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An Act to emancipate Hannah Howe, Balaam Howe, John Howe and Sally Howe, children of Balaam and Lucy Howe of the county of Brunswick. 1816 53 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0035 and id is 1 raw text is: s*ad after the sext term thrdof, be held s'othe fourth Monday of March, June, September and Decem. 180 tjr, In each and every year, and all writs, subpe, nas, recognizances'and other proceedit-gs returnable to~ said court shall be returned according to the pro% isons of this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAP. CXXIX. An act to removea sep-re election in the cotn'ty of Stokes. BBit enacted b the General Assembly or the State of North. Carolna, andit 'is hereby enacted by the au- thority of he same, 'I hat the seperate election heretofore esmbbhhed and held at the house of Johr Ilutchings i.n the-cbunty of Stokes, be removed to such other place as the commissioners bet eafter nam- ed shall;ppoint, and shallbe there held at the times and f1r the purposes and under-the same rules, regula- tiousandrestrictions which thesaide ection has hete;o re buen hId at the said John 1lu hings. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, fhomas Car, Rudy Fiynt and Charles A, gel, he, and they are hereby appointed commissioner, with full power and authority to fix on some other suit- able and convenient place for holding the said seperate election hereby removed, and when so fixed on the said commissioners ire hereby required to make report of their proceedings to the county court of Stokes, to be held on the second Monday of June next. CHAP. CXXX. An act making allowance to witnesses attending Cumberland Superior and County Courts. BE it enacted by the General .dssembly of the State ofNozth-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the au. thority of the same, That all witnesses who may hereafter attend the superior or. couoty courts of Cum- berland io any suit, shall be entitled to receive ten shillings for each days attendance, and four pence per mile for travelling to and from court. CHAP. CXXXI. Aa actto emascipate Hannah Howe, Balaam Howe, John. H owe and Sally Howe children of l:aleil anm d Lucy Howe of the county of Brunswick. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North-Carolina, and 'it is hereby enacted .by the authority of the same, That Hinnah Howe. J-ihn Howe, Balaam Howe and Sally Howe children of Ba- aiam Howe and Lucy his wife, of the county of Brunswick, be, and they are hereby emancipat-rd and set tree, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of free persons of color within this state in as full and ample manner as if they had been born free. CHAP. C.XXXII. - An act to appoint commissioners for the tow, and port of Swansborough. BE it enactedby the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the au- thority of the. same, That William Mitchell, William P. Ferrand, Bazel R. Smith, John S. Jones and Richard Stefens, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners oh the town and port of Swansbo- rough, with all the powers and authority which are already given by law to other commissioners of any town and port within this state. CHAP. CXXXIII. An set to amnend an act passed in the y';ar one thougand eight hundred and five, chapter eighty.nineth, entitled 'an act to establish two separate Elections in the county of Chatham and to alher the mode of holdingElmections in said county.' WHEREAS, under existing circumstances, doubts are entertained as to a true construction of the a- b',ve recited act and dificulties often present themselves owing to the impropriety of not closing the polk at the court-house dfthe county aforesaid on the 'day of election before sun set, thereby subjecting the inspectors and others-to ge eat trouble and inconvenience, when at the several seperate elections of said cunty, the polls are closed at the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon of the day on which the election is held, to accord in proceedings at the court-house with the course pursued at the seperate elections and lo remove all doubts and-to remedy every inconvenience. BE it enacted by the General Ass embly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enactedby the au. thority of the same, That the election directed to be held by the before recited act, as well that at the court. house as those at the places of seperate election shall be opened at ten o'clock in the fore noon, and cl. sed at four o'clock in the alternoon on the day directed for holding the same by said act, any law to the con- trary notwithstanding. CHAP. CXXXIV. An act to authorize the county court of Duplin to appoint commissioners to layoff a town on the publit lands in said county, BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina, and it zs hereby enacted by the aut thort of the same, That the county court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Duplin, be, and thel' are hereby authorized and directed to appoint commissioners as soon as they may deem it expe- dient for the purpose of laying off a town on the public lands in said county, which town when so laid oif agreeably to the directions of a majority of said commissioners shall be called and known by the name of Kenansslle, and the said commissioners shall lay off the said lots of such size as the said court may 'di- rect with suitable streets or allies, and the said commissioners are hereby directed toreturn a fair platt and full representation of the said town, particularly designating the lots agreeable to their number, and also the streets and allies appertaining thereto, to the clerks' office of said county, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to record the same in'the books of his office, open to the inspection of an person at any time concerned, and thereupon the said commissioners are hereby directed to make 3ale of the said lots at auc- tion to the highest bidder, after giving public notice thereof, and the money arising-from the sale of the same shall be by the commis sioners paid over to the treasurer of the public buildings of said county, who shall apply the same to the ddraying the expenses of building the new court-house in said county, and the commissioners shall be entitled to receive adequate compensation for their services to be fixed upon and allowedby the court of said county; said commissioners shall reserve 'so many lots contiguous to one ano- ther as shall make one acre of ground for the public uses of said county. CHAP. CXXXV. An act to increase the penalty on those residing in the town of Salem in the county of Stokes who rail to attend and work on the public roads and highways. BE it enactedbg the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina, and itis hereby enacted by the au- thority of the same, Trhat from and after the passage of this act, each and every person residing Wichin the limits of the teorn of Salem,) in the county of Stokes, -who by the present existing laws is bound to Digitized from Best Copy Available

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