Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-16
LET BROWN EXPLAIN.
Miss Daisy Branson Who Copied the AS
signment Act Gives an Affidavit That
Requires a Statement from Brown.
Raleigh News and Observer.

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Raleigh News and Observer.
In the case in the Superior
Court to test the assignment act,
brought by Mr.. L. r. Wyatt, the
following affidavit was offered by
Judge Strong:
Miss Branson is a young lady
Of such high character that no
body will for moment question
what she says. "'Reformer''
Brown will need to explain.
miss Daisy Branson, having
been duly sworn, maketh oath
that she copied sundry bills for
enrolment for Mr.. J. W. Brown,
the enrolling clerk Of the last
General Assembly Of North
Carolina; that on Tuesday be-
fore the Wednesday on which
the said General Assembly ad-
journed, or on said Wednesday,
she does not remember which,
the said Brown or one of his
clerks, Mr.. Moore or Mr.. Las
sitter, gave this to the affiant to be
copied, together with'other bills
An Act to Regulate Assign
ments and Other Like Convey
ances in North Carolina;' that
she copied the same on the same
day, within the space Of a few
hours, and returned it with the
others to the Office of the said
Brown and read it over with the
said Brown to see that it was
correctly copied; that this was
the only one Of said bills to
which there was an amendment:
that the amendment to this was;
Amend by striking out in sec
ton 1 all after the word credi-
tors in line five Of said section"
Atfiant further swears that she
did not examine particularly the
entries on the back Of the bill,
but that she does distinctly re-
call this entry, Special Friday
evening S:3O.' On one occasion
when she returned to the said
enrolling clerk bill which she
had copied, he said: This bill is
no. ready to be enrolled or
words to that effect. I cannot
say what bill it was. At first [
took receipts for the bills [ took
to copy, but after awhile, on &C
count Of the rush of business this
was dispensed with and the
clerks who had charge of the
books kept memorandum there
of. [ do not think I gave any
receipt for these bills, including
the one concerning mortgages,
''The foregoing having been
read over to this affiant, she is
shown the document now in the
the custody of J. G. Ellington,
the State librarian Of North
Carolina, entitled An Act Emit
led an Act to Regulate Assign
ments and Other Conveyance of
Like Nature in North Carolina,
and Identifies the same as that
which she copied as aoove
stated. She remembers we'll
and Identifies the proposed am
endment on a separate piece OF
paper and attached thereto, and
also the words Special order
Friday evening 8:3O.' She does
not remember seeing the word
Tabled stamped on the back OF
said bill, and while she did not
examine carefully she thinks j:
, it had been the would have seer
it and that it was not then there
She has seen what processes t(
t be the enrolled bill deposited a.
} the law in the Office of the Sec
retary of State of North Caro-
lima, signed by the President o
the Senate and the Speaker o
l the House of Representatives; i
: is the same copy whic she mad
as herein before stated.
f [Signed DAISY BRANSON.
, "Sworn to and subscribed be
fore me April Sc, 1895.
W. T. SMITH.
NOTARY Public"