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An Act to repeal an act to prohibit the introduction of slaves for sale in this State. 1828 22 (1828.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0137 and id is 1 raw text is: 22 NO. 11. AN ACT (o repeal an act to prohibit the introduction of slaves for sale in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reresentatives of the State of Louisia-a, in General Assembly convened. Th, the act to prohibit the introduction of Slaves for sale in this state, be, and the same is, hereby repealed. OCT. LABRANCHE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ad. BEAUVAIS, President of the Senate. Approved, February 4th, 1828. I. JOHNSON, Governor of the State of Louisiana, NO. 12. AN ACT to authorize widows and unmarried women of age, to become sureties or endorsers for other persons. WHEREAS, by a late decision of the Supreme Court it has been held, that the old laws of this land,, which incapacitated widoivs and unmarried women of age frorirr4conuing sureties, or from binding themselves in any way for other persons, are still in force, not having been expressly abrogated by the new civil code, and whereas, in consequence of such a decision, the several banks have refused tb receive any longer the en- dorsements of women, although of age and unmarried, which creates much embarrassment to the latter in the transaction of their own affairs: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in Ge eral Assembly convened, That hereafter it shall be lawful fo widows and unmarried women of age to bind themselves as sureties or endorsers for other persons, in the same manner, and with the same validity, as men who are of full age, any law to the contrary notwithstand- ing. OCT. LABRANCHE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ad. BEAUVAIS, President of the Senate. Approved, February 4th, 1828: H. JOHNSON, Governor of the State of Louisiana,

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