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An Act making appropriations for the removal of free persons of colour. 1832 14 (1832)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0437 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 Removal of Free T'cgroes. of income; the annual receipts therefrom, and the disbursement and expenditure both of such income, and also of the appropriation When approprift. herein made: And the said president and directors shall have power i,,,,.m, ho wih- to withhold the appropriation for any year after the first, until ile said report for the next preceding year shall have been made by the said When dlisonu trustees. If from any cause, the said president and directors shall ,,uod,. be satisfied that the sums already paid by them, have been impro- perly expended, or that the said academy has ceased to afford those advantages for the instruction of youth, which might reasonably be expected, then the said president anti directors shall be and they are hereby empowered to discontinte any further payment of the ap- propriation aforesaid. Sum tnppropriater 3. Be it further enacted, That the said president and directors for inip,,,,.,wntd be, and they are hereby directed to pay the further sum of one thou- nod rcpaird of builijg,. sand dollars out of the evenue of the literary fund, to the said trus- tees, or to such person or persons as they shall authorize to receive the same, for the improvement and repair of said academy, and the erection of such additional buildings, as the said trustees may deeni necessary. Commoncotnont. 4. This act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof. Cuu.. 12.-An ACT making appropriations for tho removal of freo persons of colour. (Pnqqed March ith, 1813.) Appropriation firr 1. Be it enarted by the general assenld!, That the sum of nigh- ,,,,,3 etrs to ,- teen thousand dollars shall be, and the satme is hereby appropriated, snov free pursons Ur colour. to be paid annually, fbr the period of five years, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes, and in the manner herein after prescribed. Comnuioqioneri to 21. Be itfo'rtlcr enacted, That the governor, lieutenant governor, OX.cutn ac. first and second auditors, for the time being, shall be and they are hereby constituted a board of commissioners, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, any two of whom shall be a quorum for said purpose. Whon wrrrant to 3. Whenever satisfactory proof shall be produced to the said board be in,,i,,d b11ol.. of comnuissioners, that any number of free persons of colour, shall waity,fher.I fr t,,,,,,,,,ti.ng,,ndhave been actually transported to the colony at Liberia, or other athf istiog Ien per- ) 2 er. 1tce on the western coast of Africa, or that they shall have been embarked for tra,,sportation thither, from within the linits of this commonwealth, by the American colonization society, it shall be law- fil, and the said board of commissioners are hereby required to is- sue their warrant on the treasury of this commonweahh, for such sum or sumns of money as may be necessary to defray the costs of transporting and subsisting such free persons of colour for a limited To whom payabl,. tin e, on tile said coast of Africa, payabl to the anthIiorized and ac- credited agent or agents of the said American colonization society: Sion expenldi not Pr'ovided, ''hat the sum or stins which may, fron time to titne, be alropriation.', thus expended, siall, in no one year, exceed tie aniount hereby ap- propriated for such year, and that the free persons of colour who Perom, renovvd may be removed, under the provisions of this act, shall lie selected how to Io telccted. from the dilferent counties and corporations of this cotnmonwealth, in proportion to the amount of revenue paid into the public treasury by such county or corporation, if such free persons of colour can le found in such county or corporation, willing to emigrate; but if the

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