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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0063 and id is 1 raw text is: [ 73 ]
CHAP. LV.
AN ACT
For the relief of certain Free Persons of colour,
Approved, February 8, 1809.
Whereas a law passed at the last session of the go-
neral assembly preventing the emigration of free ne-
groes and mulattoes to this commonmvealth, and it is
represented to the present general assembly that a
number of free colored people with their families did
remove to this state and settle in Logan county after
the passage of said law, but before the same was pro-
mulgated, and the said persons have petitioned for
themselves and their families to be relikved fron
the pains and penalties of said recited act, and that
their relations by marriage or otherwise may be per-
mitted to remove and settle in this state ; therefore,
1. Be it enacted '0 the general assembl., that
the before recited persons and their families be and
they are hereby released from all the pains and pe-
iahies of the before recited act, and their free relations
by mar riage or otherwise, and tmo'eover permitted to
remove to this commonweath, provided such rela-
tions remove theniselves and families to this com.
monvealth before the twentfifth day of December
next,- any laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
This act shall be in force from its passage.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsky0063&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)