650. Violation of community ordinances a misdemeanor; community magistrates. Any person violating any violating any ordinance adopted under the provisions of this article or any rule made by the board of directors or other governing authority authorized by any of the provisions of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days or fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. Any magistrate residing within the boundaries of a community incorporated under this article shall have power to hear and try all cases arising from violation of ordinances adopted by such community. If there is no magistrate residing within the boundaries of the community, or if the community shall desire an additional magistrate, there shall be nominated at each annual meeting some suitable person living within the confines of the community who shall, upon proper cer tification of nomination, be appointed community magistrate by the governor of the state, with all the powers of a magistrate within the bounds of said community.

C. S., s. 7391; 1919, c. 202, s. 12.

651. Police officers. The board of directors of any community organized under the provisions of this article are authorized and empowered to employ one or more policemen for the community, whose duties and powers shall be those prescribed by law for constables for the townships in the various counties of the state; and the said policemen shall receive as compensation the same fees that are now prescribed by law for constables.

C. S., s. 7392; 1919, c. 202, s. 13.

652. Precinct registrars to compile lists of registered voters. Each person charged with the duty of registering voters in an election precinct embraced in whole or in part in any incorporated community shall furnish the chairman of the board of directors of such incorporated community a complete list of the registered voters in his precinct at the preceding state election, and from such list the board of directors shall compile an official list of registered voters residing in the community for use in connection with the enforcement of this article; such registrar receiving one-half cent for each name so furnished, to be paid for by the community.

C. S., s. 7393; 1919, c. 202, s. 14.

ESTABLISHMENT OF CONVENIENCES IN RURAL

COMMUNITIES.

653. Assistance by state highway commission. In order to assist in providing for better and more comfortable living conditions in the rural sections throughout the state, by means of the utilization of the many small water-powers that abound in many parts of the state, and by the installation of water systems in rural homes, and by the construction of rural telephone lines, the state highway commission is herewith authorized to advise and assist in providing a water supply and electric power and electric lights for rural communities and individuals outside of incorporated towns, by investigating water-powers and prepar ing plans for their development and the installation of such ap paratus as may be needed to utilize such water-power in developing electric power and for supplying a water system and electric light system, and to furnish plans and specifications for the installation of rural telephone lines and to advise and assist in the formation of rural mutual telephone systems.

C. S., s. 7394; 1917, c. 267, s. 1.

654. Appropriation made. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars annually, the sum to be drawn upon as directed by the state highway commission.

C. S., s. 7395; 1917, c. 267, s. 2.

ART. 3. BOND-ISSUING DISTRICTS INCORPORATED. 655. Various districts issuing bonds incorporated. The inhabitants of every road district, special road district, school district, graded school district, or other district, in the name of which, or on behalf of which, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness are authorized by law to be issued, shall, for all purposes relating to the issuance or payment of such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, constitute a body politic and corporate under the name given by law to such district; and all such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness hereafter issued shall be obligations of such corporation. The board or body authorized by law to issue such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness may adopt a seal for such corporation, and shall, except as otherwise provided by law, have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of such corporation relating to the issuance or payment of such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. This article shall not apply to any notes or bonds heretofore issued. C. S., s. 360; 1919, c. 308.

ART. 1. PUBLIC WAREHOUSES.

656. Who may become public warehousemen. Any person or any corporation organized under the laws of this state and whose charter authorizes it to engage in the business of a warehouseman, may become a public warehouseman and authorized to keep and maintain public warehouses for the storage of cotton, goods, wares, and other merchandise as hereinafter prescribed and upon giving the bond hereinafter required.

C. S., s. 5118; Rev., s. 3029; 1901, c. 678; 1919, c. 212.

657. Bond required. Every person or every corporation so organized under the preceding section, except such as shall have a capital stock of not less than five thousand dollars, to become a public warehouseman shall give bond in a reliable bonding or surety company, or an individual bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the state of North Carolina, in an amount not less than ten thousand dollars; to be approved, filed with and recorded by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the warehouse is located, for the faithful performance of the duties of a public warehouseman; but if such person or corporation has a capital stock of not less than five thousand dollars, then it shall not be required to give the bond mentioned in this section.

