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An Act to amend an act, entitled an act to authorise the County Courts in this State to direct the Sheriff to sell any slave that may be taken up and confined in any jail as a runaway after certain length of imprisonment and public notice. 1830-1831 18 (1830)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0126 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF NORTI CAROLINA, foe by thle patr'ol cothmittee of his particular district, and when recovered, shall ' be paid over by them to the county trustee, -to form a fund in aid of the tax for the support of the patrol. n to CHAPTER XVII Ai act to anietid an not,entitled an nt to authorise the county Conrts in this State to direct the Sheriff to sell any slave that may he taken up and confined in sy jail as a runaway after certain lei)th of imprisonment sd public notice, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted bsj the General .IAssembly of the Slate of North Carolina, al it is hereby enacted by the authority qf the aame, CosesinwhiCh Iat if apy runaway slave, contined in any jail of this Stute un- county shall der the nrovisions of the aforesaid act, and hig or her owner be pay expense of viihnown, and the said siaveshould die, or by the regular process smprisoniment (.f law be removed from said jail before A- sale of said runaway slave is effected according to the directions of said act, then anti in either of said casesit shall be the duty of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the county where said slave was conan- ed to direct the county trustee to pay all the expenses of his or oviso. her imprisonment out of the county funds: Provided, that the jailor shows to the court that he has complied with the law re- quiring advertisement of rutianays. II. Hie it further enacted, That in case the trustee of any coun- ty, by the order of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions there. Expense thus in, should pay the expenses of the conininetmi of any runaway aeied frslave in pursuance of the provisions of the first section of this act, the owner and the owner thereafter become kniwn, it shall be tile duty of should he be- the said trustee to recover for the use of the counts, fromn the own- come known. er or his representative, the amount he may have previously paid on account of said runaway slave. CHAPTER XVIII An act to establish a Superior Court of Law and Court of E'quity i1 the county of Macon, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General qsseinbly of the State qf North Carolina, and it ?3 hereby enacted by the authority of the same, To what cir-That tIhe county of Macon be, and tle same is hereby added to mhe Uit added, &.ixth Judicial Cirruit. and lhat there shall be a Superior Court of time MIcnb Law and CourtofEquity held in the court housef said county on held l the second Monday after the fourth Monday in Sepiember next, and on the second Monday after the fourth Mondaysof M4rchand Septeniber annually thereafter, with the same powers and juris- diction of all the other Superior Courts of Law and Equity in this State. It. Be itfurther enacted, That a clerk and clerk and naster in Judge shall equity of the said courts shall be appointed by the Judge holding sippointel'rks, the same at the first term thereof. The said clerk and clerk and land the cono- master in equity shall take the same oaths andgive the likebonds ty Cor shallt. nqiysal iete aeotsan ietlelk od appointjurdrs as are noiv prescribed by law in like cases; and the County Court of said county of Macon shali appoint thirty jurors to attend the court hereby established, in the same manner that jurorsare ap- pointed to attend the other Superior Courts of this State.

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