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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0299 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 256.] AN ACT
To confirm the emancipation of certain slaves therein named.
WHERIEAS, from the petition of Faustin Collin, of the city of
Mobile, it appears that Valerio Petit, did, by act of mancpa-
tioti, made on the seventeenth day of August, Anno Domino, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and recorded in the of-
fice of the Clerk of the County Court of Escambia county, inl Preamble.
the Territory of Florida, manumit and set free, a certain negro
woman, named Louisa Rafael, who has since given birth to a
female child named Isabella Rafael: dndwhereas, doubt exists
whether said Isabella and Louisa are permitted to reside in this
State, under existing laws:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa.
lives of the State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened; That
the above named act of emancipation of Louisa Rafael, by Valle-
rie Petit, be, and the same is hereby confirmed, reserving the
right of creditors; and upon this express condition, that Faustin Emancipation
Collin, above named, shall give bond and security, in the sum of confirmed.
two thousand dollars, to be approved by the Judge of the Coun-
ty Court of Mobile County, and payable to the Governor of this
State, and his successors in office, conditioned that said Louisa
Rafael and her child Isabella, shall never become a charge to
this State, or any county, city or town therein, add the said
Louisa and Isabella, shall not be required under any law to leave
this State.
Approved, 15th February, 1843.
[No. 257.] AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the sale of property at the Town of
Fairfield, in Pickens County, and also at Greenaborough, in the County of
Greene, approved December 31, 1841.
Section 1. Be it es-acled by the Senate and House of Representa-
lives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That
hereafter, the sheriff of Greene county may, at his election, sell Greene.
any goods and chattels, except negroes, that may be levied on
and sold by him, by virtue of any legal process, in that part of
Greene county lying east of the Warrior river, either at the town
of Greensborough, or any other place in said county, cast of
the Warrior river; and such sales. at any other place than the
town of Greensborough, may be made on any day to be fixed
by the said sheriff
See. 2. And be itfurther enacted, That the third section of the
act entitled an act to authorize the sale of property at the town
of Fairfield, in Pickene county, and also at Greensborough, in Picken..
the county of Greene, so far as the same conflicts with the pro-
visions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, February 2d, 1843.
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