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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0262 and id is 1 raw text is: 1854'-55.-CuAp. 247-248.
liable to work the streets, shall have two days notice, and
the overseer shall be competent witness to prove due no-
tice; and the money received for failure of duty, is to be
applied to the keeping of said streets and roads in repair.
SEo. 21. BO it ftirtter 0nacted, That the said commission- Patrol.
ers shall have power to appoint a patrol of one or more per-
lsons for the said town, by hiring persons to act as.sich, and
paying them out of the treasury of said town ; the commis-
sionors shall have power to makce by-laws for the good gov-
erinent of the patrol so apppointed ; the said patrol to have
all the power and authority of patrol appointed under law
of the State.
SEm. 22. Be it further enacted, That the magistrate of
police of said town, shall have all the power of a single jus-
tice of the peace within the limits of said town, so far as
the criminal law is concerned.
SEC. 23. Be it farther enacted, That the town constable Constable.
of said town, shall have within the limits of said town, all
the powers of a constable of the county, so far as the crim-
inal law is concerned; and the said constable shall execute
all orders and process, which the said commissioners or any
of them may direct to him, by virtue of this act.
SEc. 24. hd it frt/he enacted, That whenvOr the said Dy-lawI, &.
conuinissioners, shall by virtue of this act, pass any by-laws
or ordinances, by which the penaltics annexed to the com-
mission of any offence, it shall be the duty of said coumnis-
sionors, to cause such by-laws or ordinances to be advertis-
ed, by posting up a written coppy thereof in said town, with-
in live (lays after the same shial have been passed.
SE. 25. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in
force from and after ifs ratification. [Raifteed the da
of , 1855.]
AN ACT TO EIMPOWE R THE COMMISSIONERS OF TilE TOWN OF WIL- Ohap. 248.
MINGTON TO ESTABLISH STREITS IN SAID TOWN AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, By the Second section of an act of the Gen- Preamble.
eral Assembly of this State, ratified the 25th day of Jan-
uary, A. D., 1851, entitled an act to amend an act passed
in the year 1848-'49, entitled an act to extend the limits of
the town of Wilmington, and for other purposes; the survey
and plan of said town therein referred to, is made evidence
of the corporate limits of said town, and n'o reference is
therein made to such streets in said town as the public con-
venience requires should be established:
S5o. 1. BO it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Plan or town.
of North-Carolina, and it is8 herby enacted by the authority
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