1866/67 private laws – Ch.132 Sec.1
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CHAPTER CXXXII. AN ACT TO ELECT ALL THE COUNTY OFFICERS OF PERQUIMANS, PASQUOTANK, WASHINGTON AND TYRR: LL COUNTIES AT THE SAME COURT.
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 Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Perquimans, Pasquotank, Washington and Tyrrell counties, at the first Court held after the first day of January, A. D., 1868, a majority of the Justices being present, shall elect all their county officers, to hold their said offices under the same rules and regulations as they now do, according to the existing laws of this State: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to Clerks and Sheriffs. Ratified the 4th day of March, A. D., 1867