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An Act concerning John Walker. 1817 214 (1817)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0276 and id is 1 raw text is: S14 IN THE FORTY-SECOND YEAROF TIE COMMONWBALTif. CIT ITP'rl1i CXCIX...-An Act cohcerning John Walkcr. er~nnN. WTI~IREAS it is repreSentetl to the 'General Assembly,'by Johni Walker of the county of Botetourt, that, in the tonth elf May last. he received, by gift from his fither-in-law John Loony, of said couaitv. a negro wvomarn slave, who had been hrought into this CuoMMO'wealth from the state or Tennessee in the vear one thousand eight ho'inhed and SIx ; lhnt the said slave descended to the nmother of the said Walker's wife, from her father, and was branodh into this 'tate a few months after the passage of the law prohibitim, t:,c intrtiuction of slaves, wthout the previous know- ldle of the exisience of such law ; and, the said Walker having petitiioed the , etslature to be authorised by law to retain the -aid a(f e il tiis t;ale; J,,, walter nu , i. le it vwxtfd. 'lhat tile said John 'Walker shall be, anti lie hil,,,,, e, i , Iih , aatho'rletl nidt empowered to iold in this Common- Ir :t, %%f,.. ealth tile aid slave, known by the name o f Poll, free frot any line, oi leiturv whatsoever, incurrel or to be incurred, by tea- stll of the importation u, dhe said slave into this Commonlnwealth as ieaihl. *O.nmivt ,:,t,., £. lThis act shall be in force from the plssage thereof. S (Passed ,Jan nary 1 7th, 1818.) Cii \i'TFiR (;','..-i Act ccneerningy t~eorgce WVhiIoeke. Prnrt.bL A'T~WIIiiAS it is repre:;ented it the Gene'ral Assembly, that Ger;C e \ , hithke of the town of Ivnchburg travelled out to Ketitt'ikv iii th-' Year , and calried with him, its his IovIv i.,. a ne ,'( boy given him. as a specific legacy by his prntI s- that th said boy, whist in Kentucky, was guilty of sonie wicorenct. aml, as apnishtnent lhr wvhitch, h1is said master, on his retIl'l to VirhIia, thought proper to leave him behinl ; where h Iwriited him to remain for the spare of one or two years, witlh l recoilhi ctiln that b; s doing he would debar himself of the pr-vih.-C (1, a'V:ail hiini:i him iito this s;tae : and whereas ,l at \' iiiidl,,iI hatl pelitionedl tho Legislature to be autho- iied to hiiii the said boy hack into this State ; a ,, WI , ~ 1. 1P' U t',re i'w,,vtC.d, liThat the said (eorge Whillocke .. , shl beii lh, ill ni lie'is hereby at hurised and po mwered to bring the , il S L, '' Said Il',lo boy. knov.,n by the li me of ;WlliUlld, into this Com- ,,.. .... . I . ad & heldl i as hii p'opeL'ty therein, free fromn any rteI. pen y ,'I I r ftorIeCiture WhatN ees * r;artV law (o the contrary Ilotil hit W d :: C ,irncu r,,. t. e2. '[hi., act shall commence and b.! in force fr'om and after the passage ther-of. (Pas;ed.Tfannary 19th, 1818.) Cll.% t'. CCT.--_%n Act coaecrning Joel Estes. i'...niiV, W,11.I'MFA it is rel)resentAd to the present General Assem. hN. that Jll Fstes of Cabell county, in August last, inherited frimi hi., li30er, then a resilent of Kentucky, a negro boy slave named Anfirev., and. in the said month, caused Thin to be re- MOVed intt this State ; but, through ignorance of the laws of this Commiiwealth in relation to the importation of slaves, he failed to comply with the requisitions thereof; anti the sai(l Joel Estes hayving petitioned the Leg-ilature to bepermitted to retain the said

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