To all whom these Presents shall come greeting, know ye, that Saml Strudwick Esqre who hath certified, that the Paper-writing hereunto annexed contains a true and exact Copy of an Act of the
Assembly of this Province passed on the twenty third day of December last and hath attested the same, is Secretary of this Province of North Carolina and therefore all due faith and credit is and ought to be had and given to such his Attestation, and the said Paper writing in all or any of His Majesty's Courts of Judicature or elsewhere within His Dominions.In Testimony wherefore I the said Josiah Martin have hereunto set my hand and caused the great Seal of His Majesty's said Province to be affixed at New Bern the second day of Janry Anno. Dom. 1772.