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An Act to enable certain free negroes and mulattoes to pay their debts. 1862 73 (1862.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0178 and id is 1 raw text is: ARUKANSAS. vided by law. That all suits in law or equity now pending or hereafter to be commenced in any of the courts of this State shall be continued until after the ratification of peace between the United States and the Confederate States. APPROVED, December 1st, 1862. AN ACT to enable certain free negroes and mulattoes to pay their debts. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas passed an act, which was approved February 12th 1859, requiring all free negroes and mulattoes to leave this State, and that at a subsequent session the General Assembly passed an act, which was approved January 10th 1861 exempting all free negroes and mulattoes within the limits of this State, who are held in duress, or by operation of law from the operation of said act approved February 12th 1851, until the first clay of January 1863, and WHEREAS, certain free negroes and mulattoes to wit: Peter Madison, Henry Preston, Elizabeth Sibby, Fanny Retina and her child, not named, Virginia and her child, not named, Jane and her three children, Richard, John Campbell and William, Diana and her child, Mary Jane, and Caroline and her three children, Edward, Dora, Annie and Balsera, formerly the property of one Joshua Averett, late of Union county, who by his last will pro- vided that said negroes and mulattoes should be set free and so declared by the circuit court of the county of Ouachita, are likely to be removed from within the limits of this State under the existing laws, leaving unpaid the claim of one John 11. Askew to the amount as claimed three thousand dollars: Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enated by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That it shall be lawful, and the sheriff of Union county and his successors in office are hereby required to take charge of said free negroes and mulattoes, and hire the same at public out- cry before the court house door of his county, to the highest and last bidder from time to time until the said claim of the said John 11. Askew shall have been fully paid; and said free negroes and mulattoes so hired shall be held for the time they arc hired out, as slaves are now held Providcd, That no one hiring shall extend to a longer tern than twelve months. Smc. 2. Be it farther coacted, That the said John II. Askew, shall as soon as practienble after the passage of this act, make out and file under oath, with the clerk of the court of his county, an account current of all moneys and evidences of debt that may have come into his hands, on account of said free negroes and mulattoes, and of all moneys that may have been paid out for them by him, including all just and lawful obligations of the said 10 78

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