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“ Any Law, Act, Statute, Ordinance, or other Thing, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
AND we will also, and of our especial Grace, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do streightly enjoin, ordain, constitute, and command, that the sfaid Province and Territory shall be of our Allegiance ”

“ An Act to repeal Part of a Clause in an Act intituled, An Act, for forming a. Rent-Roll of all the Lands holden in this Province, for quieting the Inhabitants in their Possessions, and for directing the Payment of Quit-Rents.
Preamble I.WHEREAS by a Clause in the Act of the General Assembly of this Province, passed the Fifteenth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Eight, intituled. ”

“ An Act, for the better fettling of the Town of Newbern, in the Precinct
of Craven.
Preamble I. WHEREAS a certain Plot of Ground, being Part of a Tract of Land, lying in the Fork of Neufe River, late belonging to the Honourable Col. Thomas Pollock, deceased, but now the Property of Mr. Cullen Pollock, was formerly laid out into a Township, by the Name of Newbern, with proper Allotments for a Church, Court-house, and Market-place; as by a Plot or Draught, upon Record in the Clerk's Office of Craven Precinct Court, will more plainly appear: Therefore, for the Advancement of the laid Town ”

“ Yielding and paying, Yearly, to us, our Heirs and Successors, for the same, the Fourth Part of all Gold and Silver Oar, which, within the Limits hereby granted, shall, from Time to Time, happen to be found, over and besides the Yearly Rent of Twenty Marks, and the Fourth Part of the Gold and Silver Oar, in and by the said written Letters Patent reserved and payable. ”

“ And also, all the Soils, Lands, Fields, Woods, Mountains, Terms, Lakes, Rivers, Bays, and Islets, situate of being within the Bounds or Limits last before mentioned; with the Fishings of all sorts of Fish, Whales, Sturgeons, and all other Royal Fish, in the Sea, Bays, Islets, and Rivers, within the Premises, and the Fish therein taken, together with the Royalty of the Sea upon the Coast within the Limits asoresaid ”

“ I.BE it Enacted by his Excellency the Palatine, and the rest of the true and and absolute Lords' Proprietors of Carolina, by and with the Advice and Consent of this present General Assembly, new met at Little River, for the North-East part of the said Province and It is hereby Enacted, No Person shall be committed without Examination. That from henceforward, no Person within this Province shall be committed to Prison for any Criminal Matter, until Examination thereof be first had before some Magistrate ”

“ Penalties how recoverable and applied.VII. AND be it Enacted, That the Penalties in this A before mentioned, shall be sued for and recovered in the General Court of this Province, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Ession, Protection, Injunction, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed or admitted of ”

“ Sherifs, &.c, concerned hereafter in collecting Public Monies, when to account with and pay it to the Treasurer.IV. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Sheriff and other Persons, who shall be concerned in the collecting and receiving the Public Monies hereafter to be collected and received; within the feveral Counties above-mentioned, shall, the Week after the succeeding General Court following the Time appointed by Law for their collecting or receiving thereof, upon Oath, account for and pay the fame to the Public Treasurer aforesaid, at Newbern ”

“ An Aft, for the better regiilaring the Militia of this Government, 215 An Ad:, for Erefting the upper i-'art of Craven County into a County and Parilh j and for appointing a Pluce for building a Court-houfe, Prifon, and Stocks, in the faid County, 219 An Ad, for dividing Edgcomh County and Parifli, and for .erefting the upper Part thereof into a County and Parifh, by the Name of Gran-vtlle County, and St. ”

“ Edenton, |111 |- class="__toc_row_1-m-1 __toc_row_1-1-1 wst-toc-row-1-1-1 " style="" |Chap. 4 |An Act, for the further and better Regulation of the Town called Wilmington, in New-Hanover County, and to establish the Church of the Parish of St. James to be built in the said Town, |113 |- class="__toc_row_1-m-1 __toc_row_1-1-1 wst-toc-row-1-1-1 " style="" |Chap. 7 |An Act, for the more effectual Estabishing a Ferry from Bath-Town, to Core-Point, and from Core-Point, to Bath-Town ”