State-Wide, NC - Act to Collect Tax Arrears, 1817

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An Act to authorise certain persons therein named to collect the arrears
of taxes due them

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That... [format has
been changed for ease of reading]

Lemuel Hatch, sheriff of Jones county, be and he is hereby authorized to 
collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and 
fourteen and fifteen;

Luke Huggins, late sheriff of Onslow county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him in said county for the years
eighteen hundred and fourteen and fifteen;

Gabriel Holmes, sheriff of New Hanover county, be and he is hereby 
authorized to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the year eighteen
hundred and fifteen;

William Raiford, late sheriff of Wayne county, be and he is hereby
authorized to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen
hundred and fourteen and fifteen;

John Pool, sheriff of Pasquotank county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred
and fourteen and fifteen;

John Gandy, late sheriff of Nash county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years one thousand eighteen
hundred and fourteen and fifteen;

Richard Allen, late sheriff of Wilkes county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred
and fourteen and fifteen;

Alexander Rowland, late sheriff of Robeson, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears due him for the year eighteen hundred and fifteen;

William Smaw, late sheriff of Beaufort county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and
fourteen and fifteen;

Lewis Bryan, sheriff of Lenoir county, be and he is hereby authorized to
collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and
fourteen and fifteen;

Thomas H. Daves, sheriff of Craven county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred
and fourteen and fifteen;

John Washington, late sheriff of Granville county, be and he is hereby
authorized to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the year eighteen
hundred and fifteen;

Daniel Glisson, late sheriff of Duplin county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and
fourteen and fifteen;

Rotheas Martin, late sheriff of Hyde county, be and he is hereby authorized
to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and
fourteen and fifteen;

That the administrator of Jesse Alexander, late sheriff of Tyrrel county, 
be and he is hereby authorized to collect the arrears of taxes due him for 
the years eighteen hundred and fourteen and fifteen;

George H. Dudley, late sheriff of Carteret county, be and he is hereby
authorized to collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen
hundred and fourteen and fifteen;

Samuel Cox, late sheriff of Ashe county, be and he is hereby authorized to
collect the arrears of taxes due him for the years eighteen hundred and
fourteen and fifteen;

Which said collections shall respectively be made under the same rules,
regulations and restrictions as all other collections of public taxes in
this state: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed 
as to authorize the said sheriffs or any of them, to collect any of said
taxes from executors, or administrators, or from persons removed from the
county, or from those who will voluntarly swear before some justice of the
peace, that the taxes so claimed have been paid; and provided also, that
this act shall continue in force for one year and no longer: Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent said sheriffs
from collecting arrears of taxes from those executors or administrators,
who may voluntarily pay the same, believing them to be due, nor from such
persons as they have returned insolvent, and for which they may have been
allowed.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1817
Chapter XLI
Page 42-43

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