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the indictment and its return, to have the proper entry
made nunc pro tunc, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, February 20, 1866.
No. S6.1 AN ACT
To protect freedmen in their rights of person and proper-
ty in this State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabana in General Assem-
bly convened, That all freedmen, free negroes and mulat-
toes, shall have the right to sue and be sued, plead and be
Ileghtsomreed- i leaded in all the different and various courts of this
State, to the same extent that white persons now have by
law. And they shall be competent to testify only in open,
whien comypo- court, and only irL cases in which freedmen, free negToes
tn tottify. and mulattoes are parties, either plaintiff or defendant, and
in civil and criminal cases, for injuries in the persons and
property of freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes, and in
all cases, civil or criminal, in which a freedman, free ne-
gro or mulatto is a witness against a white person, or a
white person against a freedman, free negro or mulatto,
the parties shall be competent witnesses, and neither in-
terest in the question or suit, nor marriage, shall disquali-
When disquai- fy any witness from testifying in open court.
Approved, December 9, 186-5.
No. 87.] AN ACT
To authorize the Governor to sell the Alabama State
Arsenal building in the city of Tuscaloosa.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
ltpres( ntatives of the State of Alabama in General Assem-
bly convened, That the Governor of' this State be, and he
a vciu is hereby authorized to sell and convey all right of this
State in and to the Alabama State Arsenal building in
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