Emanuel, of Orange County, be, and is hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony with her husband. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXIV. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE DIVORCE OF LAVINIA LEE AND WESLEY LEE. Lavinia Lee di SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina Wesley and in Convention assembled, That Lavinia Lee, of Guilford vorced. County, be and she is hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony with her husband, Wesley Lee. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868.. CALVIN J. COWLES,, President.. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXV. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE DIVORCE OF DEWITT C. WILSON AND NANCY C. WILSON. DeWitt C. and Nancy C. Wil SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina in Convention assembled, That Dewitt C. Wilson and Nancy on divorced. C. Wilson, his wife, of Davie County, be and they are hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXVI. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE DIVORCE OF ESTHER V. TODD AND Benj. W. and divorced, SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina Rather Y. Todd in Convention assembled, That Esther V. Todd, formerly Esther V. Walton, now wife of Benjamin W. Todd, be and she is hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony with her said husband, and that she shall be at liberty to resume her maiden name; and this ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXVII. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE DIVORCE OF JAMES OVERTON AND Jas, and Char divorced. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina lotte Overton in Convention assembled, That James Overton and Charlotte, his wife, are hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXVIII. Wm. J. and AN ORDINANCE FOR THE DIVORCE OF WILLIAM J. HOPKINS AND SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Caroline Martha A. Hop in Convention assembled, That the bonds of matrimony be tween William J. Hopkins and Martha A., his wife, now of kins divorced. Granville County, are hereby dissolved, and either party are at liberty to marry again. Ratified this 12th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXIX. AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE PARDON OF OFFICERS AND ed. General Am SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the nesty act repealauthority of the same, That an act of the General Assembly, ratified December the 22d, 1866, granting a general amnesty and pardon to all officers and soldiers of the State of North-Carolina, of the late Confederate States armies, or of the United States, or any person or class of persons to which said general amnesty was intended to apply, be and the same is hereby repealed, except so much of it as applies to females. Ratified this 13th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXX. AN ORDINANCE TO CHANGE THE MANNER OF PAYMENT OF THE SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That the Western Rail Road Company are hereby authorized to return to the Public Treasurer the sum of one-half million of dollars of the second mortgage The Company turn half million. authorized to re of mortgage bonds to the Treasurer. When the bonds ed. Act of the Leg islature repealed bonds of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road Company, which amount has heretofore been paid by the Public Treasurer to said Company, as the payment of the subscription of the State to the capital stock of said Company, under the authority of the third section of the act of the General Assembly, entitled "An act to enable the Western Rail Road Company to extend its road to and across the North-Carolina Rail Road to the Virginia line near Mt. Airy, in the County of Surry," ratified the 25th day of February, 1867; and in place thereof the Public Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to make and deliver to said Western Rail Road Company one-half million dollars of the coupon bonds of the State of North-Carolina, signed by the Governor and countersigned by the Public Treasurer, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, the principal and interest payable at such time and in such manner and place as the Governor or Public Treasurer may prescribe. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That no part of the five shall be deliver hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). of bonds herein appropriated as a loan to the Western Rail Road Company shall be delivered to said Company, until the President and Directors thereof shall have executed and delivered to the Governor of the State, a first mortgage on the entire road and its property, conditioned to save the State harmless against the loss of both principal and interest of said loan. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That so much of the third section of the act of the General Assembly, entitled “An act to enable the Western Rail Road Company to complete its road from the Coalfields in Chatham County to some point on the North-Carolina Rail Road," ratified the 22 day of December, 1866, as prohibits said Company from negotiating its bonds at not less than par, be and the same is hereby repealed; and this ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage. 7 Ratified the 14th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J, COWLES, President. T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXXI. AN ORDINANCE TO DIVORCE ADELIA E. SLATER AND JAMES A. SLATER. Adelia E. Slater SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina James A. and in Convention assembled, That Adelia E. Slater, of Rowan divorced. County, be and she is hereby divorced from the bonds of matrimony with her husband, James A. Slater, and that she shall be at liberty to assume her maiden name, said Adelia to have sole charge of her children. Ratified this 16th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President. T. A. BRYNES, Secretary. CHAPTER XXXII. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE OF THIS CONVENTION Ordinance re SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina in Convention assembled, That section second of an ordi- pealed. nance of this Convention, entitled "An ordinance to change the manner of payment of the State's subscription to the capital stock of the Western Rail Road Company," ratified the 14th day of March, 1868, be and is hereby repealed and declared of no effect. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That this ordinance shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified this 17th day of March, A. D. 1868. CALVIN J. COWLES, President, T. A. BYRNES, Secretary. Ordinance in force from its ratification. |