[37] Acts of 1852, Ch. 158, Sec. 1.
[38] McDonald, William, Select Charters Illustrative of American History, 1606-1775, 122, S. 5.
[39] McDonald, Op Cit., 123, Sec. 6.
[40] Col. Recs. of North Carolina, I, 639; State Recs. of N. C., XXIV, 14.
[41] Ibid., III, 93, 560.
[42] Ibid., IV, 106; Davis, James, Laws of North Carolina, 79.
[43] Davis, 177-180.
[44] North Carolina Constitution of 1776, Secs, 7, 8, and 9; Col. Recs., XXIII, 881.
[45] U. S. Statutes at Large, I, 108.
[46] Ibid., First Congress, 1790; Chap. VI, Sec. II, pp. 106-9.