1869/70 private laws – Ch.123 Sec.31
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CHAPTER CXXIII. AN AC? TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF EDENTON. Wuernras, It is the interest of every state to regulate the police of its towns and encourage their trade, and the laws heretofore made for regulating the town of Edenton have, in many instances, proved detective and inconvenient :
2iding or chasing horses, de. ; That no person shall ride or chase a horse or other animal in any public street in the town, so as to endanger the lives of children or other helpless inhabitants thereof; every person offending against this regulation shall be fined five dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding ten days for each offence.