In this booke is contained the office of shiriffes, bayliffes of liberties, escheatours, constables, and coroners, and sheweth what euery one of the[m] may do by vertue of theyr offices, drawen out of bookes of the commen lawe and of the statutes

The duty and office of justices of peace, and of sheriffs, coroners, constables, &c., according to the laws of the state of North-Carolina: to which is added an appendix, containing the several acts directing the mode of recovering debts of thirty pounds and under, the declaration of rights and constitution of this state, and the Constitution of the United States, with the amendments thereto : together with a collection of the most useful precedents

revised and corrected by John Haywood.