19-1609. Removal to new county seat; time; penalty for failure.
19-1609
19-1609. Removal to new county seat; time; penalty for failure.
The county officers who are required by law to keep their offices at the
county seat shall within twenty days after said proclamation remove all
books, records, papers and furniture belonging to the county, to the place
therein named; and if any officer shall fail to remove within the time
prescribed by this section, he or his sureties shall pay to the county the
sum of five dollars for each and every day of such failure, to be sued for
and collected by the board of county commissioners.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 9; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1609.