Wayne County NcArchives Court.....Stocks, Court House, Prison & 1782 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Ardrey n/a September 15, 2014, 4:55 am Source: Colonial Records Written: 1782 Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1782 North Carolina. General Assembly 1782 Volume 24, Pages 413-474 LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1782 CHAPTER XXXV. An Act for appointing Commissioners to fix a place to build a Court House, Prison and Stocks, in the County of Wayne, and for other purposes. I. Whereas the commissioners heretofore appointed by Act of Assembly for fixing on a place to build a court house, prison and stocks, in the County of Wayne, have failed to discharge the trust reposed in them; II. 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 Stephen Cobb, Needham Whitfield, and Joseph Pipkin, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, and that they, or a majority of them be, and they are impowered and required to agree and contract for three acres of land in said county, as near the center of said county as they shall think convenient, and also to contract with workmen to build a court house, prison and stocks, on the same. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/court/stocks3213wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb