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Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Tuesday, January to, 1833.
Vol. IXJYo. 21.
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CAPTIONS OF THE LAWS
Enacted by the General Assembly of N.
Carolina at its session in 1832 33.
PUBLIC ACTS.
1. An Act declaratory of the law now
in force, giving to llie County Courts of
the several counties within this State, the
power to alter and fix separate places of
election. Declaring that the County
Courts, a majority of the acting Justices
being present, have the power to alter,
fix, establish, discontinue or create anew,
separate places of election.
2. Vesting the right of electing the
Clerks ofahe County and Superior Courts
in the several counties within this State,
in the free white men thereof. Provides
that the Sheriffs, and all other persons
appointed to hold elections for members
of the General Assembly, shall be requi
red, at the next annual election, to open
polls for County and Superior Court
Clerks, and conduct the election of the
same in like manner as for members of
the General Assembly; that the Clerks,
when so elected, shall give such bonds
and take such oaths as arc now prescri
bed by law, at the first Court for which
they were appointed that shall happen in
their county after their election, and shall
continue in office for four years; and that
no person shall be eligible for the ap
pointment of Clerk of either Court, un
less he has attained the age of 21 years,
and resided within the county 12 months
immediately preceding the election.
3. Vesting in the County Courts the
right of establishing additional places of
public sale m their respective counties.
4. Providing for the registration of co
pies of the grants for land. Provides
that certified copies of grants, where the
originals have been lost or destroyer!, re
gistered in due form, shall have the same
force and effect as the original grants.
5. Making an appropriation and ap
pointing Commissioners for the rebuild
ing of the Capitol in the city of Raleigh.
Appropriates 50,000, and appoints five
Commissioners to contract for the work.
6. Concerning charities. Provides that
when any property, real or personal, has
been granted for charitable purposes, it
shall be the duty of the trustee of such
charity to deliver in writing a full account
thereof to the Clerk of the County Court
at the first Court after the 1st January, to
be filed among the records of said Court;
and that it shall be the duty of the Chair
man of the Court, where such requisition
has not been complied with, or where
there has been mismanagement of the
property through regligence or fraud, to
give notice thereof to the Solicitor of
such district, who shall file a bill in equi
ty against such grantee, executor or
trustee, and compel them to render a full
account of such charity, and the Court
may make such order or decree as may
best secure the performance of the trust.
7. Repealing the act of 1830, entitled
an act to repeal part of the second sec
tion of an act, passed in 1006, chapter
708, entitled an act to revise the militia
laws of this State. Provides that per
sons conscientiously averse to bearing
arms, may be exempted from the perfor
mance of militia duty by procuring certi
ficates of the Clerks of the chureir of
their being regular members thereof, and
taking an oath of affirmatidn before the
company court martial that they are con
scientiously averse to bearing arm: ox
cept in time of insurrection or invasion;
then they shall furnish their quota of men
or pay an equivalent. J
8. Incorporating the North Carolina
Historical Society. Authorises the So
ciety to hold property not exceeding at
any one time 10,000; and to have free
access to all the public records of the
State.
9. Extending the time for paying in
entry money, and obtaining grants on all
entries made in the years 1829 and 1830.
Extends the time of payment 12 months.
10. Amending the act of 1831, to in
crease the liability of sheriffs, and to pro
vide more effectually for the collection
of taxes. Provides that Sheriffs may file
their lists in the office of the County
Court happening next before the time
prescribed for the settlement of their pub
lie accounts with the Comptroller.
11. To render the land of a deceased
debtor liable for costs, where the plea of
fully administered has been found in fa
vor of his executor or administrator.
Provides that where the plaintiff in such
cases resorts to a scire facias to subject
the lands of the deceased debtor, he shall
recover the costs of the former suit
against the executor or administrator.
12. For the better organization of the
militia of this State. Requires that cap
tains and commandants of companies
shall enrol and keep enrolled all the ex
empts in their respective companies, and
return them to the commandants of regi
ments, who are to return the same annu
ally to the brigadier and adjutant gen
erals. 13. For the better regulation of vol
unteers. Reduces the number necessary
to constitute companies of Light Infan
try, Grenadiers, Riflemen or Artillery to
fourty-four, inclusive of commissioned
and non-commissioned officers, musi
cians and privates.
