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CHAPTER LI.

AN ACT TO GRANT A TOWN LOT IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH TO
TRUSTEES TO BE USED FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

lot for educational

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Donation of Town enact, That a certain lot of land and the improvement purposes. thereon, situated and lying in the northwestern portion of the City of Raleigh, on the corner of Dawson and Lane street, and bounded as follows, viz: beginning at the intersection of Dawson and Lane streets, running thence northwardly with Dawson street two hundred and fifteen feet, thence westwardly and parallel with Lane street one hundred and twenty-eight feet, thence southwardly and parallel with Dawson street two hundred and fifteen feet to Lane street, thence with Lane street eastwardly one hundred and twenty-eight feet to the beginning, be, and the same is hereby granted to James H. Harris, Alexis Long, Benjamin Rhodes, Oliver Roane and Moses Patterson, and their lawful successors, as Trustees for the period of ninety-nine years, upon the express trust that the same shall be held and used for the purpose of a school for the education of children residing in and near the City of Raleigh.

in Raleigh.

SEC. 2. The Trustees shall always reside in the City of Trustees to reside Raleigh.

SEC. 3. In case of any vacancy in the Board of Trustees Vacancies. hereby appointed, either from death, disqualification, by

reason of removal from Raleigh, or resignation, the remain

ing Trustees shall fill such vacancy.

from taxation.

SEC. 4. The property described and granted in section Property exempt one of this act shall be exempt from State, County and City taxation.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from the date of its ratification.

Ratified the 19th day of February, A. D. 1869.

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CHAPTER LII.

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE THE POWER AND DUTY OF THE GOVERNOR
IN RESPECT TO FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE.

Governor may issue a reward.

To whom reward shall be paid.

Officer failing to discharge his duty may be indicted.

Detective force.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the Governor on information made to him of any person having committed a felony, and of having fled. to parts unknown, whether within or without the jurisdiction of the State, may issue his proclamation, and therein offer a reward, not exceeding five hundred dollars, according to the nature of the case, for the apprehension and delivery of such fugitives to any common jail in the State.

SEC. 2. That the reward authorized in the preceding section shall be paid to the person or persons who may arrest and cause to be committed such fugitive; but no part thereof shall be paid to any Sheriff or other peace officer whose duty it is by law to pursue and arrest felons fleeing from justice, and whom the Governor, on satisfactory evidence, may deem to have been guilty of a default in making such pursuit and arrest previous to issuing any proclamatior. SEC. 3. That the Governor is directed, upon information made to him of any Sheriff or other peace officer having failed to discharge his duty in pursuing and arresting felons, as prescribed in the second section, chapter thirty-five of the Revised Code, to cause the facts of such failure or neglect on the part of a peace officer to be laid before the Solicitor of the State for the Judicial District in which such delinquent peace officer may reside, to the end that he may be indicted for the same.

SEC. 4. That the Governor, either with or without issuing the proclamation authorized by the first section of this act, be and he is hereby further empowered to employ a detective force as he may deem sufficient, to pursue and apprehend any felon who is a fugitive from justice, whether within or without the limits of the State; and such detec

tive force shall be in all things subject to the orders and directions of the Governor, shall report to him from time to time and be paid by him for services, in no case exceeding five hundred dollars for the arrest and safe delivery to jail of any one felon.

SEC. 5. That the Governor is authorized to issue his Pay for arrest of. warrant to the Public Treasurer, from time to time, for sufficient sums of money for the purposes required by this act.

SEC. 6. That all laws and parts of laws, in conflict with

the provisions of this act are repealed.

SEC. 7. That this act shall take effect and be in force Repealing clause. from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 19th day of February, A. D. 1869.

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AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION SECOND OF THE ACT PASSED BY THIS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RATIFIED THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF FEB-
RUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE, ENTITLED AN
ACT TO CHANGE THE TIME OF HOLDING THE COURTS IN THE
NINTH, TENTH, ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

of holding Courts repealed.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Act changing time enact, That section second of the act entitled an act to change the time of holding the Courts in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth Judicial Districts, passed at the present session, in which the change of holding the Courts in the eighth Judicial District was made, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 20th day of February, A. D. 1869.

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AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS IN THE
CAPITOL AND EXECUTIVE MANSION TO STATE EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS.

Governor to assign rooms in Capitol.

Proviso.

Repealing clause.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to assign rooms in the Capitol and Executive Mansion to the State Executive officers: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to empower the Governor to interfere with the assignment made heretofore of rooms to the Supreme Court.

SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 20th day of February, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER LV.

AN ACT IN FAVOR OF WILLIAM A. PHILPOTT, LATE SHERIFF OF
GRANVILLE COUNTY, AND JOHN L. HARRIS, OF PERSON

COUNTY.

May collect arrears of taxes.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That William A. Philpott, late Sheriff of Granville County, and John L. Harris, of Person County, be author ized and empowered to collect arrears of taxes due to them, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as are provided for the collection of the public taxes by the several Sheriffs of this State: Provided, This act shall not continue in force longer than the 1st day of January, Anno Domini,

eighteen hundred and seventy: And provided further, That said Sheriffs are not hereby authorized to collect arrears of taxes further back than taxes due for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 25th day of February, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER LVI.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE
RESULTS IN THE LATE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.

WHEREAS, The law regulating the mode of comparing Preamble. returns and declaring the result of elections for members of Congress in this State is inconsistent with the law providing for the late Congressional election and could not be complied with, and there is now no officer authorized to compare the returns; and whereas, the Secretary of State did direct the Sheriffs to forward to his office full and accurate returns of the vote in each County respectively, which said returns are now in the said Secretary's office, according to his report therefore,

returns.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Board to compare enact, That the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Auditor are hereby constituted a Board, whose duty it shall be forthwith to compare the returns of the late Congressional election now in the office of the Secretary of State and ascertain the persons elected.

issued.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of said Board to give Commission, how to each person, thus ascertained to be elected to the fortyfirst Congress, a certificate of his election, upon which cer

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