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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0278 and id is 1 raw text is: act; and the said commissioners as aforesaid, shall have power
to npwoint another commissioner in caso any one of said con-
nissioners shall resign, which resignation shall not be accepted
until the other commissioners are thereof notified; or in case of
dleath or removal, the remaininr commissioners shall have pow-
cr to appoint and fill the vacancy, until the business of sellinr
the said lots and collecting the moneys therefor shall be comple-
ted as nearly as stay be.
See. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said commis-
sioners shall be allowed out of the county treasury, any amount
Compensatimor sum of money, for their services, which may be adjudged to
them by the commissioners court of roads and revenue, whenever
the said commissioners shall require the same, on a proper show-
ing by the said commissioners, or any of them: provided the
amount shall not exceed six hundred dollars, out of any money
not otherwise appropriated in the county treasury.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts
Htrepii. of laws contravening the provisions of this act, be and the same
are hereby repealed
Approved, December 31, 1811.
[No. 157.] AN ACT
To confirm the Eimancipation of certain Slaws therein mentioned.
WIREAs, from the petition of Augustin Demouy and other
Preamble, citizens of Mobile, it appears that Francoise, a woman of color,
now held as the slave of the said Augustin Deiony, was in all
probability cmancipated and set free by her owner, under the laws
of Spain, prior to the cession of the territory to the United States,
but could not, without ditliculty and expense beyond her reach,
establish the fact. Therefore,
Section 1. Be it ' enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That the said Augustin Demony, be and he is hereby author-
ized to emancipate and set free the said woman Francoiso and
her two sons Emile and Louis, and her daughter Camilla, rcserv-
Emancipation' ing the right of creditors; and upon this express condition, that
the said Augustin De-iouy enter into bond and security, in the
sum of two thousand doiars, to be approved by the judge of the
county court of Mobile county, payable to the Governor of this
State, and his successors in office: Conditioned, that the said
woman Francoise and her said children, Emile, Louis and Ca-
milla, shall never become a charge to this State, or any county,
city or town therein ; and the said Francoise and her said chil-
.dren shall not be required, under any law, to leave this State.
Approved, December 31, 1811. *
18-11.
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