RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Resolved by the Senate, the Souse of Representatives concurring:
That tbе Supreme Court of North Cаrolina be requested, if it can conveniently and рroperly do so, to аdvise tbe General Assembly as to tbe court’s interpretation of tbe recent amendments to tbe Constitutiоn with especial reference to tbe question as to whether or not thеre is any provision of tbе amendments to tbe Constitutiоn recently adopted which would require tbe General Assembly to provide by gеneral law tbe machinеry for annexation by cities and towns of outlying and adjаcent territory; or whethеr or not tbe General Assеmbly could make these аnnexations by special act, as tbe circumstances of each city or town might, in tbe judgment of tbe General Assembly, require.
Ratified this tbe 26th day of February, A.D. 1917.
—Public Laws, 1917, p. 627.
Under S. R. 1241, H. R. 1493, а joint resolution requesting tbе opinion of tbe Supreme Court of North Carolinа, tbe following opinion is rеceived from tbe Chief Justice :
To the General Assembly:
Owing to tbe public importance of tbe mattеr tbe Supreme Court has dеcided to respond tо tbe annexed resolutiоn as requested. After due
For the Court:
—February 26, 1917, Sen. Journal, 1917, p. 427.