Dixon v. Board of County Commissioners

At the session of 1917 the General Assembly passed a public-local act to provide a poll tax for the maintenance of the public roads of Pitt County in lieu of the personal work required by section 3806 of the Consolidated Statutes. The act provides that upon presentation of a petition in writing, signed by not less than one-fourth of the qualified voters of any township in the county, requesting the board of county commissioners to submit to the qualified voters of the township in which the petitioners reside the question of levying a poll tax, the board shall within thirty days order an…