Beaufort County NcArchives Court.....Lockey - Sheriff, Henry 1769
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1769

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1769
October 23, 1769 - November 06, 1769
Volume 25, Pages 518 - 519

CHAPTER II.

An Act for Confirming the Qualification of Henry Lockey, Sheriff of Beaufort 
County.

I. Whereas, neither of the three persons recommended by his Excellency the 
Governor, as proper persons to serve as Sheriff for the County of Beaufort, by 
the Inferior Court of the said County in April One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
Sixty Eight, did apply for a Commission.

II. And whereas, the then acting Sheriff did resign his said office of Sheriff 
at July Inferior Court next following, by which means the said County became 
Destitute of a Sheriff, and the Coroner of the said County refusing to Act 
under the rules and regulations agreeable to the true intent and meaning of an 
Act of Assembly, Intitled An Act for appointing Sheriffs and directing their 
duty in office.

III. And whereas, the said Henry Lockey being one of the three persons 
recommended to His Excellency the Governor, by the Inferior Court of the 
County aforesaid, at April Court aforesaid, did Obtain a Commission from His 
Excellency the Governor bearing date the third day of November next following 
his said recommendation from the Inferior Court aforesaid, And in order that 
publick as well as Private business should not be delayed in the said County 
for the want of an executive Officer, a Sufficient number of the Justices of 
the Peace for the said County (which by Act of Assembly are authorized to hold 
an Inferior Court) did meet at the Court-House of the said County, with the 
Clerk of the Inferior Court of the said County, in the month of November 
aforesaid, and then and there did take from the said Henry Lockey the Bonds 
and Securities agreeable to an Act of Assembly in such case made and provided, 
and did cause the said Henry Lockey to take the several oaths by law appointed 
for his qualification. Whereupon, the said Henry Lockey did immediately enter 
upon the execution of his said office.

IV. And whereas, the legality of the said Henry Lockey's qualification as 
aforesaid, is by some persons disputed.

V. Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, and by the 
Authority of the same, That the qualification of the said Henry Lockey as 
aforesaid, and every act and acts by him done under such qualification in 
virtue of his office as Sheriff of the said County of Beaufort, is hereby 
declared to be good and valid in Law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Ratified 6th day of November, 1769.


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