Volume 6
Private Law 18–CXXVII
supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.
Approved May 19, 1824
Statutory text
An Act
supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Joseph J. Alston and John Mebane, or the survivor of them, executors and legal representatives of John B.
Executors to collect for the use of the estate such arrears as remain uncollected. Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 41.
Mebane, deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax, in the county of Chatham, in the state of North Carolina, be, and they are hereby, authorized to demand and collect, for the use of the estate of the said John B. Mebane, such arrearages of said direct tax and internal duties as remain uncollected, and which the said John B. Mebane had paid over to the United States, in the same manner as heretofore directed by law: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed
Proviso.
to authorize the said Joseph J. Alston and John Mebane to recover any arrears of such tax, from the representatives of any deceased person, or from any person who shall make oath that the said tax, due from such person, had been paid to the said John B. Mebane in his lifetime.
Approved, .