The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-14

AN ACT to incorporate the Richiand Female
Academy in the county OF ons titsd 80 An act
the better regulation of the town OF Greenyiile,
and to increase the powers OF Inc con'inlssioners
of said town." a,..a,.,,,,,;, Co..;
narv in Pennsylvania county, at or near the town
Oh M ACT to authorize the clerk of the Court of
pleas and Quarter Sessions of Chowan county to
anaIify the Sheriff elect Of said county. Author
;zes te clerk to assemble the magistrates at the
court house to take the bonds of the Sheriff.
AN ACT to charter the High Shoals Railroad
Company.
AN ACT to authorize the Wardens of the poor
in case any INDECENT person becomes chargeabie
to county, possessed of any estate which is
insufficient for the support of such INDECENT per- 4
SOB, to institute proceedings to subjecl he same
to the indemnity of the county whose -. >. -
made by law to provide for the maintainancc
the poor thereof.
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States.
AN ACT to incorporate the inhabitants of the
town Of Wilmington.
statnte of limitation. Provides that in all cases
that when the loss of time is made a bar OF the
claims. the time between May 10th, 1861, and
January LIST, 1867, shall not be counted
AN ACT to extend the time allowed to widows
to enter their dissent to the lost will and tesla
ment of their husbands Provides that where an
estate has not been finally settled, the widow of
all testators whose wills have been admitted to
probate since January l, 1862, and before the LIST
day of May 1865, whose real estate has not been
sold. may have six months from the ratification of
this act to enter their dissent to the same, and al
lows her (if she dissents from the willy the same
right of dover, as if her husband died intes
tate
~ nm tho nc
of oyer and terminer. Provides that defendants
in all bills of indictment found but not disposed
of at the several courts of oyer and termlner snail
be held for trial at the next regular term OF the
Superior Court of the county in the same man
ner as though the said bills had been found at a
regular term of the Superior Court.
AN ACT to authorize the County Court of
Cumberland to appoint inspectors of naval
stores.
AN ACT to amend the county line of Mitchell
county and to annex part of Yancy county to
the county of Mitchell, amended SO as to run
from the mouth of Big Rock creek down Loe
river to the mouth of Brumits creek and up the
extreme height of the ridge that divides the wa
tiers of Pigeon Roost creek and Brumits creek to
the top of the big ridge to the former line OF the
county of Mitchell, and then running with said
line to where it joins the Tennessee line and then
running with the old line to the mouth of Big
Rock creek, SO as to leave all west OF said first
named line to the county of Yancy.
AN ACT to amend an act passed by the Gener,
al Assembly, at the Session OF 1898 5Oentltied
can act to amend the act passed by the General
| Assembly of North Carolina, at the session OF
1886, to incorporate the Town oi AehoAi' III
| Caldwell county"
AN ACT to regulate salaries and fees Allows
the Governor $1,000 and a furnished house.
| Councillors of State the same pay as members OF
| the General Assembly, for every day OF attend
| ance Judges of the Supreme and Superior Court
s.. 500; Public Treasurer, $1,000; Chief Clerk to
Treasurer, s1.500; Secretary OF State, SLSSO, and
| fees: Private Secretary to Governor, LOCO, and
fees; Attorney General, 500 for his attendance
on each regular term of the Supreme Court, and
$50 for each term ofSuperior Court, OF any coun-
ty he shall attend, and the fees allowed by law;
each Solicitor of the State, $50 for every term OF
the Superior Court he shall attend, and fees Re-
porter of the Supreme Court 5000, and fees Pub
lie Librarian, $780,; Messenger to Governor,
1865; Clerk Of the Supreme Court, $500, and for
ty cents for recording as heretofore, besides the
| regular fees Clerks of the Superior and County
| Courts, and Clerks and Masters in Equity, ju-
rors, and witnesses, fifty per cent in addition to
the fees now allowed by law.
AN ACT to punish seditious language, lnsurrec-
tons and rebellions in the State. Any person
| guilty of seditious language, spoken, written or
printed or endeavoring to incite direction, con-
spiracy, sedtion or rebellion against the Govern
ment of the State, shall stand in the pillory one
| hour. receive one or more public whippings not
less than thirty-nine lashes each, and be imprls-
| oned twelve months, and Furnishes with death any.
| person found guilty of rebellion or .insurrectlon,
or melting others to join him, or them
| AN ACT to consolidate and amend the several
acts heretofore passed for the better regulation of
| the town of Jacksonville, in Onslow county.
| An ACT to rc-enact 4th Section 102 Chapter Re-
vised Code. The section reads as follows: Every
| Judge shall produce certificate from the Clerk
of each County, of his having held the Court OF
the county according to law and for every such
certificate, omitted to be produced, there shall
be deduction from his salary of one hundred
<t,k Eanfn IF
attendance shall be given by the Clerks OF the Su-
periOr Courts of Northampton, Hyde, DAVE,
Currituck, Person, and cleveland, until four
o'clock on Thursday evening of each week, when
the Court shall be held: and the certificate shall
be void if it do not certify that the presiding
Judge was present and held the court until that
time, and until the business was disposed OF, I'M
less some unavoidable circumstance shall prevent
the courts of said counties from being held at
the prescribed time, and then the same shall also
be certified i'll the certificate.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled IAN act TO
amend the charter of the town OF Salisbury.
AN ACT to restore jury trials to the Courts OF
Pleas and Quarter Sessions in this State in crlml-
nal Gives the county Court the jurisdiction
to enquire into, try, hear and determine petit lar
cenes assaults and batteries, all tresspasses and
breaches of the peace, and all other crimes and
misdemeanors, the Judgment upon conviction,
whereof shall not extend to life. limb ormember,
excepting those only, whereof the original luris
diction is given exclusively to one or two Justi-
ces of the Peace to the Superior or Supreme
Courts
AN ACT to amend the 4th section of Chapter
81 Revised Code, relating to fugitiyes from JUS
tice. [So amended as to authorize the Governor to
offer the reward for felons who have fled from
justice, whether within or without the jurisdic-
ton of the State.
AN ACT to outlaw felons who flee from justice.
Gives two justices of the Peace, or Judge OF the
Supreme or Superior Court, on written affidavit,
filed and retained, that felony has been commit
ted and the person fees from justice, or evades
C usual process of law, the power to issue
proclamation against such person. requiring him
to surrender himself, and to empower the Sheriff
to take such force as he shall fit to apprehend
such fugitive; and if he do not surrender himself
any citizen or officer, after warning him to surren
der, may say him without accusation orimpeach
ment of any crime.
taxes of 1865 in counties where no Sheriff OF
other officer was qualified under the revenue or
dnance of the Convention. Requires the present
Sherfs to collect said tax and pay it over to the
| Public Treasurer.
An ACT to punish vagrancy Makes it the duty
of any Justic. of the Peace upon proof of any
person who may be able to labor, and has no ap
parent means of subsistence, andneglects to apply
himself to some honest occupation for the sup
port of himself and family if he has one or BIZ
found spending his time in dissipation or gaming
or sauntering about without employment, or en-
deayoring to get support by any undue or unlawful
MEANS to issue warrant for the arrest of the of
fender to be brought before some Justice OF thu
Peace; and if found to be vagrant to recognize
him with good security, for his appearance to thu
nextterm of the Court, next succeeding, and upoI
failure to givebo to be imprisoned until Court
+ Progided he may at the Court give bond and Sc
curity for good behavior and industrious deport
, ment for one year and be discharged, but if h
fail to give bond and pay cost, he shall be prose
, cuted, and upon conviction, the Court may flint
or imprison him or both, or sentence him to TIN