Randolph County, NC – Asheboro - Act to Lay Off Streets, 1829

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An Act amendatory of the several acts heretofore passed appointing
commissioners for the town of Ashboro, in Randolph county, and for
the better regulation of the police thereof

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 the
commissioners heretofore appointed for the purpose of running and 
laying off the said town, viz. Benjamin Elliot, George Hoover,
Joshua Craven, Hugh M'Cain and Jonathan Worth, be, and they are 
hereby authorised to run and lay off the said town in such manner
that the two principal streets intersecting each other at the court
house shall be four poles wide, and that all the other streets shall
be three poles wide, and that there shall be no street north of the
principal street running east and west by the court house, except
said principal street running north.

And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners be, and they
are hereby authorised to enlarge the town on the north as to make 
the boundary line of the said town straight, and on the west not
exceeding ten poles; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1829
Chapter LXXXVIII
Page 66

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