Fiscal year. Board shall have power to settle claims. Appropriation for present year. Repealing clause. Charities to visit the Asylum, from time to time, as they may deem expedient, to examine its condition, and make report thereon to the General Assembly, with such suggestions and remarks as they think proper. SEC. 36. The close of the fiscal year shall hereafter be the thirty-first of December in each and every year, and all accounts and estimates shall be made with reference thereto. SEC. 37. The Board of Supervisors shall have power to compromise or settle, on such terms as may seem to them equitable, all claims due the Asylum for board of paying patients, whether in suit or otherwise. SEC. 38. That the Public Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay to the Treasurer of the Insane Asylum such sum of money, not exceeding one-fourth of the annual appropriation, as may be sufficient to defray the ordinary expenses of said Asylum from the close of the present fiscal year to the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, upon the warrant of the Governor and Board of Supervisors, as provided in section thirtieth of this act. SEC. 39. All laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 40. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 9th day of March, A. D. 1869, Pedce river. CHAPTER LXVIII. AN ACT TO REMOVE OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE PEDEE, YADKIN SHAD AND OTHER FISH FREE PASSAGE UP SAID RIVERS. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That eighty feet in the main channel of the river Pedee, from the South Carolina line to the mouth of the Uharie river, in the County of Montgomery, shall be cleared and kept clear of all and every obstruction that may hinder, cause or deter shad or other fish from passing up said river. SEC. 2. That fifty feet in the main channel of the river Yadkin river. Yadkin from the mouth of the Uharie river up to within a distance of five miles of the head waters thereof, shall be cleared and kept clear of all and any obstructions that may hinder, cause or deter shad or other fish from passing up said river. SEC. 3. That fifteen feet of the main channel of the river Uharie from its mouth or confluence with the Pedee and Yadkin rivers in the County of Montgomery, as far up as the County lines of Montgomery and Randolph, shall be cleared and kept clear of all obstructions of any kind that may hinder, cause or deter shad or other fish from passing up said river. Uhario river. sioners to remove SEC. 4. That the County Commissioners of the different County CommisCounties through which the said rivers Pedee, Yadkin and obstructions. Uharie do run or pass, may proceed within thirty days from the passage of this act, or sooner if practicable, without any compensation, to remove all obstructions, in accordance with sections one, two and three of this act. SEC. 5. That if any person or persons shall hinder or delay the said Commissioners in their duty, or shall put or place, or cause to be placed, any obstructions in said channels mentioned in this act, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the County jail one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court before whom they shall be tried, and that the Superior Court of any County in this State in which such misdemeanor is committed, shall be a proper Court for such trial, and the fine so levied and collected shall go one-half to the person informing against such person or persons, and the other half to go to the County in which conviction is had, after deducting all fees and costs for conviction and collecting. Penalty for causing obstructions. Repealing clause. SEC. 6. That all laws, acts, or part of laws or acts coming in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. That this act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 10th day of February, A. D. 1869. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER JOHN M. BATEMAN, SHERIFF OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, TO COLLECT ARREARS OF TAXES FOR THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN. To collect arrears of taxes. Power to cease with year 1869. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That John M. Bateman, Sheriff of Washington County, be, and is hereby authorized and empowered to collect all arrears of taxes due him for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which collection shall be made under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as other collectors of taxes by virtue of the laws of the State. SEC. 2. That the power and authority hereby granted shall cease and determine with the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification, Ratified the 10th day of March, A. D. 1869. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CALDWELL AND &c.. and apply the same. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do May collect tolls, enact, That all that portion of the Caldwell and Watauga Turnpike Road, as constructed by said Company, between the Yadkin Meeting House, in the County of Caldwell, and widow Sull's in Watauga County, shall hereafter constitute the Caldwell and Watauga Turnpike Road, and the said Company may collect such tolls for passing over the same as are now allowed by law, and all tolls collected shall be applied in repairing and improving said Road. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 10th day of March, A. D. 1869. CHAPTER LXXI. AN ACT TO CONFIRM CERTAIN LAND GRANTS ISSUED TO LEWIS W. BRYAN AND OTHERS, IN THE COUNTIES OF ASHE AND WHEREAS, By virtue of chapter, section an act of Preamble. the General Assembly, entitled "An act to encourage the building of iron works in this State," a certain State grant was issued to Caleb Osborne and Elijah Irwin, number four thousand one hundred and forty-two, for a certain body of land, said to contain three thousand acres, in Ashe County, beginning at a double white oak on the Virginia line, thence south thirty-two degrees east, thirteen hundred poles to the store house at Gap Civil, thence south seventy Preamble. degrees east with the State Road two hundred and sixty poles to a white oak, south thirty degrees east with the Thompson Forge Road, one hundred and sixty-eight poles, to a gum at the south end of D. Maxley's lane; then south fifteen degrees east, fifteen hundred and forty poles, passing Ann Alexander's house to a stake and water oak, thence north eighty degrees east, five hundred poles to a white oak by a path in the Bullhead Mountain, thence north seventy degrees cast, by Jackson Woodruff's house, two thousand two hundred and forty poles to a stake, thence north sixteen hundred poles to a stake on the Virginia line, thence with the Virginia line to the first station. Said grant being dated and entered the twenty-ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and issued from the office of the Secretary of State on the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the same marked registered second day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty; and whereas, said grant was set aside and declared null and void for fraud, by a decision of the Supreme Court of the State; and whereas, during the pendancy of the said litigation which resulted in the setting aside the aforesaid grant, divers grants were made to different persons entering said lands as follows, to wit: Lewis W. Bryan, twenty acres, number of grant, four thousand nine hundred and sixty-four. Abram Bryan, forty eight and one-half acres, number four thousand five hundred and nineteen. Abram Bryan, thirty-five acres, number four thousand five hundred and twenty. Robert Bryan, one hundred acres, number four thousand five hundred and twenty-two. William Carson, ninety-five acres, number three thousand two hundred and fifty-eight. Andrew Carson, twenty-nine acres, number three thousand two hundred and sixty-one. Andrew Carson, thirty-two acres, number eleven. |