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An Act concerning free negroes and mulattoes. 1844-1845 753 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0067 and id is 1 raw text is: NEGROES AND MULATTOES. 753 CHAP. 123. money absolutely, and any other damages he may be able to prove he has sustained, to be recovered in any court of com- petent jurisdiction. SEC. 24. Any attorney in fact, to whom the money due on Attorney in fact empower- any mortgage is paid, shall have power to execute said release, ed to execute a as specified in section twenty-two of this act: such acknow- feed of ec lease. Effect ledgment of satisfaction thus made, or such deed of release of such deed. duly acknowledged- and recorded, shall have the effect to release the mortgage, and bar all actions brought thereon, and re-vest in the mortgagor or his legal representatives, all title to the mortgaged property. SEC. 25. If such mortgaged property be redeemed by pay- Redemption ment to the officer before the sale, such officer shall make a certificate to certificate thereof, and acknowledge the same before some he given. officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds for lands; and such certificate shall be recorded in the office in which To be record- shal hav thesameeffet ased, effect, the mortgage is recorded, and shall have the same effect asthereof. satisfaction entered on the margin of the record. Approved March 20, 1845. CHAPTER 123. NEGROES AND MULATTOES. AN ACT concerning free negroes and mulattoes. szc. 1. Who deemed a mulatto. SEc. 11. License to be granted, when , 2. Negro or mulatto not to carry what it shall contain. arms without a license. H thenticated. 3. Weapons found in possession of 13. Authority of license. negro or mulatto, shall be for- 14. Co license shall not be feited. granted, until, &z. 4. County court to bind as appren- 15. Duty of officers 0 seize copies tices, free negroes or mulattoes of liccnses and free papers, between the ages of 7 and 21. when 5. How the courts shall proceed in 16. Duty of clerks relative to copies such cases. of licenses and free papers. 6. Clerk to keep a register; what 17. Violationoflawcdeemeda violt- he shall enter therein. tion of the conditions of the 7. Free negro or mulatto, not to re- bond. side in this state without a li- 18. County court may declare li- cense. cense revoked, when. 8. County courts authorized to 19. Duty of free negro or mulatto grant licenses. moving from one county to 9. To whom license shall be grant- another. 10. Evidence to be produced to 21. This act to extend to persons county court before license whose right of freedom was granted. acquired out of this state. 48

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