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An Act to emancipate Thomas, a person of colour. 1825 29 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0084 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPpI, 2.
jenbh convened, That the Auditor of public ac-
counts be, and he is hereby. authorized, to is-
sue his warrant, in-favor of Walter Leake, for
the sum of fourteen hundred and forty-seven
dollars, and twelve and one half cents, to be
paid out 'of any money in the treasury, not
otherwise appropriated.
COWLES MEAD,
Speaker of the House of Representative&
GERARD C. BRANDON,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate:
Adpproved: January 28th, 1825.
WALTER LEAKE.
CHAP. XIII.
AN ACT to emancipate Thomas, a person of colour.
Be it enadted by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the Slate of Alississypi in Gene-
ral ./ssembly convened, That the negro mai
Thomas, named in the last will and testament
of B. M. Bullen, deceased, late of the c6unty of
Jefferson, be, and he is hereby, emancipated
and set free from slavery, saving the rights of
creditors, and on the condition, that the said
Elizabeth Bullen, the petitioner in this case,
or any other person, enter into bond made pay-
able to the Governor of the state of Mississippi
and his successors in office, in the sum of one
thousand dollars, with security to be approved
of by the county court of Jefferson county. and
filed in the Clerk's office of said court, condi-
tioned, for the good behaviour of said Thoma'i,

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