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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0216 and id is 1 raw text is: IN T,1l1 TIIRITY-NIETJI TYXZA OF THE Mo O RoNWALTfl.
CHAP. CV.
wAn Jlci rdeasing lhe Comnlounwealth's right to a negr'o Wofllt
l141nrh, and perinitting hP' to remain ivithin the same as
YITC womnan.
[Passed becember 27th, 1814.]
4 1) E it encted lj the General .~mnbnl!, That all the right., A negro woman
li tle and interest which the Commonwealih or the named Ilynah
President and )irectors or thn Liteunry Find have, or may permitted to re.
'11,ofth in in thisC.
hane had to a certain negro wonian named Ilynah, OF the monwealth is a
Count.i of Fairfax. lately the propet.ty of her husband Roger free person.
d 'eeased, be, utnd the same is lieieby released, and the said
negro woman Hynah shall be. and she is hereby permitted to
remain within this Conimionwealih as a free woman ad as
sudh to enjoy all the rights, iwivileges and immunities usual-
ly belonging to free pewrsons of colour ; saving however to all
pe, bous anl bodies politio other than the said-Commonwealth
aunl the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, all
lighl, title and iuterestwhieh they lhuvo or would have had to
the said negro ]lyiab, if this Act find not been made.
2. 'his Act shall be in force from and after the passing Commenceni:t.
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CIAP. CVI.
J uilet Cinerning .111,1 ead, otherwise called Jh'mistcad
Szmilh, a man of colour.
[Pissed December 6, 1814.1
W IIEREAS it appears to (lie General Assembly, that Prennblc.
Y Arinimead, sometimes called Armistead Smith, a mai
of'colour who was emancipated in lie year eighteen hundred
and twelve by the Will of Samuel Overton deceased, is a
msa of exefmplary character, and had an equitable right to
freedom previous to the passage of the law inhibiting persons
of'eolour thereafter emancipated fromn remaining in this State.
1. lie it Ilhrifore encted, Tihat the said Armistead, other. Amistead
iiise .ailed Armstead Smith, shall be, and he is hereby per. or C0lu,,
mitted to renzaiz as a, free person withinthis Commonwealth, ted to re
and to have and enjoy all the rights and privileges which this Com
other fre persons of eolour possess and enjoy within the Vcaltha
sa10 : ann law (o the contrary notwithstanding. person.
2. 'his Act shall be in force from the passing thereof. Commnncc
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