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soot 8 Y~c~ 185 The registration records of Lee County will be kept open at the office of the registration Commissioner in the office of the Register of Deeds in Lee County Courthouse, Sanford, North Carolina, from 9:00 o'clock a. m. , until 5:00 o'clock p. m. , on each day (Saturdays and Sundays excepted) through March 1, 1973, being the twenty-first day, Saturdays and Sundays excluded, before said election. Any qualified voter of the County who expects to be absent from the County during all of said election day or who, because of sickness or other physical disability will be unable to be present at the polls to vote in person on said day, may apply for an absentee ballot to be used in voting at said election not earlier than forty-five days prior to said election and not later than 6:00 o'clock p. m. , on March 28, 1973. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Lee County. Dated: February 5th, 1973 (Signed) KENNETH R. HOYLE Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Lee County, North Carolina Said notice of special election shall be published five times and there shall be an interval of at least one week between said publications and the first of said publications shall be not later than forty-five days prior to the date of such election. (3) The polls for said election shall be opened and closed at the times and at the places stated in said notice and electors shall be regis- tered for said election in the manner stated in said notice. (4) The County Board of Elections is hereby requested to print and distribute the necessary ballots and to provide the registration books and equipment for the holding of said election and to conduct and to supervise said election. Commissioner Franklin D. Wicker seconded the motion and the motion was unanimously adopted. Mrs. Pattie McGilvary, Assistant Register of Deeds, appeared before the Board and presented recommendations of the Register of Deeds Association with respect to raising fees. Commissioner William H. Cooper moved that the recommendations of the Register of Deeds Association, as to fees, be recommended to the General Assembly for enactment. Commissioner Hal L. Hancock seconded the motion and upon a vote it was unanimously adopted. Mr. J. R. Ingram, Chairman of the Sanford City Board of Education, and Mr. Robert Dalrymple, Chairman of the Lee County Board of Education, appeared before the Board and discussed the attempts by their Board, at merger. Mr. Ingram reported that he thought they had reached a joint agreement at a meeting held the preceding Thursday. However, he had been advised that a majority of the County Board did not approve the results of that meeting. Mr. Robert Dalrymple, speaking for the County Board, reviewed the various pro- posals and the differences in approach about District and At-Large represent- ations. Mr. Dalrymple stated the apparent agreement at the meeting held on Y