1893_public laws_135_2
CHAPTER 134 An act to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. gre General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That section three of chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the laws of North Carolina, enacted at the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by striking out the words amounting to five acres in the tenth line thereof; and that said section be further amended by adding to the same the following, towit: or the said landowner may be sued by the said overseer and judgment taken against him before a justice of the peace in Henderson county for the amount due on account of his failure to furnish said hand or hands, and if the said landowner be not a resident of the state, the summons in said action may be served by publication as in proceedings in attachments against non-residents ; but should the said landowner reside within the state, but without the county of Henderson, the summons in this case, duly certified by clerk of the superior court for Henderson county as to signature of the justice of the peace, [nay] be served by any sheriff within the state to whom it may be directed.