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might have been held and claimed in pursuance to any law or act of Assembly hereby repealed & Intended to be repealed shall be good, valid & Effectual in the law to all intents & purposes whatsoever as if the said Laws and every of them were Continued & in force.

V. And saving Likewise to all persons the benefit and advantages of any suit or action already commenced, or Sued upon any Act or Acts hereby repealed, anything herein before to the Contrary notwithstanding.

VI. And Be It Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that these following Laws shall be, remain, and continue, and they are hereby revived & continued.

VII. An Act Concerning Escheat Lands & Escheators.

VIII. An Act for the better and more Effectual preserving the Queen's peace & establishing good and lasting foundation of Government, in North Carolina.

IX. An Act to promote the building a Court house to hold the Assembly in, at the fork of Queen Ann's Creek commonly called Matchacamak Creek in Chowan precinct.

X. An Act to regulate Divers abuses in the taking up land & to ascertain the method to be observed from henceforward in taking up and surveying of Land.

XI. An Act Impowering the Governor to appoint Commissioners to treat with all such Commissioners as shall be appointed by the Government of Virginia relating to the Indian affaires.

XII. An Act for the raising the sum of twenty four thousand pounds in publick bills of Credit for paying the remaining part of the Debts of the Government & for sinking the remaining part of the sum of twelve thousand pounds Publick bills of Credit with two years' Interest.

XIII. Provided always that this Act, nor anything therein Contained shall be construed, adjudged & taken or is & hereby meant or intended to annul, repeal or make void the six following Laws already confirmed by the Lords Proprietors the several titles whereof follows:

1st. An Act concerning Marriages.

2nd. An Act concerning transferring of rights.

3rd. An Act concerning the defraying the Charge of the Government & Council.

4th. An Act prohibiting strangers trading with the Indians.

5th. An Act for the speedy settlement of Land.

6th. An Act exempting new comers from paying Levys for one year. XIV. And provided also, that this Act shall not Extend to make voyd, or annul, any Act or Clause of any Act relating to the Publick funds or bills of Credit, any Act of Naturalization, or any other private Acts, but that all and every such Act & acts are hereby Confirmed and ratified & that the Acts relating to the Publick funds or bills of Credit shall be and continue till they become absolute, or shall be afterwards declared voyd by act of the General Assembly any thing herein before to the contrary notwithstanding. XV. And Be It Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Chief Justice and the Clerk of such & every precinct Court, shall take care, that the transcript, or book of Laws reposited in his or their Custody, shall be constantly laid open upon the Court table during the sitting of the Court for the perusal of such members of the Court or other persons Littigating Causes therein as shall have occasion so to do.

XVI. And Be It Further Enacted that the Clerk of each Court shall at the next Court after receipt thereof publickly & in open Court read over the

same & so yearly at the first Court next following after the first day of May under the Penalty of five pounds for such neglect. And forasmuch as Mr.

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1720.

At a General Biennial Assembly, held at the Court house in Chowan Precinct, the Second Day of August, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty, and continued, by several Adjournments, to the Twentieth Day of the same Month. Charles Eden, Esq., Governor.

CHAPTER I.

An Act for lessening the Poll and Land Tax, and for preventing of Con

cealments.

(Omitted.)

CHAPTER II.

An additional Act, to the Act, intitulled, An Act for Establishing the Church, and appointing Select Vestries.

(Omitted.)

CHAPTER III.

An Act in Addition to the Act, For making a town at Queen Anne's Creek.

(Omitted.)

CHAPTER IV.

An additional Act to an Act, intitulled, an Act concerning Ordinary Keepers and Tippling-houses. (Omitted.)

CHAPTER V.

An Act in Explanation of the Act, Concerning Servants and Slaves.

(Omitted.)

CHAPTER VI.

An Act to confirm a Decree made in the Court of Chancery of this Province, upon a Bill of Complaint exhibited by William Duckenfield, Esq.

Note.

(Printed in Private Acts, post.)

Above are omitted both in Mss. vol, and in Swann's Revisal. ED,

1722.

At a General Biennial Assembly, held at Edenton, in Chowan Precinct, the Second Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-two, and continued by several Adjournments, to the Nineteenth Day of the same Month. William Reed, Esq., President.

CHAPTER I.

An Act, for a Road from Core-Point, on Pamptico, to New Bern, on Neuse River.

