Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1866-04-06

try and giving certificate of the same, the
clerk shall be entitled to fee of twenty-
five cents, to be paid by the party tor
whom the services are rendered.
!. e. BE 1T fuather enacted, That if any OF
such persons shall fail to 60 before the
Clerk of the County Court or some Justice
Of the Peace Of the County in which they
reside, and have their marriage recorded
before the first of September 1866, they
shall be deemed guilty Of a misdemeanor,
and punished at the discretion Of the court
and their failure for each month thereafter
shall constitute d separate and distinct OF
tense.
Z. Be 1t further enacted, That all con-
tracts between any persons whatever,
whereof one or more OF them shall be
person of coler, for the sale or purchase OF
any horse, mule, ass, jennet, neat cattle.
hog, sheep or goat, whatever may be the
value OF snch articles, and all contracts be-
tween sach persons for any other article or
articles OF property whatever Of the valne
OF ten dollars Or more; and all contracts ex-
ecuted or executory between such persons
for the payment pfmoney ofthe value of
ten dollars or more shall be as void as to
all persons whatever, unless the same be
put in writing and be s.gned by the ven
ders Or debtors, and Witnessed by white
person who can read ane write
s. Be Al. further enacted, That marriages
between white persons and persons of col
or shall be void; and every person author
lied to soIemnize the rights Of matrimony,
who shall knowingly soletnnize the same
between such persons; and every clerk of
a court who shall knowingly issue license
,1 d l..~
OF a lnisdemeanor, and, moreover, shall
pay penalty Of five hundred dollars to
any person suelng for the same.
8. Be 1t further enacted, That persons of
color, not otherwise incompetent, shall be-
verses at law and i'll equity, where the
color shall be put in issue, and would be
concluded by the Judgment or decree OF
court; and also in pleas OF the State. where
| the violence fraud or ininry alleged shall
be charged to have been done by or to per-
sons of color. In all other civil and Grim
inal cases snch evidence shall be deemed
mad cmissible, unless by consent of the par
ties of record: Pyova0ed, That this section
shall not go into effect until Jurisdiction in
matters relating to Freedmen shall be fully
cou,mitted to the Courts OF this State:
Psovided further, That no person shall be
deemed incomr etelt to bear testimony Ia
snch cases, because OF being party to the
record or III interest.
TO- Belt further enacted, That whenever
! p person Of color shall re examined as q
witness, the court shall warp the witness
to declare the trnth.
! II. Belt further enacted, That any per-
son of color convicted by due course Of
i law, of an assault with the intent to com
nit rape upon the body ofa white female
shall suffer death.
i 12. Be 1T ffu,the, enacted That the Grim
/ inal laws OF State, embracing and efectins
a white person, are hereby extended te
! persons of color, except where it is other
4 wise provided in this act, and wheneve
they Shall BE convicted of any act made
) criminal, il committed by a white person
) they shall be punished i'll Ike manner
except in cases where other and differen
) punishment may be prescribed or allowed
: by .i,is act. - a%.',.-.. '2.. =. .....
/ 13. Be 1t further enacted, That at til
5 time now provided for the election of war
J, dens of the poor, the Justices Of the Cour
) of Pleas and Quarter Sessions OF each coun
r ty, under the rules and regulations nov
: prescribed may, in their discretion, cleo
8 two distinct and independent courts Q
II wardens; one of whom shall act as the war
= dens sofafhe white poor, and the others a
3 the war6ens of the colored poor8 *ss1 ..st