State of North Carolina,
Williamsborough, Granville County, July 23rd, 1781.
I recollect your having mentioned, when I had the pleasure of seeing you last, that you were to take down to the public printer the
ratified acts of assembly; several of them I find, require immediate execution, and paper and writers are so difficult to be procured here, that I see no readier way for furnishing the copies than by sending to the printer for them. I request the favor of you to direct him to finish off immediately about sixty copies of the acts inserted in the inclosed list & to send them to me by the bearer. Be so good as to let me know what you have done in the matter, which you were so kind as to undertake relative to military stores.Newbern.
An act for laying a money & specific tax for the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty one.
An act for the relief of such persons as have taken paroles, & for other purposes.
An act for raising troops out of the militia of this State, for the defence thereof, & for other purposes.
An act for obliging the counties which have not furnished their quota of continental troops as required by a late act of the general assembly of this State to furnish the same.
An act for continuing the district auditors, directing their duty in office, & for other purposes.
The public printer is hereby required to furnish to the governor sixty copies of the four first above mentioned acts of the general assembly past at their last session; and six of the last above mentioned act for public use for which this shall be his warrant.
Given under my hand at Williamsborough, Granville County, State of North Carolina, July 23rd, 1781.