Northampton County, NC - Court Records

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Gerald L. Byrd <gbyrd@sitestar.net>


Oath of a Justice of the Peace

    You swear as Justice of the Peace for the County of Northampton in all 
articles of the Commission to you directed you will do equal right to the 
rich and to the poor after your cunning wit and power and according to the 
Laws and Constitution of the United States.  You shall not be of wrong 
counsel with any powers in a quarrel hanging before you.  You shall not let 
for gift or other causes but you shall well and truly do your office of 
Justice of the Peace on that behalf-you shall not direct or cause to be 
directed any warrant by you made to the parties, but you shall direct 
them to the Constable of your county or some other of the State's Officers 
or Ministries or other indifferent persons to do execution thereof.  So 
help me God.

From Northampton County, North Carolina Minutes: Docket, Court of Pleas and 
Quarter Sessions; 1792-1793; (the year 1793; page 268).

Microfilmed by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 
Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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