The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-02-08
TEE REGULATION.
Husbands Book.

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IN Impartial Relation efhe FIra Rise
aad Cease 81 tks Present DiGaiiiss On Pa1iie
.!Gairs u az province ~ .ksIih cGsliaa. &c
In Orange county The firs, disturbances
Is generally s,eribed 10 have arisen: bul
Gran, lille aud Halifax counties we're
d. eply engaged ~ the ssue qusurlmsny
wears before Orsnge: So that il may be
necessary 70 give aiew paragraphs oui Of
some ei their pspers, 10 show. that IL
-ss The same grievance sRd oppression
lhal incensed al lhs eoust es. without
corresponding wiIh each other. For
though Granville county had been ., war,
a. IL y ere. some years before The siut-
hsn,e in Orange, yea ~e never hesrl Of
Il nll IL broke out in Orange.
TIIsre lo.lews an extract. the title Of
sh,ch !. msliisied; hut as ne make % oul,
reads nearly % follows:
- . r,ous address 10 the inhabi,sn,s
az Granville County. containing an sc-
count 81 our deplorabls si,usiinn .
We sTfer,-Aad some necessary binw
with respect 10 3 rrformsilon.
T" save my country, tiesrsns, shall be my last
Pope.
Then. sf,cr treating on the nature oilaw
p p 81 Il n tf q ifSs:
&" We'll. gentlemen, IL 10 not our form
or mode III government. nor Sc, the body
of our Laws hat We are qusrrelling with.
bu. with The mslprscnces of the officers
Of our County Court, and the abuses that
we suffer by those that are Empowered TO
manage our public affairs: This 10 The
gtis, snce, gentlemen. tina, demands spr
serious attention. And shall,
"Thiidiv, shnw the notorious and IN
,olerable sbuses that has GRIP, into the
pracucr Of The law in this county. and
doubt not but into other counties also;
though that doea not concern Us. la the
fts, pl.ce. there is law That provides
that . lawyer .h.ll take no more than If
teen shlllrngs for their fee In The County
Coun. Well, gentlemen, which 81 you
has had your business done for fifteen
| shilIirg.! The exact thirty Tor every
cause: Aud three--iour--and Ave pounds
for every Cause attended. with the least
difficulty, end laugh q, Us Cor our s,upi
d,,y and tame submissicn 10 these DIN
j, &C."
Another paragraph runs thus in sub.
stance:
"A poor man is supposed to have ei-
ven HIS iudgmen. bond Tor i've pounds;
and this bond i. by his creditor thrown
INTO Court. The Clerk Of the county
has ID enter i, on the docket, and issue
execution, the work Of one long minute,
for which the poor man has to pay him
tie uif,rg sum Of forty lone sh'llings and
ive-pencr. The Clerk, in consIdera-
g, tin he is poor man. takes il outin ~ork,
al eighteen pence dav. The poor man
works some more than ~ en'y-seyen da. 1
10 pay ior this one minutes writing.
Well, the poor man reflects thu: Al
Ibis tate, when shall ] get 10 labout loo my
family! / have a wife aud parcel of small
:, children suffering al home, aud here
have lost a whole month, and l dom
know for what: Tor my merchant 10 as TAI
from bring pad yet as ever. However
W N 90 home now. and try aud DO what
can. Say, ne,gbbor. you have not hal
done yet.-.here is id lawyers m"u'l
TO st p yrr-for you Empowered him Il
confess tha,you owed this FIVE pounds, ant
you have thuty sl,illings to pay him io'
that. or go and ~o,k nineteen days more
aud then you mus, work aslong TO pay 'h'
j. sheriff tor h,s ,roubl,; and then you MAJ
90 home aud see your horses and cow
Sid, and al your personal estate, Tor Ont
ten h part of,he value. TO pay of your met
chant. Aud lastly. il The debt is s" great
tia, al your personal estate will not do t
rare The money, which is no, 10 be had
--then goes your lands she same way II
4 sa,isfy these cursed hungry ca,erp'llars
tina, will ca, on, the very bowels oil gu
common wealth, if they are not pulled
! down from their nests in very short time
And Whist need. say, TO urge reiorna
on. Ii these things were absolutely &C
co,diUg ~ las.n we're enough TO make u
i rho fees in eur superior Courts is as ma
~ u d eds.