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9 ummmw -ja&fgfi Whole Xo. 487- Turborongh, (Edgecombe County, wV. C.J Friday, January 24, 1834. Vol X Yo it) The "Tttrhnroitsrh Free Press," IU GEORGE HOWAUl), Is puhliM.cil weekly, at Two Dollars ami Fifnt d-nts per year, it paid n advance or, Three Dai an, :it the expiration of the subscription vc.ir. For any period loss than a year, Twenty-five ' Cents- per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on Rivini; notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a distance must invariably pay in a lv:mce,or jjivc a responsible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements, not exceeding 16 lines, will be in serted at 50 cents the first insertion, and 25 cents each continuance. Longer ones at that rate for every G laics'. Advertisements must be marked the number of insertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. encral SlssemiJlp captions Of the Laws paused bit the Legislature of 1133334. pun LIC ACTS. 1. An Act making appropriation for carrying on and completing Ihe Capitol in die City of Raleigh. Appropriates for this purpose the sum of 75,000. 2. To crct a new con my, by the name of Yancey. Provides that said coiitiiv shall bo erected out of a portion of the counties of Burke and Buncombe. 3. Declaratory of the law in relation to the rights and duties of Sheriffs and In spectors, in holding elections. Gives tu Inspectors the sole and exclusive right to judire of the qualifications of voters, ex cept where there is an equal division of opinion between the Inspectors, in which cuse I lie Sheriff shall decide. 4. To amend an Act passed in 1782, giving Equity jurisdiction to the Superior Courts. Provides that the Sheriff' or oth.T officer executing any process from a Court of Equity, against ihe body, shall take bond and two sufficient securieties in double the sum for which the defend ant is arrested, or subject themselves as epi'i ial bail. 5. To extern! the time for registering G ants, mesne Conveyances, Powers of Attorney, Bills of Sale and Deeds of gift. Extends the time two years from the passage of this net. G. Con-'ruiui; Official and other Pub lic bonds. Provides that they shall here after le made payable to the Slate of No' tii Carolina. 7. To extend the provisions of an act passed at the last session, authorizing lh' removal of buildings on public lands in the town of Franklin. Extends the provisions of the above recited act to all persons who have built on the public lands therein mentioned. 8. To repeal an Act passed in 1788, fixing the sum hereafter to be paid to the State for vacant lands. Reduces the entry money to 5 cents jrui acre, where the number of acres entered by any one person, in any one year, does not exceed 100; if this number of acres be exceed ed, 10 cents per ucre is to be paid on the excess. 9. To give further time for paying in Entry money. Allows until the first of March for t his purpose. 10. Directing the manner in which Constables shall be appointed in this State. Provides that hereafter, there shall not be a greater number of Consta bles in the Stale, than one for each Cap tain's district, except in those districts including the county towns, which shall be entitled to two Constables, to be elec ted by the inhabitants of such districts, under the same regulations as are pre scribed for Indding elections for Mem bers of the House of Commons. The? election to be held at anytime within one month preceding the first County Court, in each county, after the first of January in each and every year. Inspectors to be appointed by the Captains of Companies, in each district, who arc to make return to the first County Court, the Justices of which shall qualify and take bonds from the Constables returned as elected. No person to vote fur a Constable in any town or district, unless the voter lives in such town or district. 11. Granting to Asa Pclozier atul Henry Reagan, under certain conditions, two tracts of land. Grants the land in; consideration of f heir muKing known the locality of the Silver Mine on the public lauds of this State, which they allege to have discovered. 12. Supplemental to an art passed at the present session, to erect a new coun ty by the name of Yancey. Appoints Commissioners to determine upon a site for the county town, to be known by the name of " Burnsville;" and makes provi sion for holding the Courts of said coun ty and eleciing county officers. 