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An Act to provide for the collection of fines imposed upon free negroes or free persons of colour. 1831-1832 10 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0136 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS Olt NORTH CAROLINA. , CHAPTER XI An act giving additional fees to registers in certain cases. Whereas in the various acts regulating the fees of the rcgis- P cambi. ters of this State, no allowance is made for registration of orders iade before a judge, or before the County Court for taking the private examination of fene coverts: Therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sate qf North Carolina, and ia hereby enacted by the authority of te/S same, That from and after the first day of February next, it shall and may be lawful for the several registers in this State to demand, in addition to the fees now allowed by law, the following: for Fecs. registering the acknowledgment and certificate of a feme covert in the conveyance of lands or other estate, twenty live cents; and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the County Courts, where such probates are made, to receive for the use of the register the above additional fee, as they now receive the fees in such cases, ai are already provided; and in case such examination shall be beforo any of the judges of this Stute, and order of registration, the register whose duty it shall be made to record the same may receive such fee for himself; any law, usage or custom to the con- teary notwithstanding. CHAPTER XII An net to sholish thc punishment ot cutting oi! the cars. o Be it enacted by the General .issenbly of the State of North It t h e Chaolina, and is hereby enacted by the authority of tMe same, nishbycutling Thatit shall not be lawful hereafter to inflict the punishment of or7the ears. cutting off the ears, but the same is hereby,,abolished; any law Proviso. or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that in all cases where by the existing laws the cutting off an ear or ears is the prescribed, or part of the prescribed punishment, the offender on conviction shall in lieu thereof be sentenced to receive one or more public whippings, not less than thirty-nine lashes on his Further pro- bare back: And provided also, that this act shall not extend to viso. the punishment of any perjury or subornation of perjury, com- mitted upon the trial of any capitalolfence. CIHAPTER XIll An act to trovide for the collection of fines imposed upon free negroes or free persons of colour. Be it enacted by the General Alssembly of the State of North Fre negroes Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, finuder anha criminal law, That when any free negro or free person of colour shall be here- and unilile to after convicted of an offence against the criminal laws of the SIet', State, and sentenced to pay a fine, and it shall appear to the sa- to any erson tisfaction of the court that the free negro or free person of colour who wi1 1 ty so convicted is unable to pay the fine imposed, the court shall di. Sne for 11* rect the sherif of the county, where such fine is imposed, to hire shortestinze. out the free negro or free person of colour so convicted to any person who will pay the fine for his services for the shortest space of time. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the she- 10

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