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An Act to make valid the bequest of freedom by the last will and testament of Edward Wright, late of Dorchester county, deceased, to certain negroes. 1864 31 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0301 and id is 1 raw text is: A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUiE, GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 25. AN ACT to make valid the bequest of freedom by Paped Fe.. the last will and testament of Edward Wright, ' 18th. late of Dorchester county, deceased, to certain negroes. SECTION 1. Be it enacled by the General 11ssembly P'rovision.s of' qf Maryland, That the last will and testament of l 1h Ed(ward Wright, late of Dorchester county, de- ceased, so far as thc same gives and bequeaths to his seven negroes, named Moses, Mary, John, Pe- ter, Diana, James and Harriet, their freedom fron slavery immediately on his decease, and so ffr as it gives and bequeaths unto his nine negroes, named Jacob, David, Stephen, Littleton, Henna, Caroline, Amanda, Isaac, Henry, Mary, and his mulatto William, and unto the children that any of' his said negroes may or shall have born of her or their bodies, their freedom whenever they sev- erally shall lve arrived at the age of thirty years, be and the same is hereby imade valid and effectual in law to all intents and purposes, to colier free- doan upon such slaves at the respective periods therein designated : And that this act shall take eflct flroli the late of its passage. CHAPTER 26. AN ACT fbr the relief of John T. 1. Moore, the hs, tela . ulirchaser of the real estate of John Ilieknlan, late of Worcester county, deceased, sold by Coin- nissioners alppointed by tIe Circuit Court for said county to value and divide the same. WIHEREAS, 1t appears that upon the petition of Iaitl[. Francis Hickman to the Circuit Court for Worces- ter county, fbr a Commission to value and divide the real eslate of'Jolhn 11 ickman, late of' said comlim-

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