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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0380 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 199.] AN ACT
To take the sense of the qunlified voters of the town of Port Hudson, on the ques-
tiun of abolishing the corporation, and to abolish the same.
SECTION 1. Be it CnaCtd 1q/ the Senate and House of Repre.
sentatives <f Ii State q LauisiaIna, in General Assembly con.
Dy of x0or or venel, That in order to take the sense of the qualified voters of the
to cause a pall to he incorporated town of Port Hudson, in the parish of East Feliciann,
0 ned to receive the whether said corporation be abolished or not, it shall be, and is hereby
bllots of the voters. made the duty of the Mayor, or in his absence or failure to act, of any
Justice of the Peace in said parish, within ten days after the passage
of this Act, upon *he written application of at least ten legal voters
of snid town, and after at least ten days' notice posted up at three pub.
lic places therein, to cause a poll to be opened at the usual place of
holding elections, at which said Mayor or Justice shall preside, and
keep the same open from ten o'clock, A. M., until four o'clock, P.l M.,
at which shall be received the ballots of said voters, whercon shall be
written the words abolish, or not abolish, as the case imy be.
Return, how made. SEC. 2. Be it ftaher enacted, 4-c., The said Mayor or Justice
shall make duplicate lists of the votes so taken, one of which lists
shall be filed in his office, and the other .shall be iuntediately trans-
Duty reaDistrict initted to the District Court of said parish ; and if two thirds of the
JdeIn an ew.
thirds r thi e etwo votes so taken he in favor of abolishing said corporation, the Judge of
are In favor or nb1oi.
jshing Paid corpora. said Court shall, either in chambers or in open court, enter a decree
tion. - accordingly.
When thisAct shalt Sac. 3. Be itfitrher enacted, 4c., That this Act shall not go
takeeffect into efiect until said corporatiol shall have discharged all debts for
which it imay be liable.
E. WARREN MOISE',
Speaker of the HIou.e of Representatives.
W. W. FARaMER,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved, April 28th, 1853.
P. 0. HIEBERT1,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy,
ANnREW S. 11.rtRoN,
Secretary of State.
No. 200.j AN ACT
To enable Baptist Upeyre, or his legal representatives, to emancipate the slave Zod,
without removing her out of the State,
WHEREAs Baptist Dupeyre, then a resident of New Orlens, in the
Prsatmble. year eighteen hundred and forty-two, purchased of Paul Desdunes
Poiney, the slave girl Zod (then aged seven years,) oii the express
condition of enancipating her whenever lie could do so legally;
Be it, therefore, enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Asscinly conrened,
Baptist Dupeyre That Baptist Dupeyre, or -his legal representatives, be, and they are
cuipitthe slave 7..1 hereby authorized to emancipate the slave girl Zod, and that she be](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsla0380&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)