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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0216 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 41.1 AN ACT
TQ anendan act, entitled an lct to authorize the Sipsey Bridge and Canuseoway Company
to establish a Ferry 1r a limited time, approved December 23, 1036.
Section 1. Be it encoted by the Senate and House of Repesen-
tatives of the State oJ Alabama in General Assem4ly convened,
That the judge of the county court and commissioners of revenue and Rooda to be
roads of the county in which any road or roads may bo opened by established.
authority of the second section of the above recited act, shall have pow-
er at any regular term of their court, to adopt and establish any such
road or roads as public highways, without having ordered a jury of
review to view and lay out such road or ronds, shall have power to
appoint overseers ond apportioner as in cases of other roads.
Sec. 2. And be itfurther enacted, That any road or roads estab-
lished according to the provisions of the first section of this act, shall Turned, &e.
not be turned on different ground except by order of court, with the
consent of the Sipsey Bridge and Causeway Cominany.
Approved, December 21, 1837.
[No. 42.] AN ACT
To divorce Dory Ann Hall from her husband Filenry M. Mill.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate andI Hiouse of Represen-
tatives of the State of .labama in General Issermbly convened,
That in accordance with the decree of the circuit court of Lowndes
county, exercising chancery jurisiiction, protiounced and entered at
the fall term of spid court, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-
seven, the bonds of matrimony heretofore solemnized and subsisting
between iDory Ann Hall and Henry I. Hall, her husband, be, and
the same are hereby dissolved and made void, and that the said Dory
Ann Hall be henceforth divorced from her said husband Henry M.
Hall. Approved, December 21, 1837.
INo.43.] AN ACT
For the relief of Putience Powell.
SncTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House qf Represen-
tatives of the State of ./labama in General Assembly convened,
That Patience Powell, wifeof Lewis Powell, of the county of
Autauga, shall possess all the rights and privileges and be subject to
all liabilities of afeme sole; that any property that the said Patience
Powell owns or may acquire by inheritance or other lawful means,
shall not be sold on account of the debts of the sait Lewis Powell, her
husband, or taken by him in any manrer whatever, and the said Pa-
tience Powell shall have power and authority to sell and dispose of
any property that she has or may become possessed of, as though she
had never been married to the said Lewis Powell.
Approved, December 21, 1837.
[No. 44. AN ACT
To provide for the sale of Lands and Slaves at the Town of Courtland in certain cases.
Whereas, from the peculiar local division of the settlements in the
county of Lawrence, it is often prejudicial to the interest of both debt-
ors and creditors, that lands and slaves taken in execution in said coun- Preamble.
ty, lying and being in the northern parts thereof, should be exposed
to sale at. the court house in said county, for remedy wherof,
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