- Title
- Laws of North Carolina [1819]
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- Date
- 1819
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Laws of North Carolina [1819]
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LAWS OFNORTH-CAROLINA.
deputy all expences that may accrue io consequence of selling,
keeping and feeding such slaves. . ^
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X. Jlnd be it further enacted, That for the year one thousand
eight hundred and twenty a tax of twenty cents on each and e- tit-
very free poll, and a tax of twenty cents on each and every black
poll. shall be levied and collected, under the same rules, regula¬
tions and restrictions as poll taxes heretofore have been collect¬
ed.
XI. Jlnd be it further enacted , That all free males between
the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years, and slaves between
the ages of twelve and fifty years, shall pay a poll tax ; and all
slaves shall be lifted in the county wherein they reside.
. XII. Be it further enacted, That each SheriS’upon settlinghis
accounts with the comptroller, county trustee and coutUwwar- str-ift'S
dens within their respective counties for the precedi^BE^^athon J-v
shall make and subscribe an affidavit that he has duIy^RWm№
ed in his settlement for all taxes received by him un^r
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act, upon any occupation, article or thing not includerB^fmi
list of taxable property furnished him by the clerk of liiscuomy,
and shall append to the said affidavit a list of all eucb taxes so
by him received, and the names of the persons from whom he
received the same, and set forth opposite to each item the occu¬
pation, article or thing for which the said taxes were re¬
ceived.
XIII. Jlndbe it further enacted, That in addition to the oafh
heretofore required to be taken by the sheriff on settling with
the comptroller, said sheriff shall swear, that if he collects a-
nj delinquent tax beyond those accounted for in said settle¬
ment, he will render a true account thereof to the comptroller
within one year aftet such collection ; and. if it shall be disco¬
vered that any sheriff or any person by virtue of having been a
sherifl, shall collect delinquent taxes and not account for the.
same as herein required, such sheriffor other person shall be iia ,
ble to pay tour told the amount of the sum collected and not ac¬
counted for ; to be recovered in (he nan»*; of the state, before a-
ny jurisdiction having cognisance thereof.
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CHAPTER
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An Act to create a fund for Internal Improvemeflts, atul to oAtablibb a Board
tor the- management thereof.
I.' Be it enacted by the General Jhsetnbly of the State of North
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same ,
That a iund shall be, and the same is hereby created, to be de¬
nominated
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the Fund for Interna! Improvements,” and*to be
applied exclusively to the internal impiovement of this state,of,,”c^*'
unless the necessities of this state shall render it necessary
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some future legislature to apply the said fund or part thereof to pi'-irnl w
Some other purposes of state. afibU-
II. Be it further ena-cted. That the said fond shall consist of
the nett proceeds of the sales of the /aim’s lately acquired by
treaty from the Cherokee Indiana.
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