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An Act to authorize Frances D. Tucker to introduce and retain a female slave within the limits of this Commonwealth. 1818 185 (1818)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0293 and id is 1 raw text is: 7.V 'HE FORTY-TIHIRD YEARS 01? TIM COMMONWYALTH. 185 he emigrated to this country froir Ireland : That, at the October tormighteen hundred and sixti-0n Of the court of said town, he made a declaration on oath, accCrdfng to the act of Congress, of lis intention to become a citizen of tlhe United States; that, be- lieving he c~ould, after the said. declaration, lawfully hiid real estate, he, during last year, ciritracted for the purchase of two lots, o'i land in said town ; whizh contract has not as yet been ex- ecuted, in consequence of his bhing informed by counsel that he could not ftold lands in this colmt,'y; anti the said John M. Ryan having peoitioned the legislature :o authorize him to hold the said lands upon condition of his hUcoming a citizen so soon as lie can be admited legally so to do ; o', should death frustrate this in- tention, then that the said lauds may descend to his infant chil- dron, sutject to the dower of thmir mother : 1. Be it enacted by the Ge:eral Alssembly, That the said John 3hn 5L. Rnn utho. M.. Ryaa shall be and lie is 'aereby authorized and empowered to l tie to two lot, azquire legal title to, anti hold the'said two lots of land, upon on lcedil'ttnburg o conditi3n that lie shall, as s.oon as the laws of the United States will permit him, become a r'itizen of this country ; and, in case of the deith of the said ftyar. before lie shall have so become a citi- zen o' the United States, that-'the said lots of land shall descend' and p ass to the children (,f dhe said Ryan, subject, however, to the d ower of their mother therein. 2. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof. commencement. CIIAPTIR CLIX.-An act to authorize Frances I). Tucker to introduce xnd retain a female sl at e within the limits of this Commonwealth. [P'.ssed March 2d, 1819.) Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly of Virginia, rreamte. that Frances . Tucke', in the course of the last year, brought with her, on a visit to her friends in Virginia, as ai attendant, a female slave named Sally, from the island of Bermuda ; that, un- derstanding sihe could legally retain the said slave twelve months within the limits of this Commonwealth, before the expiration ot tht time she sent her to the State of North Carolina, where sh e now is : that she sustains considerable inconvenience on account of the loss of her services ; for remedy whereol; • 1. Be it enacted, That the said Frances I). Tucker be autho- Permiaminn to retain rized to introduce and retain within the linits of this Common- the slave. wealth, a female slave named Sally. . This act shall be in force from and after the passage thereof. commencement. CIJAPTEIt CLX.-An act establishing an inspcction of tobacco and flour in the town of Lawrence in the county of Franklin. (Passed March 3rd, 1819.) 1. Be it enacted by the General .Assembly, That an inspection Iispeeiotor tobacoo of tobacco shall be, and the same is hereby established on the lot Outablished. of Edwin Price in the town of Lawrence in the county of Frank- lin, to be called and known by the name of Price's warehouse. Nameorwareouse. 'The proprietor of the said warehouse shall erect at his own ex- nuihlings tu beeret- pense suflicient houses for the reception of tobacco ; and so soon ed. as the same shall be completed, the court of the county of Frank- lin shall recommend fit persons to be commissioned inspectors Inspectors to be op. thereof. pointed. 2. There shall be allowed and paid annually to each of the Ilir.,lact. inspectors at the said warehouse, the sum of one hundred dollars

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