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An Act authorizing the sale of certain Slaves. 1837 37 (1837)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0029 and id is 1 raw text is: 37 An Act authorizing the sale of certain Slaves. 1837. Be it enacted by the Gencral Assembly of the State of Ar- Adminisrrator. kansas, That the administratorofJohn Ryan,deccasedmay, of John Ryan 9authorized to and he is hereby authorized to, sell all the slaves belonging to sell slaves. the estate of the said John Ryan, deccased. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the sale of said slaves Widowtoliare shall be made subject to the dower of the widow of the said dower. John Ryan, deceased, and within the first week of January Time and next, at the court-house of Johnson county, in the town of place of sale. Clarksville. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said administrator shall Notice to be give at least ten days' previous notice of the intended sale of given. said slaves, by affixing the advertisement of the same at the door of the said court-house of Johnson county, or by a pub- lication in some authorized newspaper of this state. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said administrator lMay be sold may make said sale on such credit or credits as he may deem on credit. most expedient for the interest of the heirs of the said John Ryan, deccased, and receive from the purchasers such money or currency as he may believe good arid safe. SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of said administrator to Account of exhibit an account of the sale of said slaves, at the first term sale to be ex. of the comnty court thereafter; and it shall be the duty of hibited to the the clerk to charge him with the amount; and the proceeds county court. of said sale (after deducting the widow's dower) shall be equally divided among said heirs; and it shall be the duty Proceeds to be of the administrator to pay over the same to said heirs, or divided among their guardians, so soon as the proceeds of said sale are col- heirs. lected. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take cf- To take effeet. feet, and be in force, from and after its passage. Approved: December 13th, 1837. An Act supplemental to an act to establish the State Bank of the State of Arkansas. Whereas, it is believed that the best interests of this state Preamble. require that the Bank of the State of Arkansas and its branch- es be furnished the amount of capital originally intended by the charter of said bank and branches, with as little delay as possible : Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ar- kansas, That the governor is hereby authorized and required Governor to is. to issue the bonds of the state, payable in thirty years, to the .ul bonds for amount of one million of dollars; which said bonds shall be in the same manner and form (except expressing the rate of

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