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An Act to provide for the payment of costs when a Slave is convicted of a Capital Crime. 1820 38 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0048 and id is 1 raw text is: .LAWS OF NORTH-CAROLINA. tl D. 182c.said road shall pass, and the diAtance froln one remarkabe plac6 to another, and also the whole distance from the begining to the turminativen of, said road, Commis. -3. .id be itfurther epaded, That inter having made out the asoners to nlatts as aforedaid, it shall be, lawful for-the.comnissionersa. coutracttr toresAid, andtie are hereby empoivered to cohtrat Vor cut. *g: .ing ot, repairing,.charkg and iniproivingsdid rouf insucli a :*ay; and on such terms and conditions s itsey ra najort of theim' shall deem most expedienrt anQ adVhn ~cous to the public interpst and speedy'cdinpletionof the 4ad road; 'add when the said road shall he so repaised, imprdved and put in good oide*, it shall there'after be de.iied and re public road afid'higitway, free for the use' if the citizens of. this Staid and all others, and shall be.kolif in relrair ag other roads and highways in this State. 4. ud be it further enacted, That it shal; be the duty oftht Further said commissioners to transmit to the board ofiternal improve., duty. ment at their annual Imeeting in December next, all the vouch. ers, contracts or acts which they nay have made or done in or-. der to carry the provisions of this.act into effect; 5, . Ud be4tfuriher enacted, That all the eipenses incurred in laying out, repairing and improving the said roadt in the Expenses manner directed by this act, not eiceedinglifteen hundred dol, iow to be hirs, shall be paid out of the fund for' internal, improvement by paid. the brard of linagers thereof, whenever a sofficiency of the mo- nies of the said f und shall become due, and paid into the Trea. sur iy. cnunyis- - 6. And beit further enactedThat each of the aforesaid com* Bioners' mijssioners shs4ll be entitled to receive the sum bf one dollar for consa. cach and every day they may-be engaged ir. running and laying out the said road as aforesaid. CHAPTElU 38. An Act, to etear out and improve the wnvigation ot Broad River, in the county of R itherford 1 Bo it enacted by the General issenbly ofthe.tate of.North.Carolipa, and at is hereby enactid by the authority of the same, That out of the fund set apart for thelnternal Improvement of the State, the sum of five thou. sand dollars be, and the same is herebyappropriated to the improvemplt of the navigation ofBroad River, front Twitty's Ford to the South.Carf olina line, and the board for Internal Isiprovement is hereby'directed, to cause the work to he cowmenced,as soon as in theirjudgment, circun. stances, and the funds of the. institution ivill justify the slhme. CHAPTER 39. An Act to provide for the payment or costs when a Slave is convicted of a Capital Crine.' 1. Be it enacted by the General .Ussein blyof the State oJ.North Varolina, and it is hereby enacted by *the authority of the saine, That hereafter, vhen any slave shall be convicted of a capital crime, and executed in donsequance of such conviction; the coits ofprosdcution shall be paid iy the 6ounty in which iuch prosecution shall have commenced. Itead three tineq and ratified in General Assembly, the 2Sch day of December, A.D. 1820.5 r. YANCEY, S. 8. A true Copy. WMI. HILL, Sco'p. ,.sn

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