“AN ACT IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ARMS.
SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the auditor of the State is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the public treasurer for the payment of such sums as may be certified by the adjutant general and governor, and as may be actually necessary to pay the freight and drayage upon the public arms received as the quota of North Carolina, from the United States government, under the acts making provision for the arming of the militia of the several States and territories, or returned to the arsenals of the United States for exchange under the act of Congress of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.”
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Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session 1874-’75, Begun and Held in the City of Raleigh, on Monday, the Sixteenth Day of November, A. D., 1874, to Which Are Prefixed a Register of State Officers, Members of the General Assembly and Judiciary, and a List of Commissioners of Affidavits (Raleigh, NC: Josiah Turner, 1875), 18. Ratified December 8, 1874. Chapter 21—An Act in Relation to Public Arms, §§ 1-2.