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Joint Resolutions To provide for the preservation of a portion of the Public Arms. 1845 252 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0357 and id is 1 raw text is: ,252 JOINT RESIOLUTION In relation to a part of Section Sixteen, Township Seventee-i, Range Four, Easl, in Marengo Counly. Be it enacle.d b# the Senate and- House of Representatives of the State of .11abaa, in General .Jssembly convened,. That the contract of purchase of the soith west quarter of section sixteen, in town-hip seventeen, in range four, east, i Mirengo county, between John H. Ray, late of said cout, deceased, ani the commissioners of said sixteenth Section, by, and with the consent of a majority of the white male inhab- itants of said township over the age oi' tweity-one, years, and of the ad- iniiistrator or execultor of said John H1. Ray, deceased, and the other co- makers of the nite, may be rescinded and set-aside : Probided, that the consent ol said inhabitants as aforesaid be asccruiined by an election, to be publicly held by slil com i issioners at some place, in said township, after twenty day's notice of the time and place of such election, posted up in three or more public places in said township : Andprovided also, that no money that may have been heretofore paid in virtue of said con- tract, shall be refi nded. Approved, 4th February, 1816. JOINT RESOLUTIONS To provide for the preservation of a portion of tle Public A rus. Whereas, in the month of DecenIber, A. D., eighteen liilidred and forty, on account of' an appreeded insurrection of the slave popila- tion in and near the town of Demopolis, in Mailetgo counly, the Quarter Master General, with the concurrence of the Governor of this State, for warded to that plaLce frotm the State Arsenal at Tuscaloosa, about eighty musIkets, with cartridge boxes, boyontos, &c , without re- (luiring the exeention of any legal boid for their return: And whereas, also, said muskets, &c., havinrg been distribitted to the citizets of said town and its vicinity, remained thus seattered, until the summer of' eighteen litindred and forty five, whom the greater part of the same wevre collected by William HI. Roberts, of said town : 3ut whereas, also, said muskets, &e., aro subject to continiual inj ry for the want of proper care and skill for their preservation: Therefore, Be it r-esolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of labama, in General assembly convened, That tle Quarter Mastor General be, and he is hereby directed and required, either by himself, or by properly authorized agent, to proceed forthwith to the said town of Demopolis, and to take charge of such of said muskets, cartridge boxes, bayonets, &c., as remain and can be procured, and to have the same returned to the State Arsenal at Tuscaloosa.

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