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An Act concerning Dennis Holley. 1823 103 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0349 and id is 1 raw text is: hn i le fort .14.ill I h yar if the.6Cornrnnieal 4. 103 authoriseid, and required to move fir judgment in the general court fgainst him an(: his securities'without notice. 2. T is act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof. Commencement.' ClAPTER 101.-An act concerning Dennis lolley. (Itassud Feinary 20h, 18*44.) Whereas Dennis lHolley a firee man of color, who has lately Preamble. obtained his freedom in the county court of Rockingham, being sick, was unable to leave the State within the time limited by law; 1 lie it therefore enacted by the General ,fssombly, That the A man oreolor, said Dennis lioley, shall be, anti ie is hereby permitted ti re- lately tniiai- main within this Cunmonwealth, for one year from and after the anil(rm.lnecl passing of this act. vent- in this State. 2. 1 his act shall commence and be in force from and after Commenemet. the passing thereof. CHAPTEIR 102.-An act relealng to the thld'en or John, MeCreery stii Mary Ili wife, the Comnnonwealth'a riglit to a certain lot of land. (Passed March 4th, I82.) Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly by John Pivaml,. McCreery, that George Magee a native .if Ireland, dled i tie year eighteen hundred and fifteen, in the town of Petersburg, possessed of some personal estate, and a small lot with a lumber- house thereon in the said town, devising the said lot and lumber- house to iis brother Andrew Magee, and directing that, in case that brother should die intestate, the said house anti lot should go equally to his brother John lage, anti the children of the said McCrecy anti Mary his wife: timat the said Andrew Magee did die intestate ; and the said John Magee, who was an alien, is also dead, having never been in this country, that the said McCreery and his children, are the only relatives of the testator George Mcgee in this country; and strong reasons exist inducing the belief, that if lie could have anticipated the deaths of both his -brothers, instead of a moiety of the said house and lot, he would have devised the whole thereof to the children of the said McCreery, who were the objects of his particular regard : and the said John McCreery having petitioned the Legislature to release to them the Commonwealth's right and interest in the said house and lot : 1. Be it enacted, That all the right, title and interest, which Reliqusment or hath accrued or may accrue to the C0ommonwealth, or to the pre- CInatlwealths' sident and directors of the Literary Fuld, in or to the lot and right. house aforesaid, or any part thereof, shall be and the same is hereby released to the children of the said John McCreery and Mary his wife; saving, however, to all persons, bodies politic and saving. corporate, other than the Commonwealth, and the president and directors of the Literary Fund, any right, title, or inteest, which they might or would have had, in or to the said lot and house, or any part thereof, if this act had not been passed. .+. This act siall be il force from the passage thereof, Commencement.

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