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An Act to amend the laws prohibiting the entrance of slaves into this State. 1847 438 (1847)

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A. D. 1817.A             viT 7rnrI AND              OF o 1 IH STAT: IN AN TO T   EsTATe
No. 3013.               or Lotus .l. Ear u, U b.c       :  i U none ; H)owx.
De it cuacied by the olorable the Senate and House of 'Representatives,
Ate of J    now mob anlil s9ittit i: (l eonoral A ssemol dy, atd by the authority of tile same,
M.Egger,& * that all the right, title aid interest of the State, in and to tihe estate of James
M. Egger, lIto of Chlostor District, inl the uhatds of William  Kirkpatrick, ad-
In iist rator of time said Egger, be, and the same roe hieoby vested in Georgo
3rown ad MAhis heirs, furo vet.
Inl the SLna1to 11o.0, tle sevent een1th day oif Decelbler, in, the yeari of mor Lorl one
tholiun eight littadicd aid forty-.even, nd in tihe reventy-'emll year of tie
Nomvereignty mand Imlefpend11e0ce of the United Stato of 'Ammericam.
R., F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senato pr1o tem.
W. F. COLCUCK, Speaker of the         umise of Representatives.
No. 3014. AN     ACT To AMEND THE, LAWS tRORiBtmTa1    T   H Ertmn ENTRANCI ov SLAvE's INTO
'T IS  S TATj-,.
Be it entacted, by the ionorable tie Senate and House of Represontatives,
now met and sitting in Gemeral Assombly, and by tie autlority of the same,
That from and after the ratiliction o[ this Act, when any Slave, or Slavcs,
shall have ben carried out of this State, in the capacity of Steward, Cook,
Firemon, Enginecr, Pilot or Mariner, on board of any steamer, or other vessel,
Ve&qel trading to trading with alty part, or plaeo in the Island of Cuba, it shall and may be law-
Cuba.C
fll to bring such Slave or Slaves, back into this State, any law, usage, or cus-
Proviso.     ton, to the contrary notwithstanding ; Provided, Such Slave or Slaves, duling
his, or their absence from this State, shall not have been in any port or place,
in the West Indics, other than the Island of Cuba, aforesaid, or in any port or
place, in Europe, Mexico, or any part of South America, or in any State north
of the River Potomac, or of the City of Washington.
Ill the Senate House, the Seventeenth day of December, in time year of our Lord, one
thousanul eight hunidrel and foity-seven, and in the seventy-Fecond year of time
Sovereignmty and Independence of the Unlited State., of America.
Rt. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate, pro. tem.
W, F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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