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An Act to authorise Mahala Farrer to emancipate a mulatto woman slave named Patience. 1827 118 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0092 and id is 1 raw text is: le Apptoed of bthe T' -usteesof tei third Judicial Ciruuit .mim o aijid paynlile to thi Trustees ot tohe I UiverDity f the State Of toand their succes ors ie d1ice, --e on the firit daiy o bond whh Marti one- thousind oight hiunded and twventy-nile for the p cu sult of seni hflInlred and seventy one dollars and forty cents, trustec of with interest at eight perfcntum'1'ron the first day of January 3d cicuit to one thousautd eight hundrest gud tweniy-thrce; it shall tleti be bave the he- the duty oftheTrustees of the third Judicial Circuit, to certify 't of this that fact to the Clerk of the circuit-court of Jefflerson county, who shall upon the payment of the cost which may have ac. crued on the suit now pendiug in the said court against John Wood and 'Isaac Brown, and against William D. S. Culbert- son and Jesse Edwardi, discontinue the same. .Approved January 151h, 1804. AN ACT to authorise Mahala Farrer to emancipate a mulat- to woman slave named Patience. rtience- SEc. 1. Be it enateai by the Senate and IHouse'of Represen- tuancipated. tatlives of the State Of .01abama, in General .Issembly convened, That Mahala Farrer be and she is herehy authorised and em- powered to emancipate and forever free from slavery and hon. dage a mulatto woman slave, named Patience, saving, hower. Rights of or the rights of creditors, and on the express condition that creditors not the said Mahala Farrer enter into bond with secinity, in the ~fectd, penal sum of five hundred dollars. to be approved'ly the Judge of the county court of Lauderdale county, made payable to the Governor of this State for the time being, and his succes- B3ondtobe sors in o<lice, to be fled in the oilice of the Clerkof the county en. court, conditioned that the said slave named Patience, salial not become a public charge to the state, or to any county, city Provio. or- town therein. Prrvided, the said- slave Patience shalk within six months after the passage of this'act move beyold the liits of this State; and shall not return to reside therem. .0pproved January 11I, 1828. AN ACT to amend in part, and repeal in part an act to estib-, lish the Town of Whitesburg and incorporate its Trustees. Skc. 1. 8I it enacted by the Senate and House of Represrtt- atives of the State of .Illabae in General Ossenibly cowvened, That hereafter the following shall be the boundari es to the Corporate corporate limits of the town of Whitesburg in Madison coun- 3inits. ty, to wit, beginning as heretofore at the junction of Aldridges Creek with the Tennessee River. and running thence up the said River four hundred yards, thence directly north sixteen htindred yards, thence- directly west nine hundi-cd yards, thence a direct south line, one.thousand yards, to the River and theiice up the River to the beginning. Skc. 21 .Ind be itfurther enacted, That hereafter, all persons residentt within the limits of the corporation of'the Town of Who, cxtnt. Wlitesburg, in Madison county, who are .by law, liableta rm work, work on roads be and they are hereby exempted front work- ing on any road or roads without the limits of the corporition of the TpAiIIof Whitesburg. sut. j, .0Ad be itfurther enacted, Thialt no person ruit

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