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Laws related to: North Carolina

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An Act, to amend an Act therein mentioned, concerning Servants and Slaves. 1715 North Carolina
An Act, for and additional Tax on all free Negroes, Mulattoes, Mustees, and such Persons, Male and Female, as now are, or hereafter shall be, intermarried with any such Persons, resident in this Government. 1723 North Carolina
An Act concerning Servants and Slaves. 1741 North Carolina
An additional Act, to an Act, concerning Servants and Slaves. 1753 North Carolina
An additional Act to and Act, intituled, An Act concerning Servants and Slaves 1758 North Carolina
An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act for regulating the Pilotage of Cape Fear River, and for other Purposes. 1766 North Carolina
An Act to prevent hunting with a Gun in the Night by Fire Light. 1773 North Carolina
An Act to prevent domestic Insurrections, and for other Purposes. 1777 North Carolina
An additional act to amend the several acts for regulating the town of Wilmington, and to regulate and restrain the conduct of slaves and others in the said town, and in the towns of Washington, Edenton and Fayetteville. 1785 North Carolina
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