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Whole jYo. 883. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County MC.) haliitday, February 4, 1843 Vol XlXKo. d. The Tarborough IVess, bt OEoitdE Howard, Is nnbliahe.1 wlv.tTwKfttf Cents per year, if paid in aclvanc-or Three noles under Hie denominati on of Five 0 )1 WrtAvat the expiration of the subscription year. Irs, and authorizes the Hank to issue nots For anj period less than a year, Tiuerl if-fice , of the denomination of (3) I hree Dollars Cents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to am not under. 1 ' discontinue at any time, on ffivinnr notice thereof i e a,, a f , . . ... , i .1 i- . i- . ' -n Act to amend an Act entitled ? ml paying arrears those residing at a distance, I , . " ' 1 FnMllt'u mast invariably pay in advance,or give a respon- An ct t0 recnarter the Bank of Capd sible reference in this vicinity iPcir,' passed in the year 1833. Chan- Advertisements not exceeding a square, will be ' ges the time of holding the General Meet inserted at OneDolIar the first insertion, and 2" jorS ()f the Stockholders from the first Slciaf aJver JeJnts M p,r cm,., higher. A,l- 'M "' and every year. vertisements must be marked the number of in- 10 An Act concerning prosecution for sertions required, or theywill be continued until , nthorwise ordered and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the tiditor must be post paid or they may notbe attended to. From the Raleigh Standard. CAPTIONS Of Laws, fyc passed by the General As sembly of North Carolina Srssion of 1S42-3. Public Acts. 1. An Act to alter the time of holding one of the terms of the Supreme Court. Changes the winter term of the Court from the last Monday in December to the 30h day of December, and provides that when the said 30th day of December shall be Sunday, the Court shall be opened on the day following. 2. An Act to extend th time for regis tering Grants, Mesne Conveyances, Pow ers of Attorney, Bills of Sale, and Deeds of Gift. Allows two years from the pas sage of the Act. But provides that the Art shall not extend to Mortgages and Convey ances in Trust; and shall not be so constru ed as to give any person power to record, or have registered, Grants from the State for any of the Swamp lands which were conveyed to the President and Directors of theLiteraay Fund, by an Act of the Gen eral Assembly passed at the session of 1S36-7. 3. An Act to direct the reference of suit on the bonds of Sheriffs and other officers. Provides that when any suit shall be brought upon any bond of Sheriff or other public officer, the Court may, on motion of either party at any time during the pen dency of said suit, refer the same for an ac count to be taken, in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations, as are now provided for the reference of suits on bands of Executors, Administrators and Guardians. "I 4. An Act to lay off and establish a new county by the name of "Catawba. " This county is made of that portion of Lincoln county which lies north of a line beginning at a point on the Catawba Hiver, running west to the Cleaveland county line, and "passing within one and a half miles north of Lincolnton " 5. An Act to alter the time of holding the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Moore. 6. An Act to repeal so much of "An act concerning the Courts of Pleas and Quar ter Sessions of Moore and Sampson coun ties," as relates to the county of Sampson 7. An Act to compel the justices of New Hanover county to levy the county a id poor taxes at the first Court held after the tirst day of January, in each and every year, and for other purposes. 8. An act to amend tne second section of an Act pissed in I835-G, entitled "An Act directing the lime of holding the Court of Pleas and Quarter .Sessions in the county of Mecklenburg." 9. An Act to change the location of the Court House of the county of Montgome ry and tor other purposes. 10. An Act to lay off and establish a county by the name of Union, f Hiis coun ty is established of parts of the counties of Mecklenburg and Anson J H. An Act to establish a county by the name of McDowell. Established of pans of Burke and Uutl icrfoi d . 12. An Act to amend the 65th section 0 the 59th chapter of the Uyv. Statutes. Relates to the town of Wilmington, and requires, in every case where ttie purcha ser and seller of naval stores and provisions cannot agree as to the amount to be allow ed for extra cooperage and defective bar rels, that the Inspectors of the articles, at he instance of either purchaser or seller, haI1 establish the amount. 13. An Act extending the time for per fecting titles to lands heretofore entered. AH lands since. tl firt t ,m,,r i qo .ro ..liritorv, or District, who shall be entitled to lowed until first January. 1845. to nerfect j titles.! 