Book excerpt: Excerpt from Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at Its Session of 1856-'57: Together With the Comptroller's Statement of Public Revenue and Expenditure Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the fourteenth section of said sixth chapter be amended by striking out the word eight in the fourth line and inserting therefor the word' ten. 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.