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An Act for the benefit of Lizzy, Bob, Susan, Violet, Reynolds, Jacob and Alexander Crouse, free persons of color, citizens of Stewart County. 1855-1856 172 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0190 and id is 1 raw text is: 172 CHAPTER 126. AN ACT for tbabenerit of Lizzy, Bob, Susn, VioletReynolds, Jacob, and Alex- ander Crouse, free personis of color, citizens of Stewart County. SECTioN 1. BC it enacted by thC Crenral Assembil of the State of . Tennessee, That Lizzy, Bob, Susan, Violet, Reynolds, Jacob, and Alexander Crouse, free persons of color, be, and they are hereby, exempt from the pro- visions of the act of the General Assembly, passed February 24, 1854, which declares that all slaves which have heretofore acquired a right to treedom, but which have not been emancipated by the County Court, shall be subject to the provisions of this act, and they are restored to all the rights and privilcges.of free per- sons of color, afforded'to thein by the oct of 1842, chap- ter 191. SEC. 2. BeCit enacted, That, upon said free persons of color producing the record of the County Court, of their emancipation, under the provisions of the act of 1842 aforesaid, to the Chancery Court at Dover, and- County of Stewart, it shall be the duty 'of the Chancellor to order all the funds, after defraying all expenses directed by the Chancellor, that have accumulated in the cause of said free persons of color, by their next friend, Ben- jamin Suter, against James Chambers and others, that pends in said Chancery Court, at Dover, to be paid over to said free persons of color, to wit., Lizzy,.Bob, Susan, Violet, Reynolds, Jacob, and Alexander, or to their order, in the proportions due them. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That Miles Childress Miles Cblldres nud Wii and William Johnson, free persous of color, residing in Johnson. Robertson County, be, and they are hereby, entitled to all the rights, privileges, and benefits, by this act con- ferred upon the persons named in the first section of this act, and in the same manner, and to the same extent. NEILL S. BROWN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. EDWARD S. CHEATHAM, Speaker of the Senate. Passed February 29, 1856.

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