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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0168 and id is 1 raw text is: JAMES THOMASy, ESQUIRE , GOVEIDNOR.
county,'a colored woman named Ann or Anna; and her cHAP. 246.
child named Fanny, being his wife and child, as appears by
the bill of sale, recorded in one of tire tccord books of said
county, in Liber J. L. No. S. folio three hundred and ninety
nine and four hundred; and oheretts, the said David Barnett
also purchased from John 'Pilglrnrn, of Queen Ann's county,
a boy named Benjamin, being his son, as appears by a bill
of sale recorded in the record books of Talbot county, in
Liber J. L. iNo. S. fIlio sixty.si.; A:nd w~iereas, the.said
David Barnett died in the irionth of Octo'br last, without
manumitting his wife and children aforesaid, as it was his
intent ion to do;-Therefore,
Section 1. Be it eacted by the Gneral .iss.cmbl of JlIa. D-.1,1., five nd
ryland, That t'e aforesaid Anna liarrt:tt, 'B:uirjanin Barnett.
and Fanny BarnLt, be, and they are hereby declared, free,
capable of purchasing and ioldinfg property, real and per-
sonal, and made heirs of each other, as if they had been ir,
manumitted by )avid Barnett aforesai:l, their husband and
father, during his life time; and tle aforesaid Arima Barrett,
Benjamin Barnett, and Fanny Barnett, arc declared heirs
of )avid Barnett aforesaid.
Sec. 2. Jind be it enacted, That the Clerick of Tllot c .ern,.t,.
county be, and he is hcreby nir'hnrised and riquired, to
deliver to Anna larnett, Benja, in larnett, anid ia my Dar.
nelt, certificates of their freedoni, on thrwir demandling the
smne, and paying the fees allowed by law.
CH11APTE'R' . '2.16.
..Z aL for ite rcliff of .!Thand .l,.ar Rh:,re., I:,.il h.ai.7,t,.iS
WHREnt.:As, it is represented to tle Ci:ncr ai A .ienibly,by vram ,,,
the petition of John Stoua/ir and others, that Saiuel Cork,
late of Frederick county, deceased, by ded of ruanumis-
sion, executed the twenty-second day of March, eig-hteen
hundred and twenty-five, liberated from slaveiy Iris negrM
woman named Milly, and her children, Ann and \\iiliani
Boweln, and that the said clildren were of anII agC too youn
to be liberated by thi existing laws of this Stale; awl that,
in conseqUlitncC thermof, the deed of miiimnisson was de-
fective, and it is apipre-'vended that '.hey nor L]sI: Ili ;.ight
confirmed hy the said deed of manumission; And -hdcrva.s,
it is represented by the said pt-titioners, that tli maoter of
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