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  "id": 8658343,
  "name": "CHAMBERS & CO. v. E. H. WALKER, Treasurer of Mecklenburg County",
  "name_abbreviation": "Chambers v. Walker",
  "decision_date": "1897-02",
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  "first_page": "401",
  "last_page": "402",
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      "cite": "120 N.C. 401"
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "CHAMBERS & CO. v. E. H. WALKER, Treasurer of Mecklenburg County."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Faieoloth, C. J.-:\nThis agreed case is before us for construction of \u201cAn Act to create a Board of Commissioners to Manage and Control the Convict and Road System of Mecklenburg County,\u201d ratified on the 8th day pf March, 1897. The question is whether the County Commissioners are now liable for the support of the convicts to be paid out of the \u201cgeneral county fund,\u201d or is the Convict Commission liable for the support of the convicts to be paid out of the \u201cspecial fund\u201d raised by taxation for road purposes.\nWe were furnished with no authorities on the question and we suppose there are none. The only words in the Act for us to look to are these: \u201cThe warrants for expenses and disbursements on account of said system shall be signed by the chairman and paid by the County Treasurer out of the special funds he has on hand for this purpose.\u201d The duty of supporting and caring for the county convicts is placed by the general law on the board of County Commissioners. The Code, Ch. 19, Yol. 1; The Oode, Sec. 753; The Code, Ch. 44, Yol. 2.\nOur conclusion is:\n1. That the support of the convicts must be paid out of the general county fund, upon an order of the County Commissioners on the Treasurer.\n2. That the other \u201cexpenses and disbursements\u201d of the system must be paid out of the \u201cspecial fund\u201d for the purpose, upon an order of the chairman of said system draw'll on the County Treasurer.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Faieoloth, C. J.-:"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Jones c& Till'ett, for plaintiffs (appellants).",
      "Messrs. Clarhson & Duls, for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "CHAMBERS & CO. v. E. H. WALKER, Treasurer of Mecklenburg County.\nCounty Convicts \u2014 'Support of.\nThe Code, Section 753, and Chapters 19 (Yol. 1) and 44 (Yol. 2), places the support of county convicts upon the Board of County Commissioners ; Ch. 316, Acts of 1897, entitled an act to create a Board of Commissioners to manage and control the convict and road system of Mecklenburg County, provides that \u201cwarrants for expenses on account of said system shall be paid by the County Treasurer out of the \u2018 special \u2019 funds in his hands for that purpose; \u201d Held, that the support of the convicts of that county must be paid out of the general county fund on orders of the County Commissioners, and that the other \u201c expenses and disbursements \u201d of the system must be paid out of the \u201cspecial fund \u201d for the purpose on orders of the chairman of said system on the County Treasurer.\nCivil actioN, pending in Mecklenburg Superior Court, heard on case agreed before Norwood, J., at Chambers, on 12th of April, 1897. His Honor rendered judgment for the defendant and plaintiff appealed.\nMessrs. Jones c& Till'ett, for plaintiffs (appellants).\nMessrs. Clarhson & Duls, for defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0401-01",
  "first_page_order": 429,
  "last_page_order": 430
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