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An Act to amend an act for the settlement and relief of the poor. 1829 33 (1829)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0109 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF TIE STATE OF MISSISSIPPT. :and keeping in repair the same for four years there- after. Soc. 3. Be itfurther enacted, That the sum of fifty dollars he, and the saute is hereby appropria- ippropri. ted for the completion of said bridge, payable outt' of the amount of the special tax authorized by law to be levied and collected in the county of Perry, for the yearsone thousand eight hundred and twen- ty-six and seven, on the certificate of said con- tuissioners that the work is completed. APPRUVED: Janufy 81t 1629. CHAP. XLIV. AN ACT, to amend an act, for the settlement and relief of the poor, Sec. t. Be it enact, d by the Senate and louse of Representatives (f the State of.illississippi, in General Assembly convened, That frot and af- ter the passage of this act, it shall he the duty of Overseefs overseers and trustees of the poor, in each coun- f Poor ikn the: Several ty in this state, to make returns to the county andcominesto probate courts, twice a year, of all the poor free make turn to tile Jiegro or mulatto children within the same, whoseco. court patrents, if they have any, they shall judge incapa- fr ne. ble of supporting and bringing thie uip in honestlato chil ,ways. n dren. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Courts au. said courts shall have power to order tie said o- toord verseer or trustees to bind out all such free negro overseers or mulatto children apprentices, to such personi or 01' gutees persons whom the court shall approve, until thesaid clu- age of twenty-one years, if a male, or eigliteendren. years if a female: the person to whom such ap- prentike shall be bound, shall engage, lby Covenftf

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