14. An Act to amend an Act passed at the session of 1334-5, entitled "An Act to j pstablish the Merchant's Bank of the town , jofNewbern." Repeals the 7th section of said Act, which prohibited the iue of! per jury and subordination of perjury. 17. An Act regulating Anneals fPro vides that for all offences under the 4lst section of chapter HI Rev. Statutes, the master of the slave shall be allowed an ap peal from the decision of the Justice, to the County Court. 18. An Aet in relation to the duties of Overseers of Roads. Directs that all fines collected by Overseers of Roads, of persons failing to work on the same, shall be appli ed by the Overseers to keeping their roads' in repair. I 19 An Act to amend the 4th chapter of the Revised Statutes, entitled Appeals and proceeding in the nature of appeals." Directs that, when appeals are granted in the Superior Courts of Law or Equity, to the Supreme Court, the clerk or clerk and master of such Court, shall file a transcript of the record of the suit, together with the bond given for the appeal, with the clerk ol tne Supreme Court, on or before the se venth day ol the term next ensuing said ap peal. Directs also, that the Clerk of the Supreme ourt shall, within twenty days after the rise of said Court, transmit to the Superior Courts of Law, or Courts of Equi ty, certificates of the decisions of the Su preme Court in cases sent from said Courts 20. An act supplemental to an Act pass ed by the present'General Assembly, enti tled "An Act to lay off and establish a new county by the name of Catawba." 21. An act to amend "an act concern ing Coroners," Revised Statutes, chap 25, sec. 4. Enacts, that when it shall happen that theie shall be no Coroner in any coun ty in this State, it shall be the duty of any three Justices of the Peace of said County, to appoint some person to act as Coroner in said county until the next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said county. The Coroner so appointed to give bdnd and se curity, to be approved by the said Justices. 22. An act to amend an act of the Revi sed Statutes, chapter 59, entitled "An act for establishing public landings and places of inspection, and for the appointment of inspectors and regulation of inspections." Repeals so much of the 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th sections of the above act, as relates to tar, pitch and turpentine, so far as its operation extends to the town of Newbern.J 23. An net to repeal a part of the firs' section of an act passed at the last General Assembly, entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the appoint ment of Commissioners of Navigation and Pilotage for the ('ape Fear River, so as to restore the appointment to the County Court of New Hanover." 24. An act to apportion the members of the House of Commons among ihe several counties in this State. Enacts, that, until the first session of the General Assembly after the year 1851, the House shall be composed of members elected from the counties in the following manner: The counties of Lincoln and Orange shall elect four members each. The counties of Chat ham, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Meck lenburg, Stokes, Surry and Wake, shall elect three members each. The counties of Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caswell, Craven, Cum berland, Davidson, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, New Hano ver, Northampton, Pitt, Randolph. Kobe s in, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, Sampson, Warren, Wayne and Wilkes, shall elect two members each. The coun ties of Ashe, Bladen, Brunswick, Caldwell, Carteret, Camden, Cherokee, Chowan, Cleveland, Currituck, Columbus, Davie, Gates, Greene, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Hyde. Jones, Lenoir, Macon, Montgomery, Martin, Moore, Nash, Ons low, Pasquotank, Perquimons, Person, Richmond, Stanly, Tyrrell, Washington, and Yancy, shall elect one member each. 25. An act to preserve the natural bene fits of Pamlico Sound to citizens of this Stale. Prohibits the using of drag nets in ihe Sound for the purpose of catching ter rapins.' 26. An act to amend the 23rd section of the Revised Statutes, relating to Guardian and ward. Provides that Guardians of orphans residing in any other State or Ter ritory, or in the District of Columbia, or who may have removed to sucn maie, l ei any money arising from the sale of real estate sold for partition or otherwise, or to any personal property substituted by de cree of court for realty, may call upon any person havirig possession of such property, and obtain the same as Guardian in the same" manner and under the same rules, re gulaiions and restrictions, as are now pre scribed for Guardians of orphans residing out ot the State, by the 23rd section of the Revised Statutes, entitled an act concern ing the appointment of Guardians and the management of orphans and their estate. Provides further, that the Guardian of or phan residing in the district of Columbia, and entitled to personal property in this tate, may be allowed to demand and re ceive the same in the same manner and un der the same regulations and restrictions as are pr scribed in the said section of the act aforesiid for the Guardians of orphans resi ding in other States and Territories. 