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An Act to enable and authorize Serenus Mayer to manumit and set free, by his last will and testament, certain Slaves. 1816 39 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0097 and id is 1 raw text is: ( 69. ) ier subject to the payment of taxes, and liable to mili- tia, and all other duties, and subjct to ail law s to w% hich the citizens of the said district of Pndileton now are, or may hereafter be subjected or made liable to, under the laws of this state. And be it further enactedby the authority aforesaid, That the governor be and he is hereby authorized and cmpowered to nominate 4.nd appoint three commissi- oners to make an actual survey and demarcation of the lines and boundaries mentioned and contained in the said treaty, as circumscribing the lands ceded to this state by the said treaty, and that the said commission- ers shall cause and procure all the lands mentioned within the said treaty aforesaid, to be surveyed and plat- ed off into tracts containing not less than one hundrid acres, nor more than five hundred acres; and that they return a plat of the said territory so ceded as afore said, to the legislature of this state at their next meeting; and for that purpose, the said commissioners are herchy au- thorized and empowered to employ one or more sur- veyor or surveyors, if more than one should by them be thought necessary, to complete the said survey be- fore the next meeting of th legislature. . And be it further enarted by the authority aforesaid, That the expenses to be incurred in making the said survey, and all other incidental expenses, shall be paid by the governor, out of the contingent fund. And be itftrther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the performance of militia and patrol duty, the inhabitants of said ceded territory be add< d to the cighteenth and Pineteenth regiments of militia, the commanders of which are hereby authorized to di- vide the said territory into companies. In the Senate House, thefnineteenth Day of Decembei, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eihlt *ulre* and sixteen, and in the Forty-first Year of the Ihpendenge of the United States of America. JAMES R. PRINGLE, President of theSenate. THOMAS P.NNETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. An ACT to enable and athorize Serenis Mayer to manumit and set frec, by his last will and testament, certain Slaves. S1THERiEAS Serenus Mayer has, by his petition, shewn good reasons wh' he should he permit. ed to emancipate from slavery, by his last will and tep-

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