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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... 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 or permit the same to be done for that purpose ...
... 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 or permit the same to be done for that purpose ...
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... vessel adrift , shall forfeit to the 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 ...
... vessel adrift , shall forfeit to the 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 ...
Page 42
... 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 ; nor to any servant or slave taking any such by order of his master , mistress , or ...
... 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 ; nor to any servant or slave taking any such by order of his master , mistress , or ...
Page 136
... vessel entertaining any slave , negro , or mulatto on board his vessel , or any merchaut or trader within this state , harbouring or trading with any slave , free negro , or mulatto , in their storehouses , shops , or tenements wherein ...
... vessel entertaining any slave , negro , or mulatto on board his vessel , or any merchaut or trader within this state , harbouring or trading with any slave , free negro , or mulatto , in their storehouses , shops , or tenements wherein ...
Page 137
... vessel , or the merchant or trader , for such harbouring or tra- ding , on complaint and conviction before two justices of the peace , shall pay a fine of five pounds for the first offence , and ten pounds for every succeeding offence ...
... vessel , or the merchant or trader , for such harbouring or tra- ding , on complaint and conviction before two justices of the peace , shall pay a fine of five pounds for the first offence , and ten pounds for every succeeding offence ...
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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.
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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.