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An Act to authorize Dorcas E. Simmons to convey certain property. 1857 114 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0173 and id is 1 raw text is: 1. That Freeman D. Waters, of Jefferson county, a minor, under the age of twenty-one years, be, and lie is hereby authorized and empowered, in law and equity, to contract and be contracted wtth; sue and be sued; to acquire and hold any real or personal estate; and to sell or convey any real or personal estate which he now owns, or which lie may hereafter own or hold, in the same nianncr, and with like effect, as if lie, the said Freeman D. Waters, were twenty-one years of age. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved November 21, 1857. AN ACT to authorize Doreas E. Simmons to convey certain property. § 1. Dorcas E. Simmons declared of lawful age, WHEREAs, Osborn S. Simmons, deceased, by his last will, devised to his daughter, Dorcas E. Simmons, a certain slave, upon condition that she should convey her interest in certain real estate, and the said Dorcas being a minor, about eighteen years of age, and desirous of carrying into effect said will ; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Aissenbly of the State of Missouri, as follows : § 1. That the said Dorcas E. Simmons, be, and is hereby declared to be of lawful age, and authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of said real estate and other property, in the same manner and with like effect as if she were twenty-one years of age. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved November 17, 1857. AN ACT to declare certain persons in Boone county of age. Be it enacted by the General dssembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. That Marquis L. and George W. Rice, and James Archibald Stevenson, of Boone county, are hereby declared to be of full age, capable in law of contracting, buying, selling and conveying any real or personal estate, in the same manner and to the same effect as if they weil wenty- one years of age. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved October 26, 1857. 114 MITNORS OF AGE.

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