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An Act permitting free Negroes to select a Master and become Slaves. 1859 63 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0561 and id is 1 raw text is: contrary be shown ; this package he may deliver himself or send by a messenger, and if not mutilated or defaced, must be presumed to be, as it came from the hands of the clerk. SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That the clcrk or messenger shall be entitled to the same compensation to be paid in the same way as provided by section 2364 of the Code. APPROVED, February 23, 1860. No. 71 AN ACT Permitting free Negroes to selbct a Master and become Slaves. Suc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That any free person of color, or free negro residing in this State, and desiring voluntarily to surrender his or her free- dom, shall be permitted and empowered to do so on appli- cation by petition in writing to the Judge of the Probate Free person or Court of the county in which the applicant resides, praying ' to become the slave of some white person of good moral character and standing, residing permanently in this State, whereupon it shall be the duty of the Judge of Probate to set a day for hearing said petition, and shall appoint a guardian ad litum to defend for the petitioners, if any of them shall be under the age of eighteen years. The peti- tion must not be heard until after the expiration of ten days from the time it' was filed. S'c,. 2. Be it further enacted, That if on the trial of said petition the Judge of Probate shall be convinced of the proofTri of disinterested witnesses, and from all the facts ani cir. cuistances of the case that the petitioners filed the petition voluntarily and free from undue influence, and that the petitioner or petitioners really desire to surrender freedom and to become the slave or slaves of the person named in the petition, it shall be the duty of the Judge of Probate Judgeofprolfmte, to decree the petitioner or petitioners, the slave or slaves of the person named they have selected, and from thencefor. ward, they shall be deemed and held in law and in equity, the slaves of the said person by them so selected: 1rovided, Provida, They shall nothe sold under any legal process for the debts or liabilities of the master or mistress they have se!ceted, or their heirs or distributoes ; And providel further, That 63 1859-'80.

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