But ASHE, J., concurred in the opinion of Johnston.
NOTE. — See, accordingly, Summer v. Barksdale, post, 328, but it is now provided, since the Act of 1799 (1 Rev. Stat., ch. 52, sec. 36), that the acts of the General Assembly shall be in force only from and after thirty days after the termination of the session in which they are passed, and not before, unless otherwise expressly directed in the acts themselves.
Cited: Hamlet v. Taylor, 50 N.C. 38.