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An Act Concerning the African Slaves lately ordered by the District Court of the United States, in this state, to be sold, and for other purposes. 1824 37 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0062 and id is 1 raw text is: . . AN ACT T''o amend an set entitled an At to authoripe Toung A. Cray to convey certain real estate therein mentioned, passed December 3Uth, 1823. Wherpas it appears to this General Assembly that in the act, passed on the thirtieth day of December, 1823, entitled an act to authorise Young A. Gray to convey certain real etate therein mentioned, there was a mistake made in the number of the section of land mentioned in said act, and that the same should have been the thirtieth, instead of the thirteenth section in township three, range three west, for remedy whereof, Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repw resentatives of the state of Alabama in GencralAsseniblU con- vened, That all the provisions of the above recited act which, apply to the certificate of the thirteenth section, range three, township three, west, lying in the county of Limestone, be and the same are hereby applied to the certificate for sec- tion thirty, in township three, range three west, lying in said county of Limestone, and that the said Young A.Gray, the father of James B. Gray, an infant, be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to sell and transfer the certifi- ca.te for the thirtirth section, in townshipthree, of range three west, lying in said county of Limestone, in the same manner, under the same restrictions and upon the same conditions that he was by tlip above recited act authorised . and empowered to sell and transfer the certificate of the said thirteenth section in range three; town,1hip three. (Approved, December 22, 1824.) AN ACT - Concerning the African Slaves lately ordered by the District Court of the United States, in this state, to be sold, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of itepresen. tatives of the state of Alabama in General .4ssenbly convened, That the Governor be, and Ue is hereby authorised to take such measures, and give such instructions to: the agent of this state, as may ensure a fair sale of the African slaves Gov.to.5ire condemned in the district court of the United States for instructions this diftrict, and in case said agent should find it necessary as to sale of to bid off any of the said slaves, to prevent a sacrifice of e es. the price, he shall sell the same 'on the terms that may be most advantageous ; and the said agent is authorised and required in all cases to pay the proceeds of iaid sales into the treasury of this state, excepting only such part thereof as shall be adjudged to the informer. Sec. 2. And be it furt her enacted, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to allow to the agent, and to 0Govr to such counsel as may have been necessarily employed in at- allop ageit tending in behalf of the state.to the cases lately pending i tion. the courts of tiie United States, in relation to the illegal importation Qf African slaves, such compensation as may be just and reasontable, out of thy prpceedy of the slavep <;ondemneS

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