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322 Minutes of the Board of Commissioners <br />Monday, October 17, 1949 <br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, met <br />in adjourned regular session on October 17, 1949, at 10 o'clock, A.M., at the <br />Courthouse in Hillsboro, North Carolina, the usual place of meeting. <br />Present: Chairman Collier Cobb, Jr. and Commissioners Ben F. Wilson and <br />H. G. Laws. <br />Absent: None <br />The Chairman announced that this was the hour and date fixed by the Board <br />for the public hearing upon the orders entitled: <br />"ORDER AUTHORIZING 51,000 000 <br />SCHOOL BUILDING BONNDSA <br />and <br />"ORDER AUTHORIZING 5250,000 <br />COURTHOUSE BONDS ", <br />and that the Board would immediately hear any and all citizens and taxpayers <br />who might desire to protest against the issuance of said bonds. <br />No citizen or taxnayer of the County appeared, either in person or by at- <br />torney, to protest against the issuance of any of said bonds, and the clerk <br />announced that no protest in writing, signed by any citizen or taxpayer, had <br />been "nresented. <br />Thereupon Commissioner Laws, introduced the following resolution which was <br />read: <br />WHEREAS, on October 3, 1949, this Board passed on first reading an order <br />introduced on said date authorizing $1,000,000 School Building Bonds of Orange <br />County, and an order introduced on said date authorizing $250,000 Courthouse <br />Bonds of said County; and <br />'BHEREAS, on said date this Board directed the clerk to publish each of sai <br />orders, together with the annended note as required by The County Finance Act, <br />as amended, in The News of Orange County not later than October 7, 1949; and <br />WHEREAS, each of said orders, together with the apppended note, was publish <br />ad by the clerk in The Orange County Times on October b, 1949, and such publi- <br />cation complies with the requirements of The County Finance Act, as amended; <br />now, therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange that <br />the publication by the clerk in The Orange County Times on October 6, 1949, of <br />each of the two orders described in the preambles of this resolution, together <br />with the annended note as required by The County Finance Act, as amended, is <br />hereby ratified and confirmed, such publication complying with the requirements <br />of The County Finance Act, as amended. <br />Thereupon, upon motion of Commissioner Laws, seconded by Commissioner <br />Nilson the foregoing resolution was passed by the following vote: <br />Ayes: Commissioners Laws, Wilson and Cobb <br />Noes: None. <br />Thereunon, uoon motion of Commissioner Laws, seconded by Commissioner <br />Wilson and carried, the order introduced and passed on first reading on October <br />3, 1949, entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING $1,000,000 SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS" was <br />read a second time and placed upon its final passage. The vote upon the final <br />passage of said order was: <br />Ayes: Commissioners Laws, Wilson and Cobb <br />Noes: None. <br />The Chairman then announced that the order entitled: 'ORDER AUTHORIZING <br />X1,000,000 SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS" had passed. <br />Thereunon, upon motion of Commissioner Laws, seconded by Commissioner <br />::ilson and carried, the order introduced and passed on first reading on October <br />3, 1949, entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING 5250,000 COURTHOUSE BONDS" wen read a <br />second time and placed upon its final passage, The vote upon the final passage <br />of said order was: <br />Ayes: Commissioners Laws, Wilson and Cobb <br />Noes: None. <br />The Chairman then announced that the order entitled: "ORDER AUTHORIZING <br />.,'250,000 COURTHOUSE BONDS" had passed. <br />I <br />