(NORTH CAROLINA) Titles of the Laws Passed by the General As

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(NORTH CAROLINA.) Titles of the Laws Passed by the General Assembly of North-Carolina. Letterpress broadside, 17 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches; worn at folds, cello tape repairs on verso, several small areas of loss in text (largest about 3/4 inch), unevenly trimmed on left edge, a bit of dampstaining on bottom edge; illegibly docketed on verso. Np, 1802?

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A list of 116 laws passed in the session which ran from 15 November to 18 December 1802. Highlights are a law "to prevent the vile practice of Duelling," and an act "for the relief of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians." Laws 37, 38, and 100 relate to slave insurrections: levying a tax "for defraying the expences incurred in suppressing the late insurrection of the Negroes"; repealing a law which compensated "the owners of outlawed and executed slaves" of certain counties; and "to prevent conspiracies and insurrections among the Slaves." Not found in OCLC or elsewhere.