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An Act to authorize Lewis de Feriet to claim from the treasurer of the territory the estimated value of a negro woman condemned to perpetual imprisonment. 1811 18 (1811)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0036 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER V. . A AC.' To aut orizc Lewis de Feriet to claim from the treasurer.of t/e territory the estimated value of a negro woman. condemned to perpetual impri. soniment. Vhereas it is in evidence that the negro woman Marie Rose, a slave to-Lewis de Feriet, has been condemned to perpetual impri'sopment by the judge and a jury of inhabitants of the parish of .Orleans, at the suit of the Tcrritory, and that the laws now in force have not provided for the com. pe.nsation to he allowed to owners of slaves thus tried and condemned. Be it therefore enacted by the Legislative Coun. cil and House of Representatives of the lerritory of Orleans, in General Assembly convened, That Lewis de Feriet, be and he is hereby authorized to claim from the treasurer of the territory the es- timated .value of said negro wonan, and that it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to pay the said value at the rate of five.hidred dollars, a- gieeable to the estimation which has bein made of the said slave. Provided, that the said Lewis de.Feriet shall pre ioisy iake aiid execute a transfer and abandon of the said slave to the ter!- ritory. MAGLOIR4 GU*ICHARD, 8 raker t he flows Representative. SEAN NOEL DESTREHAN, Picaidecit qf teiLegiilative Gouncil. Approved, February 28th, 1811. WILLIAM G. C. CLAIBORNE, Gorno~r of 1he Tierritory 6f Orlean

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