Supreme Court of North Carolina January 5, 1877 (Pegram v. . Stoltz)

FaiRCUOth, J.

(After stating the facts as above.) The State being in an anomalous condition, the above recited Act was passed to meet the particular emergency then existing and was so intended as appears from, its preamble. It was-made applicable by its terms only to those States lately in rebellion and was therefore a local Act and- not a general law of the United States.