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An Act to amend and explain the eighth section of an act. 1825 17 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0084 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. with good anti suflicient security, payable to the Governor for the fil perform. time being and his successors in ollce, in double the sum paid, or alice thereof. contracted to be paid, with the condition, that he, or they iill faithfully perform his or their contract, according to the plans and specifications agreed onl. I. A4nd be it furither enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Inl' Board of internal Improvements to proceed and put into operation* Imp't to put as soon as may be consistent with the public interest, t le steam tie dredging diedging machine, and give the same a lair and perfect trial, so as machine into the better to enable thema to make contracts, at any time for clear- operation. ing out obstructions in any of the streams in the State. CHAPTER XXVIII. An act to amend and explain the eighth section of an act, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to empower the County Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the several counties within this State to order the laying out of Public [loads. WiTiLEAS diflivulties have arisen in some parts of this State, and sometimes litigation, in consequence of the before recited sec- Preamble. tin of said act not being more plain and explicit; for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North- Carolina, and it 'is herebH enacted by the authority of the same, At what age That from and after the passing of this act, no white person on ersos shall of ardri e libl ' to der the age of eighteen, and over the age of forty-five, work on pub- male slave under sixteen, nor over lifty years of age, shall be held lic roads. bound or made liable to work on the pubric roads of this State. II. dndi be it further enacted, That all free persons of colour Respecting shall be liable to work on the public roads of this State, under the free persons sane rules, restrictiois and regulations as male slaves are. of colour. If 1. .dnd be it further enacted, That all lawsand clauses of laws Repealing coming within tre meaning and purview of this act, be, and tle clause, same are hereby repealed, CHAPTER XXIX. An act limiting the time in which actions shall be brought on Justices' Judgments. Be it enacted by the General qissembly of the State of North- Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That bActions toi all actions of debt grounded upon thejudgment ofa Justice of th* 7 years allec Peace, whicli shall be sued or brought alter the ratification of this the rendition act, shall be commenced or brought within seven years next after ofjudgmcnts the rendition of such judgment or the test of the last execution lawfully issuing on the same, and not after: 11. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That if any Time within, person or persons, that is or shall be entitled to an action of debt up- which per. on such Justice's judgment, shall be, at the rendition of said judg- sons under ment or test of the last execution lawfully issuing on tie same, age, feme co- within the age of twenty-one years, feme covert, or non compos rtt non mentis, or beyond sea, that then such person or persons shall be tiazorbeyond at liberty to bring said action within three years after arriving at sea, may full age, discoverture, or coming of sound mind, or returning fron bring suit. beyond sea. I 117

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