A bill to improve county prisons, and to establish houses of correction.
1852
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Title
A bill to improve county prisons, and to establish houses of correction.
Published
[Raleigh, N.C.] : [Seaton Gales, printer to the Legislature], [1852]
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Description
1 online resource (pages 335-342).
System Control No.
(NNC-L)LLMC1200166834
(TEMPOCo)1200166834
(TEMPOCo)1200166834
Summary
1852 North Carolina House bill to improve county prisons and to establish houses of correction. Included were the procedures for construction of same, as well as delineating the courts' duties and oversight of them. The bill also prohibited whipping, branding, or other corporeal punishment and substituted hard labor and specific sentences for those offenses (except slaves and free Negroes always got hard labor).
Note
"Introduced by Mr. Erwin. Read first time and passed, and laid on the table and ordered to be printed"--At head of title.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed October 13, 2020).
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