To enforce payment of taxes.

by Lisa Y. Henderson

The General Assembly of this State adjourned sine die on Saturday last. The following is a list of the Public Acts passed during the Session.

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3. More effectually, to enforce the payment of taxes from free Negroes and Mulattoes. [Provides, that the owners of land, on which free negroes and mulattoes reside, with their permission, shall be liable for the public county and parish taxes of said negroes and mulattoes; and for refusal or neglect to give them in as free polls, in their list of taxables, to be liable to the same penalty as for a neglect or refusal to give in their own list.]

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North Carolina Sentinel, New Bern, 17 January 1829.