27. An act to direct the investment of a portion of the Literary Fund to preserve the faith and credit of the State from being tarnished by her endorsement of the bonds of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road ''ornpiny, under an act passed in the year 1840-41. 28. An act to lay off this State into fifty Senatorial Districts. Enacts, that for the purpose of electing members to the Senate of the Gene al Assembly of the State of North Carolina, this State shall be divided into fifty districts, as follows that is to say: The 1st district shall consist of the j counties of Pasquotank and Perquimons, the 2d District of Camden and Currituck, the 3 1 District of Gates and Chowan, the 4th District of Washington and Tyrrell, the 5th District Northampton, the 6th dis trict Hertford, the 7th district Bertie,-the sth district Martin, the 9th district Hali fax, the 10th district Edgecombe, the 1 1th listrict Pitt, the 12th district Beaufort and Hyde, the 13th district Craven, the 14th district Carteret and Jones, the 15th dis trict Lenoir and Greene, the 16th district New Hanover, the 17th district Onslow, the ISth district Duplin, the 19th district Brunswick, Bladen and Columbus, the 20th district Cumberland, the 21st district Sampson, the 22d district Wayne, the 23d district Johnston, the 24lh district Wake, the 25th district Nash, the 26th district Franklin, the 27th district Warren, the 2Sth district Granville, the 29th district Person, the 30th district Orange, the 31st district Chatham, the 32d district Moore and Montgomery, the 33d district Robe son and Richmond, the 34th district An son, the 35th district Randolph, the 36th district Guilford, the 37th district Caswell, the 3Sth district Rockingham, the 39th dis trict Mecklenburg, the 40th district Cabar rus and Stanly, the 4lst district Rowan, the 42d district Davidson, the 43d district Stokes, the 44th district Surry and Ashe, the 45th district Iredell, the 46th district Lincoln, the 47th district Rutherford and Cleveland, the 48th district Burke, Cald well and Wilkes, the 49th district Bun combe, Yancy and Henderson, the 50ih district Haywood, JMacon and Cherokee; each of which districts shall be entitled to one Senator, to be elected under the same rules andVegulations as are now provided by law. And further, that nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed as to affect the manner of holding an election for members of the Senate, before the next re gular election, to be holden on the first Thursday in August, in the year 1844. 29. An act to amend an act entitled "an act concerning the mode of choosing Sena tors and Representatives in the Congress of the United States," Revised Statutes, chap 72. Enacts, that the third section of the said act, be, and is hereby so altered and amended, for the purpose of electing Rep resentatives to the Congress ol the United States, as to divide the State into nine, in stead of thirteen districts. And the said nine districts shall be composed of the fol lowing counties, to wit: first district Cherokee, Macon, Haywood, Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford, Burke, Yancy, Cleveland and Caldwell. Second district Mecklenburg, Lincoln, Iredell, Davie, Rowan, and Cabarrus. Third district Wilkes, Surry, Ashe, Stokes, Rocking ham and Caswell. Fourth district Rich mond, Montgomery, Anson, Stanly, Ran dolph, Davidson and Guilford. Fifth dis trict Wake, Chatham, Cumberland, Moore, Johnston and Wayne. Sixth dis trict Robeson, Columbus, Bladen, Bruns wick, New Hanover, Sampson, Duplin, Lenoir, Jones and Onslow. Seventh dis trict Orange, Person, Granville, Frank tin. Warren and Halifax. Eighth district Nash, Edgecombe, Pitt, Beaufort, Wash ington, Tyrrell, Hyde, Craven, Cartere' and Greene. Ninth district Martin, Ber tie, Hertford, Northampton, Gates, Cho wan, Perquimons, Pasquotank, Camden and Currituck, kach ol which districts shall be entitled to elect and send one Rep resentative to the Congress of the United States. And further, that the eighth sec l ion of said act, shall be, and the same i hereby so amended, as to make it the dut) f the Sheriffs or other returning officers ol he counties of each of said districts, to neet together on the Thursday next, aflet .ach election, to compare the Polls at the places hereinafter named, but in other res pects under the same rules and regulations as are required by said act