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An Act to authorize Anthony Foster to emancipate certain slaves. 1833 123 (1833)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0097 and id is 1 raw text is: 123 rights and privileges of other free colored persons in this State: Provided, that the said slave shall first give bond with good and sufficient security that he will not become a county charge. SEc. 2. Be it enacted, That John Weems be, and he John Weerns is hereby, authorized to emancipate his slave - : Pro- maye m - vided, he shall file his petition in the county court of Greene, and upon his giving bond with approved security that'the said - shall not become a public charge to any county in this State, and the said - shall not be required to leave the-State, but shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of other free persons of color in this State. F. W. HULING, Speaker of the House oJ Representatives, D. BURFORD, Speaker of the Senate. Passed November 28, 1833. CHAPTER CCXXVII. An Act for the benefit of Joab Wilson. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ten- nessee, That Joab Wilson is hereby authorized to spread upon the general plan of the tenth surveyor's district, two hundred acres of vacant and unappropriated land, adjoin- ing his turnpike across the Hatchie bottom, and shall have all the rights, and be placed upon the same footing that all bona fide occupant settlers are placed. F. W. HULING, Speaker of the House of Representatives. D. BURFORD, Speaker of the Senate. Passed November 29, 1833. CHAPTER CCXXVIII. An Act to authorize Anthony Foster to emancipate certain slaves. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the. State of Ten- nessee, That Anthony Foster, of Hardeman county, be, and he is hereby, authorized to emancipate the following slaves, to wit: one woman, by the name of Mildred, and her eight children, named as follows: Mary Ann, Richard, Mildred, William Henry, Elizabeth, John, James, and Francis, without being compelled to remove them out of this State: Provided, that he, the said Foster, shall give Digitized from Best Copy Available

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