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An Act to emancipate William, a person of color. 1820 38 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0045 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

C820                          xxv.
An Act to emancipate William, a person of color.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Sente and House of
11epresentatives; of the state of Alssissippi, in .genera
wiullam assembly conveted, That the mulatto boy named Wil-
jonsan liam, son of Amy, a free woman of color, and the slave
n nc pa of William Johnson of Adams county, be, and he is
 hereby emancipated and set free from slavery, saving
;however the rights oC creditors, and on the express con-
dition that the said William  Johnson, enter into bond
and security in the sum of one thousand 'dollars, to be
filed in the office of secretary of state, and made paya-
ble to the governor for the time being, and his suces-
sors in office, conditioned that the said boy William,
shall never become a public charge, and that the said
William Johnson shall educate and maintain said
child, according to the provisions of the second section
of this act.
SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Wi7
liam Johnson shalleducate, or cause to be educated,
and mantain or caused to he maintained, said child, un-
il h mArrive at the age of twenty-one years.
E. TURNER,
Spake of te House of Representative,
JAMES PATTON,
Lieutenant-Governor and President of tie Senate.
AhrnovD rnnnuamy 10, 1820.
GEO. POINDEXTER.
CHAP. XXVI.
An Act to emancipate Eleanor, a person of color.
Whereas, it has been represented to the general as-
sembly, by the petition of Wilson B. Iarper, that
lie is desirous of emancipating the mulatto child,

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