Montgomery County, NC - State & Delamothe v. Parsons & Harris, 1814

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Taken from NC Archives, General Assembly Records, 1814 Petition.
 
To the Honorable. The General Assembly of North Carolina now in Session.
     The Petition of David Tillman and others of the County of Montgomery 
respectfully sheweth that some time in the year 1810 they were summoned 
witness's in behalf of the State against Joseph Parsons and Claibourn 
Harris who were indicted in the Superior Court of Wake County for a 
misdemeanor on the charge of having forged and presented the resignation 
of a Justice of the Peace of the County of Montgomery while said Parsons 
and Harris were members of the General Assembly from that County. The 
indictment was instituted at October term 1809 and the defendants were 
tried and acquitted at the Spring term in 1811.
     At Wake County Court February term in 1812 your petitioners made 
application to said County Court for allowance for their attendance but 
their claims were rejected by said court upon the grounds that there was 
no law in existence which bound the counties respectively to pay the costs 
of any state prosecutions other than those brought for Capital offences. 
Your petitioners further state that they have been advised by good counsel 
that the decision of said court was correct and that the act of assembly 
requiring the counties to pay the expenses of their state prosecutions 
does not embrace the case in which we attended and your petitioners who 
were compelled by law to attend court several terms at a distance of more 
than one hundred miles at great expense can receive no compensation except 
the General Assembly will allow their tickets accompanying this memorial 
they therefore pray that your honorable body will allow the same.
 
Montgomery County, November 10th, 1814
Issac Biles
David Tillman
Benjamin Bell
Cyrus Hearn
John Kirk assignee of Wm. Moore
Edmd McClendon assignee of John Pritchard
 
State of North Carolina    Superior Court of Law
Wake County                Spring Term 1811
The State
Henry Delamothe            Cyrus Hearn charges the State for 
      vs                   2 days attendance at .10 per day 
Joseph Parsons &           220 miles travelling and 1 ferrage
Claibourn Harris           $4.15
 
Benjamin Bell charges the Plft for 3 days attendance travelling to and 
from court 210 miles and 2 ferrages $5.28
 
Wm Moore chages the Pltf for 3 days attendance at .10 per day 200 miles 
travelling and 2 ferrages $4.19
 
Issac Biles charges the Pltf for 2 days attendance, 230 miles travelling 
to and from court and 4 ferrages $4.74
 
John Pritchard charges the Pltf for 3 days attendance at .10 per day, 220 
miles travelling and 2 ferrages $5.60
 
David Tillman charges the Pltf for 3 days attendance at .10 per day, 220 
miles travelling and 2 ferrages $5.94
 
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