Montgomery County, NC - Act to Move & Repair Goal, 1813

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An Act to regulate the Town of Henderson, in Montgomery county, and
to provide for the repairing the Goal [jail] in said county

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 
William Rush, Benjamin Bell, Richard Bell, John Bell and David Tilman
be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners with full power and
authority to re-survey the town of Henderson, in Montgomery county,
agreeably to the former survey of said town, and to employ a Surveyor
for that purpose at the expence of said county.

II. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, after 
having made such re-survey, shall report the same with their proceedings
thereon to the next County Court, designating all such streets in said
town as should in their opinion be kept open and clear of inclosures;
which report shall be filed in the Clerk's Office of said court.

III. And be it further enacted, That after such re-survey is made, the
said commissioners shall give notice to each person who may have inclosures
or buildings in the streets thus designated, and if said obstructions are
not removed within twenty days after such notice, the proprietor or
proprietors thereof shall be liable to a fine of one dollar for every
day such obstructions may remain unremoved after the time above specified,
to be recovered by any one of said commissioners, before any jurisdiction
having cognizance thereof, for the use of said county.

IV. And be it further enacted, The aforesaid commissioners be and they
are hereby authorised to employ some person to remove the public Goal
in said town to any part of the public lands thereof that they may think
proper, and to order such repairs as they may think proper at the expence
of said county; to defray which the court may lay a tax not exceeding
one shilling on every poll, and one shilling on every hundred pounds'
value of town property, and four pence on every hundred acres of land
in said county; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1813
Chapter XLII
Page 25

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