Hertford County, NC - Weekly Standard Newspaper, 1862 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekly Standard Newspaper Raleigh, North Carolina June 4, 1862 ORDINANCES; Passed by the State Convention at its third adjourned session. - - - - [No. 24] An Ordinance for the relief of such persons who may suffer from the destruction of the Records of Hertford County, occasioned by the burning of the Court House and Clerk’s offices of said County. Whereas, in the month of March last, the Court House of Hertford County was burned by the public enemy, and with the Court House Was destroyed the Clerks offices of said county, whereby the former records of wills, deeds, and other instruments of writing were destroyed and the title of the citizens of said county to their property, if not entirely lost, are in a loose and confused condition; and whereas, the county of Hertford met with a like misfortune in March, 1830, by having its Court House and records burnt by some evil disposed person; and, whereas, the evil was then remedied as far as practicable by the passing of an act by the General Assembly at its session of 1830-’31 entitled, "an act for the relief of such persons as my suffer from the destruction of the records of Hertford county occasioned by the burning of the Court House and Clerk’s offices of said county," chapter LXVIII, and the further passage of another act of the General Assembly, and its session of 1832-’33, entitled, "and act in addition to an act passed at the last session of the General Assembly of this State in relation to the burning of the records of the county of Hertford," chapter XCVI; and, whereas, the like calamity has happened to the county of Hertford Again by the burning of the Court House and the public records of the county by the public enemy: Therefore, be it ordained by the delegates of the people of North Carolina in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, The same and identical provisions of the before recited acts of the General Assembly of the session on 1830-’31, chapter LXVIII; and of the session of 1831-’32, chapter XCVI be, and the same are hereby revised and reenacted, and made applicable to the present wants, necessities and conditions of the county of Hertford to all intents and purposes and with the same force and effect as if the two before recited acts of the General Assembly were herein specifically set forth with all and every of their parts and provisions. Passed and ratified in open Convention May 10, A.D., 1862. W.N. Edwards Teste: Pres. of Convention Walter L. Steele, Secretary L.C. Edwards, Assistant Secretary [Transcribers note: It is my understanding that the actual date the Northern Troops shelled Winton, NC burning down the Hertford's Court House with the rest of the town was Feburary 20, 1862.] __________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Marianne Nichols Ordway ___________________________________________________________________