I. Whereas a Road from Core-Point, to New Bern Town, would be of very great Use and Advantage to the Inhabitants of the upper parts of Neuse River in particular, and to the County of Bath in general, which, by Reason of the Inhabitants of those parts belonging already to other Districts, canrot be altered but by Authority of Assembly: Wherefore it is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted.

II. And be it Enacted, by his Excellency the Pallatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords Props. of the Province of Carolina, by & with the Advice and Consent of the rest of the Members of this present General Assembly, now met at Edenton, at Queen Anne's Creek, in Chowan Precinct, for the North East part of the said Province, and it is hereby Enacted, by the Authority of the same, That all the Inhabitants living on the South side of Pamptico River, from Derham Creek Upwards; and all the Inhabitants settled on the South Side of Neuse River, from Slocum's Creek upwards, including Trent River; and all the Inhabitants in the Fork of Neuse; are hereby ordered to work on the Main Road that is to be laid out, by the persons hereafter appointed for that purpose, from the North Side of Neuse River, beginning directly over against the Town of New Bern, to Core Point, on the South Side of Pamptico River.

III. And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforsaid, That Capt. Richard Graves, Capt. William Hancock, Mr. John Tripp, and Robert Turner Esqr., or any Three of them, are hereby ordered and Impowered to lay out the said Road from New Bern Town to Core-Point, within three months after the Ratification of this Act, under the Penalty of Twenty Pounds; One half to the Party suing for the same, and the other half to the Vestry of the Two Precincts, for the use of the Parishes: To be recovered, by Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any Court of Record within this Government; wherein no Essoign, Protection, Injunction, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed or admitted of.

IV. And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That Mr. John Trip is hereby appointed Overseer of the People that are liable to work on the said Road, belonging to the South Side of Pamptico River. within the Bounds aforementioned in this Act; And that Capt. Richard Graves is appointed Overseer of the people that are liable to work on the aforsaid Road, within the Bounds mentioned aforesaid: And that the aforsaid Overseers and people are liable to the same Fines and Forfeitures as all other Overseers and People, liable to work on Publick Roads, have heretofore been.

V. And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforsaid, That all the Inhabitants residing on the South Side of Pamptico River, from Derham's Creek downwards, including Bay River; and all the Inhabitants on Beard's Creek, and downwards, living on the North side of Neuse River; are hereby ordered to work on and maintain the old Road that formerly was laid out, from Wilkinson's Point, on the North Side of Neuse River, to the Fork of Derham's Creek, at the plantation that Mr. Thomas Sparrow, deceased, formerly dwelt on: And that they are under the same Fines and Forfeitures as all People liable to work on Public Roads, have heretofore been.

CHAPTER II.

An Act, for Making the Sum of Twelve Thousand Pounds, Public Bills of Credit, for exchanging such of the Public Bills of Credit as are, now Current, thereby to render them the more useful to the Government; and for regulating the Taxes.

OBS.
(Omitted.)

I.

CHAPTER III.

An Additional Act to an Act, Intituled, An Act, appointing Toll-Books. Whereas an Act, intituled an Act, for appointing Toll-Books to be kept in this Government, has been passed; and the said Act has been rendered useless by reason of the Places appointed by it for the Toll-Books to be kept being inconvenient, and the fees allowed to such persons as are appointed to keep them so small, that no person will take the trouble of the said office on himself: Wherefore it is prayed, that an Act may be made for the Continuance of the said Act, and that there be fixed places appointed for the Tollkeepers in the several Precincts, and that the said Toll-keepers Fees be raised:

II. Be It Therefore Enacted, by his Excellency the Pallatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords Proprietors of Carolina, by & with the Advice and Consent of this present General Assembly, now met at Edenton, on Queen Anne's Creek, in Chowan Precinct, for the North East part of the said Province, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That the Toll Office for the Precinct of Chowan, be kept at the head of Katharine's Creek, near Mr. Thomas Speight's, at the Head of Perquimons and at Maycock Creek, in Currituck Precinct; for Bertie Precinct, at Boon's Ferry, and such other Places as the Precinct Court shall appoint: And that every TollKeeper shall be allowed the Sum of Four Pence for each Hog, and Six Pence a head for all Cattle, carried or transported out of this Government, by all Persons carrying or transporting the same, under the like Penalty as in the said Act is mentioned; And the said Toll-keepers are to observe all Articles and Clauses in the said Act mentioned, under the like Pains, Fines and Penalties therein expressed.

CHAPTER IV.

An Act, for Enlarging and Encoragement of the Town called Edenton, in

Chowan Precinct.

(Omitted.)

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