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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0297 and id is 1 raw text is: 1843.
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[No. 278.] AN ACT
Explanatory of an Act for the relief of Cassandra Kelley.
Prear.ble. TVIERLAS, 0oubts are entertained, whether the act approved
onr the seventeenth January, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine, for the relief of Cassandra Kelley, has accomplished
the entire object intanded by the .I egislature:-Tlicrcfore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
lives o' the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, The
Rigits or true intent --id meaning of the aforesaid act shall, and is
juished. hereby declared to be, that whatever rights or interests the State
of Alabama may have, or shall hereafter acquire, by escheat,
in and to the personal property, rights and credits, which were
of the estate of Christopher Plunket, deceased, late husb~lpd
of said Cassandra, be, and the same are hereby vested in, and
relinquished to the said Cassandra, present wife of James V.
Kelley, of the county of Dallas; that such is, and shall be the
disposition of said property and interests, whether the same be
considered to have vested by operation of law in Matthew
Plunket, the deceased brother of said Christopher Plunket, and
to have escheated as of the estate of the former at the time of
his death, or as remaining part of the estate of said Christopher
Plunket Provided, notlhing herein contained shall impair the
rights of creditors or heirs or distributees of either of said de-
cedents.
Approved, January 27th, 1843.
[No. 279.] AN ACT
To con'irm the emancipation of a certain slave therein named.
WHEREAS, by the last will and testament of Joseph Johnston,
Preamble. Inte of the county of Washington, he ordered and directed a cer-
tain negro man slave, named Baptiste, to be emancipated and set
at liberty, on account of the faithful services of said slave, to his
said master, and on account of, the aid rendered by him in pre-
serving the life of his master in a conflict with a band of runa-
way outlawed slaves: T/herefore, - .
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
Baptiste, a lies of the State of iAlabama, in General Assembly convened, That
stave emao. the said Baptiste is hereby emancipated and' set free from the
cipated. bonds of slavery heretofore existing, upon condition that Daniel
Reed, who is authorized by said will, to procure the emancipa-
tion of said slave, and James Johnston, who is administrator with
the will annexed, of said Joseph Johnston, deqeased, shall enter
into bond, with good security, to be approved of by the Judge
of the County Court of Washington county, in the sum of five
thousand dollars, conditioned that said Baptiste shall never be.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0297&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)