“CHAPTER 224.
An act to authorize certain detectives to carry concealed weapons while on official duty.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1. That section one thousand and five of The Code is hereby amended by inserting between the word “state” and the word “when ” in line next before last in said section the following words, to wit: “nor to the duly commissioned officers of the Pinion Detective Agency within this state.”
SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
In the general assembly read three times, and ratified this the 7th day of March, A. D. 1887.”
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Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session of 1887, Begun and Held in the City of Raleigh, on Wednesday, the Fifth Day of January, A. D. 1887: To Which Are Prefixed a Register of State Officers, Judiciary, a List of Commissioners of Affidavits, Members of the General Assembly, and State Constitution (Raleigh, NC: Josephus Daniels, 1887), 463. Chapter 224—An Act To Authorize Certain Detectives To Carry Concealed Weapons While on Official Duty, §§ 1-2. Ratified March 7, 1887.