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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0301 and id is 1 raw text is: 1860-'61.- CHAP. 36-37.
AN ACT TO PREVENT FREE NEGROES FROM liING OIL HAVING TilE Chap. 36.
CONTROL OF SLAVES.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of North Free negroes
not to own 'hire
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the or control'
same, That no free negro, or free person of color shall be olives.
permitted or allowed to buy, purchase or hire for any
length of time, any slave or slaves, or to have any slave
or slaves bound as apprentice or apprentices to him, her
or them, or in any other wise to have the control, man-
agement or services of any slave or slaves, under a pon-
alty of one hundred dollars for each offense, and shall
further be guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to indict-
ment for the same.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That this law does not Does not alp,
apply, and shall not affect any free negro or free person at of ra&U
of color who is the legal owner of any slave at the time scaton.
of the passage of this act.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this law shall take
effect from and after its ratification. [Ratified the 23d
day of February, 1861.]
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE E3IANCIrATION OF SLAVES BY WILL. Gha
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Noare to be
North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority nlpateby
of the same, That no slave in this State shall hereafter be
emancipated by last will and testament, or deed, or other
instrument or conveyance to take effect as to said eman-
cipation after the death of the testator or person execu-
ting or making such deed, or other instrument or convey-
ance, but that all such wills, deeds or other instrument
or conveyance in so far as they purport to effect such
emancipation, shall be null and void; and no slave so at-
tempted to be emancipated, shall pass under any general
residuary clause in any last will and testament, but the
testator shall be deemed and taken to have died intestate
as to such slave. [Ratified the 31st day of January, 1861.]
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