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An Act to repeal an act, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled an act to provide for the payment of costs when a slave is convicted of a capital crime 1821 30 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0051 and id is 1 raw text is: A.D. t8t. .-Garilina,, and itciderhy, eniaced by the authdritjyf 'hesame That ihe P esdei(aggDirectors,:and 1lheir successors,!orsor a. President an dh h wifrmti 6 Directors a pajority'.of thei, shall hav wer; from time ta tie,' hen it thorised to,.: shull be piecessary,.to collect msoney. from stockholders, to make collect money and sign ordeis for that pur po'st and direc! at what times, and from stock in what proportions., the bscribrs shall pay the sumsbythem holders; snd- pay if they fail tonubcribed, which orders shall be advertised in some. newspa-, pay, teir per published in the city .of- laleigh; and if any of the subscri- shares to be bers, their heirs 'or assigns, shall fail to pay their proportions' sold. required, withis oni month after the same is advertised, the .Prei;id'ent and Director.', or a mjority of them, may sell at, auction, and convey to the purchasers, the shares of. the sub. scrihers so failing, givirg at least one month's notice of the hale Sales to be in in the newspaper. aforesaid; and al, such sales shall be-in the Louisburg. town of Lnuishurg,and counti of Franklin; and after retaining the sum due. together with the intereat thereon, and charges of sale, out of the money produced thereby. they shall refund and, pay the surplus, if any, to the former owners; and if such saleu shall not produce the full sutn ordered and directed to be ad vanced aforesaid, with interest and incidental charges, the said President and Directors. or a majority of them, may, in the name of the company, sue for, and recover the halance by mo- tion in any court of competent juribdiction, on ten days' pre- vious notice; and the said purchaser or purchasers shall be subject to the same rules and regulations, and entitled to the same profits and privileges, as if the sale or conveyance had been made by the original propiletor. . Repeal: ..- II. Be itfurther enacted, That all laws aiid clauses of laws, 4clause. coming within the meaning and purview of this act, be, and S' the same is hereby repealed. CHAP. XXVill. An act to repeal an act; passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled ** An act to provide far the payment (f costs when.0- a slave is convicted of a capital crime. I J. . Be it enicted by the General Assembly of the State of JVorth- Carolina. and it is hureby enacted by the authority oJ the same, 'That the above rocited act 1e, and the same is hereby.repealed > any law to the contrary notwithsaanding. CHAP XXIX.'. . An act to explain and amend an act, passed at the last General Assembly, entitled * An act limiting the time within which judgments before a . Justice of the Peace may be revived WaraniA doutit exist as to the meaning asid effect of the said at ; fu1 removal -whereof. Be it enacted by the General .issenbly of the stato of JVorth Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That'the mai M MAnd intention of the seetid act, s(. far as the same :egards Judgments -esidered by a Justice of the Peace prior to the pausing thereof, is that the proceedings to

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