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HEREAS the vigorous Proecution of the preent Indian War may much ooner put an End to the ame: In order therefore to encourage and tir up an enterprizing Spirit among the Militia and Voluntiers employed in the aid War;

II. BE it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North Carolina, and by the Authority of the ame, That from and after the Firt Day of June next, if Peace hall not be made with the Cherokees before that Time, and until Peace hall be made, a Premium of Fifteen Pounds for each Prioner, and a Premium of Ten Pounds for each Scalp, hall be paid out of the Treaury to the Captor, being in the Service of the State, on producing a Prioner or Scalp, and making Oath that the Prioner was taken by him after the aid Firt Day of June, or that the Scalp was taken and fleaed off the Head of an Indian Man lain by himelf, after the aid Firt Day of June.

III. AND be it Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That a Premium or Reward of Forty Pounds for each Scalp of an Indian Man Prioner, be paid to any Peron in this State, not in the Pay thereof, who hall voluntarily undertake to make War upon the aid Indians after the Time aforeaid, provided Peace hall not before that Time be made with the ame Indians, and until Peace hall be made; the Captors making Oath as aforeaid that uch Scalp or Prioner was taken by him after the aid Firt Day of June, and that the Indian o killed or taken is of the Nation of Indians commonly known by the Name of the Cherokees, and that the Scalp produced was actually taken from an Indian, killed by the Peron claiming the ame.

 

HEREAS it is abolutely neceary for the recording and preerving Deeds, that Regiters be appointed in the everal Counties within this State;

II. BE it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North-Carolina, and by the Authority of the ame, That the Jutices of the everal Counties, and the Ditrict of Wahington, in this State, have full Power, and are hereby required, at the firt Court held in their everal Counties, and on the econd Day of uch Court, to nominate and appoint ome proper Peron within their repective Counties to be a Regiter for the ame, who hall enjoy the aid Office during good Behaviour.

III. AND be it further Enacted, That each Public Regiter o choen, hall within Three Months after he hall enter his Office, give Bond, with