<emph>Senate Bill, No. 24, Ses. 1862-63.</emph> <emph>A Bill to Transfer the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Counties Occupied or Controlled by a Public Enemy:</emph> Electronic Edition.

<emph>Senate Bill, No. 24, Ses. 1862-63.</emph> <emph>A Bill to Transfer the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Counties Occupied or Controlled by a Public Enemy:</emph> Electronic Edition. North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Elizabeth Wright Text encoded by Patricia L. Walker and Natalia Smith First edition, 1999 ca. 20K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

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Call number Cb351.94 N87g 3 (North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH) A Bill to Transfer the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Counties Occupied or Controlled by a Public Enemy. Senate Bill, No. 24, Ses. 1862-63 North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate W. W. Holden, Printer to the State [1862]

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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 Jurisdiction -- North Carolina. Courts -- North Carolina. North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Occupied territories. 1999-06-30, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 1999-06-14, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 1999-06-09, Patricia L. Walker finished TEI/SGML encoding 1999-06-01, Elizabeth Wright finished scanning (OCR) and proofing. Senate Bill, No. 24, Ses. 1862-63 Introduced by Mr. Warren, of Beaufort. W. W. Holden, Printer to the State [1862] A BILL TO TRANSFER THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF COUNTIES OCCUPIED OR CONTROLLED BY A PUBLIC ENEMY.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 2 State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the 3 authority of the same, That whenever, in the opinion of 4 the Governor, any county or any part thereof shall be so 5 occupied or controlled by a public enemy that its Courts 6 may not be safely held as heretofore, he shall proclaim the 7 fact and designate some other county convenient and suitable, 8 where Courts general and special shall have jurisdiction 9 of all the matters pertaining to the administration of 10 the laws in the county so occupied or controlled, in the 11 same manner and to the same extent as if such county 12 were a part of the county so designated; and whenever 13 such county, in the opinion of the Governor, shall cease 14 to be so controlled or occupied, he shall proclaim the same, 15 and thenceforth the jurisdiction of the county so designated 16 shall cease, and all the matters pending in the Courts 17 thereof, whereof jurisdiction shall be acquired under this 18 act, shall be moved to the proper county, under the certificate 19 of the Clerk and seal of the county, and shall be 20 proceeded with as though they had been originally commenced 21 and prosecuted in such county; and it is further 22 enacted, that if for like cause the county designated should 23 thereafter be occupied and controlled as aforesaid, the 24 Governor may designate any other county, which shall 25 have like jurisdiction as the county first designated, and 26 this may be done so often as may be needed for the purpose 27 of administering the laws.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Governor shall 2 cause his proclamation which may be made under this 3 act, to be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That in cases wherein letters 2 of special administration shall be granted under this 3 act, if the intestate, at the time of his death, did not actually 4 reside in the county wherein the same were granted, 5 but in some other county occupied or controlled as aforesaid, 6 the Justices granting the same may authorise the administrator 7 not only to sell so much of the crop, stock and 8 provisions on hand, as they shall deem advisable, but also 9 to sell or remove such other personal property of the10 intestate as shall appear to them in imminent danger of loss 11 or destruction, and the same shall be enumerated in the 12 schedule with the other property.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in 2 force from and after its passage.