessary to permit completion of the Project not later than February 26, 191. The Project mas substantially completed om May 13, 1941. and it bes been determined that the saié provision of Paragraph 2 sheuld be further conditionally waived te the extent necessary to permit the Sempletion of the Project by May 13, 1941. Said Paragraph 2 is hereby further waived to the extent necessary te permit completion of the Praject not later than May 13, 1941, and ‘the payzent of @ grant on the cost (otherwise eligible) of the work Gone or performed in connectiom with the Project subsequent te February 16, 1941, upom condition that the Applicant, ty appropriate action, @uly agrees te reimburse the Gewernment for such expenses (incInuding salaries) for field inspection a=d auditing, imeurred by the Govern- ment after July Sl, 1940, as, im the determination of the Commissioner, are reasonably chargeable to the Project, and wpen the further condi- Sion that no part of such amoumt to be reimbursed to the Government shall be included in the Project costs upon shtick the amount of the evant shall be computed. UHITED STATES GF AMERICA Federal Works Administrator By, (sed. ) x. E. SsliliiGie an Comziesioner of Pablic Yorks EZ y¥. VIFF = y UW. 2840-8 C j,- fy ; jp fi . COPY CONFURMED Waa a | £07 wa f on Execumd Original PAIVE 2 Se ee, / go | , 4 fy fo be attached to Offer made by the NOES TEED United States of America te the City MY. Ow of Charlotte, Borth Carclina, dated as of September 3S, 1938, and accepted as of September 15, 1936, ms anendod (Docket Ho. H. ©. 1412-7). Paragraph 2 of the said Offer, amended as aforesaid ami modificd by the Waiver dated June 26, 1940, permite the completion ef the Project not later than July 32, 1940. Said Paragraph 2 is hereby further waived to the extent necessary to permit completion cf the Project not later than February 16, 1941, wpon condition that the Applicont, by appromriste action, Galy agrecs te reinburse the Goverment for such expenses (including salaries) for field inspection and auiiting, incurred by the Government after July Si, 1940, as, in the determination of the Gom:issioner, are reasonably chargeable to the Project, ami upon the further condition that no part of such amount to be roivutursed to the Govermmont shall be included in the Project costs upon which the amount of the grant shall be computed. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Federal Barks Administrator (Ggd) J. J. MADIGAN By Acting GComissioner of Public Yorks «: « . i Z eer + Cor ¢ Cont rmed To} i Bxecw ‘ct ‘riginal ; Prine FEDERAL WORKS AGESCT sEP6 1940 lc hecked BERUKSTIS : - Pg a ae ¥ D.C i Lega Hivision, P WA} Accepted By ; ashingtom, D. Cs, Applicant i --- pated: SEP S 1949 Public Works Adninietration ne mer atone - Oe enema | SEP 16 1940 | Docket Mo. N. C, 1412-7 City of Charlotte, : 22 eee 8 ewes HOES HED ee | : Charlotte, North Carolina. The United States of America hereby offers to anend the contract created by the acceptance by the City of Gherlotte, North Garclina, on September 15, 1938, of the Offer uade ty the United States of America ani dated Septenber S, 1938, as amended by the acceptance by the said City on June 12, 1940, of the Offer made by the Gaited States of America and dated June 10, 1940, by striking out, in line 9 of Paragraph 1 of said Offer dated September 3, 1938, as amended, the figures "$466,363" and inserting in lien thereof the figures *$479;563*>— UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Federal Yorks Adninistrater ec.) S. W, Clark Commissioner of Public Works P. q. 4944.6 JUNZ8 1941 To be attached to Offer made by the United States of America to the City of Charictte, North Caroline, dated as of Septehber 3, 1938, and accepted as of September 15, 1938, as amended (Docket Bo. N.C, 1412-F). By Waiwer, dated Newember 25, 1940, the provision of Paragrajh The Praject wae substantially completed on May 13, 1941, and it hes been determined that the said provision of Paragraph 2 should be further com@itionally waived to the extent necessary to permit the completion ef the Project by May 13, 1941. Said Paragraph 2 is hereby further waived to the extent necessary to sarais Seago tion of the Project aot later than tay 15, 2050. eae the payment of a grant on the cost (otherwise eligible) of the work lth dae cnn a a ee eae 16, 1941, upon condition that the Applicant, by appropriate ection, @uly agreez to reimburse the Government for such expenses (incInding salaries) for field inspection and auditing, incurred by the Govern- gent after July 31, 1940, — in the determination af the Cemaeelener. Sten Gnd Gn sais of cam aotenk to te reimbursed to the Government shall be included in the Project costs upon which the amount ef the grant shall te commited. 7 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Works Administrator Commissioner of Soe Yorks > ivi ih 2 P, t. 2646-8 To be attached to Offer made by the é United States of AmePica to the Cit? . ‘ of Charlotte, Forth Carolina, dsted NOV 25 1940 i as of Septenbder 3, 1958, amd accepted as of Septenter 15, 1936, as amended (Docket Wo, Bu. Cc. 1412-F). Paragraph 2 of the said Offer, amended as aforesaid and nodified by the Waiver dated June 28, 1940, permits the completion of the Project not later than July 31, 1940. Said Paragraph 2 is hereby further wafved to the extent necessary ~~ to permit completion of the Project not later than February 16, 194ty upon condition that the Applicant, by appropriate action, duly agrees to reinburse the Government for such expenses (including salaries) for field inspection end auditing, incurred by the Goverment after July 31, 1940, as, in the determination of the Comsiscioner, are reasonably chargeable to the Project, and mpon the further condition that mo part ef such amount to be reinbursed to the Governnont shall be included in the Project costs upon which the amount of the grant shall be comoutod,. