State v. Commissioners of Halifax
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment against the defendants for not keeping the streets of the Town of Halifax in repair. There were three counts in the indictment.
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This was an indictment against the defendants for not keeping the streets of the Town of Halifax in repair. There were three counts in the indictment. It was admitted on the trial that the defendants liad expended in repairing the streets, and for other lawful ami needful purposes, all the monies which they were authorized to raise by taxation or otherwise, and that there were no funds at their command at the time laid in the indictment, and it was insisted that the defendants were not bound by the provisions of the private acts relating to the town of Halifax, to repair See., but that it was…
1Opinion of the Court
GtAston, Judge.
It has been insisted for the defendants that the Judge erred in that part of his instructions to the jury, wherein he declared that the commissioners had authority to call out the hands, and. cawunand. the personal labor of the inhabitants residing within the corporate limits of the town, for the purpose of repairing the streets. This Court has examined the various acts referred to in the case, and more particularly the act of 1786 entitled “an act for the better regulation of the town of Halifax, and extending the liberties thereof” and is of. opinion that there is no error in…
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