The Office and Duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a Guide to Sheriffs, Coroners, Clerks, Constables, and Other Civil Officers: According to the Laws of North Carolina. With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of this State, the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Thereto; and a Collection of the Most Approved Forms |
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... owner ; a master or con for dan of any ship or vessel conveying out of this state on boar his vessel any negro or mulatto slave or slaves , without the owner's consent in writing , or who shall receive on board any such slave or slaves ...
... owner ; a master or con for dan of any ship or vessel conveying out of this state on boar his vessel any negro or mulatto slave or slaves , without the owner's consent in writing , or who shall receive on board any such slave or slaves ...
Page 41
... owner or possessor twenty shillings , to be recovered by a warrant issued by any justice of the peace of the county wherein the offence is committed ; who shall hear and deter mine the offence , and if after conviction the offender ...
... owner or possessor twenty shillings , to be recovered by a warrant issued by any justice of the peace of the county wherein the offence is committed ; who shall hear and deter mine the offence , and if after conviction the offender ...
Page 42
... owner will pay the fine . But these penalties do not extend to any person pressing any such vessels by public authority , or seizing his own pro- per boat , canoe , or pettiauger , or seizing the same for the owner and by his authority ...
... owner will pay the fine . But these penalties do not extend to any person pressing any such vessels by public authority , or seizing his own pro- per boat , canoe , or pettiauger , or seizing the same for the owner and by his authority ...
Page 44
... owner of a toll bridge shall give bond and sufficient security in the sum of 500l . payable to the chairman of the court and his successors , with condition to keep such bridges in good repair , and always to be well attended for ...
... owner of a toll bridge shall give bond and sufficient security in the sum of 500l . payable to the chairman of the court and his successors , with condition to keep such bridges in good repair , and always to be well attended for ...
Page 46
... owner only hath left for a short season with an intention of returning , is the object of burglary ; and if the barn , stable , or warehouse be parcel of the mansion house , though not under the same roof or contiguous , a burglary may ...
... owner only hath left for a short season with an intention of returning , is the object of burglary ; and if the barn , stable , or warehouse be parcel of the mansion house , though not under the same roof or contiguous , a burglary may ...
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Page 359 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 347 - Georgia, and containing about 5,000 acres more or less, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof...
Page 359 - State, is not perhaps to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest alone been consulted the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others...
Page 339 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.
Page 339 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Page 354 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 361 - ... from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 369 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...
Page 358 - That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 360 - Congress that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred ; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.