Burke County NcArchives Court.....Bowman - Deceased, John 1784
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1784

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1784
April 19, 1784 - June 03, 1784
Volume 24, Pages 543 - 649

CHAPTER LXII.

An Act to Impower the Executors of John Bowman, Deceased, to Pay Into the 
Hands of the Treasury Such Sums of Money as He Received for the Public as 
Sheriff for Burke County, Without Depreciation.

I. Whereas, John Bowman, deceased, in his life time was appointed sheriff of 
Burke county, by virtue of which appointment he acted as sheriff of the said 
county, and collected a part of the tax thereof in the year one thousand seven 
hundred and seventy-nine; and as the said John Bowman fell in the service of 
his country at the battle fought at Ramsower's in June, one thousand seven 
hundred and eighty, who did leave in the hands of his executors the money he 
had collected for the public before his death, which money still remains in 
the hands of his executors unaccounted for to the public;

II. Be it therefore Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North 
Carolina, and it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, That the 
treasurer of the district of Morgan be, and is hereby directed to receive of 
the executors of the said Bowman, deceased, all such sums of money by them 
received as aforesaid, they first making oath before some justice of said 
county that they believe it to be the identical money collected for the public 
by the said Bowman, and that they have not speculated on the said monies to 
the use or advantage of themselves, or the heirs of the said John Bowman, 
deceased; and upon such oath made by the executors as aforesaid, the treasurer 
for the district of Morgan shall give them a receipt for such monies as they 
may have in their hands collected by the said John Bowman as aforesaid, which 
receipt shall be as good and valid in law as if the said John Bowman had 
actually paid the said money into the hands of the treasurer before his death.

III. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the collectors 
for the county of Burke for this present year shall have full power and 
authority to collect all the monies that still remain due to the public, 
either in the county of Burke, or in that part of Lincoln county that was 
taken off Burke county and added to Lincoln county, and to levy distress for 
the same, and account according to the scale of depreciation established by 
law, computed from the time that such taxes became due, in the same manner as 
the said John Bowman might or could have done before his death.


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