13. Supplemental to an act passed in 1832, to enact with sundry alterations and additions, an act to incorporate the Portsmouth and Roanoke Rail Road! Company, passed by the Legislature of Virginia, on the 8th day of May, 1832. Authorizes the Company to subscribe a sum not exceeding 830,000, to construct a Rail Road on the Wcldon toll bridge. 14. Directing the sale of lands remain ing unsold acquired by treaty from the Cherokee Indians. Authorizes the Gov ernor to appoint a Commissioner to su perintend the sale of the lands. 15. To establish the Merchant's Bank in the town of Newbern, and ihe Albe marle Bank in the, town of Edenton. (Provides that these two Banks shall In; established, the first with a capital of 250,000 the last, a capital of 200,000. They are to have no branches. A tax of 25 cents on each share is to be paid into the Slate Treasury.) 16. To establish a Bank in the State of North Carolina. (Provides that the capi tal of the Bank shall be 1 ,500,000, two fifths of which, the State is tu have the privilege of subscribing. The Principal Bank lo be located at Raleigh, and to be controlled by ten directors, of which number the Slate is to appoint four. Branches to be established whereve'rVit may be deemed Advisable. A tax of 25 cents on each share, lo be paid into the State Treasury.) 17. Supplemental to an act directing how persons injured by the erection of public mills shall proceed to recover da mages, passed in 1809. (Prescribes the manner in which notice shall be served on the owners of mills, when an action for damages is instituted.) 18. To prevent the throwing of ballast, or otherwise obstructing the channel be tween Bogue Inlet and the town of Swansborough, in Onslow county. (Im poses a penalty of $50 for every violation of this act.) 19. For revising and digesting the Public Statute Laws of this State. (Au thorizes the Governor lo appoint three Commissioners to collect, digest and re vise all ihe Public Statute laws of the State now in force, who shall, from time to time, lay before the Legislature the Acts so arranged and revised, to be ap proved by them before they are publish ed. Allows the Commissioners two years to complete the work and gives them a compensation of 81,000 each.) 20. To repeal in part an act laying du ties on sales at Auction of merchandize. (Repeals the section which makes it the duly of Auctioneers to render a detailed return of each article sold, permitting them to exhibit the gross amount.) 21. To prevent injury to the naviga lion of Cape Fear River, and for other purposes. (No person to throw ballast in said river, within seven miles of Wil mington, under pain of fine and impris onment.) 22. To prevent the conveying of slaves out of this State, and to prevent -injury being done to live stock upon RaiPRoads. (Punishes with death any agent, mana ger, &c. of any Rail Road Company, who may carry off any slave with intent to aid in their escape. Also provides that the owners of slock killed on Rail Roads, shall be compensated.) 23. To authorise the Clerks of Courts of Record in this Stale, and those hold ing the office of Clerk and Master in E quity, to act as Notaries Public. 24. To amend an act passed at Inst session, to repeal an act passed in 1830, repealing part of the second section of an act passed in 180G, to revise the mili tia laws of this State. (Allows Quakers and others averse to bearing arms from religious scruples, to make oath to that effect before any Justice of the Peace, instead of before a Company Court Mar tial, as now required.) 25. Authorising the Public Treasurer to sell certain landsv in the vicinity of Raleigh. (Directs him lo sell at public sale, without reserve, the Bushy Branch tract, late the properly of Treasurer Haywood.) 26. To re-charier the Bank of Cape Fear. (The capital to consist of 800,000 dollars, with authority to establish bran ches, wherever deemed proper. A lax of 25 cents on each share) , 27. Supplemental to the act to estab lish a Bank of the State of North Caro lina. (Authorises the Governor, Secreta ry of State and Comptroller to appoint Directors on the part of the State, until otherwise ordered.) 29. To regulate the times of holding the Superior Courts in the 6th Judicial Circuit. (1 lie Courts to begin at Cabar rus and end with Iredell.) 30. More effectually to prohibit the trading with slaves. (Adds to the prohi bited articles mutton, cloth, corn, wear ing apparel and bullion.) 31. To amend the law in relation to Larceny. (Makes grand larceny infa mous.) 32. To enforce the penalty incurred by Entry-takers failing to make annual returns of entries made in their respec tive offices as required by law. Pkivate acts. 1. Ah Act to repeal part of an act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, directing the manner in which Constables shall hereafter be elected in the counties of Davidson, Buncombe, Chatham, Currituck, Wilkes, Duplin, New Hanover, Wayne, Hyde & Onslow. 