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An Act to cede certain lands to the United States of America. 1863 348 (1863.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0206 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE CHAPTER 3116. An Act to cede cerin lands to the Uitted States of Anrerica. . ECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Iouse of Representa. loners up- tives of the State of Delaware in General Assembl met, That IIoo.- Nathaniel W. Hickman, William D. Waples and James Pon- u1z eznt de, of Sussex County, be and they are hereby appointed >f Unted commissioners on the part of the State of Delaware, and they, ;tatee, to ocanelad or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and enipowered, z1g foedr in connection with any agent or person appointed by the Presi- .ere,. dent of the United States or by the Secretary of War, to locate and fix the boundaries of any quantity of land belonging to the n whi.State of Delaware, not exceeding forty acres, situate and lying ocuttlon to oade. on the Delaware Bay, south-east of the old mole, usually called the Government mole, and between said old mole and the point of Cape Henlopen. and the land belonging to the State of Delaware, located and designated by the boundaries, to be fixed and determined by the' commissioners aforesaid, in con- junction with the agent or person to be appointed as aforesaid by the President of the United States or by the Secretary of sol anzod War, and all claim, title and right of soil and jurisdiction of *urliionn.the State of Delaware, in, to or over the same is hereby ceded Provldedl to and vested in the United States in perpetuity: Provided, thatza forti-That the location of said land be made and fixed, and the ficlition or pierbecom- erection of a Fort, Battery, fortification or pier thereon be mz'zced yaspsae at wthu two commenced within two years from the passage of this act, and years. that within that time a plot of the land so located and hereby Plottobe ceded as aforesaid, be made and recorded in the Recorder's rcodd. Office, in and for Sussex County; and Provided also, That the Land cededland hereby ceded shall be used for the purpose hereinbefore tobeeusd specified, and for no other purpose whatsoever; and Provided pulrpose. further, That no non-resident negro or mulatto shall be em- No. ployed in the erection of any fort, battery, fortification or pier resident b or for any purpose within the limits of the land hereby ceded. negro to b employed. Cession SECTION 2. Be itfurther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That made Puu the above cession of land and jurisdiction hereby made to the condiion United States, is made upon the express and fundamental that slavery shall not be conditions hereinafter named, that is to say, upon the express abolishedslvr nonar there while and fundamental condition that slavery or involuntary servi- itexistsin tude shill not be abolished within the limits hereby ceded, Deaware. while slavery shall exist by law within the State of Delaware, and upon the further express and fundamental condition that 48 *

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