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.