Craven County, NC - Spaight, Pipkin & Bryan Resolution, 1847

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Resolution in favor of Richard D. Spaight, Philip Pipkin, and 
John M. Bryan

Resolved, That Richard D. Spaight, Philip Pipkin, and John M. Bryan 
of the county of Craven, Administrators of the estate of John B. 
Dawson, deceased, late Sheriff of said county, be, and they are hereby 
authorized, to collect the arrears of taxes due the late sheriff 
aforesaid, for the years eighteen hundred and forty-two, eighteen 
hundred and forty-three, and eighteen hundred and forty-four: Provided, 
That the authority hereby granted, shall not extend to persons who 
have removed from the county, nor to Executors nor Administrators,
nor to any person who will voluntarily swear before any Justice of
the Peace, that he, she or they, verily believe the arrears claimed
from him, her or them, have been paid, any law to the contrary 
notwithstanding; and provided further, the power hereby granted shall
cease and determine with the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

[Ratified 16th of January, 1847]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1846-47
Resolutions
Page 379

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