Excerpt from Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina: First Session in May and June, 1861 Be it further ordained, That the members Of the said Board of Claims shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge their duties; they may em ploy a clerk who shall record the proceedings Of the board they shall give general and public notice Of the times and place of their sittings; they shall be authorized to admin ister oaths and to require affidavits to be made when noces sary. The said Board shall report the result of their labors and proceedings, with a brief statement of the character Of each claim allowed, at the conclusion of their labors, or from time to time, as they may think proper, to this Con vention, either at the'prcscnt or any future session. Each member of the Board shall be allowed six dollars per day, and the clerk shall be allowed four dollars per day for each day they shall be actually employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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