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An Act making compensation to coroners in certain cases. 1826 12 (1826)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0095 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. town of Fran- No. 3, No. 9, No. 18 and No. 19, in the town of Franklin, oni the kin. Maine terms of credit, and under the saime rules and regulations herein prescribed for the sale of the aforesaid lands. CHAPTER - XVIII. An act to appropriate five thousand dollnrs for the pmrpose of improving the navigation of the Cape-Fear River below Wdmington. Be it enacted by the General AssemblY (f the State of North.. Carolinaand it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of five thousand dollars, be, aild the same is here-. by appropriated out of the fund for Internal linproveient, for the purpose of improving the navigation of Cape-Fear River, be- low Wilmington. CIIAPTER XIX. An net making compensation to cotoners in certain cases. Coroner tore- Be it enacted bq the Geccral .Assembly of the State of North- ,eeivenotanore Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, than $10 for That when any coroner shall hold an inquest over the body of b i any white person, or free person of colour, found dead within free person his county, he shall be entitled to receive, for decently intering found dead, to said body, from the county trustee, on the order of the County mo pait sthe Court, seven justices being present, such sum as s.id court mav Proviso. deer sulfhic1ent, not exceeding ten (DollarS: PrOvidtl (he friends of the deceased shall reluse or neglect to inter thi said body; The sun paid which said sum so allowed and paid said coroner, shall be a charge to lie ita r cre :katst the ,n- against the estate of laid deceased, which the county trustee pay- tate of the de- ing, the same, or his successor in office, shall use a', lawful ways ceased. and means to recover. Cornt 1I. pnd be it farther enacted That where the coroner shall oo 'letrs' ytold an inquest over the body of any negro slave found dead in Itepro, ti his county, he shall receive from the county trustee upon the Baie. order of the County Court, seven justices being present, such compensation as said court may order and direct, not exceeding Proviso. ten dollars for decently intering the body of said slave: Provi- ded, tie master or owner of such slave shall fail or refuse to Trustee nu- inter. the body of such slave, which sum said master or owner thori~etl to I-e covesaistint shall pay back to said trustee, who is hereby authorised to war- froi tie own- rant said master or owner and recover the amount so, as afore- erortheslave, said, paid to said coroner. Titisactnotto ' prevett coe sll. .Ind be itfrther enacted, That nothing herein contained, ner frotn re- shall be so construed as to prevent the coroner from receiving ceiving other such other fees, as are now allowed by law. fees allowed by law. CHAPTER XX. An act supplemcntal toan act, passed at the last session of the Genetid Assen- bly, entitled An act to cede to tle United States a certain tract of land, called Bogite Batks. VIEREAS, it appears that, in pursuance of the before recited Preamble, act, four hundred and five acres, and fifty-nine hundredtlis ofan acre of land, on Bogue Banks, in Carteret county, has been laid off and ceded to the United States, for the purpose of building 12

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