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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0201 and id is 1 raw text is: 124 SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES.
forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered before
aiy Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction of the same,
to be paid to the wardens of the poor, for the maintainanceo
of the poor in the county in which the offence is committed,
and for the second offence, shall be subject to indictment in
the Superior Court, and fined or imprisoned at the discre-
tion of the Court.
[Ratified the 8th day of January, 1815.]
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
An Act more effectually to suppress the offence of trading
with slaves.
Be it enacted by the Gencral lssembly of the Slate of North
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authorit of the same,
That hereafter it shall be lawful, in the same bill of indict-
ment, in different counts, to charge any defendant with tra-
ding with slaves, receiving stolen goods knowing them to
be stolen, and petit- larceny; any law, usage or custom to
the contrary notwithstanding.
[Ratified this lst day ofJanuary, 1845.]
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