Rutherford County, NC - Minor Smith & Lucy Johnston - Act to Extend Dam

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An Act to authorize Minor Smith and Lucy Johnston to extend a dam
across First Broad River, in the county of Rutherford

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 Minor 
Smith and Lucy Johnston be, and they are hereby authorized to extend
a dam from their own lands across First Broad river, and touching a
shoal owned by them in the county of Rutherford, for the purpose of
building a public mill; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And be it further enacted, That whenever the said First Broad
river, shall become navigable above the said mill, then the owners of
said mill shall, at their own expense, construct and keep in good
repair a lock or sluice sufficient for the passage of any boat or
boats navigating the same.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1819-22
Chapter XCVIII
Page 67

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