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An Act to emancipate Bill, a person of color. 1827 56 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0091 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OP 'THE STATE OF AISSISSIPP.

in consequetice of the death of the collector of A -
dams county, was iotpaid to the said Orythans A
syluin, but wav' paid ih to the treasury of. the state,
on the thirty-first day-of December last:
Sec. U. Be it therefoe enacted by the Se -ate and
Houseof Representatives ofthi f State of.7 lississ2-
pi, iniGeneral .ssermbly con vehed  That the auditor
Auditor to of Public accbunts beand he is hereby authorized
issue war. antfrequired toissieawarrant on thetreasury-of the
rant,  state for .said sum of money , in favor of the said
Orphan Asylum.
Sec. 2.' Ind be it fiuther enacted, -That the
auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby
authorized and required to 'issue his warrant on
the treasury ofthd state in favor of the Orphan
Do, do. Asylum, for the sum of one hundred and ninety.
seven dollars And five cents, to be paid out of the
taxes collected on the sale of merchandize at auc-
tion in Adams county, for the year eighteen huti-
died and twenty-six, if there be that suniemain-
ing in the treasury,, after paying out of the same
fund the sum of five handred dollars, for the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-six.
APPROvED: February. 5th, 1827.
CHAP. XLVL
AN ACT, to emancipate Bill, a person of color.
WHEREAs, William Smitl of the county of
W       ls. Hancock, vas in his ear y. childhood, by the dis-

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