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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0269 and id is 1 raw text is: 1854-'55.-Cre. 44-15.
scer or servants, or any one under his or her control, shall
be liable to ildictncnt in the superior or county coiIurIs of
the aforesaid county, and, upon conuviction, shall be fined or
imprisoned at the liseretion of the court; and shall be fur-
thor liable to an action for daiage(s brought by alny on
wlo iay sustain damages by such an act: Powldd, IThat]
the provisions of this act extend only to so iuch of said riv-
ers as lie in the county of Alanance. [Ratified the (tht dY
qf Fbruary, 1 855.]
AN ACT TO PREVENT' IHE FELLING oF TIMi IN Til- NORTIiEAST Owtal. 4.
]IVEK IN DIUPLIN COUNTY.
Siw. 1. Be It enfatedi by the Gnerail Assembly qf th iState limey, &e.
of NAorth-aurolina, and it is hereby cnacted iby 'tei author,'
qf the wamne, That if aly person or persons shall hereafter
f'll any tiiber in the N ortheast br'anch of the Cape Fear
rivor in the county of D uplin, at any point or place on said
river froim the up >r Korncgay's bridge, near the mouth of
Rattlesnake croek, down t1he same to the mouth of Goshen
swaip, or otherwise obstruct the same, the person or por-
sons so offending shall he deiIIed guilty of a Imisdkimeanior,
and may be iulicted in the county or superior courts of said
county, and, upon conviction, shall be fined, at the discre-
tion of the court, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
Sia. 2. Be it fiurther enacted, Thatif any negro slave he siovos unmhnd-
convicted of felling timber into, or otherwise obstructing ''*
said river in the county aforesaid, before any justice of' the
peace of said county, 1rovided his master or miistress, over-
seer or enmployer shall have had five days' notice in writing
of the chargo against him, previous to his trial, he shall, for
each and overy offence, he punished at the discretion of the
justice of the peace: Provided, tile sanmo shall not exceed
thirty-nino lasles on his bare back, whihl punishint shall
be inflicted by the shiifiiP, conistalle or such other ofliecer of
said county as mIlay have arrested said slave. [H Iattiled the
15h day of Febrary, 1855.]
AN ACT iO REGULATE THE FLOATING O1 TtIMiER ON THE ROANOKE ('fy* * [.
RIVER.
Sia. 1. H' it enaeted( by the General Assembly qf thie State ''nr to li
of Nolith-Colina, anud it iv hereby enactId by the (1uthority io''
qf the san, That those who get ton tiimber on the Roanolke
river, and float the same down said river, shall solect soin
brand or mark hichvll shall be cut, itu p,-ssed ()I- made oil
each log of timber Iloated down said river, a particular do-
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