Lenoir County, NC - Kinston - Act to Appoint Commissioners, 1826

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An Act to appoint commissioners for the town of Kinston, in the county of 
Lenoir

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 William Croom, Nathan G. 
Blount, Walter P. Allen, Blount Coleman, John C. Washington, Frederick Jones 
and Abner Price, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the town 
of Kinston, with full power and authority to make such bye laws, rules and 
regulations as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the laws and 
Constitution of this State; and whereas several persons in the said town, from 
ignorance of its limits, have partially encroached on the commons thereof, by 
the erection of buildings thereon; and whereas it would prove injurious rather 
than beneficial to said town to compel said persons to remove their buildings 
from said commons:

Be it therefore enacted, That the above commissioners, or a majority of them, 
shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell to such persons 
in the aforesaid town, as have erected buildings of any description on the 
commons of said town, the ground on which such buildings have been erected, and 
apply the money arising from such sales to the improvement of said town, in 
such manner as they, or a majority of them may think proper; and such 
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall convey, by their deed, all ground 
sold conformably to the provisions of this act to the purchasers thereof in fee 
simple.

And be it further enacted, That all laws, and clauses of laws coming within the 
meaning and purview of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1826
Chapter XLI
Page 50

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