A bill to improve county prisons, and to establish houses of correction.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Commons.
Imprint:	[Raleigh, N.C.] : [Seaton Gales, printer to the Legislature], [1852]
Description:	1 online resource (pages 335-342).
Language:	English
Series:	House Document ; No. 49 House doc. (North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Commons) ; 1852, no. 49.
Subject:	Prisons -- North Carolina. Prisons. North Carolina.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12415115

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Notes:	"Introduced by Mr. Erwin. Read first time and passed, and laid on the table and ordered to be printed"--At head of title. Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed October 13, 2020).
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).

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