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An Act to provide for the sale of certain runaway slaves now confined in the police jail of the City of Lafayette. 1848 53 (1848.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0340 and id is 1 raw text is: olars, or imprisonmOnt not exceeding twelve months, or both, at the disi.
cretion of the court.
.this ant, when  Sic. 5th. Be it further enacted, 4v., That this act shall be in force from
n force.   and after its passage.
Sno. 6th. Be it further enacted, 44c., That nothing in this act contained,
WhatconstMC shall be so construed as in any manner to conflict with the terms and coip
on abs set.  ditions of the contract between said Caldwell and the city of Lafayette, re-
ferred to in the preamble of this act, and passed before L. R. Kenney, no.
tary public, on the seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-
seven.
[Signed)                   PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed]                     TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutonant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 20th December, 1848.
[Sigued]                        'ISAAC JOHNSON,
Go'vernor of the State of Louisiana.
No. '19.]                   AN ACT
To provide for the sale of cortain iunaway slaves ;niw contfined inL the police jail of
the City of Lafayette.
SEC'ron 1st. le it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatines
of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the Mayor
Sale of runaway of the city of Lafayette, shall cause to be sold by the sheriff of the parish of
Alaves now con- Jefferson, such runaway slaves as are now confined in the police jail of
fined In the policeanwhc
jail of the city or the City of Lafayette, and which have been therein confined for the period
LTyetne.   of one year, upon giving public notice, by advertisement, for three months,
in se e ewspaper published in the parish of Jefferson, having the largest
circulation; such circulation to be determined by the Mayor, on the oaths
of the publishers of newspapers in said parish.
Se. 2d. And be it further enacted, 4c., That the money arising from
o     the sale of said slaves, after paying costs, and charges for the keeping and
1ow disposed of sale thereof, shall be deposited by the said sheriff in the treasury of the
city of Lafayette, for the use and benefit of the owner or owners of said
slaves.
[Signed]                   PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed1                   TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 20th December, 1848.
[Signed]                         ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.

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