2 To incorporate Sandy Ridge Acad emy, in the county of Chowan. 3. To repeal in part an act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, to regulate the Courts sf Pleas &. Quar ter Sessions of the counties of Washing ton and Hvde. 4. For the protection of the Bridge erected across Scuppernong river at Co lumbia, in Tyrrel county. 5. To incorporate Skewarky Lodge, No. 90, in the lown of Williamston. 6. For ihe better administration of jus tice in the county of Haywood. 7. To extend and continue in force cer tain acts of the General Assembly for re gulating the times of holding the Superi or Courts of Law and Equity, for the counties of Moore, Montgomery and Anson. 8. To incorporate the trustees of New Hanover Academy in the county of New Hanover. 9. To incorporate ihe-Farmers' Libra ry Association in the county of Chatham. 10. To make compensation to the ju rors of the Superior Court of Haywood county. 11. To prevent obstructions in First Broad Ri ver in ihe county of Rutherford. 12. Concerning the beach and marshy lands lying in Currituck county. j lb. lo incorporate Morveu Academy in the county of Anson. 14. To emancipate Joe, a slave. 15. To incorporate Sylvester Acade my, in the county of Moore, and to ap point the Trustees thereof. 16. To divorce Ann Eliza Viverett. 17. To abolish the office of Countv Trustee in the counties uf Nash, Colum bus, Pasquotank, Currituck, Brunswick and Tyrrel. 18. To restore to credit Isaac Weston of Duplin county. 19. 1 o requtre the Register and Clerks of Camden county, to keep their offices at the Court-house. 20. To incorporate therlrcdell Union Troopers. 21. To re-appoint trustees for Green hill Academy in Haywood county. 22. To regulate the time of appoint ing overseers of roads in Anson county. 23. To incorporate the Northampton Independent Volunteers. 24. Concerning the poor of the county of Chatham. 25. To alter the time of bidding two of the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Ses sions of the county of Macon. 26. Concerning the building of a Court House in Carteret country. 27. For the better regulation of tho militia of Buncombe county. 28. To prevent obstructions to the run of Rockfish Creek in Duplin, and Tar River in Franklin counties. 29. To authorise Willi am A. Ei win, to establish a ferry across ihe Catawba river in Burke couniv. 30. To establish Franklin Academy in the county of Surry.und incorporate the trustees thereof. 31. To alter the name of Kinston in Lenoir countv. 32. Authorising the erection of a fire proof Court house in Camden couni v. 33. Better to promote the administra tion of justice in the county of Macon. 34. To alter the names of Richard AU derson and William White, of Beaufort county, and entitle them to inherit. 35. To emancipate Ned Hymui, a slave. 36. To appoint an additional place of public sale in the county of Beaufort. 37. To authorise the preseul Commis sioners of the town of Staiesville, in Ire dell county, to execute deeds to certain lots in said town. 38. To legitimate and alter the name of Mary Ann and Marlha Wallace, of Halifax countv. 39. Directing the scrolls of the votes of the twelfth Congressional District to be hereafter compared in ihe town of Ashvillc. 40. To authorise Nicholas Washing ton, of Wayne county, to erect a bridgo across Neuse river. 41. To incorporate the Ladies' Work ing bociely in the town of Wilming ton. 42. Directing the title of the lot on which the public jail is erected in the town of Salisbury, to be made lo tho Chairman of the County Court of Rowan county. 43. To establish Arcadia Acad my in the county of Person, and to incorporate the trustees thereof. 44. To incorporate Rocky River Aca demy in Cabarrus county. 45. To alter the name of Nancy Bra-? zierand to legitimate her. 47. In relation to the Independent or Volunteer Companies formed out of tho fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth regiments in Guilford. 48. To amend an act concerning the town of Wadesborough and for other purposes. 49. To incorporate the Greensboro Academy ami Manual Labor School. 50. To establish a Literary and Ma nual Labor Institute in the county of Wake. 51. Authorising Thomas Love and Dilliard Love, of Macon county, to erect a bridge across Tennessee River a' the most convenient place at or near where the Stale Road crosses the same. 52. Directing the Judges of the Supe rior Court of Hyde county, not lo take up State Cases before the Thursday of Court week.