- Title
- Acts passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina [1835]
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- Date
- 1835
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Acts passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina [1835]
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LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. * 5.
the common jail of any such adjoining county shall be bound to re¬
ceive such prisoner or prisoners, upon the order ol'sueh justice, under
the penalties now provided by law for any failure to perform the like
duties.
II. Be it further enacted. That whenever it shall from any cause ^||erc ,>lrrs
happen, that there shall be no public jail, in any county of this State, it is no jai(
shall, and may be lawful, for tire Superior courts of law and equity, the commitment'
courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, justices of the peace, and ail may be made
other judicial officers of such county, toeomrmtall prisoners who may 111 the adjar
he brought before them, whether in a criminal or civil proceed- cent C0U|U*'
ing, to the jail of any adjoining county, for the same causes, and un¬
der the like regulations, that they might have ordered commitments to
the jail oftheir own county, ifanv existed, and the sheriff, constables
or other officers of such county, in which there may be no jail, and the
sheriffs or keepers of the jails in the adjoining counties shall be bound
to obey any order of commitment so made, under the like penalties as
aforesaid.
III. Be it further enacted. That the sheriff constables and other sheriff», fcrv
ministerial officers of any county in which there may be no jail, shall may confine
have full power, authority and privilege to confine any prisoner who persons in ait-'
has been arrested, on process either civil or criminal and who mayjac'n,ljails in
be held in custody for want of bail, in the jail of any adjoining county,
until sufficient bail shall be given or tendered, and the sheriffs or
keepers of the jails shall receive such prisoners in the like manner as
aforesaid, and all Sheriffs or keepers of jails, who shall suffer any
prisoner or prisoners, committed to their custody in any of the modes
aforesaid, to escape therefrom, shall be liable to indictment and punish¬
ment as in other cases of escape.
IV. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and
after its ratification.
Vlien to
in force.
be
CHAPTER III.
An Act to suppress mere effectually the vice of gamine in this Stale.
lie it enae'ed by the General Assembly of the State of North Car¬
olina, and if is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That Sihsec. ofact
the fifth section of an act, passed in the year one thousand eight Inin- of 1822 re-
dred and twenty two, entitled an act to provide a revenue for the pay- pealed.
merit of the civil list and contingent charges of government, as autho¬
rized the construction and erection of public gamtnjr tables, other
than billiard tables, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
II. Be it further enacted, That all the acts and clauses of acts, ltere-pr.or (b
tofore passed in this State, having for their object the suppression of bc j\,rce;
gaming, and which were in force immediately prior to the passage of
the act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, above recited,
be, and the same are hereby declared to be in full force and virtue;
and in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, it is hereby provi¬
ded, that each and every person who shall, after the first day of April Additional
next, construct, erect, keep up, or use any public gaming table, or penalty,
place, at which games of chance shall be played, by whatever nante
called, shall be subject to indictment in any court of record having ju¬
risdiction of the offence ; and upon conviction shall be lined at the dis¬
cretion of the court, not less than two hundred dollars, and imprison¬
ed not less than one calendar month.
III. Be it further enacted, That each and every person, who shall Penalty for
after the first day of April next, as aforesaid, play at any of the gam- playing, A-c
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