1899 public laws – Ch.5 Sec.3
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CHAPTER 5 An act to appoint a committee to investigate the management of the state penitentiary. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That said joint committee be and are hereby empowered to employ competent accountants, stenographers and counsel to aid in said investigation; to meet at such times and places asa majority of said committee may elect; to elect a chairman and secretary; to subpoena witnesses, and compel their attendance; to enforce the production and examination of books, reeords and papers under the same forfeitures and penalties as provided by law to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of papers in the superior courts of the state.