1885_public laws_167_2
CHAPTER 166 An act to provide for the sale of certain stock law fences in Stokes county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That whenever it shall appear upon petition and satisfactory proof to the commissioners of the county of Stokes that any stock law fence in said county has become useless, and will be of no further use as such in consequence of an adjoining territory having adopted the stock law, it shall be their duty to provide for the sale of the same, and for that purpose shall appoint some responsible person as commissioner to make such sale.