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An Act to provide for the more effectual performance of Patrol Duty. 1819 29 (1819)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0110 and id is 1 raw text is: the time that such slaves may be actually commorant Or Dec. 1819. dwelling .vithin.said town ; Provided, That the slaves Y who may be summoned or compelled to work lupon the streets of Ileaufort, shall not be compelled to work Upont the roads in the country : Ald provi'ided also, That no slave shall be compelled to work upon the streets of Beau- fort more than twtlve days in one year. Andbe itfiurther enacted by the authoritt aforesaid, That the town council of Beaufort be, and they arve hIrchy au- thorised to fill up ponds, drains, and pools of standing va- ter within the limits of the town, and to assess the inhabi.- tants of the town with the expenses of such works in pro- portion to the benefit respectively received : Provided staid assessmnett shall not exceed five per cent. ad valorem upot the value df houses anil lots. In the S note House, the eighteenth duly f .Decenber, in the year rf on' Lord one thousand eight Ired and ninetren, and in the f nty-fourt. year of the Indepedlence (Jthe Uiled States ofj.&nerica. BEN.iAgIN HUGEtR, Preident of the Senate. PATRICK NOBLE, Spebker of the lumse of J Repiresentatlive. An ACT to providefor the more Vf cual performance of Patrol DzitW. B E it enacted b the honorable the Senate and House of L Representatives, now tmet and sittingin -eneral a.- semblU, and.by the authority of the same, That it shall be I'attrol dis the duty of the captains of the several beat companies with- tricts to be' in this state, within six nioutis after the piassing of thisCon, act, to cause their respective beats to be divided int.o con- venient patrol districts, which divisions, when made, shall be permanent, until the same shall be altered by a inwjority of the officers of the said company; and in case the captai of any beat conupany shall neglect to perform the duty herein before required of hi m, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars, to be recovered in any cours having conipetent jurisdiction.' .And be it ftrther enacted by the authoritif aforesaid, That it shaIl be the duty of the commanding officer of each auis to be, and every beat company, to cause to be made out, a roll uiady ot. for each patrol district, which shall include the names of al the free white nale inhabitants, above the age of eigh- teen years, residing within the said patrol district: Pro- oIded, That nothing herein containet shall be construed to Comipel any inale inhabitant of any beat company to perf r~npatrol duty, eirjher in perna m or by substitute, who

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