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An Act to authorize Gilbert D. Taylor to emancipate certain slaves therein named. 1822 135 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0033 and id is 1 raw text is: 135 1822. AN ACT To authorize Gilbert D. Taylor to emancipate certain slaves therein named. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- entatives of the State of Alabama, in General .ssembly con- vened, That Gilbert D. Taylor of the county of Limestone, be, and he is hereby authorized to emancipate the follow- ing named slaves to wit: John Rawlins, Jack Lewis, John Fellows. Thener a woman, all over the age of twenty-one, on the first day of January next; and Fanny, Susan, Nan- cy. Tom and George under that age, so soon as the said Gilbert D. Taylor, shall have executed to the Judge of the county court of Limestone county and his successors in of- fice, a bond with sufficient security that said John Rawlins, Jack Lewis. John Fellows, Thener, Fanny, Susan, Nancy, Tom and George, shall never become chargeable to the State of Alabama, or any county or town within the same: Provided, that nothing in this act containedliall be so con- strued, as to affect the right of the creditors of said Taylor, but that said negroes hereby authorized to be emancipated shall be at all times during their continuance in this state, liable to be taken in execution, and in default of other suf- ficient property he sold to satisfy any judgment or decree founded on any contract or claim either in law or equity, now existing against said Taylor: Provided also, that the said negroes hereby authorized to be emancipated, shall remove out of this state within ten months, and shall not return to reside within the same at any time thereafter:- Provided also, that the wife of said Taylor shall upon ex- amination by the Judge of the county court apart from her husband, give her free and voluntary consent to the eman- cipation of said negroes, which consent shall be entered of record is said court. [Approved, Dec. 9, 1822.1 AN ACT To manumit certain slaves therein named. Sec. 1. Be it enacted b th' Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the State o Alabama, in Genetal Assembly convened, That Henry Taylor, of Wilcox county, be, and H. Taylor he is hereby, authorized and empowered, to manumit and authorid set free from slavery, the following persons of colour, to pat cer- wit: James, Elsey and Louisa; and the said James, Elsey taislayv. and Louisa are hereby declared to be freed and liberated from slavery, so soon as the said Henry Taylor shall gi;e to the Judge of .the county court of Wilcox, bond and good security in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that none of the above persons set free and liberated, shall become a charge to the public: Pr.vided, that nothing cbn- Provise tained in this act shall be oonstrued. as to interfere with the

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