The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1866-03-21
RALEIGH, N. G., WEDNESDAY,

ion, but all such cases may be prosecuted to
Judgment and execution in the manner pre-
scribed bylaw prior to the eleventh Septem-
Der, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or as
provided in any actor acts touching such
wrongs and conferring such jurisdiction.
Beit further enacted, That if any sheriff,
clerk or other officer shall violate any of the
provisions of this act, he shall forfeit the
sum of two hundred dollars to be recovered
by any person sueing for the same in the
name of the State, and shall also be subject
to Indictment for misdemeanor
Be 1T further enacted, That none of the
provisions of this act shall apply to the col
lection of the State or county revenue, or re-
peal of the existing modes or remedies pro-
yided by law for the collection of the same.
). Be it further enacted, That the tax fee upon
justice'sjudgements returnable to the superior
court shall be the same as is now taxed in the
several courts.
Be it further enacted, That the time of four
years be extended to executors and admins
traitors, wherein to settle the estates of their
testators or intestates and further time in
which to plead; at the discretion of the
court.
BE it further enacted, That the provisions
of this act, extending the time of pleading
and the return of executions, shall not apply
to cases arising under chapter seven revised
code, entitled attachment; but proceedings
may be instituted and prosecuted to judg-
ment, and execution ia all respects as is pro-
vided in the said chapter or any act or acts
since passed, concerning attachment.
BE at further enacted, That any action or
suit heretofore brought under any existing
law returnable to the next Fall term of every
superior court of law or equity, shall be
deemed to have been properly brought to said
courts, as if instituted after the next spring
term of said court, and shall be proceeded
with according to the provisions of this act.
Be at further enacted That an act entitled
can act to change the jurisdiction of the
courts and the rules of pleading ratified
the eleventh day of September, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one and also an act entitled
"An act to restore the courts and for other
purposes" ratified the fourteenth of Decem-
Der, eighteen hundred and sixty three, be and
the same are hereby repealed; and except as
herein otherwise provided, full jurisdiction
civil and criminal, as conferred in the county
courts, and the said superior courts of law
and equity in the Revised Code shall be and
the same is hereby restored Prooided, That
no one of the provisions of this act, save the
first section thereof, shall apply to suits upon
the official bonds of sheriffs, coroners, con-
stables, clerks of the county and superior
courts and clerks and masters in equity, nor
| debts contracted since the first day of May,
| eighteen hundred and sixty five; but the
remedy in such cases shall remain as it exist
ed in the year 1860. F5
BE 1t further enacted, That in all suits
brought by any bank of the State or by any
assignee or endorsee of said bank, or any
officer of said bank, that it shall and may be
lawful for the defendant or defendants to SET
off by pleas or on trial any note issued by
said bank or its branches, whether the same
has been presented for payment or not, any
law or usage to the contrary notwithsrand
ing, but said plea of set off or set off on tria
shall not avail to carry costs against the
/ plaintiff, unless there has been tender o
such payment before suit has been brought
! Procided, That this act shall not apply t6
any debt reduced by the sale of depreciation
of Confederate currency af+s
In General Assembly read three times
Ratified this 10th day of March, A. d. 1866
] 80. ~, S.. F. PHILLIPS,
lfe Speaker of the House of Commons.
/ C. s. WINSTEAD,
1 sd aS s Speaker of the Senate.
| A true copy'of the original on file in thi
office. r. w. BEST,
Secretary of State.