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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0205 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER XL1I.
An Act to amend the 75th section, chapter 84, of the Revised
Statutes, entitled Crimes and Puonishinents.
Be it enacted by General .ssembly of the State of NorthAl.es
Carolina, and it is hrieby enacted by the authority of the same, not to be
That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell orpold to
slaves,
barter and deliver, to any slave, or slaves, any gun cotton, fire
arms, swords, dirks or other side arms, unless those articles be
for thc owner or employer, and by the written order of the owner
or employer of such slave or slaves, under the penalty of one
hundred dollars for each offence, to be recovered, by warrant,
befoic any justice of the peace, and applied, one half to the use
of the party suing for the same, and the other half to the war-
dens of the poor of the county; and, moreover, may be indicted
in the county or superior courts of law; and the defendant, on
conviction, shall be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the
court; the flue, however, not to exceed fifty dollars, or the im,.
prisonment three months.
[Ratified 18th January, 1847.]
CHAPTER XLlH.
An Act concerning Orphans and persons non compos ents.
See. 1. Be it enacted by the General.1ssembly of the State of
North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, That whenever any orphan, having any estate, has been,
or shall hereafter be, presented by a grand jury, in pursuance of
the nineteenth section of the 54th, chapter of the Revised Stat-
utes, and for which ophans no suitable person will act as guar-
dian; and whenever any person has been, or shall hereafter be,
declared lunatic or non conpos mentis, according to the regular
course of the law, and for whom no suitable person will act as
guardian, then it shall be the duty of the court of equity to pro.
ceed to secure the estate of such orphan or lunatic, or person
non compos mentis, according to the provisions of the act of
1846-47r 107
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