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No notes, bills, &c. to be 18sued.

nated by a majority of the company present; that they shall have a common seal, and adopt all such by-laws as they may deem necessary; that they may hold such real estate as may be necessary for offices and other buildings in the management of their business.

SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That the affairs of the said company shall be managed by a board of directors consisting of twenty members, and that five directors being present at any meeting of said board, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall have power to fill all vacancies which may happen for the remainder of the

year.

SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from its ratification thereof, and that all of the said act hereby amended, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 14. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this act or in any other act heretofore passed by the General Assembly, shall be so construed as to authorize said corporation to issue any note, bill, certificate of deposit for circulation, or any other device in the nature of a bank note. [Ratified the 16th day of February, 1855.]

JURORS AND WITNESSES.

Chap. 124. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE COMPENSATION OF JURORS AND WIT

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All jurors to be compensated.

NESSES OF THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON.

SEC. 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 each and every juror who, having been lawfully summoned upon the original panel, shall attend any of the superior courts of law or courts of pleas and quarter sessions of the county of Washington, and perform the duties required by law, shall be allowed and paid, in the manner now provided by law, for each and every day's attendance the sum of one dollar, and the like sum for every thirty miles traveling to and from court.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That each and every person who, being lawfully summoned, shall attend any of the aforesaid courts of Washington county, as a witness in any cause pending therein, shall be allowed for each and every day's attendance the sum of one dollar, and the like sum for every thirty miles travelling to and from court.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws coming in conflict with the provisions hereof shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. [Ratified the 12th day of February, 1855.]

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PAY OF WITNESSES IN THE COUNTY OF Chap. 125.

ONSLOW.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Pay of wit of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority nesses. of the same, That the county court of Onslow, (a majority of the justices being present,) shall have power to pass an order that all witnesses summoned to attend said court may be allowed the sum of one dollar for each day's attendance, and a like sum for every thirty miles travelling to and from court, to be paid as now directed by law.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That witnesses attending the superior courts of said county shall have the same allowance as witnesses in the county courts.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. [Ratified the 14th day of February, 1855.]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF JURORS IN THE COUN- Chap. 126.

TIES OF GREENE AND GATES.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Pay of jurors. of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That each and every juror, who, having been lawfully summoned, shall attend any of the superior courts of law of the counties of Greene and Gates, and perform the duties required by law, shall receive for his services one dollar per day, and three cents for every mile he trave's to and from the court house, on the usual route to the same: Provided, however, That no talis juror shall be entitled to charge any mileage, nor any juror who has been summoned upon any special venire, shall be entitled to charge mileage or his per diem, unless he be required to serve upon the same. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That when any juror has Special venue. been summoned upon a special venire, and required to serve upon the he shall be entitled to the same compensation as jurors of the original panel.

same,

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the jurors of the court of pleas and quarter sessions of said counties shall be entitled to receive the same compensation as provided in the 1st section of this act.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws coming in con

flict with the provisions of this act be and the same is [are] hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. [Ratified the 16th day of February, 1855.]

Chap. 127. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO EXEMPT PERSONS RESIDING ON THE

BANKS AND ISLANDS, BETWEEN WHALEBONE INLET AND CAPE
HATTERAS, FROM SERVING AS JURORS.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That an act to exempt persons residing on the banks and islands between Whalebone Inlet and Cape Hatteras, from serving as jurors, passed at the session of 1850-' 51, be, and the same is hereby repealed, in so far as the same applies to the exemption from jury service, of citizens of Carteret county.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from its ratification. [Ratified the 16th day of Febru ary, 1855.]

Chap. 128. AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PAY OF JURORS IN THE COUNTIES OF NEW HANOVER, BRUNSWICK, PASQUOTANK, ROWAN AND CLEAVELAND.

Pay of jurors.

