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An Act to emancipate a slave therein named. 1833 119 (1833.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0133 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS. OF THE% STATE 'QF' MISSISSIPPi. 19 .-orporate) by the name of the Trustees of Brandon Academy, and by that name shall 'be capable in law to receive all 'donations, and recover -all debts which may become the property of said Academy, retaining all the rights, Privileges and powers, which they had as School Commissioners for said fractional township, and; may i general do all acts for the benefit of the school lands in said township, and said Academy, xrhich are incident to bodies corporate. Sec. 2.' And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees are authorized -to raise by a Lottery fot the benefit of said Academy, 'a sum not exceeding ve thousand dollars, onsuch a scheme as they or their assigns may think proper. A.ppoved: fMebruary 2, 1833. CHAP. XLII. -AN ACT to emancipate a.slave therein named. Whereas, Littleton Tyson, by his last will rand testament, ordered and directed his negro woman Leathy to be set free, and she having given evi- dence of good character -Therefore. SEcioN 1. Be it enacted by the Legisatu of the State of i1Enssippi, That the negro woman Leathy, the property of Littleton Tyson, late of Copiah county, deceased, be, aihd she is, hereby emancipated and, set free. Sec. 2. Be itfiertherlenacted, That said negro woman shall enter into bond with good secirity, to be approved of by the judge of -probate of 'Copiah county, within sixty days after the passage of this act, that she shall never becornea-public gharge,and

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