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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0372 and id is 1 raw text is: In Ihe fifty.first year of the Commonwealth.
C:[IAPTER I19.-n act allowing certain persons of colour, emancipated by tie
will of lThount Jeflerson, to renain lin the Coumonwealth.
(Passed February 14tli, 18.7.]
1. Be it enacted by the leneral Alssemnbly, That Burwell, Joe Certain slaves of
FJosset, John Henmings, Madison and Eston Ileminingl, persons Thomas Ju lirson
of colour emancipated by til last will and testanent of Thoinas e,.lmitete, o .ll.
. , lain ill tile State
Jefferson, deceased, shall be, and they are hereby permitted to re- as iree ierson .
nmaill w, free persons within this Coinnon wealth : Provided how. Proviso.
ever, That if' the said Burwell, Joe Fosset, John Ilemmings, Ma-
dison and Estou I lemmings, or any or either of themu, shall here-
after be convicted by the verdict o a jury and tie judgment of
a court, of any offeilnce against the laws um( this Connwealth, it
shall he hdfo' tlip court of that county or corporation within
which the conviction ilmy be had, or for the court of the county
or corporation ill which lie or they so convicted may reside, a iit-
*ority of the acting iagistrate, heincr present, or haviing been sum.
snoried fill, that punrpose, aid lie or they so convicted, Iaving been
duily Suitloned tio she iv cause against it, to revoke the leave oi How the permit.
resfi(ence ot the person ir personis so convicted, if it seem expe- Siui tOll i'vokc&d
dient, and to order him or thein to depart tlhis (.oinmonwealth
aind it afte is .uch order of' revocation, any Sch s liperson shall remaini EIit of nrdrIr of
within the Cumion wealth more than -twelve months, he or they re~wmati,
shall hin'l'eit Iis or Iheih right i, ftedomi, ald lilay lie aipprehended
and sol in the manner provid led by the act, en tilled, , An act I..
ducin into one the several acts concerning slaves, firee ne-rucs
and ilniatloes.''
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