CHAPTER 1.
REVISED STATUTES.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE REVISED STATUTES.
- Section
- 1. When the revised statutes shall go into operation.
- 2. Former acts on the subjects embraced in the revised statutes, and all British statutes repealed after the 1st of January, 1838.
- 3. Effects of such repeal on rights accrued or suits commenced.
- 4. Effect of such repeal on offences committed or penalties incurred.
- 5. Effects on suits or prosecutions commenced for offences.
- 6. No act heretofore repealed shall be revived by such repeal.
- 7. Edicts of the repeal on persons holding offices.
- 8. What acts are not included in this repealing clause.
- 9. How the revised statutes shall be published. What shall contained in the first volume.
- 10. What in a second volume.
- 11. Number of copies to be published—Copy right to be secured to the State.
- 12. How the copies shall be distributed or disposed of.
- 13. The governor to make compensation to the superintendents.
- 14. The copies so printed to be received as evidence.
1.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 following acts passed at the present session of this When the revised statutes shall go into operation. General Assembly, and known as "The Revised Statutes," shall take effect go into operation on the first day of January next and not sooner, except those as to which a different provision is expressly made therein and the acts concerning the courts of justice, the militia, the collection and management of the public revenue, the treasurer of the State and comptroller, pilots and pilotage, salaries and fees, which shall effect immediately; to wit:
- 1. An act ascertaining the mode of proving book debts.
- 2. An act concerning entries and grants of land.
- 3. An act concerning wrecks and wrecked property.
- 4. An act concerning the militia of this State.
- 5. An act concerning public documents.
- 6. An act concerning the mode of choosing senators and representatives in the congress of the United States.
- 7. An act concerning bastardy and prescribing the mode of legitimating bastard children in certain cases.
- 8. An act concerning divorce and alimony.
- 9. An act concerning attorneys at law.
- 10. An act concerning constables
- 11. An act providing for the support of the poor.