14. T o allow the taking of depositions
in cases of removal. Provides that in ca
ses of removal of any cause from the Su
perior Court of one county to another,
after the order of removal depositions
may be taken in the cause, and that com
missions may issue from either of said
Courts, under the same rules as if the
cause had been originally commenced in
the Court from which the commission
issues.
15 Making compensation to the Sec
retary of State for services required of
mm by an act ot 1827. Allows him 10
cents for each certificate by him made
under said act, and 10 cents for each cer
tificate he shall make previous to the 1st
March next; that after that date he shall
be allowed as his fee for each grant,
made out, recorded and delivered, 75
cents; and that for copying large grants
obtained for speculation, or the surveys
on which such grants were made, 50 cents
for each warrant of 640 acres.
1G. Amending the militia laws. Pro
vides that the Major General shall Te
view his division once in three years, and
a Brigadier General once in two years;
and in case either should fail to review,
or to equip himself, or to make an annual
return of his division or brigade, the Go
vernor shall cause the Adjutant General
to give such delinquent officer thirty days
notice of sucli neglect, and if such delin
quent officer does not within forty days
thereafter render a satisfactory excuse,
the Governor shall strike his name from
the lists of officers; that captains shall
not muster their companies m6re than
twice in a year volunteer companies
excepted; that the exercise of a regiment,
battalion or a company, shall be at least
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two Hours; that each company shall. have
a second and third lieutenant; that the
Adjutant General shall revise and distri
bute the militia laws. '
The remainder of the Public Acts will be
foand under the editorial head of this paper.
. PRIVATE ACTS.
1. An Act to amend the law respecting
the appointment of Sheriffs, so far as re
lates to Surry county.
2. Amending the' act of 1829, to au
thorise the forming a fire engine compa
ny in Elizabeth City.
3. Vesting in the County Courts of
itiacon, Burke and Rutherford, power o
appoint places of public sale in said
counties.
4. Amending the act of 1831, to ap
point one additional place of sale in
Hyde county.
5. Incorporating the Gatesville Troo
pers. 6. Incorporating a cavalry company in
Hertford county.
7. Incorporating the Franklin Guards.
8. Amending the act of 1821, to incor
porate the Roanoke Inlet Company, and
the act of 1828, amendatory ofihe same.
9. To prevent disputes in consequence
of a late survey of the line dividing the
counties of Anson and Mecklenburg.
10. Incorporating the Scotland Neck
Guards.
11. Incorporating the Haywood Moat
ing Company.
12. Compelling the Register of Bun
combe county to keep his office in Ashc
ville. 13. Repealing the act of last session,
to authorise the County Court of Guil
ford to appoint overseers and hands to
clear out the channel of Rcedv Fork of
Haw River in said county.
14. Restoring to credit Thomas Daves,
of Macon county.
15. Repealing the act of 1828, entitled
an act repealing the several acts estab
lishing and regulating the special courts
of Burke county.
1G. Concerning the upper regiment of
Chatham county.
17. Incorporalingthe Anson Dragoons.
18. Providing compensation for jurors
in Cabarrus county.
19. Authorising David VV. Borden, of
Larteret,to erect a gate across the road
leading from the cross roads on White
Oak river to Borden's ferry.
20. Amendatory of the act; of 1831,
authorising the Governor to grant certain
lands to Franklin Academy, in Macon
county.
21. Altering the time of electing, and
renewing the bonds of certain officers in
Mecklenburg county.
22. Amending the patrol laws so far as
relates to the counties of Camden, Pas
quotank, Chouan and Gales.
23. Authorising the altering and a
mending the State road ruuhiug through
Haywood county.
24. Incorporating two volunteer com
panies in Pasquotank county.
25. Altering and amending the act of
1829, for the improvement of the road
from the Old Fort, in Burke, to Ashe
ville, in Buncombe.
26. Amending the several acts incor
porating the Roanoke and Cape Fear
Navigation Companies, & prescribing the
mode of enforcing t lie collection of tolls.
