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An Act to amend the Act of 1842, ch. 191. 1849-1850 300 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0153 and id is 1 raw text is: 300 CHAPTER CVI. An Act to protect the rights of married women. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That hereafter when any suit may have been commenced by the issuance of process, or be pending in any of the courts of this State, in the name of husband and wife, for slander of the wife, or for any other cause where it is necessary to sue in the name of husband and wife, when the action survives to the wife, the husband shall not have power to dis- miss said suit, either in or out of term time, without the consent of the wife given in open court if in term time, or if out of term time, by the written order of the wife, witndssed by two witnesses, with both of whom the clerk of the court shall be personally ac- quainted. SEC. 2. That if any such order as that mentioned in the first section, shall be presented to any clerk in this State, the suit shall not be dismissed until so ordered by the court in term time. LANDON C. HAYNES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN F. HENRY, Passed February 2, 1850. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CVII. An Act to amend the Act of 1842, ch. 191. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, The Act of 1842, ch. 191, be so amended that hereafter no slave shall be emancipated in this State, except upon the terms and conditions imposed by the Act of 1831, ch, 102. LANDON C. HAYNES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN F. HENRY, Speaker of the Senate. Passed December 31, 1849.

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