SEC. 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 each and every juror, who having been lawfully summoned, tales jurors excepted, shall attend any of the superior courts of law, or courts of pleas and quarter sessions of the counties of New Hanover, Brunswick, Pasquotank, Rowan and Cleaveland, and perform the duties required by law, shall be allowed, and paid in the manner now provided by law, for each and every days atttendance, the sum of two dollars, and the like sum for every thirty miles travelling to and from court.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and clauses of laws, coming in conflict with the provisions hereof, shall [be,] and the same are hereby repealed. [Ratified the 14th day of February, 1855.]

Chap. 129. AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT PASSED AT THE PRESENT SES

SION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO INCREASE THE PAY OF TRA-
VERSE JURORS.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State

of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority Certain counof the same, That so much of the act passed at the present ties excepted. session of the General Assembly, entitled an act to increase the pay of traverse jurors in the county of New Hanover, as authorizes the increase of pay of traverse jurors, for the counties of Pasquotank, Cleaveland and Rowan, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the regular jurors of Pay of jurors. the county court of pleas and quarter sessions, and also those of the superior court of law for the county of Pasquotank, shall receive one dollar and fifty cents per day, for every day the same shall serve as regular jurors, together with the further amount of three cents per mile, for every mile, traveling to and from court. [Ratified the 15th day of February, 1855.]

MARINERS.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE MARINER'S ORPHAN Chap. 130.

ASYLUM AND INSTITUTE IN THE COUNTY OF CARTERET.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Body corporate of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William J. Langdon, B. L. Perry, J. P. C. Davis, James Rumley, Samuel Lander, Jr., Cicero Thomas, John Jones, Isaac Ramsay, David Jones, Benjamin Secroft, James Largest, and Captains E. W. Pigott, Thomas Duncan, William Robinson, and James Howland, of the town of Beaufort, and Captains Gilbert Potter, Charles D. Ellis, Samuel Cannon, of Wilmington, and Captains Jacob Johnson, John Osgood and Thomas C. Wallace, of Newbern, and Captains Stephen Fowler, John Taylor and Joseph Robeson, of Washington, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, to be known and distinguished by the name and style of "the trustees of the Mariner's Orphan Asylum and Institute," and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession and a common seal; and they the said trustees and their successors, by the name aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall be able and capable in law to take, demand, receive and possess all moneys, goods and chattels and choses in action there shall be given them for the use of said institute, and the same apply to the will of the donors, and by gift, purchase and devise take, have, hold, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, from any lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments, of what kind, nature, or quality soever, in special trust and confidence that the same and the profits

Powers of trustees.

Vacancies.

Officers.

Location.

thereof shall be applied to and for the use and benefit of the said Mariner's Orphan Asylum and Institute.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to bargain and sell, grant, demise, alien, convey and assure to the purchaser or purchasers, any such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the condition of the grant to them or the will of the testator or devisor does not forbid it; and further that they the said trustees, and their successors forever, or a majority of them, shall be able and capable in law, by the name aforesaid, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts whatsover, either in law or equity, of record or otherwise, and in general they shall and may do all such other acts and things as are usually done by bodies corporate for the purpose of effecting the objects of this act. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That on the death, resignation, refusal to act, or removal to any other State, of any of the said trustees for the time being, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and required to elect and appoint other trustees in the place of every such one as shall die, resign, refuse to act, or so remove, which trustee or trustees, so appointed, shall be vested with the same power, trust and authority as those in whose stead they shall be so appointed would have had, in case they had liv ed and continued to act.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees or or their successors, or a majority of them, may from time to time appoint their own president, secretary and treasurer, and such keeper or keepers of said asylum, and such professors and tutors over said institution, as to them may appear necessary and proper, whom they may remove for misbehavior, inability or neglect of duty; and they may make all such by-laws and regulations for their own government and that of said institute, and for the preservation of order and good morals therein, as are usually made in such seminaries, and as to them may appear necessary and expedient: Provided, the same are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State and of the United States.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all the real and personal estate of the said Mariner's Orphan Asylum and Institute be and the same is hereby forever exempt from State or county taxes.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, or their successors in office may, from time to time, locate the said asylum and institute within the limits of the said town of Beaufort, or at such other place in the county of Carteret, as may to them seem the most expedient.