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iv J Commissioner Gallimore introduced the following resolution which was read: RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION IN THE PITTS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus: Section 1. The Board of Commissioners has determined and does hereby find and declare that it has received petitions from the Pitts Fire Protection District of more that 15% of the resident freeholders living in that area on February 7, 1972, entitled: We, the undersigned resident freeholders and/or qualified voters living in the area now covered by the Pitts Volunteer Fire Department lying outside the corporate limits of the City of Concord and designated as the Pitts Volunteer Fire Department District, hereby respectfully petition the Board of County Commissioners of Cabarrus County to call an election in said district for the purpose of sub mitting to the qualified voters therein the question of levying and collecting a special tax on all taxable property in said district, of not exceeding fifteen cents (15¢) of the one hundred dollar ($100.00) evaluation of property for the purpose of providing fire protection in said district. Section II. A special election is hereby ordered to be held in the Pitts Fire Protection District in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1972, between 6:30 A.M. and 7:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, at which time there shall be submitted to the qualified registered voters of the said Cold Water Fire Protection District, the following proposition: An election in the Pitts Fire Protection District for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters therein the question of levying and collecting a special tax on all taxable property in said district, of not exceeding 15¢ of the $100.00 valuation of property, for the purpose of providing fire protection in said district. Section III. There shall b e a new registration of voters for said election, the books for such new registration to be opened from 9:00 A.M. until 6:30 P.M. on each day beginning Saturday, March 18, 1972, and ending Saturday, April 1, 1972. On each Saturday during such period said books shall be kept open at the polling place. Saturday, April 8, 1972, shall be challenge day. Section IV. Notice of said election and new registration shall be published once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be at least twenty (20) days before the opening of the registration period, in The Concord Tribune, a newspaper published in Cabarrus County and circulating in said district, which notice shall be in substantially the following form: NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION AND NEW REGISTRATION IN PITTS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT A special election will be held between 6:30 A.M. and 6:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, April 11, 1972, at which there will be submitted to the qualified registered voters of the Pitts Fire Protection District in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, which district comprises the territory hereinafter described, the following proposition: An election in the Pitts Fire Protection District for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters therein the question of levying and collecting a special tax on all taxable property in said district, of not exceeding 15¢ of the $100.00 valuation of property, for the purpose of providing fire protection in said district. The boundary lines of said Pitts Fire Protection District are as follows: BEGINNING at a point 3000 feet south of the intersection of Coddle Creek and Highway 29; thence in a Southwesterly direction along a line through a point 500 feet South of the intersection of Highway 29 and Morehead Road to the Cabarrus-