Commission Fails, is Replaced Once Again

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Commission Fails, is Replaced Once Again

Public Acts of the NC General Assembly – An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled “An Act for Appointing the Place of Holding Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in the county of Sullivan, and to Alter the Time for Holding…  Read More

An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled “An Act for Appointing the Place of Holding Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in the county of Sullivan, and to Alter the Time for Holding the Superior Court for the District of Fayette. Whereas the commissioners appointed by the said Act have failed to assemble and fix upon the place for erecting a court-house, prison and stocks in said county, and to contract with workmen for building the same; in consequence of which great inconveniencies have arisen to the good citizens thereof. I. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, That Joseph Martin, Evan Shelby, Gilbert Christian, Robert Allison, George Vincent, Samuel Smith, John Dunkin and William King, Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and they are hereby impowered, or a majority of them, to fix on the most central or convenient place to the inhabitants of said county for building and erecting a court-house, prison and stocks for the use of the same; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and impowered to contract with workmen to build the said court-house, prison and stocks; and the justices of the said county of Sullivan are hereby authorised to lay a tax on the inhabitants of said county, not exceeding one shilling on every poll, and four pence on every hundred acres of land in said county, for the purposes aforesaid.
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