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CHAPTER CLXXIII.

AN ACT TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT CONCERNING AN ENTRY TAKER.

Who to be elected an Eutry Taker.

Who may act when vacancy occurs.

Bond.

Where office to be kept.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. Who to be elected an Entry Taker:

The Board of Commissioners of the several Counties shall elect one person to receive entries of claims for lands within each County; and such entry taker shall hold his office for four years.

SEC. 2. Who may act when a vacancy occurs :

When a vacancy exists in the office of Entry Taker, the Register of Deeds shall act as Entry Taker, until such vacancy is filled by an election by the Commissioners. The Register of Deeds, in such case, shall take charge of the books belonging to the office, shall discharge all the duties and receive the emoluments, and shall be subject to the rules, regulations and penalties prescribed by law for Entry Takers.

SEC. 3. Bond:

Every Entry Taker shall enter into bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, payable to the State, with sufficient security to be approved by the County Commissioners, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.

SEC. 4. Where office to be kept:

The Entry Taker shall keep his office at the Court House of his County, or within one mile thereof, on pain of forfeiting one hundred dollars to the County, to be sued for by the County Treasurer.

SEC. 5. Oaths and fees:

The Entry Taker shall take the oath of office and receive the fees, and no other, prescribed in chapter seventy-six, section six, sub-section sixteen, and in chapter one hundred and two, section thirty-two, of the Revised Code.

SEC. 6. Validates certain entries:

And whereas, certain entries of claims for lands have been irregularly made before former Entry Takers or Clerks of the Superior Courts, since the abolition of the late County Courts, and under the provisional government of the State, whereby doubts exist respecting the validity of such entries; for remedy whereof, It further enacted, That all and every entry of land made as declared in the preamble of this section, be and the same are hereby rendered valid in all respects, as if made under the existing government of the State and by authority of this act, and that the time for perfecting entries made prior to this date, shall have to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy, to perfect entries and obtain grants from the State.

SEC. 7. When act to have effect:

This act shall have effect from the date of its ratification, and all laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Ratified the 10th day of April, A. D. 1869.

Oaths and fees.

Validates entries.

CHAPTER CLXXIV.

AN ACT TO CEDE TO THE UNITED STATES A CERTAIN TRACT

OF LAND IN WAKE COUNTY.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do

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enact, That the Governor of this State be and he is hereby ized to grant, &c. authorized and directed to grant or cede, in behalf of the

National Cemetery

Officers not debarred, &c.

State, to the United States of America, a certain parcel of land, situated in the County of Wake, the same being a rectangular tract of land, five hundred and twenty-four (524) feet in width, and bounded on the north by land owned by B. F. Moore, on the east by land owned by J. P. II. Russ, and on the south and west by land owned by this State.

SEC. 2. That this grant is made in consideration of the United States occupying this parcel of land herein directed to be granted as a National Cemetery; and whenever it shall cease to be used for such purposes, the title to the same shall revert to this State.

SEC. 3. That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to debar or hinder any of the officers of this State from suing any process or levying executions within the limits of this act, ceded to the United States in same manner and to the same effect as if this act had never been passed.

SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 10th day of April, A. D. 1869.

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AN ACT TO PROVIDE A TRIAL JURY FOR THE SECOND WEEK
OF THE TERM OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS.

Jurors to be drawn.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the County Commissioners in addition to the thirty-six names which they are empowered to draw by the sixth section of an act of the General Assembly, ratified on the fourth day of August, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to empower the County Commissioners to draw jurors for the Superior

Courts," shall at the same time and in the same manner as specified in said act, draw eighteen names, who shall be summoned to appear and serve during the second week of the term of said Courts, unless the Judge thereof shall sooner discharge all jurors from further service.

SEC. 2. That the trial jury which has served during the Discharged. first week of the term shall be discharged by the Judge at

the close of said week.

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

Ratified the 10th day of April, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER CLXXVI.

AN ACT TO DEFINE AND PUNISH BRIBERY.

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SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Bribery at clecenact, That any person who shall receive, expect, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, or promise to contribute, to another to be paid or used any money or other valuable thing, or who shall make any promise to influence, or as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election shall not vote at said election; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged before the judge or other officers authorized for that purpose to receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before said judges or other officers, that he has not received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contribute, offered or promised to contribute, to another to be paid or used any money, or other valuable thing, nor made any promise to influence, or as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election: Provided, That any person convicted in any Court of law in this State, of hav

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ing falsely sworn in such case, shall be liable to all the pains and penalties inflicted in cases of perjury.

Qfficers guilty of SEC. 2. That any person holding office under the laws of this State who, except in payment of his legal salary, fees er perquisites, shall receive, or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, anything of value or of personal advantage, or the promise thereof, for performing or omitting to perform, any official act, or with the express or implied understanding that his official action, or omission to act, is to be in any degree influenced thereby, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison for a term not exceeding five years, or a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

Persons offering bribe.

Accused allowed to testify.

Persons liable to indictment.

SEC. 3. That any person offering a bribe, if it shall be accepted, shall not be liable to civil or criminal prosecution, but any person who offers or promises a bribe, shall be deemed guilty of an attempt to bribe, which is hereby declared to be a felony, and on conviction, shall be punished as provided in section two of this act.

SEC. 4. That any person charged with receiving a bribe, or with offering or promising a bribe that is rejected, shall be permitted to testify in his or her own behalf in any civil or criminal prosecution therefor.

SEC. 5. That any person or persons who shall directly or indirectly promise, offer or give, or cause or procure to be promised, offered or given any money, goods, right in action, bribe, present or reward, or any promise, contract, undertaking, obligation or security for the payment or delivery of any money, goods, rights in action, bribe, present or reward, or any other valuable thing whatever, to any member of the Senate or House of Representatives of this State after his election as such member, and either before or after he shall have qualified and taken his seat after the passage of this act, with intent to influence his vote or decision on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may then be pending before the General Assembly, or which may

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