that is to say. in the first district, at the Court House in sheville, in the county of Bunc mbe; in the second district, at Mount Moune, in ihe county of Iredell in the third district, at the Court House in Roekford, in the county of Surry in the fourth district, at Montgomery Court Houc in the fifth dis trict, at A verasborongh, in the county of Cumberland un the sixth district, at South Washington, in the county of New Hano ver in the seventh district, al Henderson, in the county of Granville in the eighth district, at the Court House in the town of Washington, in the county of Beaufort and in the ninth district, at the ourt House in the town of Gatesvilld in the county of Gates 30. An act to altef the time of holding the Superior Court of Law arid Equity and the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Carteret. 31. An act in addition to the Rev. Stat ute entitled "An act concerning the Uni versity of North Carolina." Prohibits the erecting or maintaining at Chapel Hill, or within 2 miles thereof, any establishment whatever, for the sale of Wine or spiritous liquors, and makes it unlawful for any per son to sell or offer to sell, or deliver, Wine, spiritotM liquor or malt liquor, for the pur pose of being used at the University or within two miles thereof, by a student thereof, without the permission of the President or some member of the Faculty of the University. 32. An act for the more speedy adminis tration ol justice. Allows, in certain ca ses, special terms of the Superior1 Courts to be held 33. An act to amend the 1 Oth section of the 104th chapter of the Revised Statutes Relates to the duties of Overseers of roads. 34. An act to amend the 4th section of the Revised Statute entitled an act concern ing Constables." Directs that when the Court appoints a Constable in any captain's district in this State, they shall appoint some one residing in the district Which the appointment shall be made 35. An act to authorize the Superior Courts of Law in this State to allow appeals to the Supreme Court in certain cases with out requiring security, Directs that when any free person under sentence of death in any of the Superior Courts of Lav in this State shall be desirous of appealing trom the sentence of said ('ourt, and shall not be able to give security for the appeal, the Court shall grant an apppeal to the Su preme Court without requiring security. 36. An act concerning the swamp lands. Requires that persons who have obtained grants from the State, for swamp lands in this State, and have not regularly listed the same for taxation, and paid the taxes thereon, shall, within twelve months from the passage of this act, pay to the Sheriff of the county in which the said lands lie, all th arrearages of taxes due threon, with the lawful interest theron from the time the taxes ought to have been paid othef wise, they shall forfeit and lose all right, title and interest in the said lands, and the same shall revert to the State. By the se cond section all the Swamp lands to which this State is now, or may herealter become entitled to, are vested in the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, as a public fund for Education and the establishment of Common Schools. 37. An Act supplemental to an Act pas sed by the present General Assembly, en titled "An act to lay off and establish a county by the name of M'Dowell." 38. An act supplemental to the act of the last session establishing the county of Cald well. Gives the county a Superior Couri to be held on the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September, in each and every year, and attaches it to the seventh circuit. 39. An act to amend an act of the pres ent session, "extending the time for per fecting titles to lands heretofore entered." Provides that all those who have paid the purchase money on entries of public lands, shall be allowed until the first January, 1S45, to perfect their titles thereto by grant; and that all entri s made since first January, 1836, may be paid for atany time previous to first January, IS45: provided, that the provisions of this act shall not ex tend to the swamp lands. 