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An Act to emancipate a certain slave therein named. 1828 94 (1828)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0106 and id is 1 raw text is: 1828l. Stte'o State of Alabama, or any countyc ty or tovn therekbsV Andprevided also, that nothing contained in this arc shall be so construed as in any manner to interfere with the right% of creditors. Approved, December 20, 1828. AN ACT To omancipale a certain slave therein tnmed. Section 1. He it enacted b!, the Senate ann awou of Represetr* fatives of the State of Alabama in General ., iasemhly convently .JohnVinl That Mourning, a female slave, the property of John autors Vining,of the county of'Madison, he, and she is hereby pate n c. emancipated and forever freed from slat.ery and bondage, tON slave reserving, however, to creditors their just rights, on the express condition that the said John Vining eiter into bond with security, in, the penal sum of five hundred dollars, to be approved by the judge ofthe county court of Madison ~ounty; made payible to the Go enior for the time being and his successors in. oflice, to be filed in the clerk's office of the said county court, conditioned that the said, female slave, Mourning, shall not become, a public charge to the State, or to any -county, city or town theteof. Approved, Ducember 20, 1826. JOINT RESOLUTIONS Proposing amendments to ttle Constitution of the State of Alabama, sq as to limit the tenure of the Judges' ofice to . .years. Be it resolved by the Senate and Hfouse of Reprdeentatives of the State of Alabama in.Geneilal Assembly convened, That the follohing amendments to-the Constitution of the State of Alabama be proposed to the people of said State, which, wheti agiree to by a majority of all the citizens of said State voting for representati es, and.ratified by two thirds of each house of the next General Assembly, voting by yeas and nays, shall be valid to' all intents-and purposes whatever, as a part of the Constitution of the State of Ala. Judges to bama, to wit: Strike out the thirteenth section of the fifth iold th.ei article, and insert in licu thereof the following: The judg. offices for es of the several courts in this State shall hold their offices the term Of for the term of six years; and for wilful neglect of duty, or six years other reasonable'cause which shall not he sufficient ground wy remo. for impeach ment, the Governor shall remove any of them ved on the address of two ti irds of each house of the General Assembly: Provided, hnvevcr, That the cause or causes. for which such removal shall be required, shall be stated at length in such address, and entered on the journals of each house - And provided further, That the cause or causes shall be notified to the judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be admitted to a hearing in his own defence, be-. fore any tote for such address shall pass; and in all such cases the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journals of each house respectively: And provided also, That t.he judges now in office may hold their offices until the session of the General Assembly which shall be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

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