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An Act to emancipate Indiana Osborne. 1833 169 (1833.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0146 and id is 1 raw text is: BOARDS OF POLICE. 169 money collected as a special county tax from the persons and property in any of the new counties adjoining contiguous thereto, at the time of collect- ing the same; and when so ascertained, it shall be their duty to pay the amount that has been so col- lected to the proper county treasurers of the re- spective counties; and the certificate of said col- lector and the receipt of the proper county trea- surers shall be a sufficient voucher for so doing, the proper commissions f6r assessing and collect- ing the same being first deducted. SEc. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force and take effect from and after the passage thereof. Approved December 25, 1833. EMANCIPATION. CHAPTER XXXIX.-An act to emancipate Indiana Osborne. Whereas, it is represented to the Legislature that Samuel H. Osborne, of the county of Hinds, has recently purchased an infant child whom he believes to be the issue of white parents, who have procured said child to be brought to this State and sold as a slave; and whereas, also, the said Samuel H. Osborne has expressed to this body his desire to emancipate said slave, whom he calls Indiana Osborne, to educate her and re- store her to her natural rights; and whereas, the disposition of the said Samuel H. Osborne,is philanthropic as a man, honorable as a citizen, and evincive of a sacred regard to liberty; and whereas, said child being presented to view of the Legislature, it is the sense and opinion of the Legislature that said child is the offspring of free white parents; SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of .Mississippi, That the said Indiana Os

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