- Title
- Public laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly [1865-1866]
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- Date
- 1865 - 1866
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Public laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly [1865-1866]
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suits at be entitled to. all (lie privileges of while persons in the
privileges''
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ni0^c prosecuting, defending, continuing, removing and
tittcj. transferring their suits at law ml inequity; and, likewise,
to the same mode of trial by jury, and all the privileges
appertaining thereto. And in all proceeding» in equity
by or against them, their answer shall have the same force
_ and effect in all respects as the answer of white persons.
Wufy of wiS* •!. lie i( further enacted. That in all cases of appren-
'pprent£1'' tico.s’iij» of persons of color, under chapter five of the
Tie vised Code, the master shall lie hound to discharge the
same duties to them as to 'white apprentices, and^hc
words “as are white" in section three, line three, are
hereby repealed, and the word “apprentice" shall he
read after the word “such.” in said line, and the words
‘•'if a white person" in the second line of section six are
vi-o. hereby repealed : Provide//, always, That in the binding
out of apprentices of color, the former master of such
apprentices, when they shall he regarded as suitable per¬
sons by the court, shall he entitled to have such appren¬
tices bound to them in preference to other persons.
,, Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That in all cases where
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former slave*, men and women, both or one of whom were Intel v sie ves
ifk'iti uli zed. ' . . * .
ami arc now emancipated, no'v cohabit- together m the
relation of husband and wife, the parties shall he deemed
to liave been lawfully married as man and wife at the
time of the commencement of such cohabitatu u, although
Cohaliitntk.n they may not have been i tarried in due form of taw. And
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all persons whose cohabitation is hereby ratified into a
S'mw"- shde of marriage, shall go before the clerk of the court
i.tiat«. of pleas and quarter sessions of the county in which they
reside, at his office, or before some justice of the -peace,
and acknowledge the fact of such cohabitation, and the
time of its commencement; and the clerk shall enter the
same in a book kept for that purpose ; and if the acknowl¬
edgin' lit be made before a justice of the peace, such
justice shall report the same in writing to the clerk of the
court of please and quarter sessions, and the clerk shall
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