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An Act to authorize Elmira Mathews, a free person of color, to sell herself into perpetual slavery. 1861 121 (1861)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0535 and id is 1 raw text is: PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS-ROADS.-SLAVEB, &C. Road Laws in Camden county nmended.-Elndra Mathews. shall be so arranged by lock or slope, as not to prevent the pas- sage of fish up said river, from the first of November to the first of May, any law to the contrary notwithstandidg. Assented to December 12, 1861. TITLE XIV. ROADS. (No. 129.) An Act to amend( an Act assented to the 19th dol of December, 1860* in relation to the Road Laws (/' Camden county ; also to repeal an Act entitled An Act to authort:e the Inferior Court of Early county to levy a Roaid Tax, approved December 18th, 1859.t SECTION I. The General Assembly (10 enact, That the provi- A of 19 sion in the first Section of said Act in relation to Cumberlandnee.seoto. Island be, and the same is hereby repealed. penlca. Sec. II. And be it farther enacted, That an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Inferior Court of Early county, to levy a Road 1t o, re' Tax, be and the same is hereby repealed. Assented to December 17, 1961. Acts 1860, p. 223. tActs of 1859, p. 367. TITLE XV. SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR. Sco. 1. Elmira Mathews, a free person of See. 2. Modo of perfecting the sale. color, uiny sell hersielf into slavery to 3. Order of salo to le rocorded-Clerk's Juo. J. Doherty. feo. (No. 130.) An Act to authorize Elmira Mathews, afree person of color, to sell her- self into perpetual slavery. SECTION I. The General Assembly do enact, That ElmiraEhlraAfath Mathews, afree person of color in Greene county, be, and she is soofrlcol. heraby authorized to voluntarily become the slave of John J. Do- h*yiI herty for life. sltary. Sec. II. That in order to carry into effect the first section of this 1.1

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