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An Act allowing William Strother, a free man of colour, to remain in this Commonwealth. 1829 134 (1829)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0411 and id is 1 raw text is: 134 In the fifty.fourth year of the Commonwealth. certificate thereof was delivered to her, as the law directs, for more than twelve months thereafter; so that her right to freedom was forfeited before she received legal evidence of its existence; that slT has a husband who is a slave, the property of Abram Nisewander, of said county, who is willing to allow her to reside with her husband; and she having petitioned the Legislature to restore her to the privileges of a Free person of colour, and allow her to reside with her husband in the said county of Giles: Dilly restored to 1. Be it enacted, That the said Dilly shall be, and she is hereby freedom, restored to all the privileges of freedom which she derived by the Permitted to re. deed aforesaid, and the laws of the land ; and she is also hereby main in the allowed to reside in the said county of' Giles for one year and no State. longer, unless she shall during the said period, obtain from the county c6'urt of Giles permission to remain in the Commonwealth, in the manner prescribed in the sixty.second section of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled, an act reducing into one the several acts concerning slaves, free negroes and mu. lattoes, passed March 2d, 1819. Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. CHAPTER 151.-An act allowing William Strother, a free man of colour, to remain i,, this Commonwealth. (Passed February 18th, 1830.) Preamble. Whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly by William Strother, a man of colour, qf the county of' Rockingham, that lie was lately emancipated, having at the time of his emancipation a wife wl,o is a slave in said county, now upwards of sixty years of age; and lie having petitioned the Legislature to be permitted to remain with his said wife in this Comonwealth : WilliamStrother .1. Be it enacted, That the said William Strother shiall be, and allowedtoremain lie is hereby permitted to remain as a free person within this in the Common- Commonwealth, and to reside in the said county of Rockingham: wealth. Provided, however, 'flat if the said \Villiam Strother shall here- after be convicted by the verdict of a jury and the judgment of a court, of any ollience against the laws of this Cmoinon wealth, it shall be lawful for the court or the said county of Rockingham, or for the court of that county or corporation within which the conviction may be had, a majority of the acting magistrates being resent, or having been summoned for that pur'pose, and the said William having been duly summoned to show cause against it, to revoke the leave of residence hereby granted, if it seem expedient, and to order him to depart this Commonwealth: And if, after such order of revocation, lie sh:all remain in this Commonwealth more than twelve months, lie shall forfeit his right to freedom, and be subject to presentment, prosecution and sale, in the manner provided, by the eighth section of the act passed the twenty-fourth day of February, ei,,hteen hundred and twenty-seven, entitled, an act to amend the act, entitled, 'an act reducing into one the several acts concerning slaves, free negroes and mulattoes. '1 Commencement. 2. This act shall be in furce friom its passage.

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