40. An act concerning the bond of the Public Treasurer. Prescibes the form of the Treasurer's bond. 41. An act to extend the provisions of the 75th chapter of the Revised Statutes, and to amend the same. Requires that persons erecting iron works in the county of Cherokee, and wishing to avail them selves of the bounty allowed by the State for such works, shall make the necessary entries with the clerk of the County Court f Cherokee 42. An act appointing clerks and mas-j ters Commissioners to take depositions. Provides that they shall each be a com missioner to take depositions to bo read in any Court of Equity. Are authorised to administer oaths for that purpose; are giv en all the power and meaus to compel at tendance df witnesses and compelling thern to give tes'imorty as other commissioner's" have -are entitled to such fees for taking depositions as may be allowed them by thd Court to which the depositions are return able, and to be paid as the Cdurt may di ret. 43. An act concerning election returns. Directs that where vacancies exit in the sheriffalty, coronets may hold elec tions, and if, afier any election held by a sheriff, such sheriff shall die, before re turns are made the succeeding sheriff (if there be one at the time the f turns are re quired by law) shall make the same; and if there be no sheriff, then the cdroner shall make them. 44. An act to amend the 109th chapter of the Revised Statutes, entitled "An act concerning Sheriffs." Requires that when th day of electing sherihN shall happen during a County Court, the sheriff elected shall enter into bond and take the oath re quired, on the hVst or second oy after the" election The county of Bladen excepted. 1 45 An act concerning county trusteed and treasurers f public buildings Pro vides that the Justices of the Peace in the different counties of this State, a majority being present, shall have power to restore these two offices of either of them, in any county where the same may have hereto foie been abolished 48. Art act for the relief of the purcha sers of Cherokee lands. Suspends thfi1 ' collection of the principal for two years from January 1, 1843; but the interest to be paid annually. 47. An act to amend and suspend cer tain provisions of an actof 1839, concern ing weights and measures adopted by res olution of Congress as standards through out the United States. Authorizes the Governor to procure and h ive delivered to the several counties, yard measures of wood, and also half bushel peck, gallon, half gallon, quart and pint measures. 4S An act for the better regulation of the officers in the Capitol, and for othef purposes. 49. An act to facilitate recoveries on of ficial bonds. Provides against informali ties in the execution cf bonds to the State ' relieving the officer from the penalty for a dereliction of duty. 50. An act to amend an act entitled "an act supplemental to an act entitled an act to cede to the United Slates a certain tract of land called Bogue Banks.' " Author- ' izes the County Court of Carteret to fill va cancies in the Board of Commissioners ap pointed to ascertain the claimants to the money paid into the Treasury by the Uni ted States, for the use of the owners of said ; ceded lands. 51. An act to provide suitable stationery and candles for the executive Office, De . partments of State, and future Legislatures' f and for other purposes. 52 An act to amend an act entitled "an act for the establishment, and better regu i laiiou of common schools,' passed in 1841. ? 53. An act to point out the modeofelec J ling field officers of Cavalry. Authori ties the senior ofilcei in command, attached j to the regiment where the vacancy occurs : to call together the commissioned officers of the regiment, at the usual place of regi Jnif-ntal review, who are to elect, by ballot ouitters lo supply said vacancies; ana a correct statement to be transmitted by the officer in command to the Brigadier Gen eral of his brigade. 54 An act to amend the Revised Stat ute concerning Divorce and Alimony Provides that suits commenced, or which may be commenced, in any of the courts. of this State, under the Revised Statute enti tied "an act concerning Divorce and Ali mony," may be removed in the Supreme . Court, before a hearing, in like manner as , suits in Equity may now be removed into that Court by virtue of the 16th section of the Revised Statute entitled an act con cerniug Courts of Equity." 55. An act for the better regulation of the militia of this State. 56. An act concerning Executors. 57. An act supplemental to an act pas sed by the present General Assembly en titled "an act to lay off and establish a court ty by the nameof Union. 58. An act to punish the defaults of re turning officers in the election for Presi- dent and Vice President of the United State. Inflicts a penalty of not less than 51,000 nor more than S5, 000, and to be imprisoned not less than one nor more than three years, for a refusal or wilful neglect to make return vithin the time prescribed . by law 59. An act to amend the Revised Stat ute, chapter 41, concerning Elec'ors of President and Vice President, and to lay off the Stale into eleven electoral districts. ' Lays off the districts as follows: 1st District, Cuirituck, Camden, Pasquotank ; Perquimons, Gates, Chowan, Hertford, Northampton and Bertie. 2nd. Wash ington,Tyn ell, Beaufort, Hyde, Pitt, Mar tin, Edgecombe and Nash. 3rd. Halifax, Warren, Franklin, Wake and Granville. , 4lh. Greene, Lenoir, Craven, Jones, Car ' terer, Wayne, Duplin and' Johnson. ' ' 5th. '