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An Act for the relief of London Ferrel and Rhoda his wife. 1820 51 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0106 and id is 1 raw text is: ( 51 ) and seventeen, have failed to perform the same: Fo'r remedy whereof. _Be it enacted by the General .ssembly of the Commonwealth of Ientucky, That Willis Blanton, and Achilles Sneed of the county of Franklin, Richard Fox and Daniel:J. Williams of the coun- tyof Woodford,, or any one or them from each county, be, and they are hereby appointed com- missioners to carry into effect the provision, of the act to which this is an amendment, who shall receive the same-pay, in the same manner aspro- vided ia thio before 'recited act. CHAP. XLIV. •a JCTfor the relief of London Ferrel and Rho. da his wie. Approved, November 27, 1320. cormm'rs. ap. p ointcd to car- ry , o effect the ,-bove reci. ted act. WHEREAS it is represented to the present, general assembly, that London Ferrel, and Rho- RccltaL da his wife, free negroes, eti ngrated to this state from fthe commonN(ealh of Virginia, about eight years since, ind have during this whole period, un- til within a few months since, been igniorantthat there was in force in this commonwealth, an act entitled' an act to prevent the future migration of free negroes and mnlattoes to this state, ap- proved February the eighth, one thousand eight hundred and eight ; and that the said London Ferrel and Rhoda his wife, have expended in property in the town of Lexington (now altogeth. er unsaleable) the sum of one thousand dollars, the earnings of the prime of their lives ; and that they are now old and infirm persons, who would be reduced to poverty if the said law were to be put in force against them : Therefore, BE it enacted by the General Jtssernbly of the Exemptedfrow Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the said London the operdti'ous Ferrel and Rhoda his wife, be, and they are here. of aT act pro- by relieved from the penalties of the said above hibitingf the en igainto this recited act, as fully as though they had emigra- igatin o th *d to this commonwealth prior to the passage of color. ti:jeof.

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