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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0186 and id is 1 raw text is: to erect a Dam across Roaring River, and to build a Mill on his own
land on said River, at or near a place called the Rock House.
II. ./1nd be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws,
conflicting with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
[Ratified 15th December, 1838.]
CHAPTER XLVIII.
AN ACT to emancipate Caroline Cook and her four children, viz:
Pamelia, Archibald T., James Ellis, and Martha Jane.
Be it enacted by the General dssembly of the State of .North-
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That
Caroline Cook, wife of Joshua Cook, and her four children, viz: Pa-
mlia, Archibald T., James Ellis, and Martha Jane, slaves, the property
of Archibald Lovelace, of the county of Wilkes, be, and they are here-
by, with the consent and the request of their said owner, emancipated
and set free, and by their names of Caroline Cook, Pamelia Cook, Ar-
.chibald T. Cook, James Ellis Cook, and Martha Jane Cook, shall here-
after possess and exercise all the rights and privileges which are en-
joyed by other free persons of colour in this State: Provided, never-
theless, that before said slaves shall be emancipated, the said Joshua
Cook, or their said Master, shall give bond and good security in the
County Court of Wilkes county, that said slaves shall honestly demean
themselves as long as they shall remain in the State, and shall not be-
come a county charge, which said bond shall be made payable to the
State of North-Carolina, and may be sued upon in the name of the State,
to the use of the counity, and of any person injured by the mal-conduct
of said slaves.
[Ratified 92d December, 1838.]
MISCELLANEOUS.
V838-39.]
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