27. 'Appointing an additional place of
public sale in ISeauiort county.
28. Providing for the more prompt ad
ministration of justice in the counties of
burke, liuncombc, Lincoln & Rutherford.
29. To prevent the falling of timber in,
or otherwise obstructing the channel ot
either branch of the North East branch
of New river in Onslow county.
30. Supplementary to the act of 1830,
entitled "an act to enact, with sundry al
terations and additions, an act, entitled
'an act to incorporate the Petersburg Rail
Uoad Company, passed: by the Legisla
ture of Virginia on the 10th Feb. 1830.
31. Establishing the boundary line be
tween the counties of Washington and
Beaufort.
32. To prevent the felling of timlber in,
or otherwise obstructing the navigation
of Goshen between Hursv's bridge and
tho North East river.
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Incorporating the town 'of Whit.
ville, in Columbus county.
34. Appointing Commissioners for tho
town of Haywood, in Chatham county.
35. Incorporating the Experimental
Rail Road Company, in Raleigh.
3G. More effectually to provide for tho
payment of jurors in Anson county.
37. Incorporating a cavalry company
in Duplin county.
33. For the better regulation of the
town of Jameston, in Martin county.
39. Regulating the collection of State
witness tickets so far as respects tho
county of Guilford. .
40. Repealing in part the act of 1826
entitled an act to repeal an act, passed
in 1820, entitled an act directing tho
County Court to pay fees to certain offi
cers therein named in cettain cases so
far as relates to the counties mentioned
in this act.
41. Exempting the militia residing on
Knott's Island from attending at tho
Court House of Currituck on general,
regimental or battalion musters. ;
42. Exempting Powell's Point and
Poplar Branch companies of militia in
Currituck county from attending regi
mental musters at the Court House.
43. To prevent the felling of timber
in, or otherwise obstructing the channel
of Little river, from Bumper's Fork to tho
county line in Montgomery county. ,
44. Incorporating the Northampton
troop of cavalry. .
45. Incorporating the Onslow Troop
ers, the Johnston Dragoons, and the Le
noir Troopers.
46. Incorporating Silver Run Academy.
47. Concerning the hands working on
roads in Burke.
48. To prevent the felling of timber in,
or otherwise obstructing the run of Bear
creek and its branches, in the counties of
Lenoir and Wayne.
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49. Incorporating Rolesville Academy.
50. Authorising the County Court of
Wake to lay a tax for building a substan
tial fire proof Court House, or a substan
tial fire proof office for the safe keeping
of the public records of the countv.
51. Authorising the County Court of
Gates to have the records of said county
transcribed, and to make copies of such
transcribed records evidence iu all suits
at law and equity in this State.
52. . Incorporating Haywood Academy,
in Chatham county.
53. Altering the line separating the
north &, south regiments in Surry county.
54. Incorporating Stony Hill Acade
my, in Nash county.
55. v or the relief of Brittain Jones, of
Bertie county.
56. Amcndingthe act of 1821, to prevent
fire hunting of fowl, in Carteret county.
o7. 1 o re-mark and renew the dividing
line between Richmond and Robeson
counties. . : -
58. Regulating the County Courts of
Davidson.
59. Restoring Joshua Pennelof Wilkes,
to credit.
60. Incorporating Good Spring Gran
mar School, in Stokes county. V-
Gl. Amending the act of 1827, to keep
open the Tuckaseagy and Tennessee ri
vers, in Hayvvood county. .
62. Creating one additional wreck dis
trict in Hyde county. ,1
, 63. Altering the time of holding one of
the terms of the County .Court of Bun
combe. ! ;
64. Incorporating the Lafayette Hotel
Company, in Fayetteville,
65. Re-appointinir commissioners for tho
town of Waynesville.in Haywood county,
66. Compensating jurors of the origi
nal pannel in Beaufort county.
67. Amending the act of 1829, to pro
vide for the compensation of the.' jurors of
the counties of Beaufort, Onslow, Hyde,
Anson and Duplin.
68. Repealing part of the act of 1830,
to aDDoiut commissioners to superintend
Jthe building a Court House in Burke co'jr.
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