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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0194 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF DELAWARE.
CHAPTER 57.
An Act concerning the binding oi' to service of Free Negroes and
Mulattoes.
[Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
tate of Delaware in General Assembly met:] SIcox 1 Thaimaug or
from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to bind ''o or
any free negro or mulatto child to any other free negro or I,.'1l11tes
mulatto within this State.
SECTroN 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That all acts and parts of acts now in force, conflicting with the
provisions of Section one of this act be, and the same are hereby
repealed and made null and void.
Passed at Dover, February 26,,1861.
CHAPTER 58.
A further Supplement to the Act entitled An Act to Incorporate
the Wesleyan Female Collegiate Institute.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and loe use of Represen-
tatives of the State of Delaware 'in General Assembly mel, (two-
thirds of each branch concurring therein,) That the purpose oferovisdonsor
the incorporation of The Wesleyan Female College, as declared s1vti jiUl
in the first Section of a supplement to the act mentioned in [the] to orlLlitI
act chanL~ged
title hereto, passed January 17, 1855, be, and the same is hereby
changed and modified, so that hereafter the purpose of said incor- now
poration may, in the discrctibn of the Trustees of said corporation, ed.
include the education of both males and females in Wilmington,
Delaware, and that all the provisions of said last mentioned sup-
plement be, and the same are hereby extended, so as to apply to the
said corporation as an institution for the purpose herein declared.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take w~mn ty,
offcet whenever the said corporation shall, under its corporate seal, aCrtfc. take
certify to the Secretary of State its acceptance of the same, such
certificate to be filed in the Secretary's office, and entered on the Cortifleato to
Executive Register. The said corporation may also in such cer- tn of
tificate certify its adoption of any corporate name suitable to the INvit niy
proposed change in the purpose of incorporation, and such name vertificte.
so certified shall thereafter be the name, style and title of the
corporation, and so deemed and taken in all courts of law and
equity.
Passed at Dover, February 26, 1861.
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