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An Act to repeal sections forty-two and forty-three of Article sixty-six of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to manumission, and to enact a substitute therefor, providing for the manumission of slaves. 1864 130 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0303 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MARYLAND. CHAPTER 105. Passed Veb. AN ACT to repeal sections forty-two and forty. 8, 184. three of Article sixty-six of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to manumission, and to enact a substitute therefor, providing for the manumission of slaves. Iepealed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That sections forty-two and forty- three of Article sixty-six of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to manumission, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that the follow- ing sections be enacted as a substitute therefor Additional Sec. 42. That any person or persons possessed Pection.4. of any slave or slaves within this State, may by writing, under his, her or their hand and seal, evidenced by at least two good and sufficient wit- nesses, and acknowledgel before a Justice of the Peace of the county where the grantor resides, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county within thirty days from the date of said instrument, or by last will and testa- ment executed to pass personal property and duly admitted to probate, grant to such slave or slaves, his, her or their freedom, to take effect at the date of said instrument, or at such future time as may be limited by said instrument, and that a copy of' such record duly attested under the seal of such of- fice where said deed, or last will and testament, may be recorded, shall be good and sufficient evi- dence to prove such freedom ; and all manumissions made or attempted to be made by deed, or last will and testament, since the enactment of said sections forty-two and fbrty-three, prohibiting manumis- sions, are hereby ratified and made valid, with the consent of the parties interested, as if' said pro- hibitions had not existed ; but that no slave man- umitted, or hereafter to be manumitted, shall be entitled to vote at any election, or be capable of holding any office of profit or trust, or of giving evidence against any white person. Deed or ifnn- Sec. 43. That any executor, administrator or uunilsion. guardian may execute in the manner and form provided in tie foregoing section, a deed of mann-

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