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... Slave or Slaves to work on the Lord ' s Day or any of the other Days appointed
by this Act to be kept Holy every such Master , Mistress or Overseer shall for
every Servant or Slave forfeit & pay the sum of Five Shillings for every such
offence .
... Slave or Slaves to work on the Lord ' s Day or any of the other Days appointed
by this Act to be kept Holy every such Master , Mistress or Overseer shall for
every Servant or Slave forfeit & pay the sum of Five Shillings for every such
offence .
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... be provided for ; And Provided also , that no person or persons shall be
prosecuted or molested for any offence before mentioned in this Act , unless he
or they be prosecuted for the same within Ten Days after the Offence committed .
XII .
... be provided for ; And Provided also , that no person or persons shall be
prosecuted or molested for any offence before mentioned in this Act , unless he
or they be prosecuted for the same within Ten Days after the Offence committed .
XII .
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V . And be it further Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That any Sur . veyor or
Deputy Surveyor , that shall presume to survey or lay out any lands contrary to
the Directions , Purport and Meaning of this Act , shall , for every Offence , forfeit ...
V . And be it further Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That any Sur . veyor or
Deputy Surveyor , that shall presume to survey or lay out any lands contrary to
the Directions , Purport and Meaning of this Act , shall , for every Offence , forfeit ...
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X . And Be It Further Enacted that if any person or persons convicted of any
offence mentioned in this Act shall not have wherewith to pay & satisfy the
Forfeitures mentioned in this Act for such offence the Court shall immediately sell
such ...
X . And Be It Further Enacted that if any person or persons convicted of any
offence mentioned in this Act shall not have wherewith to pay & satisfy the
Forfeitures mentioned in this Act for such offence the Court shall immediately sell
such ...
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shall commit such offence & not be capable of paying the Fine or Forfeitures by
this Law imposed he shall for the first offence receive at the Whipping post or in
the Court yard Twenty stripes on his bare back & give security for his good ...
shall commit such offence & not be capable of paying the Fine or Forfeitures by
this Law imposed he shall for the first offence receive at the Whipping post or in
the Court yard Twenty stripes on his bare back & give security for his good ...
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Page 34 - Outlawry, that in all such cases the Party Plaintiff, his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, as the Case shall require, may commence a new Action or Suit, from Time to Time, within a Year after such Judgment reversed, or such Judgment given against the Plaintiff, or Outlawry reversed, and not after.
Page 556 - Payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our, and each of our Heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents.
Page 413 - Act, the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act in Evidence: and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit, or a Judgment pass against him, upon a Verdict or demurrer, the Defendant shall recover double Costs.
Page 34 - ... beyond the seas, that then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the same actions, so as they take the same within such times as are before limited, after their coming to or being of full age, discovert, of sane memory, at large, and returned from beyond the seas, as other persons, having no such impediment, should have done.
Page 3 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 69 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
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Page 488 - Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, and by the Authority of the same, That...
Page 58 - Parish & the other half to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information...
Page 58 - Government and the other half to him or them that shall Sue for the Same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Province wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law to be Allowed...
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| Title | The State Records of North Carolina: Laws, 1715-1776 Volume 23 of The State Records of North Carolina, North Carolina |
| Author | North Carolina |
| Editors | Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks |
| Contributor | North Carolina. Trustees of the Public Libraries |
| Publisher | P.M. Hale, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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