As security first money received other source may be from tax list or any SEC. 2. As collateral security for the payment of the amount borrowed as above mentioned, the Public Treasurer is authorized to pledge such an amount from the first pledged. moneys received from the tax list of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to pay the same from the first moneys received into the Treasury from this or any other source. Ratified the 21st day of December, A. D. 1868. corporated Three persons to be appointed by Commissioners to hold elections, who SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the Commissioners of the several Towns in the State of North Carolina shall appoint three shall make list, &c. persons of their respective Towns to hold their municipal elections for Mayor and Commissioners, and said inspectors shall make out two statements of the election so held, and return one to the Register of Deeds of their County, and return the other to the Secretary of the Town in which the election was held. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Ratified the 21st day of December, A. D. 1868. upon County Com SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina Powers conferred do enact, That all powers conferred upon the County Courts missioners. by chapter seventy-one of the Revised Code, in reference to the building of public water mills be and the same are hereby conferred upon the County Commissioners. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 21st day of December, A. D. 1868. AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB Appropriation for defraying expenses. Public Treasurer authorized to pay out of moneys. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum, during the current fiscal year. SEC. 2. That the Public Treasurer be authorized to pay the said amount of thirty thousand dollars to the Treasurer of said Asylum out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 13th day of January, A. D. 1869. Preamble. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT CONCERNING THE GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES. WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen in regard to the proper construction of sub-division fourteen of section eight of an act entitled "An act concerning the government of Counties, approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight; and the Commissioners of Counties in some parts of the State have been advised that it was their duty to cause new surveys of their Counties to be made and maps of the same filed with the Secretary of State before January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, contrary to the intention of the framers of said act; therefore, for the purpose of removing all doubts in the premises, teen, how construed SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina Sub-division fourdo enact, That sub-division fourteen of section eight of said act shall not be so construed as to make an instrumental survey of their Counties mandatory upon the Commissioners, but such survey shall be made when, in the opinion of the Commissioners, it is necessary for the proper defining of Township boundaries, at such time as may be convenient, and when made, a map and survey shall be filed as provided by said section. Ratified the 19th day of January, A. D. 1869. CHATER XV. AN ACT FOR THE CHARTER OF A FERRY ACROSS NEUSE RIVER IN THE COUNTY OF CRAVEN. establish a Ferry. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Israel Pettiford to enact, That Israel Pettiford, of the County of Craven, and his heirs and assigns, shall have the right unmolested to establish and maintain a ferry across Neuse River, from and opposite the City of Newbern, along the line and place as used by the old Gaskins' Ferry, and that the said Israel Pettiford and his successors shall be authorized to make reasonable charges and rates of transit thereon. Grant for 25 years. SEC. 2. That this grant shall continue for twenty-five years. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 19th day of January, A. D. 1869. CHAPTER XVI. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE W. D. JUSTICE, FORMER SHERIFF OF Sundry Sheriff's authorized to collect arrears of taxes. Proviso. When authority to cease. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That W. D. Justice, former Sheriff of Henderson County, and the other Sheriffs herein named: O. R. Colgrove, Jones; E. F. Cox, Lenoir; T. W. Patterson, Rockingham; E. A. Gupton, Franklin; Geo. Credle, Hyde; N. R. Jones, Warren; G. J. Williams, Chatham; Wm. Haymore, Surry; W. E. Pearcy, Yancey; R. M. Stafford, Guilford; K. H. Worthy, Moore; S. R. Bunting, New Hanover; Lewis Bond, Bertie; E. H. Ray, Wake; Nelson Slough, Cabarrus; John L. Harris, Person; W. A. Murray, Alamance; David Lofton, Davidson, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to collect all arrears of taxes due them for the years eighteen hundred and sixtysix and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, under the same rules and restrictions as other collection of taxes by virtue of the laws of the State: Provided, That if any person shall have paid his tax and lost their receipt, may make oath to the same, and it shall have the same effect as a receipt. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the power and anthority hereby granted shall cease with the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 26th day of January, A. D. 1869. AN ACT TO TRANSFER CASES FROM THE DOCKET OF THE LATE SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the Clerk of the Criminal Court in Craven County, abolished by act of General Assembly, ratified the eleventh day of August, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the cases on the docket of the same at the time it was abolished to the Superior Court of Craven County, on or before the third Monday in January, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 26th day of January, A. D. 1869. court directed to transfer cases to Su Clerk Criminal perior Court, CHAPTER XVIII. AN ACT TO PROHIBIT HUNTING ON THE SABBATH. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Hunting on the enact, That if any person or persons whomsoever shall Sabbath prohibited. be known to hunt in this State on the Sabbath with a |