C. S., s. 5119; Rev., s. 3030; 1901, c. 678, s. 2; 1905, c. 540; 1908, c. 56; 1919, c. 212.

658. Person injured may sue on bond. Whenever such warehouseman fails to perform any duty or violates any of the provisions of this chapter, any person injured by such failure or vio lation may bring an action in his name and to his own use in any

court of competent jurisdiction on the bond of said warehouse

man.

C. S., s. 5120; Rev., s. 3031; 1901, c. 678, s. 3.

Warehousemen § 24. Warehousemen are liable under the general law for damages caused by their negligence.-Motley v. The Southern Finishing Co., 124 N. C. 232, 32 S. E. 555.

Warehousemen § 34. The measure of damages for property damaged while in storage is the difference between the market value of the prop erty damaged and the property whole, on the day it was delivered to the bailor.-Motley v. Southern Finishing Co., 122 N. C. 347, 30 S. E. 3.

659. Insurance required; storage receipts. Every such warehouseman shall, when requested thereto in writing by a party placing property with it on storage, cause such property to be insured; every such warehouseman shall give to each person depositing property with it for storage a receipt therefor. All warehouse receipts issued by warehousemen complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be valid and binding in the hands of all bona fide holders for value without registration.

C. S., s. 5121; Rev., s. 3032; 1901, c. 678, s. 4; 1905, c. 540, s. 2.

660. Books of account kept; open to inspection. Every such warehouseman shall keep a book in which shall be entered an account of all its transactions relating to warehousing, storing, and insuring cotton, goods, wares, and merchandise, and to the issuing of receipts therefor, which books shall be open to the inspection of any person actually interested in the property to which such entry relates.

C. S., s. 5122; Rev., s. 3035; 1901, c. 678, s. 7.

661. Unlawful disposition of property stored. If any person unlawfully sells, pledges, lends, or in any other way disposes of or permits or is a party to the unlawful selling, pledging, lending, or other disposition of any goods, wares, merchandise, or anything deposited in a public warehouse without the authority of the party who deposited the same, he shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars and by imprisonment in the state's prison for not more than three years; but no officer, manager, or agent of such public warehouse shall be liable to the penalties provided in this section unless, with the intent to injure or defraud any person, he so sells, pledges, lends, or in any other way disposes of the same, or is a party to the selling, pledging, lending, or other disposition of any goods, wares, merchandise, article, or thing so deposited.

C. S., s. 5123; Rev., s. 3831; 1901, c. 678, s. 11.

ART. 2. LEAF TOBACCO WAREHOUSES.

662. Maximum warehouse charges. The charges and expenses of handling and selling leaf tobacco upon the floor of tobacco. warehouses shall not exceed the following schedule of prices, viz: For auction fees, fifteen cents on all piles of one hundred pounds or less, and twenty-five cents on all piles over one hundred pounds; for weighing and handling, ten cents per pile for all piles less than one hundred pounds, for all piles over one hundred pounds at the rate of ten cents per hundred pounds; for commissions on the gross sales of leaf tobacco in said warehouses, not to exceed two and one-half per centum.

C. S., s. 5124; Rev., s. 3042; 1895, c. 81.

663. Oath of tobacco weigher. All leaf tobacco sold upon the floor of any tobacco warehouse shall first be weighed by some reliable person, who shall have first sworn and subscribed to the following oath, to wit: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will correctly and accurately weigh all tobacco offered for sale at the warehouse of----and correctly test and keep accurate the scales upon which the tobacco so offered for sale is weighed." Such oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which said warehouse is situated.

C. S., s. 5125; Rev., s. 3043; 1895, c. 81, s. 2.

664. Warehouse proprietor to render bill of charges; penalty. The proprietor of each and every warehouse shall render to each. seller of tobacco at his warehouse a bill plainly stating the amount charged for weighing and handling, the amounts charged. for auction fees, and the commission charged on such sale, and it shall be unlawful for any other charges or fees to be made or accepted. For each and every violation of the provisions of this article a penalty of ten dollars may be recovered by any one injured thereby.

C. S., s. 5126; Rev., s. 3044; 1895, c. 81, ss. 3, 4.