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Pederal Works Adzinistrator Public forks P, ¥. 228568 FEDERAL WORES AGENCY y Public Works Administration Washington, D. 6., Dates: OF 9 1940 Docket No. H. C. 1412-7 City of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. The United States of America hereby offers to amend the contract created by the acceptance by the City of Charlotte, North Carclina, on Septesber 15, 19358, of the Offer made by the United States of America and dated Septenber 3, 1958, as anended by the acceptance by the said City on June 12, 1940, of the Offer made by the United States of America and dated June 10, 1940, by striking out, in line 9 of Paragraph 1 of said Offer dated September 3, 1938, as amended, the figures "$466,363" and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$479,563". © UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Federal Yorks Administrator . a 4, . have Sawant es ae 5234 as ears the Exedative Officer F | Public forks Pons atanios of the Feeeral Horks . 2 Sinan nt eee te iegomennaede fk yee " fa =+é08 we gd eee AES ee ee + soma esse oe eee tlpprenn rae “Resistant tf Executive Officer, ~~. Public Works Administration. ee i : @ .. OFT Le D. Porm Wo. 104-3 (3-16-40) Public Works Administration LEGAL DIVISIC# Ye have compared the offer as set out in the attached proceedings of acceptance executed by the applicant with the draft thereof bearing the approval of the Engineering ané Finance Divisions and conformed copy of executed offer, anc find it to be a true and exact copy of such approved draft and executed offer except for typographical errors and inconsequential verbal changes involving no change in substance, and except as follows: Docket HO es x. Cs 1412—F : Gity of Charlotte, Charlotte, Morth Carolina. In the Offer as set out by the Applicant inthe acceptance proceedings in line @ — = the words “of said City" should be "by the said City". In the signature the name "E. W. Clark" appears as "E. D. Clark". Administrative Section Checking Unit October 10, 1940 The difference between the executed offer and the offer as set out in the acceptance proceedings are inconsequential and do not affect the validity of the acceptance, teen 2 General Counsel 40° *“°* ai gf] CA, ' : Date . CITY OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA 16:00 aM. 10:20 A.M, 10:40 A.M. 10:35 A.M, 10:40 A.M. 10:50 A.M, 10:15 A.M, 11:10 A.M. 10:45 A.M. 11:00 A.M, The meeting ws calle to order by the Mayor ané op roll cali the following answered present: Councilmen Albea, Baxter, Britt, Hovis, Hudson, Huntley, Little, Hance, Sides, Ward and Wilkinscs. - = Absent: Hone. The negbers named constitute all cf the members of the City Council of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina. 4 CiTY OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA #2. Special Mesting, September 16, 1940. After Giscussions of en amendatory coffer of the United States of Anerica, dated September 9, 1940, the following resolution ms introduced and reed in full by Counciiman Wilkinson, who moved its adoption: oo & RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE AMENDATORY OFFER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Charlotte: ' SeCTIag 1. An Offer of the United States of America to emend the ané Conditions which were made a part of the Offer of the United States of fmerica, dated September 3, 1955, aw amended by the Offer hereinabove accepted. SEOTIGN 3. ‘The City Clerk be and she is hereby authorised end directed to send to the Public Works Administretion three (5) certified copies of the proceedings in comnection with the adoption of this Resolution, setting forth this Resolution im full, and such further documents or proofs in connection with the acceptance of the AmesGatory Offer as may be requested by CiTyY OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA # Special Meeting, Septenber 16, 1940. the Commissioner of Public Werks. cad tae salt Doing ced She fllouiag embers voted aye ee . se . City OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA I, Alice B. MeConmell, the duly elected, qualified an4é acting City Clerk of the City of Charlotte, North Carcliza, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing and attached copy of extracts of the minutes of a special meeting of the City Council of said City, beld om the 16th day of September, 1940, is a true, correct and Se ee ee ee of record. rey E FORTE CHREIPY thet the copy of the resshution appearing tn a _ GFF OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA © “eae - en es pe mt one (Date) September 16, 1040 ‘Mee City Coumetl of the City of Charlotte, Marth Carclina, met in special session on the above date, at 5:00 o'clock, FP. M., et the City Hall, being the regular mecting plese; om notice Guly served upox each and every Councilman as required by law; with the Ysyor presiding. Couneil, answered present: 2 tley, Little, ge Ft MMSE by the Chie Grunt) of tee Cty of Coerlotess gEoTTON 1. ‘fm Offer of the United States of awrice to smpni the contract eneated By the acceptance by the City of an offer dated Suptenber , 29358, « copy of shich amendatory offer resis as follows, be end the seme is bereby im all respects accepted: “FEDERAL FG@ES AGRCT City of Charlotte, Charlotte, Nerth Gerclize ‘The United States of Auerign Rereby offers to quend the coutract Sane Oe RE FE See. ee SE