“AN ACT TO REPEAL CERTAIN SECTIONS OF AN ACT RATIFIED AUGUST SEVENTEENTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT, ENTITLED AN ACT TO ORGANIZE A MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA.
SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That all those sections from the eighth to the twenty-second inclusive, of the act ratified August seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, entitled an act to organize a militia of North Carolina, are hereby repealed; Provided, That the governor be and he hereby is directed to have returned to the arsenal at Raleigh all arms and equipment now in the possession of the detailed militia, and he is authorized to draw a sufficient sum, not to exceed one hundred dollars, from the treasury to pay cost of transportation.
SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after the date of its ratification.”
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Public Laws of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session 1870-‘71 begun and Held in the City of Raleigh on the Sixteenth of November, 1870; to Which Are Prefixed the Constitution of the State and a Register of State Officers Members of the General Assembly and Judiciary, with the Auditor’s Statement of the Public Revenue and Expenditure (Raleigh, NC: James H. Moore, 1871), 202. Chapter 134—An Act to Repeal Certain Sections of an Act Ratified August Seventeenth, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Eight, Entitled an Act to Organize a Militia of North Carolina, §§ 1-2. Ratified March 17, 1871.